The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Billy Hart, Multidirectional (Smoke Sessions) →
- Todd Herbert, Captain Hubs (TH Productions) →
- Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
- Eric Alexander, Like Sugar (Cellar Live) →
- Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
- Joe Magnarelli, Concord (SteepleChase) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Sharel Cassity, Gratitude (Sunnyside) →
- George Coleman, George Coleman With Strings (HighNote) →
- Mike LeDonne's Groover Quartet, Turn It Up!: Live at the Sidedoor (2004-24, Cellar Music) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
- Roland Kirk Quartet, Domino: Live at Radio Bremen TV-Studios 1963 (1963, MIG) →
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Alts 'N Outs: The Other Side of Blue Note (1958-64, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
LATIN
- Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance) →
DEBUT
- Sarah Hanahan, Among Giants (Blue Engine '24) →