The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Past Polls Index
New Albums Rara Avis Vocal Latin Debut
Critics
Abreu - BrownleeBuskirk - DrouotDryden - GrossHale - KaminsKanzler - MargasakMedrano - ParnellPerkins - SilvaSlim - WeissWest - Yokoi

Ballot 2025

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C. Andrew Hovan (All About Jazz, DownBeat)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions) →
  2. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
  3. Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
  4. Artemis, Arboresque (Blue Note) →
  5. Jimmy Greene, As We Are Now (Greene Music Works) →
  6. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  7. Dave Stryker, Stryker With Strings Goes to the Movies (Strikezone) →
  8. Gregory Groover Jr., Old Knew (Criss Cross Jazz) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft) →
  2. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
  3. Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
  4. Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
  5. Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Uncounted excess picks for Rara Avis: Sonny Criss, Sonny's Dream (Birth of the New Cool) (1968, Craft); Ken McIntyre & Eric Dolphy, Looking Ahead (1961, Craft); Nathan Davis, Happy Girl (MPS)

 

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