The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Archer, Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
- Isaiah Collier - William Hooker - William Parker, The Ancients (Eremite) →
- أحمد [Ahmed], سماع [Sama'a] (Audition) (Otoroku) →
- Motian & More, Gratitude (Phonogram Unit) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
- Jimmy Lyons, Live From Studio Rivbea: 1974 & 1976 (NoBusiness) →
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Griot Galaxy, Live on WUOM 1979 (Two Rooms) →
VOCAL
- Sheila Jordan With Roni Ben-Hur & Harvie S, Portrait Now (Dot Time) →
- Maria Muldaur, One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey (Nola Blue) →
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →
- Anthony Joseph, Rowing Up River to Get Our Names Back (Heavenly Sweetness) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Karol G, Tropicoqueta (Bichota/Interscope) →
DEBUT
- Colin Hancock's Jazz Hounds & Catherine Russell, Cat & the Hounds (Turtle Bay) →
- Nils Agnas, Köper Sig Ur En Kris (Moserobie) →
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
Note: Also see The Best Jazz Albums of 2025
