The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
- Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) →
- Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp) →
- Brandee Younger, Gadabout Season (Impulse!) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
- Allan Harris, The Poetry of Jazz: Live at Blue Llama (Blue Llama) →
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Zaccai Curtis, Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution '24) →
DEBUT
Note: O'Farrill album not explicitly listed under Latin Jazz.