The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Ballot 2025

Willard Jenkins (The Independent Ear, DownBeat, DC Jazz Festival, Ain't But a Few of Us)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. McCoy Tyner & Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (1966, Blue Note '24)
  2. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: O'Farrill album not explicitly listed under Latin Jazz.