The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →
- Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Joe Chambers - Kevin Diehl - Chad Taylor, Onilu (Eremite) →
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music) →
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
- Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
- The Dave Robbins Big Band, Happy Faces (1963-65, Cellar Music) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Kenny Barron, Songbook (Artwork) →
- Kurt Elling & Christian Sands, Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders) →
- Nnenna Freelon, Beneath the Skin (Origin) →
- Nicole Zuraitis & Friends, Live at Vic's Las Vegas (La Reserve) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Bad Bunny, Debí Tirar Más Fotos (Rimas Entertainment) →
- Gabriel Alegría Afro-Peruvian Sextet, El Muki (Saponegro) →
DEBUT
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
