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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Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. أحمد [Ahmed], Giant Beauty (Fönstret '24) →
  2. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
  3. Alan Niblock - John Butcher - Mark Sanders, Tectonic Plates (577) →
  4. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  5. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  6. Ava Mendoza - Gabby Fluke-Mogul - Carolina Pérez, Mama Killa (Burning Ambulance) →
  7. Larry Stabbins & Mark Sanders, Cup & Ring (Discus Music) →
  8. John Butcher/John Edwards, This Is Not Speculation (Fundacja Słuchaj) →
  9. James McKain, Damon Smith & Weasel Walter, . . . Seeing the Way the Mole Tunnels . . . (Balance Point Acoustics/International School of Evidence) →
  10. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Larry Stabbins - Keith Tippett - Louis Moholo-Moholo, Live in Foggia (1985, Ogun) →
  2. Cecil Taylor & Tony Oxley, Flashing Spirits (1988, Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Derek Bailey & John Stevens, The Duke of Wellington (1989, Confront) →
  4. Joseph Holbrooke, Last Live 2001: In Memoriam Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley (Tzadik) →
  5. Mujician, In Concerts (1993-2010, Jazz in Britain) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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