Ballots 2025 [5]

The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025

Past Polls Index Critics

Ballot 2025

Mark Lomanno (JazzTimes, The Rhythm of Study, University of Miami)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
Cosmic Ear, Traces (We Jazz) →
Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
Ternion Q Expanded [Anne Mette Iversen], Marbles (Brooklyn Jazz Underground) →
Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
Dayna Stephens, Hopium (Contagious Music) →
Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (2020, Candid) →
James Moody, 80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005 (Origin) →
Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
Irène Schweizer - Rüdiger Carl - Johnny Dyani - Han Bennink, Irène's Hot Four (1981, Intakt) →
Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →

VOCAL

LATIN

Paquito D'Rivera & Madrid-New York Connection Band, La Fleur De Cayenne (Sunnyside) →
Steven Oquendo Latin Jazz Orchestra, A Centennial Salute to Tito & Tito (Truth Revolution) →
Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →

DEBUT