The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Alchemy Sound Project & Sumi Tonooka, Under the Surface (ARC) →
- Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Sarah Wilson, Incandescence (Brass Tonic) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Jaleel Shaw, Painter of the Invisible (Changu) →
- Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet, Sound Remains (Whirlwind) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Pharoah Sanders, Izipho Zam (My Gifts) (1973, Strata East/Mack Avenue) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Clifford Jordan, Glass Bead Games (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Dawn (Stretch) →
- Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
- Theo Bleckmann, Love and Anger (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante (ECM) →
DEBUT
- Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) →
- Brandon Woody, For the Love of It All (Blue Note) →
- Rin Seo Collective, City Suite (Cellar Music) →
