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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Devin Leonard (Bloomberg Businessweek)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mark Turner, We Raise Them to Lift Their Heads (Loveland Music) →
  2. Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
  3. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
  4. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  5. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  6. Al Foster, Live at Smoke (Smoke Sessions) →
  7. Kurt Rosenwinkel + Orquestra Jazz De Matosinhos, Our Secret World: Live at Cara (Bandit Digital Media Services) →
  8. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →
  9. Dan Weiss Quartet, Unclassified Affections (Pi) →
  10. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer- Immanuel Wilkins], Motion II (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  2. David Binney, Grains of Light (2009-13, Mythology) →
  3. Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental Music) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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