The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
- Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
- Béla Fleck - Edmar Castañeda - Antonio Sanchez, BEATrio (Thirty Tigers) →
- Joe Lovano, Homage (ECM) →
- Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen, Shikiori (Stunt) →
- Wolfgang Muthspiel - Scott Colley - Brian Blade, Tokyo (ECM) →
- John Ellis, Heroes (Blue Room Music) →
- John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
- Alex Sipiagin, Reverberations (Criss Cross Jazz) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- George Colligan, Live at the Jazz Standard (2014, Whirlwind) →
- Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, The Old Country: More From the Deer Head Inn (1992, ECM '24) →
- The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance) →
- John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
VOCAL
- Sinne Eeg & Jacob Christoffersen, Shikiori (Stunt) →
- Michael Mayo, Fly (Mack Avenue '24) →
- Tessa Souter, Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Conrad Herwig, Reflections - Facing South (Savant) →
DEBUT
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →