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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Roz Milner (Dusted, Milner on Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  2. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  3. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  4. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
  5. Tomas Fujiwara, Dream Up (Out of Your Head) →
  6. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  7. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
  8. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
  9. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  10. Out Of/Into [Joel Ross - Gerald Clayton - Kendrick Scott - Matt Brewer- Immanuel Wilkins], Motion II (Blue Note) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey) →
  2. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
  3. Jessica Williams, Blue Abstraction: Prepared Piano Project 1985-1987 (Pre-Echo Press) →
  4. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  5. Horace Tapscott's Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, Live at Widney High December 26th, 1971 (The Village) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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