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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Stuart Nicholson (Jazzwise)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
  2. Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell, We Insist 2025! (Candid) →
  3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  4. Keith Jarrett, New Vienna (2016, ECM) →
  5. Shakti, Mind Explosion: 50th Anniversary Tour Live (Abstract Logix) →
  6. Florian Arbenz - Michael Arbenz - Ron Carter, The Alpine Session: Arbenz Vs. Arbenz Meets Ron Carter (Hammer) →
  7. Dee Dee Bridgewater + Bill Charlap, Elemental (Mack Avenue) →
  8. Michael Wollny Trio, Living Ghosts (ACT Music) →
  9. Scott Hamilton, Looking Back (Stunt '24) →
  10. Jasper Høiby, Fellow Creatures: We Must Fight (Edition) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Miles Davis Quintet, Miles in France 1963 & 1964 [The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8] (Columbia/Legacy '24) →
  2. Keith Jarrett - Gary Peacock - Paul Motian, At the Deer Head Inn: The Complete Recordings (1992, ECM) →
  3. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →
  4. Terry Gibbs Dream Band, Vol. 7: The Lost Tapes, 1959 (Whaling City Sound '24) →
  5. Al Jarreau & NDR Big Band, Ellington (2016, ACT Music '24) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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