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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Mike Shanley (New York City Jazz Record, JazzTimes, Shanley on Music)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
  2. Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) →
  3. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  4. Tim Berne - Tom Rainey - Gregg Belisle-Chi, Yikes Too (Screwgun/Out of Your Head) →
  5. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  6. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  7. Ches Smith, Clone Row (Otherly Love) →
  8. Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
  9. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
  10. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →
  2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
  3. Art Pepper, Geneva 1980 (Omnivore) →
  4. Charlie Rouse, Two Is One (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
  5. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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