The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Amir ElSaffar, New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqām) →
- Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
- Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
- Camila Nebbia - Marilyn Crispell - Lesley Mok, A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Amirtha Kidambi's Elder Ones, Live in Vilnius (Fern Flower) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Peter Evans/Being & Becoming, Ars Ludicra (More Is More) →
- Rodrigo Amado, The Bridge: Further Beyond (Trost) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →
- Thelonious Monk, With Sonny Rollins 1953 to 1957 Revisited (Ezz-Thetics) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
- Annahstasia, Tether (Drink Sum Wtr) →
- Theo Bleckmann, Love and Anger (Sunnyside) →
LATIN
- Miguel Zenón Quartet, Vanguardia Subterranea: Live at the Village Vanguard (Miel Music) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Raul Monsalve Y Los Forajidos, SOL (Olindo) →
DEBUT
- Leandro Cardenas, Against the Jazz Police (577) →
- Milena Casado, Reflection of Another Self (Candid) →
- Lingyuan Yang, Cursed Month (Chaospace) →