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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Adam Shatz (London Review of Books)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
  2. The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
  3. Chad Taylor Quintet, Smoke Shifter (Otherly Love) →
  4. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  5. Olie Brice, All It Was (West Hill) →
  6. Alexander Hawkins, Song Unconditional (Intakt) →
  7. Eric McPherson, Double Bass Quartet (Giant Step Arts) →
  8. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
  9. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  10. Ned Rothenberg, Looms & Legends (Pyroclastic) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
  2. Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside) →
  3. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
  4. Thelonious Monk, Bremen 1965 (Sunnyside) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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