The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) →
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
- For Living Lovers, Natural Name (Sunnyside) →
- Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Ornithology/Maqām) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →
- Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) →
- Carlos Garnett, Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) →
- Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) →
VOCAL
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Sonya Belaya, Dacha (Ropeadope) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) →
- Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) →
DEBUT
- Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) →
- Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →