The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Jon Batiste, Beethoven Blues (Verve '24) →
- Lafayette Gilchrist & New Volcanoes, Move With Love (Morphius) →
- Jon Irabagon, Server Farm (Irabbagast) →
- Jon Irabagon & Peter Brendler, Two-Part Inventions (Irabbagast) →
- Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
- Billy Lester Trio, High Standards (Ultra Sound) →
- Mark Masters Ensemble, Dance, Eternal Spirits, Dance! (Capri) →
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
- Joe Policastro Trio, Mending Wall (JeruJazz) →
- Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Billy Harper, Capra Black (1973, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Phil Haynes & Free Country, Liberty Now! (1996-2025, Corner Store Jazz) →
- Pharoah Sanders, The Complete Pharoah Sanders Theresa Recordings (1980-87, Mosaic) →
- Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
VOCAL
- Jazzmeia Horn, Messages (Empress Legacy '24) →
- Alfie Jackson Sextet, The Peacocks (JackoJazz) →
- Kazzrie Jaxen & Don Messina, The Dance (New Artists) →
LATIN
DEBUT
- Alfie Jackson Sextet, The Peacocks (JackoJazz) →
