The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Past Polls
Index
Totals
New Albums
Rara Avis
Vocal
Latin
Debut
Critics
Ballots
Abreu - Brownlee
Buskirk - Drouot
Dryden - Gross
Hale - Kamins
Kanzler - Margasak
Medrano - Parnell
Perkins - Silva
Slim - Weiss
West - Yokoi
Ballot 2025
[Abreu - Brownlee]
·
[Buskirk - Drouot]
·
[Dryden - Gross]
·
[Hale - Kamins]
·
[Kanzler - Margasak]
·
[Medrano - Parnell]
·
[Perkins - Silva]
· [Slim - Weiss] ·
[West - Yokoi]
Neil Tesser
(KSDS-FM, Jazziz)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
Webber/Morris Big Band,
Unseparate
(Out of Your Head)
→
Gustavo Cortiñas,
The Crisis Knows No Borders
(Desafio Candente)
→
Patricia Brennan,
Of the Near and Far
(Pyroclastic)
→
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio,
Dream a Dream
(Libra)
→
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell,
We Insist 2025!
(Candid)
→
Pierre Dørge New Jungle Orchestra,
Jazzhus Montmartre Live
(SteepleChase)
→
Ivo Perelman - Nate Wooley - Matt Moran - Mark Helias - Tom Rainey,
A Modicum of the Blues
(Fundacja Słuchaj)
→
PlainsPeak,
Someone to Someone
(Irabbagast)
→
Tessa Souter,
Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project
(Noanara Music)
→
Mark Turner,
Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
(Giant Step Arts)
→
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
Charles Mingus,
Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
(1977, Resonance)
→
Kenny Dorham,
Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco
(1957, Resonance)
→
James Moody,
80 Years Young: Live at the Blue Note March 26, 2005
(Origin)
→
Sun Ra,
Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79
(Modern Marmonic)
→
Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers,
Strasbourg 82
(Gearbox)
→
VOCAL
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell,
We Insist 2025!
(Candid)
→
Tessa Souter,
Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project
(Noanara Music)
→
Tyreek McDole,
Open Up Your Senses
(Artworks)
→
LATIN
Renee Rosnes,
Crossing Paths
(Smoke Sessions '24)
→
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)
→
DEBUT
Tyreek McDole,
Open Up Your Senses
(Artworks)
→
Jimmy Farace,
Hours Fly, Flowers Die
(Shifting Paradigm)
→
David Sneider,
Introducing
(Cellar Music)
→
[Abreu - Brownlee]
·
[Buskirk - Drouot]
·
[Dryden - Gross]
·
[Hale - Kamins]
·
[Kanzler - Margasak]
·
[Medrano - Parnell]
·
[Perkins - Silva]
· [Slim - Weiss] ·
[West - Yokoi]