The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
- Bruno Angelini - Sakina Abdou - Angelika Niescier, Lotus Flowers (Abalone) →
- The Attic & Eve Risser, La Grande Crue (NoBusiness '24) →
- Antonio Borghini & Banquet of Consequences, Resta Chi Va (We Insist!) →
- Michel Doneda & Thierry Waziniak, Le Chemin Du Jour (Intrication '24) →
- Floros Floridis - Matthias Bauer - Joe Hertenstein, Temporal Driftness (Evil Rabbit '24) →
- Fred Frith & Mariá Portugal, Matter (Intakt) →
- The Hemphill Stringtet, Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill (Out of Your Head) →
- Potsa Lotsa XL, Amoeba's Dance (Trouble in the East) →
- Kenny Wheeler Legacy, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores (Greenleaf Music) →
- Carlos "Zingaro" - Bruno Parrinha - Fred Lonberg-Holm - João Madeira, Enleio (4DaRecord) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL) (unranked)
- Derek Bailey & John Stevens, The Duke of Wellington (1989, Confront) →
- Dave Burrell & Sam Woodyard, The Lost Session: Paris 1979 (NoBusiness) →
- Don Ellis, How Time Passes to Essence Revisited (1960-62, Ezz-Thetics '24) →
- Khan Jamal, Give the Vibes Some (1974, Souffle Continu) →
- Daunik Lazro - Tristan Honsinger - Jean-Jacques Avenel, True & Whole Tones in Rhythms (Dunois · 9 Mai 1982) (Fou '24) →
VOCAL
- Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) →
LATIN
- Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
- Camila Nebbia - Kit Downes - Andrew Lisle, Exhaust (Relative Pitch) →
- Hery Paz, Fisuras (Porta-Jazz/Carimbo) →
DEBUT
- Bloomers, Cyclism (Relative Pitch) →
- Kovász, Fermentum (BMC) →
- Rafaëlle Rinaudo - Raphaël Quenehen - Simon Winsé, Spin & Spells (Gigantonium) →
