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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Michael Ullman (Fanfare, Arts Fuse)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Carl Allen, Tippin' (Cellar) →
  2. Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier, Angel Falls (Intakt) →
  3. Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights (Artwork) →
  4. Fred Hersch, The Surrounding Green (ECM) →
  5. Nicholas Payton, Triune (Smoke Sessions) →
  6. Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note) →
  7. Sun Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra, Strange Strings (1967, Cosmic Myth '24) →
  8. Webber/Morris Big Band, Unseparate (Out of Your Head) →
  9. Immanuel Wilkins, Blues Blood (Blue Note '24) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

Note: Rejected votes out of eligibility band: New Jazz vote for Kris Dais and the Lutoslawski Quartet, The Solastalgia Suite (Pyroclastic '26); Vocal vote Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Lean In (Edition '23).

 

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