The 20th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2025
Ballot 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
- Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier, Angel Falls (Intakt) →
- Myra Melford, Splash (Intakt) →
- Joe McPhee & Strings, We Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (RogueArt) →
- Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Polarity 4 (Burning Ambulance) →
- Mats Gustafsson - Ken Vandermark - Tomeka Reid - Chad Taylor, Pivot (Silkheart) →
- Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
- Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Henry Threadgill, Listen Ship (Pi) →
- Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia) →
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
- Roy Brooks, The Free Slave (1970, Muse/Time Traveler) →
- Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
- Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
- Music Inc. [Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps], Live at Slugs' Volume I & II (1970, Strata-East/Mack Avenue) →
- Horace Silver, Silver in Seattle: Live at the Penthouse (1965, Blue Note) →
VOCAL
- Sarah Elizabeth Charles, Dawn (Stretch) →
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Nancy Kelly, Be Cool (Origin) →
LATIN
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho) →
- Irving Flores Afro-Cuban Sextet, Armando Mi Conga (Amor De Flores Productions) →
- Arturo O'Farrill & the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, The Original Influencers: Dizzy, Chano & Chico [Live at Town Hall] (Tiger Turn) →
- Chucho Valdés Royal Quartet, Cuba and Beyond (InnerJazz '24) →
DEBUT
- Tyreek McDole, Open Up Your Senses (Artworks) →
- Inés Velasco, A Flash of Cobalt Blue (self-released) →
- Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note) →
