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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Mark Sullivan (All About Jazz)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  2. Joshua Redman, Words Fall Short (Blue Note) →
  3. Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note) →
  4. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
  5. Wolfgang Muthspiel - Scott Colley - Brian Blade, Tokyo (ECM) →
  6. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
  7. Hedvig Mollestad Trio, Bees in the Bonnet (Rune Grammofon) →
  8. Kaisa's Machine, Moving Parts (Greenleaf Music) →
  9. Aaron Parks, By All Means!! (Blue Note) →
  10. Believers [Brad Shepik/Sam Minaie/John Hadfield], Hard Believer (Shifting Paradigm) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Bill Evans, In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert (1970, Elemental Music '24) →
  2. Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance) →
  3. Kenny Dorham, Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live From the Blue Morocco (1957, Resonance) →
  4. John Surman, Flashpoints and Undercurrents (1969, Cuneiform) →
  5. The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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