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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Jeffrey St. Clair (Counterpunch: Sound Grammar)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Steve Lehman Trio + Mark Turner, The Music of Anthony Braxton (Pi) →
  2. Anouar Brahem, After the Last Sky (ECM) →
  3. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) →
  4. Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith, Defiant Life (ECM) →
  5. Nels Cline, Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) →
  6. Yazz Ahmed, A Paradise in the Hold (Night Time Stories) →
  7. Marshall Allen, New Dawn (Mexican Summer) →
  8. David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!) →
  9. John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition) →
  10. Kalia Vandever, Another View (Northern View) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) →
  2. Blackbyrds, City Life (1975, Craft/Jazz Dispensary) →
  3. Dexter Gordon, Landslide (1961-62, Blue Note) →
  4. Freddie Hubbard, On Fire: Live From the Blue Morocco (1967, Resonance) →
  5. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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