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

Prev[Abreu - Brownlee] · [Buskirk - Drouot] · [Dryden - Gross] · [Hale - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Margasak] · [Medrano - Parnell] · [Perkins - Silva] · [Slim - Weiss] · [West - Yokoi] 

Josef Woodard (DownBeat, Jazziz, Los Angeles Times, Santa Barbara Independent, All About Jazz, JoeWoodard.com)

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Craig Taborn - Nels Cline - Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic) →
  2. Dino Saluzzi, El Viejo Caminante (ECM) →
  3. Anthony Braxton, Trillium X (PMP) →
  4. James Brandon Lewis Quartet, Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) →
  5. John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM) →
  6. Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM) →
  7. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) →
  8. Jane Ira Bloom & Brian Shankar Adler, Once Like a Spark (Adhyâropa) →
  9. Peter Evans/Being & Becoming, Ars Ludicra (More Is More) →
  10. Mark Turner, Reflections On: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

  1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance) →

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

Prev[Abreu - Brownlee] · [Buskirk - Drouot] · [Dryden - Gross] · [Hale - Kamins] · [Kanzler - Margasak] · [Medrano - Parnell] · [Perkins - Silva] · [Slim - Weiss] · [West - Yokoi]