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] 

Carl Wilson (Slate, 'Crritic!')

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

  1. Cécile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch) →
  2. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) →
  3. SML, How You Been (International Anthem) →
  4. Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons, Live in Philadelphia (Otherly Love/Ars Nova Workshop) →
  5. Matthew Shipp, The Cosmic Piano (Cantaloupe Music) →
  6. Fieldwork, Thereupon (Pi) →
  7. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) →
  8. Mulatu Astatke, Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut) →
  9. Kassa Overall, Cream (Warp) →
  10. Bill Orcutt - Steve Shelley - Ethan Miller, Orcutt Shelley Miller (Silver Current) →

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

VOCAL

LATIN

DEBUT

 

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