Here are my ten favorite new albums of 2025. A full write-up on each of these, as well as my selections for numbers 11 through 35  can be found at PostGenre. Also on that site, you can find interviews from the past year with several of the artists on my list. 

NEW JAZZ ALBUMS

1. Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) 
2. Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch)
3. Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)
4. Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) 
5. Theon Cross, Affirmations: Live at the Blue Note New York (New Soil) 
6. James Brandon Lewis Trio, Apple Cores (Anti-) 
7. For Living Lovers, Natural Name (Sunnyside) 
8. Amir ElSaffar & Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Inner Spaces (Ornithology/Maqām) 
9. Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts (Nonesuch) 
10. Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio, Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms) 

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Pharoah Sanders, Love Is Here: The Complete Paris 1975 ORTF Recordings (Transcendence Sounds) 
2. Sun Ra, Uncharted Passages: New York Piano Soliloquies 1977-79 (Modern Marmonic) 
3. Carlos Garnett, Cosmos Nucleus (1976, Muse/Time Traveler) 
4. Spiritual Jazz 18: Behind the Iron Curtain: Esoteric, Modal, and Progressive Jazz From Central and Eastern Europe (1962-1988) (Jazzman) 
5. Anthony Braxton, Quartet (England) 1985 (Burning Ambulance) 

VOCAL

• Ambrose Akinmusire, Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch) 
• Amina Claudine Myers, Solace of the Mind (Red Hook) 
• Sonya Belaya, Dacha (Ropeadope) 

LATIN

• Patricia Brennan, Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic) 
• Adam O'Farrill, For These Streets (Out of Your Head) 
• Aruán Ortiz, Créole Renaissance (Intakt) 

DEBUT

• Thomas Morgan, Around You Is a Forest (Loveland Music) 
• Marcus Gilmore, Journey to the New: Live at the Village Vanguard (Drummerslams) 
• Paul Cornish, You're Exaggerating! (Blue Note)