TEN FAVORITE NEW JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2025
Chris Cheek, Keepers of the Eastern Door (Analog Tone Factory)
Chick Corea - Christian McBride - Brian Blade, Trilogy 3 (Candid)
Randal Despommier, South (Sunnyside)
Joe Farnsworth, The Big Room (Smoke Sessions)
Charles Lloyd, Figure in Blue (Blue Note)
Brad Mehldau, Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
Nordkraft Big Band - Remy Le Boeuf - Danielle Wertz, Silent Course (Gateway)
Linda May Han Oh, Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
John Patitucci, Spirit Fall (Edition)
John Scofield & Dave Holland, Memories of Home (ECM)
THIRTEEN OTHER NOTABLE JAZZ RELEASES
Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots (Culture Shock)
Cyrus Chestnut, Rhythm, Melody and Harmony (Impulse!)
Gerald Clayton, Ones & Twos (Blue Note)
Duduka Da Fonseca Trio, Rio Fantasia (Sunnyside)
Luigi Grasso & NDR Bigband, La Dimora dell’Altrove (LP345)
Billy Hart Quartet, Just (ECM)
Branford Marsalis Quartet, Belonging (Blue Note)
David Murray Quartet, Birdly Serenade (Impulse!)
Arturo O’Farrill and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, Mundoagua – Celebrating Carla Bley (Zoho)|
Snarky Puppy & Metropole Orkest, Somni (GroundUP)
James Suggs, For All We Know (Arbors)
Craig Taborn, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore, Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)
WDR Big Band featuring Darol Anger and Mike Marshall, Bluegrass (MCG Jazz)
REISSUES/ARCHIVAL
Bill Evans, Further Ahead: Live in Finland 1964-1969 (Elemental)
Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (Resonance)
Charles Mingus, Mingus at Monterey (Candid Records)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (Resonance)
The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (Resonance)
VOCAL
Kurt Elling & Christian Sands, Wildflowers Vol. 3 (Big Shoulders)
Allan Harris, The Poetry of Jazz (Love Productions)
Cecile McLorin Salvant, Oh Snap (Nonesuch)
TEN NON-JAZZ FAVORITES
Annie & the Caldwells, Can’t Lose My (Soul) (Luaka Bop)
Tyler Childers, Snipe Hunter (Hickman Holler)
Galactic and Irma Thomas, Audience With the Queen (Tchoup-Zilla)Jason Isbell, Foxes in the Snow (Southeastern Records)
Lettuce, Cook (Lettuce)
Robert Plant with Suzi Dian, Saving Grace (Nonesuch)
Quetzal and David Hidalgo, Memory and Return (A Tlacuilo Joint!)
Mavis Staples, Sad and Beautiful World (Anti-)
Jeff Tweedy, Twilight Override (dBpm)
Various Artists, Tedeschi Trucks Band & Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited (Live at LOCKN’) (Fantasy)
