Recordings of 2025 I've most enjoyed listening to:

Mulatu Astakte, Mulata Plays Mulata

Extraordinary Popular Delusions, The Last Quintet

Gustavo Cortiñas, The Crisis Knows No Borders

Lucian Ban/John Surman/Mat Maneri, Cantica Profana: The Bela Bartøk Field Recordings

Billy Branch, The Blues is my biography

Thelonious Monk Quartet, Bremen 1965

Etienne Charles, Gullah Roots

patrick brennan - Cooper Moore - On Ka'a Davis - Jason Kao Hwang - K n current

Myra Melford with Michael Formanek and Ches Smith, Splash

Things of This Nature