I had an enormous pleasure of listening lots of truly great music during some European festivals. My list is based on what I find has marked 2025 and that I had heard performed live and was released in 2025.

Ambrose Akinmusire, The Honey From a Winter Stone
Johnathan Blake, My Life Matters
Patricia Brennan, Of The Near And Far
Sullivan Fortner, Southern Nights
Mary Halvorson, About Ghosts
Sun-Mi Hong Quintet, Meaning Of A Nest
James Brandon Lewis, Abstraction is Deliverance
Charles Lloyd, Figure In Blue, memories of Duke
Brad Mehldau, Ride into the Sun
Marc Ribot Quartet (Ava Mendoza, Sebastian Steinberg, Chad Taylor), Hurry Red Telephone
Spinifex, Maxximus