10 Best of 2025:

1.       Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch)

1.       Theo Croker – dream manifest (Dom Recs) [TIE]

3.       Donny McCaslin – Lullaby for the Lost (Edition)

4.       Trio of Bloom – Trio of Bloom (Pyroclastic)

5.       James Brandon Lewis Quartet – Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt)

6.       Paul Cornish – You’re Exaggerating! (Blue Note)

7.       Benjamin Lackner – Spindrift (ECM)

8.       Ambrose Akinmusire – honey from a winter stone (Nonesuch)

9.  Kalia Vandever – Another View (Northern Spy)

10. Mulatu Astatke - Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)