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Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

By Dan McClenaghan
December 3, 2025
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The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025.

Andrew Hill
A Beautiful Day, Revisited
Palmetto Records

Iro Haarla
Under the Firmament
Willa Silva Records

Claire Ritter
Songs Of Lumiere
Zoning Records

Marc Copland
Alter Ego Lausanne 2022
The Montreux Jazz Label

Jon Irabagon
Server Farm
Irrabagast

Satoko Fujii
Dream a Dream
Libra Records

Charlie Ballantine
East by Midwest
Origin Records

Phillip Haynes
Transition (s)
Corner Store Jazz

Jo-Yu Chen
Rendezvous: Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
Sony Music

Atzko Kohashi
Porgy
Jazz In Motion Records

Michael Dease
City Life: Music of Gregg Hill
Origin Records

Denny Zeitlin
With a Song In My Heart: Exploring The Music of Richard Rodgers
Sunnyside Records

Vijay Iyer
Thereupon
Pi Recordings

Roberto Magris
Lovely Day (s)
JMood Records

George Coleman
George Coleman with Strings
HighNote Records

Anat Fort
The Dreamworld of Paul Motian
Sunnyside Records

Carmen Staaf
Sounding Line
Sunnyside Records

Dayna Stephens
Monk'D
Contagious Music

Satoko Fujii
Burning Wick
Libra Records

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