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Karan Khosla's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

By Karan Khosla
December 28, 2025
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This list brings together a group of 2025 albums that I genuinely enjoyed spending time with, both as a listener and through the process of reviewing them. It reflects a mix of records that stayed with me over repeated listens, alongside a few special mentions from South Asia that deserve wider attention. Taken together, these releases speak to care, craft, and intention, even as they come from very different musical and cultural contexts.

The Big Room
Joe Farnsworth
Smoke Sessions Records

Words Fall Short
Joshua Redman
Blue Note Records

Dream Manifest
Theo Croker
Dom Recs / Star People Nation

Dom Recs / Star People Nation

Painter Of The Invisible
Jaleel Shaw
Changu Records

True Blue
Casiopea
Hats Unlimited Co. Ltd.

Fly
Michael Mayo
Mack Avenue Records

Solace of the Mind
Amina Claudine Myers
Red Hook Records

Distance to Empty
Will Brahm
Self Produced

Jewel Tones
SHYLU RAVINDRAN
Self Produced

ڪڏهن ملنداسين Kadahin Milandaasin
Tarun Balani
Berthold Records

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