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Konstantin Rega's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

By Konstantin N. Rega
December 5, 2025
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Even as the world seems to spin faster and faster, jazz has got your back. With albums responding to the current musical dialogue as well as those looking back to the past, 2025 offered a wonderful assortment of delicious earworms. It was a year of tasteful tunes, imaginative expressionistic freestyling, and generous arrangements of time-favoured oldies.

Italia
Till Bronner
earMUSIC

Oh Snap
Cecile McLorin Salvant
Nonesuch Records

Lumen
Bill Laurance
ACT Music

After the Last Sky
Anouar Brahem
ECM Records

Cat & The Hounds
Colin Hancock
Turtle Bay Records

El Viejo Caminante
Dino Saluzzi
ECM Records

Heartstrings
Lauren Kinsella
Edition Records

Fasten Up
Yellowjackets
Mack Avenue Records

Piano Music 3
Alessandro Sgobbio
AMP Music & Records

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