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Libero Farnè's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

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Once again this year, the most forward-looking strand of the U.S. jazz scene has proven to be especially rich and compelling. In my list, however, I have tried to make room for a number of emblematic releases from the European scene, which remains consistently vital and authentic. In this spirit, I chose to highlight a historic figure such as Barry Guy, also because in the course of 2025 I had the privilege of hearing him live on two occasions.

Ambrose Akinmusire
Honey from a Winter Stone
Nonesuch Records





 

Tim Berne
Yikes Too
Screwgun Records





 

Peter Evans
Ars Ludicra
Self Produced





 

Jacob Garchik
Ye Olde 2: At the End of Time
Yestereve Records

 





Barry Guy London Jazz Composers Orchestra
Harmos-Krakòw
Not Two Records





 

Mary Halvorson
About Ghosts
Nonesuch Records





 

Donny McCaslin
Lullaby for the Lost
Edition Records







Gard Nilssen
Great Intentions
Action Jazz







Dan Rosenboom
Coordinates
Orenda Records







Spinifex
Maxximus
TryTone



 



Dan Weiss
Unclassified Affections
Pi Recordings







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