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Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

By Mark Corroto
December 12, 2025
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I have an alternative to the year end list. I prefer a "what I listened to most this past year" list. Even so, the discs below would likely make a "best of" list, but that's not my preference. These are discs (and the dreaded digital files) I kept on a heavy rotation. For instance, I am currently spinning recent releases from artists such as Eri Yamamoto / Matthew Shipp's piano duos Horizon (Mahakala), saxophonist Pete Mills' organ quartet For The Record (Self Produced), JD Allen Love Letters (The Ballad Session) (Savant), Muriel Grossmann Breakthrough (Dreamland) and Angles 11 Tell Them It's The Sound Of Freedom (Fundacja Słuchaj!).

This year I was introduced to some new (to me) artists such as Martín Escalante the noise & hardcore improvisation saxophonist and the über talented saxophonist, Nicole Glover. I hope to hear more from both in the coming year.

Emad Armoush
Distilled Extractions
Afterday

Muriel Grossmann
The Light Of The Mind
Dreamlandrecords

Chicago Edge Ensemble
Paradoxes In Freedom
Lizard Breath Records

Curtis Stewart
The Hemphill Stringtet Plays the Music of Julius Hemphill
Out Of Your Head Records

Silke Eberhard
Being-A-Ning
Intakt Records

Ellery Eskelin
About (or On), First Visit
Ezz-thetics

James Brandon Lewis
Abstraction Is Deliverance
Intakt Records

Kārlis Auziņš Double Trio
Equilibrium Suite
Jersika Records

Grand/Nebbia/Sánchez/Mendenhall/Fernández
Altered Visions
Lilailia Records

Marshall Allen's Ghost Horizons
Live in Philadelphia
Otherly Love Records/Ars Nova

Muriel Grossmann
MGQ Live Im King Georg, Köln
Dreamlandrecords/

Olie Brice
All It Was
West Hill Records

Miguel Zenon
Vanguardia Subterránea: Live at The Village Vanguard
Miel Music

Martín Escalante/Tatsuya Yoshida
The Sound of Raspberry
Wash And Wear

Mats Gustafsson
PIVOT
Silkheart Records

Pat Thomas
HIKMAH
Tao Forms

Marco Eneidi
Wheat Fields of Kleylehof
Balance Point Acoustics

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