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Mark Sullivan's Favorite Jazz Albums of 2025

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There must be an echo in here: like just about everyone else, I observe that there was a lot of great music released in what was otherwise an unsettling year. They ranged from hard bop (Words Fall Short, Belonging) to fusion (Hard Believer, Live at Berlin) to experimental (Trio of Bloom). Experimental guitarist Nels Cline appears on two of my picks. The supply of historical material (both previously unknown recordings and reissues) again seems inexhaustible. Somehow, newly discovered tapes keep showing up! Long may it continue.

New Jazz Albums

Consentrik Quartet
Nels Cline
Blue Note Records






Words Fall Short
Joshua Redman
Blue Note Records






Belonging
Branford Marsalis
Blue Note Records






After the Last Sky
Anouar Brahem
ECM Records






Tokyo
Wolfgang Muthspiel
ECM Records






Trio Of Bloom
Nels Cline
Pyroclastic Records






Moving Parts
Kaisa Mäensivu
Greenleaf Music






Hard Believer
Brad Shepik
Shifting Paradigm Records






Memories Of Home
John Scofield
ECM Records






Live at Berlin
Brandon Wozniak
Shifting Paradigm Records






Historic Reissues or Archival

In Norway: The Kongsberg Concert
Bill Evans
Elemental Music






In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Charles Mingus
Resonance Records






Blue Bossa in the Bronx: Live from the Blue Morocco
Kenny Dorham
Resonance Records






Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Version
Charlie Rouse
Resonance Records






Bremen 1965
Thelonious Monk
Sunnyside Records







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