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Mike Jurkovic's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

By Mike Jurkovic
December 2, 2025
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Many things besides the demise of democracy got in the way of listening to everything, but these are the discs still in heavy rotation.

Vijay Iyer
Thereupon
Pi Recordings

Gonzalo Rubalcaba
First Meeting: Live at Dizzy's Club
5Passion Records

Sylvie Courvoisier
Bone Bells
Pyroclastic Records

Mary Halvorson
About Ghosts
Nonesuch Records

Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series Vol. 18: Through the Open Window 1956-1963
Columbia Records

Michala Østergaard-Nielsen
The Cave
ILK Music

Charles Mingus
In Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts
Resonance Records

Patricia Brennan
Of the Near and Far
Pyroclastic Records

Sylvie Courvoisier
Angel Falls
Intakt Records

Keith Jarrett
The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
ECM Records

Chick Corea
Triology 3
Candid Records

Branford Marsalis
Belonging
Blue Note Records

Nels Cline
Trio Of Bloom
Pyroclastic Records

Keith Jarrett
New Vienna
ECM Records

Anthony Braxton
Quartet (England) 1985
Burning Ambulance Music

Joe Fonda
Joe Fonda & Bass Of Operation
Self Produced

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