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Music From Favourite Recordings of 2025

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Aside from the two opening tracks from South African drummer Asher Gamedze's upcoming release, A Semblance Of Return, the rest of this show features a track from each of the 25 favourite recordings played on One Man's Jazz in 2025. These were chosen from recordings released by artists from almost 40 different countries. It was a very, very good year!

Playlist

  • Asher Gamedze "Air (If Involvedness)" from A Semblance Of Return (Northern Spy) 00:00
  • Asher Gamedze "Following Up" from A Semblance Of Return (Northern Spy) 06:35
  • Host speaks 09:31
  • Felix Henkelhausen Quintet "Building Blocks For Self-Destruction" from The Excruciating Pain Of Boredom (Enja Records) 12:13
  • Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway "Waterspear" from How The Dust Falls (Auricle) 21:28
  • Thomas Heberer's Remedy "Das Brot Der Fruhen Jahre" from Hipp Hipp Hooray (Fundacja Sluchaj) 27:58
  • Host speaks 36:51
  • Sylvain Darrifourcq, Manuel Hermia & Valentin Ceccaldi "Moustache Et Vernis, Sans Cape Et Sans Collant" from Unicorn & Flexibility (Hector) 39:14
  • Sam Gill's Coursed Waters "Scree" from Sensemaker (Earshift Music) 46:50
  • Oversáez "Paternoster" from Abstract Emotions (Boomslang) 52:49
  • Host speaks 1:01:40
  • Mary Halvorson "Eventidal" from About Ghosts (Nonesuch) 1:04:34
  • Nels Cline " lipping Into Something" from Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet (Blue Note) 1:10:26
  • Dan Weiss "Helotype" from Unclassified Affections (Pi Recordings) 1:15:23
  • Host speaks 1:22:47
  • James Brandon Lewis Quartet "Left Alone" from Abstraction Is Deliverance (Intakt) 1:24:36
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer "Floating River Requiem (For Patrice Lumumba)" from Defiant Life (ECM Records) 1:33:55
  • Rodrigo Amado's The Bridge "That's How Strong Our Love Is" from Further Beyond (Trost Records) 1:40:07
  • Host speaks 1:47:58
  • Linda May Han Oh "Paper Birds" from Strange Heavens (Biophilia) 1:50:21
  • Fieldwork "Astral" from Thereupon (Pi Recordings) 1:54:57
  • Ivo Perelman "A Modicum Of Blues Part 4" from A Modicum Of The Blues (Fundacja Sluchaj) 1:59:07
  • Host speaks 2:06:25
  • Myra Melford "Drift" from Myra Melford Splash (Intakt) 2:08:38
  • Camila Nebbia, Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok "A Room Is Being Erased" from A Reflection Distorts Over Water (Relative Pitch) 2:19:15
  • Cosmic Ear "Father & Son" from Traces (We Jazz) 2:23:56
  • Host speaks 2:30:28
  • Otherlands Trio "Imago" from Star Mountain (Intakt) 2:33:30
  • Ville Lahteenmaki Trio "Shadow People" from Second Sight (RRGEMS) 2:48:24
  • Mark Turner "Movement 8—Pragmatism" from Reflections On The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man (Giant Step Arts) 2:55:29
  • Host speaks 3:04:01
  • Peter Evans & Being And Becoming "Malibu" from Ars Ludicra (More Is More) 3:06:03
  • Bruno Angelini, Angelika Niescier & Sakina Abdou "Les Sens" from Lotus Flowers (Abalone) 3:12:57
  • Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier "Naomi Peak" from Angel Falls (Intakt) 3:20:28
  • Host speaks 3:26:47
  • Peter Ehwald, Stefan Schultze & Tom Rainey "Promise" from Public Radio (Jazzwerkstatt) 3:29:55

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