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Popular Jazz Songs: 2025

By Michael Ricci
January 2, 2026
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All About Jazz tracks how often a featured song is heard, and the following represent the most popular in 2025. If you missed them the first time around, give them a listen now, and enjoy!

Tutu

From: TUTU -Tribute to Miles (Feat. Stefano Andreatta)
By Selma Boragian

Quem Sabe

From: Quem Sabe [Feat. Ada Rovatti, Randy Brecker, Michel Freidenson]
By Luiz Millan

Olha Pro Ceu

From: Olha Pro Ceu (Antonio Carlos Jobim, feat. Selma Boragian)
By Dan Fontaine & His Orchestra

Layla

From: Living Standards II
By Karl Latham

Blue Palestine Part Two

From: Mundoagua: Celebrating Carla Bley
By Arturo O'Farrill

I Love You

From: A Cidade E O Jazz
By Hector Costita

Dark and Lovely

From: Beneath the Skin
By Nnenna Freelon

A Song For You (Gnossienne No. 1)

From: Shadows and Silence: The Erik Satie Project
By Tessa Souter

On A Clear Day (featuring Antonia Bennett)

From: Memories Unleashed, Impulse 1
By Elijah Rock

Doubledream

From: Mentalcoredrillings
By Matteo Ciminari

Bad Teeth

From: The Trouble With Dogma
By Neal Bowen

Once Upon a Time on the Sun

From: Once Upon a Time on the Sun
By Filament

String

From: World of Difference
By Danny Fisher-Lochhead

Blue Train

From: A Bad Rep in the Rubber City
By Matthew Alec

Perfect Wreck

From: Big Eyes Big Ears
By Bradley Williams

Straight No Chaser

From: The Old Country: More from the Deer Head Inn
By Keith Jarrett

Do Do Kindje Doo

From: Retrospectives (In the Key of Jazz)
By Billie Davies

It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)

From: Falling From Earth
By Bob Schlesinger

Iacchus

From: From What I Recall
By Premazzi / Nasser Quartet

Eric's Vals

From: The Hat with the Grin and the Chuckle
By Ben Thomas (US)

Backfire

From: One Of Us
By LaMP ft. Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger & Ray Paczkowski

Goose Chase

From: Polytonal Big Band: The Snake Charmer
By Brad Goode

March of the Merry Men

From: Vienna to Hollywood: Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner
By Peter Erskine

What Happened There, Part 1

From: What Happened There?
By Natsuki Tamura

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