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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Capturing the breathtaking beauty, range, and diversity of jazz released in 2025 through a list of “10 best albums" feels as challenging, vain--and ultimately disappointing--as trying to photograph the Grand Canyon at sunset by placing a pinhole in front of a rudimentary digital camera's lens. Sure, a picture will be taken. It might even prove you ...

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Quartets and Solos

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Welcome Home; Fast Slow; The Most Beautiful One; Late Stage Epiphany; Snap Pop; To Speak or Sing Softly; To Swim Below; Casual Friday; The Mayor of Malibu; To Remain Alive; To Dance Underground; The Hawk; Dogwood.

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Monk'D

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Brake's Sake; Humph; Coming On The Hudson; Just You And Me Smoking The Evidence; Ugly Beauty; Stuffy Turkey; Hornin' In; Ruby My Dear; Monk'D.

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The Eternal

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Those Who Know; Reflection; Eternal 1; Hawk Wind ; Adaptation; Eternal 2; Destroyer, Sooner; Eternal 3; No Age; Eternal 4; Tsunami; Eternal 5.

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Article: Album Review

Noah Garabedian: Quartets and Solos

Read "Quartets and Solos" reviewed by Jack Bowers


If ever an album were in need of liner notes--or at least some further clarification--it is this one, Quartets and Solos, by New York-based bassist Noah Garabedian's quartet; or quintet, if one includes album producer Samuel Adams' special effects and programming. The playlist consists of 13 songs. According to a press release, they alternate ...

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Article: Year in Review

Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

Read "Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


The albums on this Best of the Year list were picked on the run, as the months unfolded. Sometimes, second-guessing comes into play at the time of compilation. Not this time. All of these recordings are worthy of being called the Best of 2025. Andrew HillA Beautiful Day, Revisited Palmetto ...

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Article: Album Review

Dayna Stephens: Monk'D

Read "Monk'D" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


A jazz artist stepping into the studio to record some Thelonious Monk can approach the task from different angles. They can go all in and make a statement with solely Monk tunes. Pianist Ran Blake's Epistrophy (Soul Note, 1991) is one example of this approach. Or the artist can pick one of their favorite Monk classics ...

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Article: Multiple Reviews

Interesting Albums from the Past Few Months

Read "Interesting Albums from the Past Few Months" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


Here are five worthwhile jazz albums released in the past few months. Billy Mohler The Eternal Contagious Music2025 Bassist Billy Mohler leads a fiery quartet on this album rooted in the sound of his authoritative bass mixing with Jeff Parker's guitar and Devin Daniels' alto saxophone. The ...

Article: Album Review

Billy Mohler: The Eternal

Read "The Eternal" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


Tre splendidi album (Focus! del 2019, Anatomy del 2022, e Ultraviolet del 2024) registrati con lo stesso quartetto--e che quartetto (il leader al contrabbasso, Nate Wood alla batteria, Chris Speed ai sassofoni, Shane Endsley alla tromba)--avevano portato alla ribalta il nome di Billy Mohler ben oltre i confini del mondo del pop/rock dove, con il gruppo ...

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Ultraviolet

Label: Contagious Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Matador; Ultraviolet; Disorder II; The Wait; Sorrow; Aberdeen; Evolution; Disorder I; Reconstruction.


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