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Rafael Enciso: Crossfade

Read "Crossfade" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
January 2, 2026

On Crossfade, his debut recording as leader, bassist Rafael Enciso wrests as much rhythmic and harmonic mileage as possible from what is basically a quartet date, using tenor saxphonist Dayna Stephens to add color and depth to one of his ten original compositions, organist Jahari Stampley to amplify two others. Elsewhere, Enciso and his ...

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Tides

By Philip Weberndoerfer

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Little B's Poem; Low Gravity; Peace of Constance; My Ideal; Salted Sweets; Suspense and Certainty; Simple Task; The Gypsy; One of These Days.

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The Baggage Room Vol.2 – Meanwhile

By Emiliano D'Auria

Label: Via Veneto Jazz
Released: 2025
Track listing: Timeless Threads; Chasing the Flicker; Meanwhile; Entr’Acte #1; Embracing the Question; Distance; Entr’Acte #2; Savoring Life’s Journey; Half Dreaming; Entr’Acte; Echoes of the Past.

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Closer Than We Think

By Dayna Stephens

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2025
Track listing: Bubbly; The Nomad; Ryland; Scrutiny; Placate; E.S.P.; A New Spring; TE; Blue Poles; Bach Home; Placate (reprise).

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Childlike

By Varun Das

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: This Peculiar Land; Childlike; Top Of The Mountain; Afar; Inner Circle; Steering With One; Ocean Through A Lens; Make A Move

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Best Life Now

By Sachal Vasandani

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Best Life Now; Call Me (feat. Dayna Stephens); Right On Time (feat. Gretchen Parlato); Stay A Little Bit Longer; Incredible Kindness; Don't Give Up On Me; What's New; Tyrannosaur; Sometimes I Miss (feat. Nate Smith); Too Easy; Blame Love.

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Monk'D

By Dayna Stephens

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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Crossfade

By Rafael Enciso

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: The High Priestess; Photogenic Memory; Austin Otto; Stick Your Neck Out; Thousand Yard Stare; Waterfall; Solstice; Skipping Stones; Whirlpool; Lennox Avenue.

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Not Tired

By Johannes Wallmann

Label: Shifting Paradigm Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Not Tired; Into the Rain; Blind Spot; Twelve Thirty-four Intro; Twelve Thirty-four; Ice Planet; The Towel Snapper; Near Orbit; Bad Apple; Annus Mirabilis.

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Quartets and Solos

By Noah Garabedian

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.