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Article: Year in Review

Glenn Astarita's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025

by Glenn Astarita
January 11, 2026

Another year, another reminder that jazz refuses to stay in its lane. The ten albums that grabbed me most in 2025 don't follow any neat narrative or trend--they're just the records I kept coming back to, the ones that made me hit repeat or sit up and pay closer attention. Some are from veterans who still ...

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backwardsupwardsky

By Chris Jonas

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Josh Tune; Granite; Queen Canyon; Melodica 6; KOFA; Nature Trail; Melodica 1; Teabag; Rump Most; Ocotillo & Sunbeam; Melodica 4; Duff; Green; Windy Josh.

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Soul Bird

By Rent Romus

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Black Swan; Vaakalintu (Bird’s Eye View); Soul Bird (Sielunlintu); Bird Awakening Song (Lindude äratamine); Curious Hooded Crow (Utelias Varis); Raven Speak; Sotka (Creation of the World); We All Sing

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Uplift

By Tatsuya Nakatani

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: An Offering; Before Everything Turns to Ice; Find a Gathering; Swing Before the Water Falls; And the Fires are Stoked; Call of the Wild; Into the Great Beyond; Uplift; Feel the Ground; Swinging from Starlight; The Great Gath Will Always Find Us.

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Chris Jonas: backwardsupwardsky

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by Glenn Astarita
October 19, 2025

Few artists can translate geography into sound with the spatial clarity that Chris Jonas achieves on backwardsupwardsky. A saxophonist, composer and multimedia artist whose résumé includes collaborations with Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor and William Parker, Jonas has always favored creative risk. This two-LP set on Edgetone Records transforms desert solitude--specifically his winters camping on Arizona's Barry ...

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Rent Romus, Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift

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by Glenn Astarita
August 17, 2025

Venerable woodwind ace, composer and fierce improviser Rent Romus has long been a cornerstone of the West Coast's avant-garde jazz scene. Tatsuya Nakatani, a Japanese-born percussionist and sound artist, is renowned for his innovative approach, wielding an arsenal of drums, gongs and indigenous instruments. He often crafts visceral soundscapes that dance between silence and chaos. Together, ...

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Moe Staiano: Away Towards the Light

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by Glenn Astarita
March 3, 2025

Drummer Moe Staiano's Away Towards the Light is a meticulously crafted sonic tapestry that unfolds slowly, revealing its complexities with each listen. Performed at the Edgetone 25th anniversary concert, the piece features four guitar groupings, three groups with two guitars and a group of three--alongside Staiano's snappy attack and bassist 'Jason Hoopes sturdy undercurrent. While not ...

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The Turning Point

By Dirk Wachtelaer

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Ancestors 1; Out There; Aromas At Dusk; Aromas At Dawn; From Deep Inside; Ancestors 2; Sound Dust; Faded Memories, But Still Cherished; Trying Hard; The Turning Point; Distant Lights, With Clouds; Ancestors 3; Serious Stuff; To Be Continued

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Ghost Moon

By Rent Romus

Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mutual Eclipses and Transits; 3.3336 Billion Miles; Waking Up; Hypothesized Exosphere; Knotted Time Slips; From Serenity Chasma to Mordor; Mutual Tidal Locking; Hydrostatic Equilibrium; Ghost Moon (Charon Base One); New Horizons; Vistors from the tenth space; Cryogeyser Garden; Dwarf Planet Shuffle; Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx; The void his eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire.

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