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Article: Year in Review

Adam Beaudoin's 15 Favorite Albums of 2025

by Adam Beaudoin
January 8, 2026

Year-end lists are a strange creature, as conceptually absurd as they are genuinely useful. They contend to distill a year's worth of recorded music into “the very best," a laughably conceited claim for any one listener or editorial board, no matter how erudite and steeped in the music, to make. For jazz, the situation is even ...

Article: In Pictures

From Mystery to Momentum: Bill Frisell’s Quartet at The Jazz Gallery

by Dave Kaufman
January 8, 2026

It was a glorious year for The Jazz Gallery as it celebrated its 30th-anniversary season with a series of stellar concerts. The Jazz Gallery is a remarkably inviting and hospitable venue, friendly to both patrons and photographers. The room has great sound and affords comfortable seating. It is a strong contender for the best jazz “club" ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Favorite Jazz and Fusion Albums 2025 - Music from Artemis, Behn Gillece, Johnathan Blake, Hiromi, and Others

by David W. Daniels
January 6, 2026

A subjectively selected “Best 25 jazz and jazz fusion albums of 2025" list, with artists as diverse as Branford Marsalis, Phil Bancroft, Ella Fitzgerald, and Yellowjackets. Playlist Artemis “Sights Unseen"--from Arboresque (Blue Note) 00:00 Branford Marsalis Quartet “'Long As You Know You're Living Yours"--from Belonging (Blue Note) 7:21 Nnenna Freelon “Changed"--from Beneath The Skin ...

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Blessed & Bewitched

By Maja Jaku

Label: Origin Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: The Witch; I’m a Queen; Lonely Little Fox; Blessing Will Come; Never Let Me Go; Rituals; Everything Must Change.

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Red Brick Hill

By Harry Skoler

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Last Star, Last Night (prologue); NanCee; Ascent; Blue, mostly; Abyss; Last Star, Last Night; AppleHands; Beneath Bequeath; Harbinger; Here. Still.; Red Brick Hill; Furthering; Still. Here.; Last Star, Last Night (epilogue).

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Songbook

By Kenny Barron

Label: Artwork Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beyond This Place; Until Then; Cook's Bay; Thoughts and Dreams; Illusion; Minor Blues Redux; In the Slow Lane; Sunshower; Calypso; Lullabye; Sonja Brag; Marie Laveau; Song for Abdullah.

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Under the Surface

By Sumi Tonooka

Label: ARC - Artists Recording Collective
Released: 2025
Track listing: Points of Departure; Savour; Interval Haiku; Tear Bright; Mother Tongue; For Stanley; Under the Surface.

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Trio!

By Dabin Ryu

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Vertigo; Baby Man; The Well; Dorham's Epitaph; In the Land of Oo-Bla-Dee; Sad Song; Naima's Love Song; Tricotism.

Article: Album Review

Jakob Dreyer: Roots and Things

Read "Roots and Things" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
November 27, 2025

Bassist Jakob Dreyer searched for a new sound for his third album as a leader. He has, for his previous two releases, expressed his art via the standard quartet--sax, bass, drums and piano. For Roots and things, the piano is replaced by Sasha Berliner's vibraphone, joining the leader's other new-to-the-fold sidemen, saxophonist Tivon Pennicott and drummer ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

James Danderfer, Michael Wolff, Fieldwork & more

by Marek J. Śmietański
November 27, 2025

Part two of our September jazz roundup continues in 117th episode--now venturing beyond Europe. Most of the highlights come from North America (the US and Canada are on fire), plus a few excellent releases from Australia, Japan, and Cuba (with a slight geographic stretch or two). Only two genuine debut albums in this episode, but one ...