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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden Of Jazzy Delights 2025

by Ludovico Granvassu
January 3, 2026

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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Multidirectional

By Billy Hart

Label: Smoke Sessions Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Song for Balkis; Giant Steps; Sonnet for Stevie; Amethyst; Showdown.

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Just

By Billy Hart

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Showdown; Layla Joy; Aviation; Chamber Music; South Hampton; Just; Billy's Waltz;; Bo Brussels; Naaj; Top of the Middle.

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The Music of Anthony Braxton

By Steve Lehman

Label: Pi Recordings
Released: 2025
Track listing: 34a; L.A. Genes; 40b; 23b + 23g; 23c; Unbroken and Unspoken; 23e + 40a; Trinkle, Tinkle.

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Spindrift

By Benjamin Lackner

Label: ECM Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Spindrift; Mosquito Flats; More Mesa; Chambery; See You Again My Friend; Murnau; Fair Warning; Anacapa; Ahwahnee; Out of the Fog.

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The Cross Over: Live in Brooklyn

By Jason Palmer

Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2024
Track listing: (First Set): B.A.M.D.; Same Bird; Do you Know Who YOU Are?; One for Fannie Lou; (Second Set): Beware of Captain America; For the Freedom Fighters; The Cross Over; It Very Well May Be So; More in Common.

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Reflections on: The Autobiography on an Ex-Colored Man

By Mark Turner

Label: Giant Step Arts
Released: 2025
Track listing: Movement 1. Anonymous; Movement 2. Juxtaposition; Movement 3. Pulmonary Edema; Movement 4. New York; Movement 5. Europe; Movement 6. The Texan...The Soldier; Movement 7. Mother...Sister...Lover; Movement 8. Pragmatism; Movement 9. Identity Politics; Movement 10. Closure.

Article: Year in Review

Troy Dostert's Best Jazz Albums of 2025

by Troy Dostert
December 10, 2025

We were treated to another superb year of creative jazz and improvised music in 2025, with a broad range of projects seeking to extend the boundaries of jazz into and beyond other idioms. Chamber-adjacent outfits such as the Hemphill Stringtet and Patricia Brennan's latest ensemble blurred the border between jazz and contemporary classical music, while Miguel ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Confronting the Questions: Race, Anonymity, and the American Experience

by David Bixler
December 9, 2025

In the early 1900s, James Weldon Johnson explored the complex life of a bi-racial man who chose to disappear into white society in The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man. Now, saxophonist Mark Turner uses this powerful novel as the foundation for his latest project. Join us as we listen to and discuss Turner's powerful compositions--a musical ...

Article: Live Review

Billy Hart Quartet Birthday Bash

by Chris DeRosa
December 6, 2025

Billy Hart Quartet Multidirectional Album Release & Hart's 85th Birthday Celebration Smoke Jazz & Supper Club November, 30, 2025 Hello, my name is Chris DeRosa, and this is what I heard... The show took place at the legendary New York City venue Smoke Jazz & Supper Club. ...