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Frank Housh's Favorite Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Frank Housh
2025 was a great year for jazz. Below are my reviews for the year, from established artists like Brad Mehldau, John Scofield, and Celine McLorin Salvant to rising talents like Christian Pabst and Jo-Yu Chen. The first two album reviews are of artists that did more than simply demonstrate superior artistry, they spoke powerfully about the ...
David Bruggink's Best Jazz Albums of 2025
by David Bruggink
In a tumultuous year, these albums provided a shelter in the storm, with no shortage of intriguing stylistic directions and cross-pollinations. New directions in post-minimalism mingled with reimaginings of folk songs; chamber music crossed paths with modern classical and cool jazz. Stories Of life Triosence Sony Music
Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
By Jo-Yu Chen
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Beethoven – Symphony No. 5 / Piano Sonata Moonlight; Tchaikovsky – The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed Flutes; Beethoven – Sonata No. 8, Pathétique 2nd Movement; Tchaikovsky – Swan Lake; Prokofiev – Romeo and Juliet: Dance of the Knights; Mussorgsky – Pictures at an Exhibition: The Old Castle; Prokofiev – Piano Concerto #2; Ravel – Pavane Pour Une Infante Defunte.
Necessary Fictions
By GoGo Penguin
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Umbra; Fallowfield Loops; Forgive the Damages; What We Are and What We Are Meant to Be; Background Hiss
Reminds Me of Rain; The Turn Within; Living Bricks in Dead Mortar; Naga Ghost; Luminous Giants; Float (Loi Krathong,
2003); State of Flux; Silence Speaks.
Stories Of life
By Triosence
Label: Sony Music
Released: 2025
Track listing: Lale Minna; Marrakesh Swing; Little Lost Wonder; Tamina's Lullaby; Stories Of Life; Tomato Party; Dear Rainer; These Simple Things; G. Brothers; Like The Wind.
Triosence: Stories Of life
by Neil Duggan
The German trio Triosence have been developing their highly distinctive sound since the release of First Enchantment, their debut in 2002 (Mons Records). Their combination of jazz and cinematic soundscapes puts melody first and foremost in a song-based approach that has broad appeal to jazz listeners and beyond. The trio, led by pianist and ...
Neil Duggan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
by Neil Duggan
Looking back at 2025, here are some of the year's finest releases, mostly from Europe, encompassing both jazz and music where jazz ventures into other genres Emil BrandqvistPoems For Travellers Skip Records Gabriel LatchinThe Man I Love Alys ...
Dan McClenaghan's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
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 ...
GoGo Penguin: Necessary Fictions
by Geno Thackara
What exactly is the entity known as GoGo Penguin? After several recordings developing a niche they call “acoustic electronica"--an amorphous recipe of rock-and techno-oriented hooks played on jazz instruments in real time--one might have thought we had the answer to that question with the eponymous GoGo Penguin (Blue Note, 2020). Like many self-titled albums, it made ...
Jo-Yu Chen: Rendezvous - Jazz Meets Beethoven, Tchaikovsky & More
by Frank Housh
New York-based pianist and composer Jo-Yu Chen treats the great composers like most jazz musicians treat the Great American Songbook: a familiar musical foundation upon which to build a musical style. Chen trained at Juilliard but was seduced by jazz's siren song. Her first four albums: Obsession (Sony Music, 2011), Incomplete Soul (Sony Music, ...
