Here are my 10 top albums that made the last 12 months even more worthwhile, and they’ve held up to repeated listening, too: 2. “ The Ancients ,” (self-titled) (Eremite Records): Emerging sax explorer ...

Branford Marsalis, Joshua White and Patricia Brennan are just some of the artists who released head-turning albums this year.

Ian Patterson's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 article by Ian Patterson, published on December 21, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find ...

It’s been a good year for jazz, diverse in every way—styles, influences, tastes, and demographics too. I didn’t aim the list to turn out this way, but four of the albums’ leaders are women, and five ...

It’s a highly original work informed by a keen jazz sensibility – and Snowpoet’s finest album to date. The prolific and ...

Led by Grammy-winning Terell Stafford, the ensemble took a long-awaited trip to Tokyo last spring, wowing the audience at a ...

Murmurations, the dazzling aerial spectacle of starlings swirling together to form ever-changing shapes, is an apt title for this album from the Kate Wyatt Trio. The trio show a similar intuitive ...

For our best jazz albums of 2024 click here This is a list of albums released in 2025 that you will find reviewed on the site. Please use the search tool to locate: REVIEWED Below you will find a list ...