VA - Playlist: Best of 2025 - Jazz (2025)

Carefully curated by our team of passionate music experts, here is our non-exhaustive playlist of our favourite jazz tracks released in 2025. Featuring Brandee Younger, Dave McMurray, Linda May Han Oh, Marshall Allen, Hiromi, daoud, Mary Halvorson, Charles Lloyd, Ami Taf Ra, Kenny Barron, Emma Rawicz, GoGo Penguin, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Anouar Brahem, Artemis, Alabaster Deplume, Yuhan Su, Aaron Parks, Milena Casado, Tyreek McDole, Julia Hülsmann Quartet, Brad Mehldau, Terri Lyne Carrington, Adrien Soleiman, Dabin Ryu, Gabi Hartmann, Don Was, Donny McCaslin, Chip Wickham, Alfa MistHolly Cole, Arve Henriksen, Ambrose Akinmusire, Anne Paceo, Azymuth, Sun-Mi Hong, SML, Theo Croker, Pino Palladino, Butcher Brown, Joshua Redman, Kassa Overall, Mulatu Astatke…
Tracklist
01 - Aaron Parks - For María José
02 - Adrien Soleiman - Les Enfants
03 - Alabaster Deplume - Oh My Actual Days
04 - Alfa mist - Roulette
05 - Ambrose Akinmusire - Bloomed (the ongoing processional of nighas in hoodies)
06 - Kamasi Washington, Ami Taf Ra, Kamasi Washington - Gnawa
07 - Anat Fort - Mumbo Jumbo
08 - Anne Paceo, Cynthia Abraham - Inside
09 - Dave Holland, Django Bates, Anouar Brahem, Anja Lechner - Dancing Under the Meteorites
10 - Artemis - Olive Branch
11 - Anders Jormin, Arve Henriksen, Trygve Seim, Markku Ounaskari - Armon Lapset
12 - Azymuth - Andaraí
13 - Ben Lamar Gay - for Breezy
14 - Brad Mehldau - Everything Means Nothing to Me
15 - Brandee Younger, Shabaka - End Means
16 - Brandon Woody - Real Love Pt. 1
17 - Branford Marsalis Quartet - Spiral Dance
18 - Brittany Davis - Change Me
19 - Butcher Brown, Melanie Charles - Unwind
20 - Cécile McLorin Salvant - Anything but now
21 - Charles Lloyd - Figure In Blue, memories of Duke
22 - Chip Wickham, peach. - Nara Black
23 - Chris Cheek, Bill Frisell, Tony Scherr, Rudy Royston - Smoke Rings
24 - Christian McBride, Samara Joy - Old Folks
25 - Cochemea - Ancestros Futuros
26 - Dabin Ryu - Baby Man
27 - daoud, Mehdi Nassouli - la fièvre
28 - Dave McMurray - I LOVE LIFE even when I'm hurting
29 - David Murray Quartet - Bald Ego
30 - Dhafer Youssef - Eyeblink and Eternity (Pt. 2)
31 - Don Was, Don Was and the Pan-Detroit Ensemble - Nubian Lady
32 - Donny McCaslin - Wasteland
33 - Elliot Galvin, Shabaka Hutchings - Gold Bright
34 - Emil Brandqvist Trio - A Visit to Reality
35 - Emma Rawicz - Particles of Change
36 - Enji - Ulbar
37 - Fergus McCreadie - Sparrowsong
38 - Fred Hersch, Joey Baron, Drew Gress - The Surrounding Green
39 - Gabi Hartmann - Take a Swing at the Moon
40 - Gerald Clayton - Cinnamon Sugar
41 - GoGo Penguin - Fallowfield Loops
42 - Greg Foat, Jihad Darwish, Moses Boyd - Skipping Tones
43 - Harold Lopez-Nussa - Alma y Fuego
44 - Hiromi, Sonicwonder - OUT THERE: Takin' Off
45 - Holly Cole - Steppin' Out With My Baby
46 - Isaiah J. Thompson - I. The Cakewalk Dilemma
47 - Jaleel Shaw - Baldwin's Blues
48 - James Brandon Lewis Quartet - Abstraction Is Deliverance
49 - Metropole Orkest, Jasper Blom Quartet - Your Beauty and My Brains
50 - Jesse Harris - Dolores
51 - Joe Lovano, Marcin Wasilewski Trio - Love in the Garden
52 - John Patitucci, Chris Potter, Brian Blade - Lipím
53 - John Scofield, Dave Holland - Memories of Home
54 - Johnathan Blake - My Life Matters
55 - Joshua Redman, Melissa Aldana, Philip Norris, Paul Cornish, Nazir Ebo - So It Goes
56 - Julia Hülsmann Quartet - They Stumble, They Walk
57 - Kalia Vandever - Unearth What You Already Knew
58 - Kassa Overall - REBIRTH OF SLICK (COOL LIKE DAT)
59 - Kenny Barron, Cécile McLorin Salvant - Song For Abdullah
60 - Knats - Tortuga (For Me Mam)
61 - Laura Agnusdei - The Drowned World
62 - Lea Maria Fries - Witch's Broom
63 - Linda May Han Oh, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey - Strange Heavens
64 - Louis Sclavis, Benjamin Moussay, Sarah Murcia, Olivier Laisney, Christophe Lavergne - Phoolan Devi
65 - Lucia - Veracruz
66 - Marius Neset, Anton Eger, Elliot Galvin, Conor Chaplin - Hyp3rsonic Cabar3t
67 - Neneh Cherry, Marshall Allen - New Dawn
68 - Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts
69 - Milena Casado - Yet I Can See
70 - Noah Fürbringer, Moses Yoofee Vester, Roman Klobe, Moses Yoofee Trio - BOND
71 - Mulatu Astatke - Nètsanèt
72 - Josh Johnson, Carlos Nino, Nate Mercereau - Openness
73 - Nate Smith, Lionel Loueke, Michael League - MAGIC DANCE
74 - Nels Cline - The 23
75 - Olga Amelchenko - Irreversible
76 - Paolo Fresu - The Windmills of Your Mind
77 - Paul Cornish, Jeff Parker - Palindrome
78 - Peace Flag Ensemble - The Past Is What Changes The Most
79 - Phi-Psonics - New Pyramid
80 - Pino Palladino, Blake Mills - Taka
81 - Rez Abbasi - Presence
82 - Nitai Hershkovits, Rejoicer, Cinema Royal - Cinema Royal
83 - Sml - Chicago Four
84 - Metropole Orkest, Jules Buckley, Snarky Puppy - Waves Upon Waves
85 - Sultan Stevenson - El Roi
86 - Sun-Mi Hong - A Never-Wilting Petal II: Loneliness
87 - Sven Wunder - Daybreak
88 - Terri Lyne Carrington, Christie Dashiell, Julian Preister, Matthew Stevens, Weedie Braimah, Morgan Guerin, Milena Casado - Tears For Johannesburg
89 - The Circling Sun - Constellation
90 - Harlan Silverman, Roman Norfleet, Kennedy Verrett, The Cosmic Tones Research Trio - Awakenings
91 - The Getdown, Laurent Coulondre, Arnaud Dolmen, Grégory Privat - Amber's Ballad
92 - Theo Croker, Sullivan Fortner - A Prayer for Peace
93 - Till Brönner - Estate
94 - Tingvall Trio - Pax
95 - Tom Skinner - Kaleidoscopic Visions
96 - Trio of Bloom, Nels Cline, Marcus Gilmore, Craig Taborn - Queen King
97 - Tyreek McDole, Tomoki Sanders - The Creator Has A Master Plan
98 - Vijay Iyer, Wadada Leo Smith - Floating River Requiem (for Patrice Lumumba)
99 - Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley, Brian Blade - Roll
100 - Yuhan Su - Pieces Peace