Лучшие джазовые альбомы 2025 по версии Allmusic / Favorite jazz albums of 2025
Джаз по-прежнему остается жанром, демонстрирующим самые прогрессивные инновации и творческую энергию, и выпущенные в этом году альбомы — тому яркое подтверждение. Альбомы Эмброуза Акинмусира, Язз Ахмед, Нильса Клайна и Брэнди Янгер (на фото) отражают новые звуковые тенденции. Это наши любимые джазовые альбомы 2025 года.
Alfa Mist - Roulette
The pianist and composer's concept album explores a future world where reincarnation is science using everything from jazz and hip-hop to soul.
Ambrose Akinmusire - Honey from a Winter Stone
On his sophomore date for Nonesuch, the trumpeter through composes five sprawling post-genre works with a quintet and string quartet.
Amina Claudine Myers - Solace of the Mind
On her second album for Red Hook, the great pianist, composer, arranger, and singer delivers a personal collection of compositions old and new.
Artemis - Arboresque
The jazz supergroup evoke Miles Davis' second great quintet on their organic and artful third album.
Arve Henriksen / Anders Jormin / Markku Ounaskari / Trygve Seim - Arcanum
European jazz masters form a quartet and offer a master class in vanguard jazz composition and improv, and Ornette Coleman and Don Cherry's aesthetics.
Billy Hart Quartet / Billy Hart - Just
The fourth ECM album from the legendary drummer's cohesive, harmonically nuanced quartet.
Bitchin Bajas / Natural Information Society - Totality
After releasing their first joint album ten years prior, the spiritual jazz ensemble and spacey synth trio reactivate their collaboration on this focused, meditative set.
Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season
On her third offering for Impulse, the harpist played Alice Coltrane's harp and recorded with her trio and guests in her Harlem apartment.
Brandon Woody - For the Love of It All
The Baltimore trumpeter crafts a soulful love letter to his hometown with his Blue Note debut.
Branford Marsalis / Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging
The saxophonist and his quartet offer a bold reinterpretation of Keith Jarrett's 1974 album of the same title.
Camila Meza - Portal
The Chilean singer/guitarist's first album of all-original material is a sonically enrapturing evocation of feminine power.
Carl Allen - Tippin'
The drummer leads a vibrant, hard-swinging trio with Chris Potter and Christian McBride.
Charles Lloyd - Figure in Blue
The saxophonist returns to the trio format on this meditative, powerful set with Jason Moran and guitarist Marvin Sewell.
Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph
Delivering their first album in 11 years, the duo and engineer Dave Vettraino use the recording studio as an instrument and a laboratory.
Chip Wickham - The Eternal Now
Returning with most of the same band from the Love & Life EP, the composer/multi-instrumentalist delivers his most cohesive offering yet.
Dayna Stephens - Hopium
The tenor saxophonist brings together his 2020 Right Now! quartet for a philosophical, sonically potent reunion.
Dee Dee Bridgewater / Bill Charlap - Elemental
The singer and pianist display a magical, virtuosic chemistry on their duo collaboration.
Dino Saluzzi / José Maria Saluzzi / Jacob Young - El Viejo Caminante
The 90-year-old bandoneon maestro teams up with his guitarist son Jose and Norwegian guitarist Jacob Young to turn in a sophisticated reverie.
Don Was and the Pan Detroit Ensemble / Don Was - Groove in the Face of Adversity
With an all-Detroit Ensemble, musical polymath Don Was assembled the band of his dreams for this swinging, swaggering jazz-funk groover.
Donny McCaslin - Lullaby for the Lost
The saxophonist and his longtime band have emerged from David Bowie's influence to create their own brand of jazz-rock.
Emma-Jean Thackray - Weirdo
An emotionally complex, grieving, and enriching work of a one-woman band crossing jazz, soul, funk, and alt-rock.
Erik Jekabson - Breakthrough
The Bay Area trumpeter brings together organically textured orchestration and bold jazz improvisation.
Gerald Clayton - Ones & Twos
The pianist blends contemporary jazz and DJ-inspired concepts on his deftly experimental third Blue Note album.
Harold López-Nussa - Nueva Timba
On his second Blue Note release the jazz pianist integrates timba, post-bop, Latin jazz, Spanish classical music, and more in a dazzling set.
Hiromi / Hiromi's Sonicwonder - Out There
Returning with her Sonicwonder quartet, the pianist delivers dramatic musical invention in further erasing artifical boundaries between genres.
Jaleel Shaw - Painter of the Invisible
The saxophonist paints an indelible and deeply personal sonic portrait of Black life.
Joe Armon-Jones - All the Quiet (Part I)
On the opening half of a projected double album, the pianist and his collaborators deliver an expansive, ear-opening investigation into spacious groove.
Joe Fiedler / Joe Fiedler Trio - Dragon Suite
Stylistically adventurous trio album from the sonically mutable trombone virtuoso.
Joey Baron / Drew Gress / Fred Hersch - The Surrounding Green
The pianist evokes his early trio with bassist Charlie Haden and his later trios with two longtime associates.
John Patitucci - Spirit Fall
With drummer Brian Blade and saxophonist Chris Potter, the bassist delivers one of his most intimate, forward-thinking albums.
Johnathan Blake - My Life Matters
On his third Blue Note date, the drummer/composer completes a poignant work of resistance and edification that was eight years in the making.
Joshua Redman - Words Fall Short
The saxophonist introduces a compelling new quartet on his second Blue Note album.
Kassa Overall - CREAM (Cash Rules Everything Around Me)
On his fourth long-player, the drummer and his ensemble revision rap classics live in the studio as instrumental contemporary post-bop jazz.
Kokoroko - Tuff Times Never Last
On their second album, the London-based octet join neo-soul, jazz, funk, and African styles in a sultry summertime mix.
Linda May Han Oh - Strange Heavens
With collaborators who have worked with and in her orbit for more than a decade, the bassist delivers her most compelling date yet.
Makaya McCraven - Off the Record
This double-length compiles four EPs cut in live session with a range of players and mixes them together.
Marshall Allen - Live in Philadelphia
Incredible performances by the Arkestra leader along with members of Irreversible Entanglements, Yo La Tengo, Wolf Eyes, and others.
Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts
For the third disc with her Amaryllis sextet, the guitarist and composer opens up to include guest saxophonists Brian Settles and Immanuel Wilkins.
Nels Cline / Marcus Gilmore / Craig Taborn - Trio of Bloom
In their first studio encounter together, this power trio delivers exploratory modern electric jazz.
Niia - V
The genre-bending singer returns to a haunting jazz sound on her deeply artful sixth album.
Patricia Brennan - Of the Near and Far
On her fourth album in five years, the composer and vibraphonist plays with a sextet and strings and explores the constellations in sound.
Rachael & Vilray - West of Broadway
On their Concord debut, the East Coast vocal duo offer a fresh take on melding traditional pop, musicals, and West Coast jazz.
SML - How You Been
The Los Angeles-based improv quintet's second album is tighter and more developed than their already impressive debut.
Steve Tibbetts - Close
On his first recording in seven years, the Minnesota-based guitarist reflects on family memories, the shadow nature of all music, and more.
Sullivan Fortner - Southern Nights
This trio's first studio outing brings together a bassist and a drummer who had never met before playing a weeklong residency at the Village Vanguard.
The Necks - Disquiet
On album number 20, the Australian trio deliver a vital three-disc monolith that explores their sonic depths.
Theo Croker - Dream Manifest
The trumpeter flows through his sonically textured, mystically minded blend of jazz fusion, hip-hop, and alt-R&B.
Theon Cross - Affirmations: Live at Blue Note New York
The British tuba maestro plays his freshman gig with an international band in New York and burns down the house.
Tom Skinner - Kaleidoscopic Visions
The drummer/composer brings back players from his last date and some new ones to create a colorful, harmonically rich soundscape.
Yazz Ahmed - A Paradise in the Hold
Ten years in the making, the composer/trumpeter and her stellar cast juxtapose modern electric jazz and Bahraini folk sounds.