Preston Frazier included Oz Noy, Catherine Russell, Ron Blake, Bobby Broom and others among the Best of 2025 Jazz.

If laying down tracks where John Coltrane’s ‘A Love supreme’ was birthed is a jazz pilgrimage, then Dave Stryker’s ‘Blue Fire, The Van Gelder Sessions’ is a truly religious experience in the jazz sense.

Ivo Perelman and Wadada Leo Smith collectively bring about a century of fearless music creation into ‘Duologues 5,’ and the veteran poise and confidence shows up unfailingly from beginning to end.

Vijay Iyer, Steve Lehman and Tyshawn Sorey come back from seventeen years off to execute with a vengeance on Fieldplay’s ‘Thereupon.’

Preston Frazier’s Best of 2025 Reissues include projects featuring Yes, Steve Winwood, Joe Walsh and Tim Morse, among others.

For ‘Dial Up’ by Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz + Chris Corsano, it’s the Chicago/Midwestern lunch-pail approach to free improvisation is the glue that holds this trio together.

Holiday season 2025 is here with all-new versions of all-old songs as well as new tunes that may (or may not) become holiday standards.

Released 45 years ago, ’80/81′ visits “out” material and more straight-ahead jazz, with a healthy introduction to Pat Metheny’s idea of “folk jazz.”

‘The Diptychs’ continues the creative toughness and pliability of Lina Allemano’s long-running quartet.

Charles Tyler’s reissued 1975 release ‘Voyage From Jericho’ documents a turning point in a career marked by being present and participating in the front lines of 60s out-jazz and bringing it forward to the loft jazz of the 70s.