This episode presents a taste of each of the 25 albums chosen as my favourite releases of 2025, aside from the two opening tracks which are from an upcoming release by South African drummer, Asher Gamedze. You can find an alphabetical list of the “25″ HERE (and another ten goodies). I’m looking forward to seeing a continuation of brilliant music in 2026, and I hope you’ll turn to One Man’s Jazz to find out!
00:00 Asher Gamedze * A Semblance Of Return – Northern Spy * Air (If Involvedness) * So. Africa
06:35 Asher Gamedze * A Semblance Of Return – Northern Spy * Following Up * So. Africa
09:31 Host speaks
12:13 Felix Henkelhausen Quintet * The Excruciating Pain Of Boredom – Enja Records * Building Blocks For Self-Destruction * Germany
21:28 Izumi Kimura & Gerry Hemingway * How The Dust Falls – Auricle * Waterspear * Ireland/Switzerland
27:58 Thomas Heberer’s Remedy * Hipp Hipp Hooray – Fundacja Sluchaj * Das Brot Der Fruhen Jahre * Germany
36:51 Host speaks
39:14 Sylvain Darrifourcq, Manuel Hermia & Valentin Cecaldi * Unicorn & Flexibility – Hector * Moustache Et Vernis Sans Cape Et Sans Collant * France/Belgium
46:50 Sam Gill’s Coursed Waters * Sensemaker – Earshift Music * Scree * Australia
52:49 Oversáez * Abstract Emotions – Boomslang * Paternoster * Germany
1:01:40 Host speaks
1:04:34 Mary Halvorson * About Ghosts – Nonesuch * Eventidal * USA
1:10:26 Nels Cline * Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet – Blue Note * Slipping Into Something * USA
1:15:23 Dan Weiss * Unclassified Affections – Pi Recordings * Helotype * USA
1:22:47 Host speaks
1:24:36 James Brandon Lewis Quartet * Abstraction Is Deliverance – Intakt * Left Alone * USA
1:33:55 Wadada Leo Smith & Vijay Iyer * Defiant Life – ECM Records * Floating River Requiem (For Patrice Lumumba) * USA
1:40:07 Rodrigo Amado’s The Bridge * Further Beyond – Trost Records * That’s How Strong Our Love Is * Portugal
1:47:58 Host speaks
1:50:21 Linda May Han Oh * Strange Heavens – Biophilia * Paper Birds * Australia
1:54:57 Fieldwork * Thereupon – Pi Recordings * Astral * USA
1:59:07 Ivo Perelman * A Modicum Of The Blues – Fundacja Sluchaj * A Modicum Of Blues Part 4 * USA
2:06:25 Host speaks
2:08:38 Myra Melford * Myra Melford Splash – Intakt * Drift * USA
2:19:15 Camila Nebbia, Marilyn Crispell & Lesley Mok * A Reflection Distorts Over Water – Relative Pitch * A Room Is Being Erased * Argentina/USA
2:23:56 Cosmic Ear * Traces – We Jazz * Father & Son * Sweden
2:30:28 Host speaks
2:33:30 Otherlands Trio * Star Mountain – Intakt * Imago * USA
2:48:24 Ville Lahteenmaki Trio * Second Sight – RRGEMS * Shadow People * Finland
2:55:29 Mark Turner * Reflections On The Autobiography Of An Ex-Colored Man – Giant Step Arts * Movement 8 – Pragmatism * USA
3:04:01 Host speaks
3:06:03 Peter Evans & Being And Becoming * Ars Ludicra – More Is More * Malibu * USA
3:12:57 Bruno Angelini, Angelika Niescier & Sakina Abdou * Lotus Flowers – Abalone * Les Sens * France/Germany
3:20:28 Wadada Leo Smith & Sylvie Courvoisier * Angel Falls – Intakt * Naomi Peak * USA
3:26:47 Host speaks
3:29:55 Peter Ehwald, Stefan Schultze & Tom Rainey * Public Radio – Jazzwerkstatt * Promise * Germany/USA