2025 in jazz

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Decade2020s in jazz
Music2025 in music
StandardsList of jazz standards
See also2024 in jazz – 2026 in jazz
2025 in jazz
Decade2020s in jazz
Music2025 in music
StandardsList of jazz standards
See also2024 in jazz – 2026 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2025.

Albums

Month Day Artist Album Label Subgenres Notes Ref.
January 10 Xhosa Cole On a Modern Genius Vol 1 Stoney Lane Records [2]
17 Mac Miller Balloonerism Warner
31 Ambrose Akinmusire Honey from a Winter Stone Nonesuch avant-garde jazz [3]
Damon Locks List of Demands International Anthem [4]
February 28 Yazz Ahmed A Paradise in the Hold Night Time Stories Arabic influenced Spiritual jazz [5]
March 14 Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet [6]
28 Sasha Berliner Fantôme [7]
Maya Delilah The Long Way Round Blue Note, Capitol [8]
April 4 Hiromi Uehara OUT THERE Concord Records [9]
May 30 Brad Turner It's All So Cellar Music [10]
June 13 Mary Halvorson About Ghosts Nonesuch Records [11]
14 Daniel Carter Stream of a Dream 577 Records Featuring Matthew Putman and Federico Ughi [12]
20 Joshua Redman Words Fall Short Blue Note Records [13]
August 22 Caity Gyorgy and Mark Limacher Caity Gyorgy with Strings: Arranged and Conducted by Mark Limacher [14]
29 Brad Mehldau Ride into the Sun Nonesuch Records Featuring the music of Elliott Smith. Features Daniel Rossen and Chris Thile. [15]
September 19 Cécile McLorin Salvant Oh Snap Nonesuch Records [16]
October 3 Bill Coon Standard Elegance Cellar Music [17]

Awards

Grammy Awards

The 67th Annual Grammy Awards were held on February 2, 2025 honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists from September 16, 2023, to August 30, 2024, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.

Jazz

All critically reviewed albums ranked

Metacritic

Number Artist Album Average score Number of reviews Reference
1 Jimi Tenor Band Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse 90 5 [18]
2 Yazz Ahmed A Paradise In The Hold 89 4 [19]
3 Ambrose Akinmusire Honey From a Winter Stone 88 4 [20]
4 Charles Lloyd Figure In Blue 87 4 [21]
5 Donny McCaslin Lullaby For The Lost 86 5 [22]
6 Brad Mehldau Ride into the Sun 86 4 [23]
7 Emma-Jean Thackray Weirdo 85 9 [24]
8 Marshall Allen New Dawn 85 6 [25]
9 Damon Locks List of Demands 85 5 [26]
10 Mulatu Astatke Mulatu Plays Mulatu 85 4 [27]
11 Mary Halvorson About Ghosts 84 7 [28]
12 James Brandon Lewis Apple Cores 84 6 [29]
13 JJJJJerome Ellis Vesper Sparrow 84 6 [30]
14 SML How You Been 84 6 [31]
14 Branford Marsalis Quartet Belonging 84 4 [32]
15 Rafael Toral Traveling Light 84 4 [33]
16 [Ahmed] [Sama'a] (Audition) 84 4 [34]
17 Makaya McCraven Off The Record 83 7 [35]
18 Ben LaMar Gay Yowzers 83 5 [36]
19 Nels Cline Consentrik Quartet 82 7 [37]
20 Alabaster DePlume A Blade Because a Blade Is Whole 81 10 [38]
21 The Necks Disquiet 81 5 [39]
22 Chicago Underground Duo Hyperglyph 81 5 [40]
23 Xhosa Cole On A Modern Genius, Vol.1 81 5 [41]
24 Jimi Tenor Band Selenites, Selenites! 81 4 [42]
25 Tom Skinner Kaleidoscopic Visions 80 4 [43]
26 GoGo Penguin Necessary Fictions 79 4 [44]
27 Pino Palladino and Blake Mills That Wasn't A Dream 79 4 [45]
28 Kokoroko Tuff Times Never Last 79 7 [46]
29 Brandee Younger Gadabout Season 77 4 [47]
30 Cécile McLorin Salvant Oh Snap 71 4 [48]

Radio Airplay Charts

Radio airplay statistics from 2025 collected by JazzWeek[49]

Number Artist Album Peak Weeks on the Charts Number of Spins
1 Cyrus Chestnut Rhythm, Melody and Harmony 1 26 4383
2 Artemis Arboresque 1 26 4011
3 Jeremy Pelt Woven 1 26 3992
4 Renee Rosnes Crossing Paths 1 26 3973
5 Tyreek McDole Open Up Your Senses 1 24 3955
6 Dave Stryker Stryker With Strings Goes To The Movies 2 26 3817

Deaths

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References

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