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NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Note: Dropped excess Vocal votes: Champian Fulton & Klas Lindquist, At Home (Turtle Bay); Allan Harris, The Poetry of Jazz (Blue Llama); Latin votes: The Afro-Caribbean Jazz Collective, Cortadito (JGB Music); Eddie Daniels, To Milton With Love (Resonance)
Fred Kaplan (Slate, Tracking Angle)
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Note: See also The 10 Best Jazz Albums of 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Glenn Kenny (Some Came Running, RogerEbert.com, New York Times)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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James Koblin (The Necessary Blues, WVKR 91.3FM [Vassar College])
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Note: See also TNB 2025 Top 50 New Jazz and Experimental Albums of the Year
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Stuart Kremsky (Mr. Stu's Record Room)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
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David Kunian (Offbeat, WWOZ-FM [New Orleans], New Orleans Jazz Museum, New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
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NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
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NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Will Layman (PopMatters, Big Butter & Egg Man)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
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Note: See also The Best Jazz of 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Lance Liddle (Bebop Spoken Here)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Note: Extra Vocal vote dropped for Tessa Souter, Treasures and Silence: The Erik Satie Project (Noanara Music)
Mark Lomanno (JazzTimes, The Rhythm of Study, University of Miami)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)
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NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Brad Luen (Semipop Life)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Note: Also see 45 favorite albums of my 2025
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
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Kevin Lynch (The Shepherd Express, Culture Currents (Vernaculars Speak))
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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Jim Macnie (DownBeat, Lament for a Straight Line)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS (unranked)
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Peter Margasak (Nowhere Street, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, DownBeat, Chamber Music)
NEW JAZZ ALBUMS
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