When I'm depressed after reading the news, this was the music of 2025 that brightened my days:
New Releases
Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quintet - Sound Remains (Whirlwind)
Fieldwork - Thereupon (Pi Recordings)
Satoko Fujii Tokyo Trio - Dream A Dream (Libra)
Nicole Glover - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Savant)
Fred Hersch - The Surrounding Green (ECM)
Jeong-Bisio Duo - Morning Bells Whistle Bright (ESP-Disk)
Joe Morris & Elliott Sharp - Realism (ESP-Disk)
John O’Gallagher - Ancestral (Whirlwind)
Linda May Han Oh - Strange Heavens (Biophilia)
Ivo Perelman + Matthew Shipp String Trio - Armageddon Flower (TAO Forms)
PlainsPeak - Someone To Someone (Irabbagast)
Matthew Shipp - The Cosmic Piano (Canteloupe Music)
Pat Thomas - Hikmah (TAO Forms)
Dan Weiss - Unclassified Affections (Pi Recordings)
Sarah Wilson - Incandescence (Brass Tonics)
and From the Vaults
Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa In The Bronx: Live From The Blue Morocco (Resonance)
Marco Eneidi Quintet - Wheat Fields Of Kleylehof (Botticelli/balance point acoustics)
Freddie Hubbard - On Fire: Live From The Blue Morocco (Resonance)
Charles Mingus - In Argentina - The Buenos Aires Concerts (Resonance)
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse (Blue Note)
And thanks as always to all the musicians, engineers, and publicity people!
