2025 Reset
Music
New Jazz 2025 (slight tweak from the one I submitted to Tom Hull at the beginning of the month.)
1. David Murray - Birdly Serenade
2. Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz & Chris Corsano - Dial Up
3. Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts
4. Rempis/Johnson/Heinemann/Cunningham - Embers and Ash
5. [Ahmed] - [Sama'a] (Audition)
6. Tomas Fujiwara - Dream Up
7. Yuhan Su - Over the Moons
8. Patricia Brennan - Of the Near and Far
9. Isaiah Collier, William Hooker, William Parker - The Ancients
10. Anna Högberg Attack - Ensamseglaren
New Jazz Honorable Mention
Brom - Black Head
Silke Eberhard Trio - Being-a-ning
Myra Melford - Splash
Rob Brown - Walkabout
Steve Lehman - The Music of Anthony Braxton
Archer - Sudden Dusk
Matthew Shipp - The Cosmic Piano
Fieldwork - Thereupon
Gard Nilssen’s Acoustic Unity - Great Intentions
Al Foster - Live at Smalls
Historical Jazz 2025
1. Tim Berne - In Lieu Of
2. Horace Silver - Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse
3. Paul Bley - Floater & Syndrome Revisited
4. Charles Tolliver & Music Inc - Live at the Loosdrecht Jazz Festival
5. Joe Henderson - Our Thing to In 'n' Out Revisited
6. Albert Ayler - Prophecy Live: First Visit
7. Art Pepper - Geneva 1980
8. Charles Mingus - In Argentina – The Buenos Aires Concerts
9. Ellery Eskelin, Trio New York - About (or On), First Visit
10. John Zorn's The Bagatelles Vol. 3 - Trigger
Historical Jazz Honorable Mention
Tim Berne’s Snakeoil - Snakeoil OK
Yusef Lateef - Golden Flower: Live in Sweden
Joe Pass - Virtuoso
Gerry Mulligan & Thelonious Monk - Mulligan Meets Monk
Sun Ra - Supersonic Jazz
Miles Davis - Miles '55
Benny Golson - Gone With Golson
Charlie Rouse - Two In One
Freddie Hubbard - On Fire From The Blue Morocco
Kenny Dorham - Blue Bossa In The Bronx: Live From The Blue Morocco
Non-Jazz 2025 (New and Historic)
1. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska '82: Expanded Edition
2. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (SDL)
3. Pink Floyd - At Pompeii MCMLXXII
4. Natural Information Society - Momentum
5. Elmore James - Hits & Rarities
6. Neil Young - Tonight’s The Night (50th Anniversary Edition)
7. Grateful Dead - Dave's Picks, Volume 54: Baltimore Civic Center, Baltimore, MD · 3/26/73
8. The Who - Live at the Oval 1971
9. Thee Headcoats - The Sherlock Holmes Rhythm ‘n’ Beat Vernacular
10. Beat - Beat Live
Non-Jazz Honorable Mention
John Primer - Born in Mississippi
Drive-By Truckers - The Definitive Decoration Day
Grateful Dead – Dave’s Picks Volume 56: London (3/20 & 21/81)
Jimmy Page and the Black Crowes - Live at the Greek (Expanded)
Led Zeppelin - Live EP
Les Rallizes Dénudés - YaneUra Sept. ’80
Mdou Moctar - Tears Of Injustice
Patti Smith - Horses: 50th Anniversary Edition
Radiohead - Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings (2003 - 2009)
Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at Lockn'
El Intruso 18h Annual International Jazz Critics Poll Ballot 2025
Musician of the year: Dave Rempis, Patricia Brennan, Isaiah Collier
Newcomer Musician: Rico Jones (saxophone)
Group of the year: [Ahmed], Anna Hogberg Attack, Fieldwork.
Newcomer group: Archer, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Trio of Bloom.
Album of the year: David Murray - Birdly Serenade, Dave Rempis, Jason Adasiewicz & Chris Corsano - Dial Up, Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts.
Composer: John Zorn, Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill
Drums: Tomas Fujiwara, Chris Corsano, Gard Nilssen.
Acoustic Bass: William Parker, Michael Formanek, Kim Cass
Electric Bass: Bill Laswell, Chris Lightcap, Ingebrigt Haker-Flaten
Guitar: Mary Halvorson, Nels Cline, Kurt Rosenwinkel.
Piano: Matthew Shipp, Marta Sanchez, Myra Melford
Keyboards/Synthesizer/Organ: Pat Thomas, Jamie Saft, Craig Taborn
Tenor Saxophone: Rodrigo Amado, Chris Potter, Branford Marsalis
Alto Saxophone: Anna Hogberg, Steve Lehman, Tim Berne
Baritone Saxophone: Dave Sewelson, Mats Gustafsson, James Carter.
Soprano Saxophone: Sam Newsome, Jane Ira Bloom, Isaiah Collier
Trumpet/Cornet: Peter Evans, Rob Mazurek, Tom Harrell
Clarinet/bass clarinet: David Murray, Oscar Noriega, Anat Cohen
Trombone: Steve Swell, Altin Sencalar, Jeb Bishop
Flute: Nicole Mitchell, Shabaka Hutchings, Henry Threadgill
Violin/Viola: Mark Feldman, Mat Maneri, Jason Kao Hwang
Cello: Tomeka Reid, Fred Lonberg-Helm, Erik Friedlander
Vibraphone: Yuhan Su, Patricia Brennan, Jason Adasiewicz
Electronics: Ikue Mori, Christof Kurzmann,
Other instruments: Jon Irabagon, sopranino saxophone, mezzo-soprano saxophone, etc... Brandee Younger, harp, James Carter, bass saxophone
Female Vocals: Claire Martin, Leena Conquest,
Male Vocals: (no choice)
Record Label; Tzadik, Aerophonic, Pyroclastic
Bonus Track: Books
Alan Niven - Sound ‘n’ Fury: Rock ‘n’ Roll Stories
Peter Ames Carlin - Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run
Jim Newton - Here Beside the Rising Tide: Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead, and an American Awakening
Mark Blake - Shine On: Pink Floyd, The Definitive Oral History
Barry Strauss - Jews vs. Rome: Two Centuries of Rebellion Against the World's Mightiest Empire
John Connolly - The Children of Eve
Ken Bruen - Galway's Edge
Daniel Spicer - Peter Brötzmann: Free-Jazz, Revolution and the Politics of Improvisation
Matthew Reed Baker - 1970s Jazz Fusion (33/1/3 Genre Series)
Wolfgang Seidel - Krautrock Eruption: An alternative history of German underground in the 60s and 70s
Brett Primack - How John Coltrane Changed Me - A Jazz Journey
Glenn McDonald - You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favorite Song: Music in the Age of Streaming
Bonus Track: Games
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Avowed
Avernum 4: For Greed and Glory
The Outer Worlds 2
Tamriel Rebuilt: Grasping Fortune
Cyclopean
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered (DNF)
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (DNF)