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Bega Villalobos, In&OutJazz:
AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch Records)
PERICO SAMBEAT & ORQUESTRA Jazz de Matosinhos (Boreal)
RODRIGO AMADO THE BRIDGE Further Beyond (Trost Records)
ARUÁN ORTIZ Créole Renaissance (Intakt Records)
SAVINA YANNATOU / JULIUS GABRIEL / AGUSTI FERNÁNDEZ / BARRY GUY / RAMÓN LÓPEZ In The Light of the Current Myth (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Kateryna Ziabliuk, Meloport:
HYPEN DASH Late (No Time For Swing)
ANCIENT INFINITY ORCHESTRA It’s All About Love (Gondwana Records, UK)
LIUN + THE SCIENCE FICTION BAND Does It Make You Love Your Life? (Heartcore Records)
DZ’OB The Playground (Self Release)
BEN LAMAR GAY Yowzers (International Anthem)
Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum:
CHARLES LLOYD Figure in Blue (Blue Note Records)
ARUAN ORTIZ Creole Renaissance (Inatkt)
JOHN SCOFIELD/DAVE HOLLAND Memories of Home (ECM)
SCANDINAVIAN ART ENSEMBLE WITH TOMASZ STAŃKO The Copenhagen Session vol. 2 (April Records)
VIJAY IYER & WADADA LEO SMITH Defiant Life (ECM)
TOMASZ STAŃKO Polish Radio Sessions 1970 – 1991 (Polskie Radio)
Mike Flynn, Jazzwise:
GONZOLA RUBALCABA / CHRIS POTTER / LARRY GRENADIER / ERIC HARLAND First Meeting (5Passion)
TERRI LYNN CARRINGTON & CHRISTIE DASHIELL We Insist 2025! (Candid)
GOUDIAN FINCH Schizo (All Ape)
TYREEK MCDOLE Open Up Your Senses (Artwork Records)
EMMA RAWICZ Inkyra (ACT Music)
Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny:
MICHAEL WOLLNY TRIO Living Ghosts (ACT Music)
TOMASZ STANKO Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91 (Polskie Radio)
SCANDINAVIAN ART ENSEMBLE WITH TOMASZ STANKO The Copenhagen Session vol.1 (April Records)
KENNY BARRON Songbook (Artwork Records)
LUISE VOLKMANN & ETE LARGE The Stories we Tell (Boomslang Records)
Jan Granlie, salt-peanuts.eu:
BENEDICTE MAURSETH, Mirra (HUBRO RECORDS)
SCHWEIZER / CARL / DYANI / BENNINK, Irene’s Hot Four (INTAKT RECORDS)
COSMIC EAR, Traces (WE JAZZ RECORDS)
JAMES BRANDON LEWIS QUARTET, Abstraction Is Deliverable (INTAKT RECORDS)
MATTIAS RISBERG MINING XL, Mining at Fasching … and Elsewhere (KULLEN REKO)
Dick Hovenga, Written in Music:
MIDORI TAKADA & JAKOB BRO あなたに出会うまで/Until I Met You (Loveland Music)
JOE ARMON JONES All The Quiet (part 1 and 2) (Aquarii)
BRAD MEHLDAU Ride into The Sun (Nonesuch)
CHIP WICKMAM The Eternal Now (Gondwana Records)
SML How You Been (International Anthem)
Viktor Bensusan, jazzdergisi.com:
FANTÔME SASHA Berliner (Outside In Music)
GIOVANNI MIRABASSI TRIO The NYC Sessions Vol.1 (Jazz Eleven)
EIVIND AUSTAD TRIO Explore (Losen Records)
JAN GUNNAR HOFF GROUP Voyage (Losen Records)
EMMA SMITH Bitter Orange (LA Reserve Records)
Nuno Catarino, jazz.pt:
ARUÁN ORTIZ Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
SYLVIE COURVOISIER / MARY HALVORSON Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
FIELDWORK Thereupon (Pi Recordings)
RODRIGO ARMADO THE BRIDGE Further Beyond (Trost)
MYRA MELFORD Splash (Intakt)
Patrik Sandberg, Orkesterjournalen:
MULATU ASTATKE Mulatu Plays Mulatu (Strut)
CHARLES LLOYD Figure In Blue (Blue Note)
JOHAN LINDSTRÖM Humankind (Moserobie)
COSMIC EAR Traces (We Jazz)
DANILO PÉREZ & BOHUSLÄN BIG BAND Lumen (Prophone/Naxos)
Lars Mossefinn, Dag og tid:
BENEDICTE MAURSETH Mirra (Hubro)
GARD NILSSEN ACOUSTIC UNITY Great Intentions (Action Jazz)
EYOLF DALE When Shadows Dance (Edition Records)
ANOUAR BRAHEM After The Last Sky (ECM)
ARVE HENRIKSEN / TRYGVE SEIM / ANDERS JORMIN / MARKKU OUNASKARI Arcanum (ECM)
Axel Stinshoff, Jazz thing:
BRANFORD MARSALIS QUARTET Belonging (Blue Note)
AMINA CLAUDINE MYERS Solace Of The Mind (Red Hook Records)
TYREEK MCDOLE Open Up Your Senses (Artwork)
WOLFGANG MUTHSPIEL TRIO Tokyo (ECM)
KENNY BARRON Songbook (Artwork)
Luca Vitali, Giornale della Musica:
MARIA FAUST SACRUM FACERE – Marches Rewound & Rewritten (Stunt Records)
THE NECKS – Disquiet (Northern Spy)
SYLVIE COURVOISIER / WADADA LEO SMITH Angel Falls (Intakt Records)
FERDINANDO ROMANO The Legend of Otranto (GleAM Records)
THOMAS MORGAN Around You Is A Forest (Loveland Music)
Yves Tassin, JazzMania:
TOM BOURGEOIS Lili (Igloo / BMC)
MATTIEU & CAMILLE SAGLIO Al Alba (ACT Music)
WISSELS, ROCHA & KUMMERT Come What May (Autoproduction)
ANNELEEN BOEHME Eunoia (W.E.R.F.)
JOACHIM KÜHN Echappée (Intakt)
Jos Demol, jazzhalo.be:
ANNELEEN BOEHME Eunoia (WERF Records)
NEW ORIGIN The Poet’s Walk (Fundacja Słuchaj)
JEF NEVE & TEUS NOBEL Esho Funi (Blue Keys Productions)
RENAUD GARCIA-FONS Blue Maqam (L’Autre Distribution)
MANOLO CABRAS’ FUZZY Fuzzy (Robalo)
Christof Thurnherr, Jazz’n’More:
IMMANUEL WILKINS Blues Blood (Blue Note)
PHIL HAYNES ( BEN MONDER Transition[s] (Corner Store Jazz)
DANNY MCCASLIN Lullaby for the Lost (Edition Records)
THEON CROSS Affirmations (Live at Blue Note New York) (New Soil / Division 81 Records)
PATRICIA BRENNAN Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records)
Kaspars Zavileiskis, jazzin.lv:
MAKAYA MCCRAVEN Off the Record (International Anthem Recording Company)
THE NECKS Disquiet (selfreleased)
BILLY MOHLER The Eternal (Contagious Music)
JOHN PATITUCCI Spirit Fall (selfreleased)
KÄRLIS AUZINS DOUBLE TRIO Equilibrium Suite (Jersika Records)
Sebastian Scotney, Tony Dudley-Evans, Peter Slavid, UK Jazz News:
ARNIE SOMOGYI / MARK EDWARDS The Ellington Piano Project: Eastbourne 1973 Reimagined (Rubicon Jazz)
MUJICIAN In Concerts (Jazz in Britain)
JOSEPHINE DAVIES Weatherwards (Whirlwind)
JOHNNY RICHARDS & DAVE KING The New Awkward (False Door)
JAY DAVIS Bad Trad (Fresh Sound New Talent)
Henning Bolte, freelance:
PATRICIA BRENNAN Of The Near and Far (Pyroclastic Records)
SYLVIE COURVOISIER / WADADA LEO SMITH Angel Falls (Intakt Records)
MARILYN CRISPELL / THOMMY ANDERSSON / MICHALA ØSTERGAARD NIELSEN The Cave (ILK Music)
AMIR ELSAFFAR / OLE MATHISEN / TOMAS FUCHIWARA / TANIA GIANNOULINew Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqam Records)
SUN.MI HONG Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition Records)
