My Top 10 Favorite New Jazz Albums of 2025 🔥 | Ranked

Join me as I Rank my Top 10 Jazz Albums of 2025! 🎷🎺 From modern innovators to living legends still pushing boundaries, 2025 has delivered some of the most exciting jazz releases in years. In this video I rank my ten favorite jazz albums of the year based on musicality, composition, performance, and sound quality. Whether you’re into hard bop, fusion, vocal jazz, avant-garde, or acoustic trio recordings, there’s something here you’ll want to add to your system and playlist. #jazzmusician #jazzvinyl #audiophile #vinyl #vinylrecords #audiophilevinyl #record #vinylreview #cds #stream #digitalstreaming #musicstreaming #qobuz 👇 Listen in High-Res on Qobuz! The link below is a playlist of my favorite Jazz albums of 2025. https://open.qobuz.com/playlist/49549176 Chapters for the video 00:00 Introduction best jazz albums of 2025 02:19 10 Cecile McLorin Salvant Oh Snap CD 03:58 9 Bill Evans Portraits at the Penthouse LP 05:49 8 Kenny Dorham Blue Bossa in the Bornx LP 07:34 7 James Brandon Lewis Quartet Abstraction is Deliverance CD 10:07 6 Christian McBride Big Band Without Further Ado LP 12:19 5 Ambrose Akinmusire Honey from a winter stone CD 15:33 4 Johnathan Blake Homeward Bound LP 17:26 3 Brad Mehldau Ride into the Sun LP 19:33 2 Harvey Mason Changing Partners LP 21:39 1 David Murray Quartet Birdly Serenade LP/Conclusion My Audio System Analoge Front End VPI Prime 21 Turntable Hana ML Phone Cartridge Digital Front End Sony HAP Z1ES Digital Audio server Sony XA5400ES SACD/CD Player Amplification System Moon 891 Preamplifier Dan D'Agostino Progression S350 Power Amp Speaker System Wilson Audio The Watt/Puppie 50th Anniversary Cables Transparent Ultra and Super Cabels Transparent Reference Power Cables Power Conditioning Transparent PowerWave X Audio Rack Quadraspire SVT Room Acoustics Vicoustic