Le Best of 2025 des équipes rédactionnelles européennes : Europe Jazz Media Chart Top 5 2025
Chaque mois, nous vous proposons de découvrir les disques que nos collègues européens souhaitent mettre en exergue. Voici le « best du best » de l’année 2025, chacun devant en retenir cinq. Avec son lot de perles.
Jazz Forum (Pologne)
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)
Jazzwise (UK)
Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Chris Potter, Larry Grenadier, Eric Harland : First Meeting (5Passion)
Terri Lyne Carrington & Christie Dashiell : We Insist 2025! (Candid)
Gouldian Finch : Schizo (All Ape)
Tyreek McDole : Open Up Your Senses (Artwork Records)
Emma Rawicz : Inkyra (ACT Music)
Donos kulturalny (Pologne)
Michael Wollny Trio : Living Ghosts (ACT Music)
Tomasz Stańko : Polish Radio Sessions 1970-91 (Polskie Radio)
Scandinavian Art Ensemble with Tomasz Stańko : The Copenhagen Session vol.1 (April Records)
Kenny Barron : Songbook (Artwork Records)
Luise Volkmann & Ete Large : The Stories we Tell (Boomslang Records)
Salt-peanuts.eu (Norvège)
Benedicte Maurseth : Mirra (Hubro Records)
Schweizer / Carl / Dyani / Bennink : Irene’s Hot Four (Intakt)
Cosmic Ear : Traces (We Jazz Records)
James Brandon Lewis Quartet : Abstraction Is Deliverable (Intakt)
Mattias Risberg Mining XL : Mining at Fasching … and Elsewhere (Kullen Reko)
Written in Music (Pays-Bas)
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 Wickham : The Eternal Now (Gondwana Records)
SML : How You Been (International Anthem)
Jazzdergisi.com (Turquie)
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)
Jazz.pt (Portugal)
Aruán Ortiz : Créole Renaissance (Intakt)
Sylvie Courvoisier / Mary Halvorson : Bone Bells (Pyroclastic)
Fieldwork : Thereupon (Pi Recordings)
Rodrigo Amado The Bridge : Further Beyond (Trost)
Myra Melford : Splash (Intakt)
ORKESTERJOURNALEN (Suède)
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)
Dag og tid (Norvège)
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)
Jazz thing (Allemagne)
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)
Giornale della Musica (Italie)
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)
JazzMania (Belgique)
Tom Bourgeois : Lili (Igloo / BMC)
Matthieu & Camille Saglio : Al Alba (ACT Music)
Wissels, Rocha & Kummert : Come What May (Autoproduction)
Anneleen Boehme : Eunoia (W.E.R.F.)
Joachim Kühn : Echappée (Intakt)
Jazzhalo.be (Belgique)
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)
Jazz’n’More (Suisse)
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)
Jazzin.lv (Lettonie)
Makaya McCraven : Off the Record (International Anthem Recording Company)
The Necks : Disquiet (selfreleased)
Billy Mohler : The Eternal (Contagious Music)
John Patitucci : Spirit Fall (selfreleased)
Kārlis Auziņš Double Trio : Equilibrium Suite (Jersika Records)
Henning Bolte – freelance (Allemagne)
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 Giannouli : New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqam Records)
Sun-Mi Hong : Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition Records)
UK Jazz News (UK)
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)
In&OutJazz (Espagne)
Ambrose Akinmusire : Honey From a Winter Stone (Nonesuch Records)
Perico Sambeat & Orquestra : Jazz de Matosinhos (Boreal)
The Bridge : Further Beyond (Trost Records)
Aruán Ortiz : Créole Renaissance (Intakt Records)
Savina Yannatou / Julius Gabriel / Agustí Fernández / Barry Guy / Ramón López : In The Light of the Current Myth (Fundacja Sluchaj)
Meloport (Ukraine)
Hyphen 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)
