Europe Jazz Media Chart Top 5 - 2025

Bega Villalobos, In&OutJazz:

• 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)

Kateryna Ziabliuk, Meloport:

• 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)

Paweł Brodowski, Jazz Forum:

• CHARLES LLOYD Figure in Blue (Blue Note Records)
• ARUAN ORTIZ Creole Renaissance (Intakt)
• 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: 

• 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)

Krzysztof Komorek, Donos kulturalny: 

• 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)

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 WICKHAM 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 AMADO 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)
• 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)

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)
• KĀRLIS AUZIŅŠ 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 GIANNOULI
• New Quartet Live at Pierre Boulez Saal (Maqam Records)
• SUN-MI HONG Fourth Page: Meaning of a Nest (Edition Records)