The Best New Jazz of 2025

We're looking back at the best jazz releases of 2025. Listen with pianist Adam Maness as he breaks down and reacts to these great tracks. This is a new segment from the team behind You'll Hear It, and we're looking to continue this music discovery pod as a weekly series in 2026. Help us shape this series and leave us a comment with your feedback. Start your free Open Studio trial for ALLLLL your jazz lesson needs: 00:00 - The Best New Jazz of 2025 00:55 - "Spiral Dance" - Branford Marsalis Quartet 02:30 - "Minor Blues Redux" - Kenny Barron 4:54 - "Icarus" - Joshua Redman 6:55 - "Thou Swell" - Gillian Margot, Geoffrey Keezer 9:30 - "Southern Nights" - Sullivan Fortner 12:30 - "Anything but now" - Cécile McLorin Salvant 16:30 - "Everything Means Nothing to Me" - Brad Mehldau 22:00 - "Over (feat. Yebba)" - Robert Glasper 24:40 - "Carved From" - Mary Halvorson 26:45 - "Old Folks" - Christian McBride 29:00 - "Windows" - Chick Corea, Christian McBride, Brian Blade 33:00 - "Mood Indigo" - Dee Dee Bridgewater, Bill Charlap

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The Best New Jazz of 2025 is an episode from You'll Hear It - Music Advice by Peter Martin.

This episode is 35:07 long.

This episode was published on Dec 29, 2025.

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