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A Few of My Favorite 2025 Jazz Things (So Far), Part 1

By Ludovico Granvassu | Mondo Jazz
July 22, 2025
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It seems like we were just ringing in the New Year a few days ago, and now it's already July. So let's start looking back at the songs that we have loved the most in the first six months of the year. Here's the first batch.

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Playlist

Ben Allison

bass, acoustic
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Ben Allison "Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00

Etienne Charles

trumpet
b.1983

" data-original-title="" title="">Etienne Charles "Gullypso" Gullah Roots (Culture Shock) 0:16

Host talks 4:01

John Sturino

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">John Sturino "Year of the Globe" Blow Globe (Outside In Music) 5:17

Host talks 12:58

Mary Halvorson

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Mary Halvorson "Absinthian" About Ghosts (Nonesuch) 14:09

Sylvie Courvoisier

piano

" data-original-title="" title="">Sylvie Courvoisier, Mary Halvorson "Beclouded" Bone Bells (Pyroclastic) 19:04

Adam O'Farrill

trumpet
b.1994

" data-original-title="" title="">Adam O'Farrill "Late June" For These Streets (Out of Your Head) 25:15

Host talks 35:09

Michael Cain

piano
b.1966

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Cain "Waltz for Gwen" Zoo Too Trio: Poetry Legroom (Shifting Paradigm) 36:05

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