The Top Ten for 2025

I was honored to be asked by Cadence Magazine to submit by top ten releases for 2025,
many of which I have reviewed this past years. So, with the stream of new releases slowing up for the holiday season I though I would share my picks for 2025.

NEW RELEASES:
Eric McPherson: Double Bass Quartet (Giant Steps)
James Brandon Lewis: Abstractions in Deliverance (Intakt)
Thomas Ruckert: For All We Know (Challenge)
Ehud Asherie: Thank You Barry Harris (Arbors)
Michael Bisio: NUMBQ (Mahakala)
Joe McPhee: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Rogue Art)
Remedy: Hipp Hipp Hooray (FSR)
David Kikoski: Weekend at Smalls (Cellar Music)
Joris Roelofs: Rite of Spring (ICP)
Steve Hirsh: The Back Nine (self-produced)

REISSUES/HISTORICAL
Dave Burrell: The Lost Session (No Business)
Rashied Ali: Sidewalks in Motion (Survival)
Ellery Eskelin: About (Or On) First (Ezzthetics)
Kenny Dorham: Blue Bossa in the Bronx (Resonance)
Irene Schweizer: Irene’s Hot Four (Intakt)
Gato Barbieri: Standards Lost and Found
Charles Mingus: In Argentina (Resonance)
Jimmy Bennington: Blue Veils (That Swan)
Frank Kimbrough: The Call
Horace Tapscott: Live at Widney High 1971

Happy holidays to all and keep listening (and reading Papatamusredux).
Thanks for your support.

Abe Goldstien