Best UK Jazz albums of 2025

Tom Ollendorff, Where in the World, Fresh Sound

Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, Funkopia, RSB Records

Gareth Lockrane Big Band, Box of Tricks, Whirlwind

James Allsopp, Stars and Sand, Vibe Collide Records

Alice Leggett, Birdsong, ZenneZ ***1/2

Album of the Week: Kenny Wheeler Legacy feat. Royal Academy of Music Jazz Orchestra and Frost Jazz Orchestra, Some Days Are Better: The Lost Scores, Greenleaf Music *****

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Ant Law, Unified Theories, No Label ****

Iain Ballamy, Riversphere, Vol. 1, Babel

Ian Shaw, Stephensong – Ian Shaw Sings Stephen Sondheim, Silent Wish Records

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Easy. Tiger

A REMARK YOU MADE “With the exception of money, length of working hours, living and working conditions, the price of beer, and the opposite sex, a musician is completely unconcerned about the material things of life” – the words of bandleader Eric Winstone, Evening Times, Glasgow 1955