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Best UK Jazz albums of 2025

10

Tom Ollendorff, Where in the World, Fresh Sound

9

Redtenbacher’s Funkestra, Funkopia, RSB Records

8

Gareth Lockrane Big Band, Box of Tricks, Whirlwind

7

James Allsopp, Stars and Sand, Vibe Collide Records

6

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

5

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 *****

4

Top 5 UK jazz albums so far in 2025

3

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

2

Iain Ballamy, Riversphere, Vol. 1, Babel

1

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

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