April 2025 is shaping up to be an exciting month for jazz, with a range of new albums covering both contemporary and avant-garde styles, there is plenty to look forward to. In this post, we highlight six upcoming jazz releases that you won’t want to miss.

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Also, don’t forget, April 30 is International Jazz Day! It’s a global celebration of the genre and its cultural impact, bringing together jazz enthusiasts, musicians, and educators worldwide.
This year, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, has been selected as the Global Host City.

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April 2025 Selection

The following selection is listed chronologically by release date:

Radio Paradise is a luminous, melody-driven album with influences coming from Keith Jarrett to Sufjan Stevens. With a new quintet, including Ziv Ravitz (drums), Haggai Cohen Milo (bass), and tenor saxophonists María Grand and Alexandra Grimal, Herman builds a world full of elegant lyricism and moments of bold spontaneity.

“While listening to the music on the album, what quality can relate to the idea of paradise and a radio?” Herman asked in an interview. It is an inspiring question, and our take is that, like Cinema Paradiso, Yaron Herman’s Radio Paradise taps into a sense of wonder and emotional honesty. It is music that doesn’t just entertain; it stirs something personal and universal, evoking images, memories, and moods the way a great film does. And much like Cinema Paradiso, Herman’s music is about connection, between people, and between art and life. Just that instead of a movie, it is music, and the cinema becomes a radio. Maybe.

Yaron Herman: piano; María Grand, Alexandra Grimal: alto saxophone; Haggai Cohen Milo: bass; Ziv Ravitz: drums
Releases April 4, 2025

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Revision is a raw, visceral, and uncompromising duo recording from poet and theorist Fred Moten and bassist Brandon López, exploring layers in between music, language, and resistance. López’s playing is fierce and physical, bowed, scraped, plucked, while Moten’s voice drifts between whisper, chant, and invocation.

This is not background music, it is confrontation: sound as political urgency, poetry as disruption. The interplay is dense and deliberate, rejecting easy form in favor of spontaneous friction.

But more than that, it is a sonic performance we can truly experience, as if we were there with them. It feels like a special moment, a scene suddenly unfolding between our ears. We are in the audience. We are the audience. The performance lives here, now, so vivid, so present, so palpable.

And like any performance, Revision demands our full, undivided attention. It’s not about clarity, it’s about exposure, rupture, and the unfiltered mess of being.

Fred Moten: texts, voice; Brandon López: bass
Releases April 11, 2025

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Dave Rempis, through his label Aerophonic Records, founded in 2013 to document his own projects and maintain artistic control, doesn’t just seem to release outstanding albums, he does. Just look at the last three annual results of the Francis Davis Jazz Poll, where three out of four Aerophonic releases made the list each year. That is a remarkable 75% success rate for a fully independent label, no hesitation needed.

And we are betting that Sudden Dusk will join the 2025 list. It’s raw yet entertaining, bold yet accessible, simply a joy to listen to. Featuring Rempis on saxophone, Terrie Ex on guitar, Jon Rune Strøm on bass, and Tollef Østvang on drums, the album captures the energy and inhibition of live performances, recorded during their 2024 U.S. tour.

Ex’s irreverent, unpredictable guitar collides beautifully with Rempis’s expansive range, while Strøm and Østvang push the music forward with both muscle and nuance. A thrilling release that thrives on tension and delicious curiosity.

Dave Rempis: soprano, tenor, baritone saxophone; Terrie Ex: guitar; Jon Rune Strøm: bass; Tollef Østvang: drums
Releases April 18, 2025

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This one may require a few listens to truly reveal its core and to unveil the beauty and depth interlaced by the orchestra. But once it opens up, you will feel the life it holds and the delicacy in the diversity it displays.

It is grand and eloquent, thoroughly modern yet different, gentle in its power. It is offering a kind of alternative modernity: complete, inclusive, and unhurried, it takes its time and gives you everything in return.

Yes, Jorden vi ärvde is a powerful follow-up to the award-winning In this forever unfolding moment, deepening Bromander’s vision. Dedicated to his children and inspired by ecological and social crisis, the album is based on the idea that we do not own the Earth: we inherit it, and must pass it on.

“It is an attempt to summon the courage, dreams and visions that previous generations of musicians and artists have shown and given us, with a hope to continue working in the same radical spirit.”
—Vilhelm Bromander

Vilhelm Bromander: double bass; Katt Hernandez: violin; Martin Küchen: alto saxophone; Elin Forkelid: tenor saxophone; Alberto Pinton: baritone saxophone, flute, bass clarinet; Christer Bothén: bass clarinet; Emil Strandberg: trumpet; Mats Äleklint: trombone; Alex Zethson: piano; Mattias Ståhl: vibraphone, marimba; Stina Hellberg Agback: harp; Dennis Egberth, Anton Jonsson: drums
Releases April 25, 2025

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​Pictish Spaghetti is the collaborative album by double bassist Roberto Cassani and guitarist Graeme Stephen. Recorded live at Tpot Studio in the Ochil Hills of Scotland—a location steeped in the history of the ancient Pictish people—the album embodies the spontaneous and mystical essence of its surroundings. ​

The duo describes the music as “a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western set in Pictish territory,” blending cinematic atmospheres with ancient Scottish echoes. The result is enigmatic, playful, and deeply transporting.

Roberto Cassani: double bass; Graeme Stephen: guitar and pedals
Releases April 25, 2025

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Bringing together Joshua Abrams’ hypnotic grooves with Bitchin Bajas’ cosmic synth textures, this album is a meditative deep dive into repetition, resonance, and collective flow. Recorded live, Totality is anchored by the earthy pulse of guimbri and percussion, yet floats on layers of shimmering keyboards, harmonium, and reeds. A beautifully immersive listen.

Joshua Abrams: double bass, guembri; Lisa Alvarado: harmonium; Mikel Patrick Avery: drums, percussion; Cooper Crain: organ, synth; Rob Frye: flute, synth; Jason Stein: bass clarinet; Daniel Quinlivan: electronics
Releases April 25, 2025

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Jazz April 2025 – New Releases Selection

• Yaron Herman – Radio Paradise (Naïve)
• Fred Moten & Brandon López – Revision (TAO Forms)
• Archer – Sudden Dusk (Aerophonic Records)
• Vilhelm Bromander Unfolding Orchestra – Jorden vi ärvde (Thanatosis)
• Roberto Cassani, Graeme Stephen – Pictish Spaghetti (577 Records)
• Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas – Totality (Drag City Records)

Playlist

Listen to these tracks on our Spotify playlist.

Discover next Best Jazz Albums 2025

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These six releases are just the beginning of what is coming in April. Keep an eye out for more exciting jazz albums throughout the month and let us know in the comments which release you are most excited about! Happy listening!