Top 40

The Top 40 @ Birdland for 2025

#1 Anouar Brahem - After the Last Sky

#2 Jeff Parker + ETA IVtet - The Way Out of Easy

#3 Chris Cheek - Keepers of the Eastern Door

#4 Keith Jarrett - New Vienna: At the Musikverein, 2016

#5 John Scofield / Dave Holland - Memories of Home

#6 Jakob Bro - Taking Turns

#7 Ike Quebec - The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions

#8 Thelonious Monk - Bremen 1965

#9 Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts

#10 Jerome Sabbagh - Heart (feat. Al Foster & Joe Martin)

#11 Bill Evans - Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings

#12 Charles Lloyd - Figure in Blue

#13 Horace Silver - Silver In Seattle: Live At The Penthouse

#14 Kenny Burrell with Art Blakey - On View At The Five Spot Cafe: The Complete Masters

#15 Fred Hersch - The Surrounding Green

#16 Sasha Berliner - Fantôme

#17 Sunsuke Fujieda Group - Fukushima. LP out of print. CD only.

#18 Nils Petter Molvaer - Khmer Live in Bergen

#19 JD Allen - Love Letters (The Ballad Sessions)

#20 Evans Robson Quartet - Zenith. CD only.

#21 Bonnie J Jensen - Rise. CD only.

#22 Paul Weller Presents: That Sweet Sweet Music - Various Artists

#23 The Necks - Disquiet. CD only.

#24 Carl Allen - Tippin’ CD only.

#25 Tedeschi Trucks Band and Leon Russell Present: Mad Dogs & Englishmen Revisited Live at LOCKN’

#26 Jerome Sabbagh - Stand Up!

#27 James Brandon Lewis Trio - Apple Cores

#28 Boz Scaggs - Detour

#29 Benjamin Lackner - Spindrift

#30 John McLaughlin - Music for Abandoned Heights

#31 Branford Marsalis Quartet - Belonging

#32 Joseph Tawadros - The Forgotten Path To Humanity. CD only

#33 Joshua Redman - Words Fall Short

#34 Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet

#35 Artemis - Arboresque

#36 Brandee Younger - Gadabout Season

#37 Brad Mehldau - Ride Into The Sun

#38 Vijay Iyer & Wadada Leo Smith - Defiant Life

#39 Wolfgang Muthspiel, Scott Colley & Brian Blade - Tokyo. LP due out soon

#40 Patricia Brennan - Of The Near And Far. CD only