CKUT TOP 30, JAN 6, 2026
 
1. planet giza – the sky is recording me: 100 years later vol 3 – quiet note CC*
2. hélène barbier – panorama – bonsound CC*
3. v/a – 33 sous les mères – l’oie du cravan
4. jred the doctor & just mcfly – doc & marty – self
5. jah cutta – jah cutta sings gold – self
6. griot galaxy – live on wuom 1979 – two rooms
7. crasher – odditi populaire – mothland CC*
8. malatu astatke – malatu plays malatu – strut
9. puppet wipes – live inside – siltbreeze CC
10. health – conflict dlc – loma vista
11. bells larsen – blurring time – royal mountain records CC
12. various – we are time mix tape vol 2 – we are time
13. clock dva – white souls in black suits – mute
14. orchidea – true beginning – birthday cake records
15. hayden peldigo – i’ll be waving as you drive away – mexican summer
16. danny brown – stardust – warp
17. ribbon skirt – bite down – mint CC*
18. wednesday – townies – dead oceans
19. yoo II with nolan porter – s/t – motherland CC*
20. fairuz – chat iskandaria – wewantsounds
21. guerilla toss – your weird now – sub pop
22. ichiko aoba – luminescent creatures – hermine
23. alex archibald – waste knot – gladtydings CC
24. g.i. jinx – mind freak – celluloid lunch CC*
25. matmos – the rust belt – thrill jockey
26. snp – unrolled ep – doo CC*
27. v/a – tsapiky! modern music from southwest madagascar – sublime frequencies
28. tokyosensei – fil noir – self CC*
29. andy boay – you took that walk for the two of us – does are
30. narcy & buddha blaze – no smoking allowed – self CC*
 
CKUT NOTABLE JAZZ RELEASES OF 2025
 
25 notable releases of ’25 + 5
 
ambrose akinmusire – honey from a winter stone – nonesuch
cosmic ear – traces – we jazz
fieldwork – thereupon – pi recordings
gustafsson / vandermark / reid / taylor – pivot – silkheart
webber morris big band – unseparate – out of your head ©
perelman / wooley / moran / helias / rainy – a modicum of blues – fundacja słuchaj
dan weiss – unclassified affections – pi recordings
jon irabagon – server farm – irabbagast
marshall allen’s ghost horizons – live in philadelphia – ars nova workshop/otherly love
jacob garchick – ye olde 2: at the end of time – yestereve
tim berne – yikes too – out of your head
james brandon lewis trio – apple cores – anti-
amina claudine myers – solace of the mind – red hook
mary halvorson 4tet – the bagatelles vol. one – tzadik
camila nebbia / kit downes / andrew lisle – exhaust – relative pitch
steve lehman trio + mark turner – the music of anthony braxton – pi recordings
patricia brennan – of the near and far – pyroclastic
sylvie courvoisier & mary halvorson – bone bells – pyroclastic
camilla nebbia / marilyn crispell / lesley mok – a reflection distorts over water – relative pitch
myra melford splash trio – splash – intakt
ches smith – clone row – otherly love records
heat on – heat on – cuneiform
lina allemano 4 – the diptychs – lumo ©
michael bisio – NuMBq – mahakala
amir elsaffar – new quartet live at pierre boulez saal – maqam
 
+5 archival gems
 
the vandermark 5 – four sides to the story – catalytic sound
irène schweizer / rüdiger carl / johnny dyani / han bennink – irène’s hot four – intakt
anthony braxton – quartet (england) 1985 – burning ambulance
snakeoil – ok – screwgun
horace tapscott & pan afrikan peoples arkestra – live at widney high, …1971 – the village