Op basis van de muzieksmaak van de professionals zijn hier de complete individuele Top-10’s van nieuwe albums. De platen zijn net uit of verschijnen in april.
Sander Grande (Mojo, North Sea Jazz)
1. Yebba – Jean (RCA)
2. Chris Potter – Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition)
3. Mavis Staples – Sad And Beautiful World (Anti)
4. The Westerlies – Have You Heard? The Music Of Bill Frisell Vol. 1 (The Westerlies)
5. Angine de Poitrine – Vol.II (Eigen beheer)
6. Hajaj – Waiting Room (With The Ticking Time Bomb) (Analogue/Nettwerk Music)
7. Jarrod Lawson – Just Let it (Dome)
8. Momoko Gill – Momoko (Strut/K7 Music)
9. Tomeka Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
10. Gena – The Pleasure Is Yours (Lex)
Phil Horneman (Wicked Jazz Sounds)
1. Another Taste – Another Taste II (Space Grapes)
2. Web Web – Kover Kover (Compost)
3. Thundercat – Distracted (Brainfeeder)
4. Brooklyn Funk Essentials – Black Butterfly (Dorado)
5. Kiiōtō – Black Salt (Kiiōtō)
6. Tom Funk – What’s It Gonna Be? (Lazy Robot)
7. Tom Misch – Full Circle (Beyond The Groove/AWAL)
8. Mamas Gun – DIG! (Candelion/Blue Elan)
9. lovetempo – There Is A Light (Bastard Jazz)
10. Alexander IV – Alchemist (Sonar Kollektiv)
Dick Hovenga (Written in Music, Jazzism)
1. Jeff Parker ETA IVtet – Happy Today (International Anthem)
2. Fabiano do Nascimento – Vila (Far Out)
3. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
4. Elina Duni, Rob Luft – Reaching For The Moon (ECM)
5. Mammal Hands – Circadia (ACT)
6. Neves E Silva – Ladeiras De Santa Teresa (Far Out)
7. Shabaka – Of The Earth (Shabaka/V2)
8. Mark Turner – Patternmaster (ECM)
9. Metropole Orkest – Arakatak (V2)
10. Vice Versa II – Rebounce (Challenge)
Guy van Hulst en Brent Oostrum (TivoliVredenburg)
1. Marquis Hill – (Beautifulism) Sweet Surrender (Black Unlimited)
2. Melissa Aldana – Filin (Blue Note)
3. Benjamin Herman – The Tokyo Sessions (DOX)
4. Jeremy Pelt – Our Community Will Not Be Erased (HighNote)
5. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
6. Hélène Duret – Perception (IGLOO)
7. Igor Gehenot Trio – Shining Face (IGLOO)
8. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet – Live At The Village Vanguard Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
9. Mark Turner – Patternmaster (ECM)
10. Nathan Surquin – Ambre (ZenneZ)
Gijsbert Kamer (de Volkskrant)
1. Benjamim Herman – The Tokyo Sessions (DOX)
2. Adam O’Farrill – Elephant (Out of Your Head)
3. Immanuel Wilkins Quartet – Live At The Village Vanguard Vol 1. (Blue Note)
4. Tomeka Reid – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
5. Miroslav Vitous – Mountain Call (ECM)
6. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
7. Ben Wendel – BaRcoDe (Edition)
8. Chris Potter – Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition)
9. Pat Metheny – Side-Eye III+ (Uniquity)
10 Hermine Deurloo & Anton Goudsmit – Unfiltered (Challenge)
Marcel Kranendonk (Jazz Enter, Nacht van de Jazz)
1. Rodrigo Amado, Joe McPhee, Kent Kessler, Chris Corsano – Wailers (European Echoes)
2. Don Malfon, Ana Kravanja, Marta Warelis – Munich 2025 – Day 2 Set 2 (MMI Festival)
3. Michael Formanek – New Digs (Intakt)
4. Tyshawn Sorey – Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) (DACAMERA Editions)
5. Marty Ehrlich, Julius Hemphill – Circle The Heart (Relative Pitch)
6. Sonic Fiction Special, feat. Earl Howard – Banding Patterns (Random Acoustics)
7. Urs Leimgruber, Jacques Demierre & Thomas Lehn – The Eerie Glow Of Jellyfish (Relative Pitch)
8. Martin Küchen, John Hughes, Vasco Trilla – OPPUGN (Audible Instances)
9. Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past (Impulse!)
10. Rêve d’Éléphant Orchestra – Jungle Binche (IGLOO)
Marieke Meischke (Jazz Maastricht, JazzOUT Fest)
1. PARRA.DICE – TURN THE DICE (PARRA.DICE)
2. Ganna – Utopia (BERTHOLD)
3. WAAN – We Want WAAN (Sonar Kollektiv)
4. Nawras Altaky – Arise! (Nawras Altaky)
5. Momoko Gill – Momoko (Strut)
6. Ant Law, Alex Hitchcock – House Of Light (ZenneZ)
7. Ben Wendel – BaRcoDe (Edition)
8. Mattias De Craene & Black Koyo – Mattias De Craene & Black Koyo (W.E.R.F.)
9. Aseo Friesacher – Wu Wei & The Art Of Living (Challenge)
10. Soniri – Songs About You (Soniri)
Onno Post (LantarenVenster, Muziekweb.nl)
1. Conic Rose – Wedding (Conic Rose)
2. Tara Clerkin Trio – Somewhere Good (World of Echo)
3. Dario Jacque – SANG (Dario Jacque)
4. Bnnyhunna – Psalm Funk (Sdban)
5. Brian Jackson – Now More Than Ever (BBE)
6. Neves E Silva – Ladeiras De Santa Teresa (Far Out)
7. Błoto – We Remember J Dilla (Astigmatic)
8. Shy One – Mali (Touching Bass)
9. Jasmine Myra – Where Light Settles (Gondwana)
10. Rosa Brunello – We Are Surging Waters (Domanda)
Maarten Van Rousselt (Flagey Brussel)
1. Fabiano do Nascimento – Vila (Far Out)
2. Irreversible Entanglements – Future Present Past (Impulse!)
3. De Beren Gieren – Fuzzy Bears (Marcel Records)
4. Resavoir – Themes For Dreams (L’UNIVERS)
5. Ragini Trio – 3 (W.E.R.F.)
6. Peter Somuah – Walking Distance (Act)
7. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
8. Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, Macie Stewart – Body Sound (International Anthem)
9. Zena – Temesgen (Brownswood)
10. Work Money Death – A Portal To Here (ATA)
Koen Graat (Paradox, November Music, Jazz in Duketown)
1. Maria Schneider – American Crow (ArtistShare)
2. Shake Stew – Ten One Two (Lukas Kranzelbinder/Traumton)
3. Tomeka Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
4. Rik van der Made – Morning Light (ZenneZ)
5. Kalia Vandever – Another View (Northern Spy)
6. Ohm! – The Architects (Shifting Paradigm)
7. Julie Campiche – Unspoken (Ronin Rhythm)
8. NOHMI – Brightness & Darkness (ZenneZ)
9. Daan Kluwer – The Life Of Billy (DOX)
10. Soulive – Flowers (Floki Studios)
Guido van Dieren (BIRD)
1. Bruno Pernadas – Unlikely, Maybe (Bruno Pernades)
2. Heavensouls – Westside Trapped (dont give up on nigerian music just yet)
3. Thundercat – Distracted (Brainfeeder)
4. Gena – The Pleasure Is Yours (Lex)
5. Irrervisible Entanglements – Future Present Past (Impulse!)
6. Wesley Joseph – Forever Ends Someday (Secretly Canadian/Eeviltwinn)
7. Shabaka – Of The Earth (Shabaka/V2)
8. Tom Misch – Full Circle (BEYOND THE GROOVE/V2)
9. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
10. Bcuc – The Road Is Never Easy (OUT HERE)
Danny Theuwis (30CC, Leuven Jazz)
1. Annahstasia – Live At Glasshaus (Glasshaus)
2. Jasper Hoiby’s 3 Elements – Conversation Of Hope (Edition)
3. Vliegwerk – Vliegwerk (Eigen beheer)
4. Stuart McCallum – A Quiet Gathering (Edition)
5. 95MP – Epiphany (Invisible Underground)
6. Gregory Hutchinson – Kind Of Now (Warner Music)
7. Fabiano do Nascimento – Vila (Far out)
8. Moene – Sessions 1-4 (Artisjok)
9. Shabaka – Of The Earth (Shabaka/V2)
10. Mattias de Craene & Black Koyo – Mattias de Craene & Black Koyo (W.E.R.F.)
Frank van Berkel en Shane Burmania (BIMHUIS)
1. Benjamin Herman – The Tokyo Sessions (DOX)
2. Flat Earth Society – Missa Asinorum (Bonk Vzw)
3. Ella Zirina – X Mini X (DOX)
4. The Tomeka Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
5. Marta Sánchez – For The Space You Left (Out Of Your Head)
6. Tyshawn Sorey – Members… Don’t! (Pi)
7. Nduduzo Makhathini – The Myth We Choose (Blue Note)
8. Walter Smith III – Twio Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
9. Jasper Hoiby’s 3 Elements – Conversations Of Hope (Edition)
10. Nabou – Indigo (Edition)
Frank Bolder (LantarenVenster, North Sea Jazz)
1. The Tomeka Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
2. Bill Frisell – In My Dreams (Blue Note)
3. Leo Middea – Notícias De Puglia (Leo Middea/Esfera & Agogo)
4. Angine de Poitrine – Vol.II (Eigen beheer)
5. Chris Potter – Alive With Ghosts Today (Edition)
6. Walter Smith III – Twio Vol. 2 (Blue Note)
7. Flea – Honora (Nonesuch)
8. Momoko Gill – Momoko (Strut/K7 Music)
9. Louis Matute – Dolce Vita (naïve/Association Encontro)
10. Shake Stew – Ten One Two (Lukas Kranzelbinder/Traumton)
Benny Claysier en Abel Petneki (KAAP)
1. Booker Stardrum – Close-Up On The Outside (We Jazz)
2. Tomeika Reid Quartet – Dance! Skip! Hop! (Out Of Your Head)
3. Work Money Death – A Portal To Here (ATA)
4. Shabaka – Of The Earth (Shabaka/V2)
5. Ragini Trio – 3 (W.E.R.F.)
6. Shake Stew – Ten One Two (Lukas Kranzelbinder/Traumton)
7. Andrés Coll Cosmic Trio – Ride To Heaven (XJAZZ! Music)
8. Resavoir – Themes For Dreams (L’UNIVERS)
9. Asher Gamedze – A Semblance: Of Return (Northern Spy)
10. Tremendous Aron – No Te Preocupes ep (Hip Dozer)
