In A Mellow Tone
Wednesday December 31st, 2025 with Heavy Ben
What did jazz sound like in 2025? What flew under the radar?
What Jazz records flew under the radar? Heavy Ben explores notable 2025 releases that got little to no play on CKCU.
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| Hour one |
| I'm Just Say'n Joe McPhee with Mats Gustafsson - I'm Just Say'n - Smalltown Supersound - 2025 |
| Click Song Chicago Underground Duo - Hyperglyph - International Anthem - 2025 |
| Absinthian Mary Halvorson - About Ghosts - Nonesuch - 2025 |
| New Pyramid Phi-Psonics - Expanding To One - Gondwana - 2025 |
| Where Are You Deep Vibes - Live at GigSpace - (self-released) - 2025 
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| Gulf Of Mexico Max Jaffe - You Want That Too! - Colorfield - 2025
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| Oppression Is Nine Tenths Of The Law Organic Pulse Ensemble - Oppression Is Nine Tenths Of The Law - RR Gems - 2025 |
| Welfare Debris Ville Valavuo - Commemoration Songs - Ultraääni - 2025 |
| Fine and Dandy Misha Panfilov Septet - Skyways - Fnr - 2025
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| Hour two |
| Hip Kids Music Hip Kids Music, Kalya Ramu - Hip Kids Music, Vol. 1 - (self-released) - 2025
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| End Means Brandee Younger feat. Shabaka Hutchings - Gadabout Season - Impulse! - 2025 |
| Yenobak Eih Amanda Ekery - Árabe - Hey Lu! - 2025 |
| Ian M interviewed Amanda Ekery on YOW jazz in May
https://cod.ckcufm.com/programs/639/70452.html |
| Menelik Nat Birchall - Liberated Sounds - Na-Bi Records - 2025 |
| We Are Calling Out In This Moment Saul Williams, Carlos Niño & Friends - Saul Williams Meets Carlos Niño & Friends At TreePeople - International Anthem - 2025 |
| Bloomed (The Ongoing Processional Of Nighas In Hoodies) Ambrose Akinmusire - Honey From A Winter Stone - Nonesuch - 2025 |
| Negative Blues Lophae - Perfect Strangers - Gregory J E Sanders - 2025 |
| Looking Down (We Be) Jairus Sharif feat. Malcolm Mooney - Basis Of Unity - Telephone Explosion - 2025
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| Umleitung Lea Maria Fries - CLEO - Heavenly Sweetness - 2025 |
| Love Takuro Okada [orig. Hiromasa Suzuki] - Konoma - Temporal Drift - 2025
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| The 23 Nels Cline - Consentrik Quartet - Blue Note - 2025 |
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