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Mark Corroto's Best Jazz Albums Of 2025 article by Mark Corroto, published on December 12, 2025 at All About Jazz. Find more ...

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As I’ve said in a few recent editions of these best-of columns, it’s been a dreadful year for most things but a fine one for music, which, as the verse contends, “has charms to soothe a savage breast, ...

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