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Fourth Jazz Crumbs Awards – Celebrating 2025’s Top Jazz Albums
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For the fourth time in the show's history, the Jazz Crumbs have been officially announced. 21 magnificent albums have each received their own special, hand-picked "crumb" title— sparkling gems that capture something truly unique about every record. And so episode 122 becomes the definitive farewell to the jazz year 2025, what tightly woven together with two recently published articles (Marek Śmietański's Favorite Jazz Albums Of 2025 and Marek Śmietański's Favorite Polish Jazz Albums Of 2025). A huge, swinging round of applause once more to all the incredible musicians—it's your creativity, your fire, your soul poured into these grooves... So let these crumbs lead you through some truly unforgettable sounds, including: captivating subtlety, eloquent abundance, forward- looking lyricism or panoramic synergy (In Polish—broadcast on Bemowo FM).Playlist
- Intro: Hank Levy "Whiplash" from Whiplash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande)
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- Gerald Clayton "Angels Speak" from Ones & Twos (Blue Note Records)
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- Wojtek Mazolewski "Dawn Of Wolves" from Solo (WMQ Records / NoPaper Records)
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- Brandee Younger "BBL" from Gadabout Season (Impulse! Records)
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- Arek Czernysz Quartet "Movement" from Safe Space (self-released)
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- Mathias Eick "Partisan" from Lullaby (ECM Records)
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- Wojciech Jachna Squad "Song" from Ad Astra (Audio Cave)
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- James Danderfer "My Brightest Ligths" from If Not Now (Cellar Music Group)
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- Snyder x Dudar Quartet (Russell Snyder and Slawek Dudar) " Tellerand" from Into The Blue (self-released)
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- Fabia Mantwill Orchestra "Whirl The Wheel" from In.Sight (GroundUP Music)
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- Piotr Schmidt / Andrzej Swies / Sebastian Frankiewicz "Ether 7" from Ether (SJRecords)
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- Zeitgeber "Echolocate—squeezing your surroundings with phantasmal hands" from Fellow Prisoners of the Splendour and Travail of the Earth—Part 2 (sel-released)
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- O.N.E. "Cipher" from Well, actually... (April Records)
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- Kate Wyatt "Coruscation" from Murmurations (self- released)
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- Cezariusz Gadzina Quartet "Let Her Play" from white in blue (TAK Records)
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- Rin Seo Collective "Desert Flower" from City Suite (Cellar Music Group)
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- Irka Zapolska Quartet "the JUBJUB SONG" from the song of a jubjub (self-released)
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- Anders Hagberg "With Hope" from With Hope (Prophone Records /Naxos)
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- Rafał Jackiewicz Quartet "Longing Tide" from Sea Poetry (self-released)
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- Laurent Coulondre / Arnaud Dolmen / Grégory Privat "Spirit of Five" from The Getdown (Artwork Records)
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- Nils Kugelmann Trio "The Unspoken Dreams Of Dragon" from Life Score (ACT Music)
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- Artur Dutkiewicz Trio "Meditation 3 Longing (Live)" from From Sound to Silence. Nowosielski (live) (Soliton)
- Outro: Hank Levy "Whiplash" from Whiplash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Varèse Sarabande)
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Fabia Mantwill Orchestra
Marek j. Śmietański
Marek Śmietański's Favorite Jazz Albums Of 2025
Marek Śmietański's Favorite Polish Jazz Albums Of 2025
Hank Levy
Gerald Clayton
Wojtek Mazolewski
Brandee Younger
Arek Czernysz
Mathias Eick
Wojciech Jachna Squad
James Danderfer
Russell Snyder
Slawek Dudar
Piotr Schmidt
Andrzej Swies
Sebastian Frankiewicz
Zeitgeber
O.N.E.
Kate Wyatt
Cezariusz Gadzina
Rin Seo
Irka Zapolska
Anders Hagberg
Rafał Jackiewicz
Laurent Coulondre
Arnaud Dolmen
Grégory Privat
Nils Kugelmann Trio
Artur Dutkiewicz
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