Mary Halvorson Shatters The Standards

Shatter The Standards has included Mary Halvorson‘s About Ghosts, out now via Nonesuch, among its list of best Jazz albums in 2025. The site writes, “On About Ghosts, Halvorson leans into that large‑ensemble thinking, writing for brass, vibes, rhythm section, and her own crooked guitar in a way that lets the group move like a single organism rather than a backdrop for solos… The record ends up feeling like her trying to keep emotional directness and structural mischief in the same space, writing songs you could hum on the way home while constantly prodding the band to see how far those songs can bend before they snap.” Check out more here.