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BeatCaffeine Favorite Reissues & Lost Releases of 2025

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BeatCaffeine’s Favorite Reissue Releases & Lost Recordings of 2025

As with the new music releases of 2025, many incredible reissues and previously unreleased recordings emerged throughout the year. The recordings unearthed each year continue to amaze. As mentioned in past years, the quality of these reissue releases seems to keep improving over time.

Similar to past years, narrowing down this list was probably the most challenging task among all the year-end lists (sorry, I always forget a few worthy titles). For this list, the focus is mostly on full-length reissues, though a few standout 7-inch selections are included.

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, December 13, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, December 13th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included selections featuring Longineu Parsons, VS Quartet and the Nottingham Jazz Orchestra, jazz dance classics by Tamba Trio, Ronald Snijders, and Romano Mussolini, cosmic cuts from Hiroshi Suzuki and Hugh Masekela, along with new music from The Circling Sun and Louie Vega’s Elements of Life and much more!

BeatCaffeine Favorite EP Releases of 2025

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BeatCaffeine’s Favorite EP Releases of 2025

For our second year-end list, we spotlight 10 standout EP releases from 2025. As in recent years, this list notably includes some superb selections from two standout UK-based labels that continue to put out forward-thinking jazz fusion and peak-time dancefloor material in Steve Conry’s Ten Lovers Music and Colin Curtis Presents imprint. This overall selection of EPs are arguably up their with the year’s best full-length albums, when it comes to quality and impact.

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, November 29, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, November 29th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a selections by The Arpeggio Jazz Ensemble, Marco Di Marco, and Sacbé, jazz dance classics from Mongo Santamaria, Carlos Garnett, and Bhakti Jazz, standout nu jazz cuts by Gerardo Frisina, Elements of Life and much more!

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, November 15, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, November 15th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a selections by Wayne Shorter, Airto Moreira, and Carlos Garnett, jazz dance classics from Pacific Jam, Paulinho Da Costa and Don Randi, along with new music from Brian Jackson and Masters At Work and much more!

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, November 1, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, November 1st BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a selections by Mike Perras, Vinícius Mendes, and Gerardo Frisina, jazz dance classics from Working Week and Cedar Walton, along with new music from Chris Bangs & Mick Talbot, Ruby Ruston, Babo Moreno and much more!

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, October 18, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, October 18th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a jazz dance classics from Raices, Mr. Circle, Carpenters, Twylyte ’81, and new music from Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs, The Earthsouls, Ella & The Bossa Beat and much more!

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, October 4, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, October 4th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast included a number of jazz dance classics from Ben Sidran, The John Payne-Louis Levin Band, Sonny Fortune, Dave Matthews, selections from the recently reissued albums by Mr. Circle and Mal Waldron, Indigo Jam Unit and much more!

BeatCaffeine's Weekly Record Rundown October 3, 2025

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BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown Oct 3, 2025

For this edition of BeatCaffeine’s Weekly Record Rundown, we highlight the second EP from the new duo project from Italian producers Nicola Conte and Nico Lahs, as well as incredible new 7inch singles from Ella & The Bossa Beat, and Chris Bangs and Mick Talbot, along with the new highly improvisational full-length from Leeds-based 15-piece spiritual jazz ensemble Ancient Infinity Orchestra.

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, September 20, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, September 20th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast had a heavy Latin-Brazilian feel with jazz dance classics by The Robin Jones Seven, The Har-You Percussion Group, Joyce Moreno, Ed Lincoln, and Hector Costita, including some funky gems from the late great Ahmad Jamal, the Charlie Rouse Band and much more!

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Outernational Sounds reissues Mr. Circle’s 1981 jazz dance classic ‘Thi Nam’

London’s Outernational Sounds, which is run by deejay and radio broadcaster Harv Nagi, has reissued the much sought-after 1981 jazz dance fusion classic Thi Nam by the widely talented German group Mr. Circle.

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Dudley Moore Trio’s jazz dance classic “Amalgam” released on limited-edition 7inch

The London-based Trunk Records has recently issued, for the first time on 7inch format, two selections from acclaimed British actor, comedian, composer, and pianist Dudley Moore’s 1969 full-length featuring his trio of bassist Jeff Clyne and drummer Chris Karan.

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BeatCaffeine Radio on Motion FM, September 6, 2025

Listen back to this past Saturday, September 6th BeatCaffeine Radio show on Motion FM, hosted by TJ Gorton. The broadcast highlighted recently released compilations Including Covers from Jazz Room Records, Right Tempo’s The Jazz Sinners and Rainer Trüby and Miche’s The Aachen Jazz Files, along with Latin jazz groovers by Robin Jones and Melvyn Price, new music by Central and The Mantecas, a celebration of Herbie Hancock’s 50th anniversary of Man-Child and much more!