NEW ALBUM About Ghosts released on June 13 2025 on Nonesuch Records

Mary Halvorson is a Brooklyn-based guitarist, composer and recording artist for Nonesuch Records. Her distinctive sound and innovative approach to her instrument have earned her widespread recognition over the past two decades, including numerous best-of-the-year lists, a 2019 MacArthur Foundation fellowship and Guitarist of the Year honors in the DownBeat Critics Poll for the past nine years. When not leading her own award-winning bands, she can be heard in a wide variety of creative partnerships and on more than 75 releases as a co-leader or sidewoman.

Her most recent recording, About Ghosts, was selected as the best new jazz album of 2025 by NPR Music, Slate and the voters in both the 20th Annual Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll and the 18th International Critics Poll, which also named her Composer and Guitarist of the Year. "Mary Halvorson refuses to be defined, let alone confined," wrote A.D. Amarosi in his review for DownBeat. "If Halvorson is the future of jazz," added Chris Ingalls in PopMatters, "we are in tremendously gifted hands."

"Nobody sounds like her."
—Nate Chinen, NPR Music

"...always surprising and iconoclastic..."
—qobuz Magazine
 
"...a truly original musician, bandleader, and composer—a master in a style of her own invention."
—Fred Kaplan, Slate