2022 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2022.

2022 in jazz
Decade	2020s in jazz
Music	2022 in music
Standards	List of jazz standards
See also	2021 in jazz – 2023 in jazz

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Events

January

February

March

April

• April 3 - The 64th Annual Grammy Awards occur. Jazz award winners include:
  • Esperanza Spalding wins Best Jazz Vocal Album for her 2021 album Songwrights Apothecary Lab^[1]
  • Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & Gonzalo Rubalcaba win Best Jazz Instrumental Album for their 2021 album Skyline^[1]
  • Christian McBride Big Band wins Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for their 2021 album For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver^[1]
  • Eliane Elias, Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés win Best Latin Jazz Album for their 2021 album Mirror Mirror^[1]
  • Arooj Aftab was nominated for Best New Artist^[1]
• April 29 - After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19, JazzFest reopens^[2]
• April 29 - Domi and JD Beck sign a contract with Anderson .Paak's label APESHIT in partnership with Blue Note Records and release their debut single "SMiLE"^[3][4]
• April 30 - International Jazz Day occurs with a concert at the United Nations directed by Herbie Hancock^[5]

May

• May 26 - Subgenre MUMBLE JAZZ is invented with Unc D's single HPHCPH.MMBL. MUMBLE JAZZ mixes jazz scatting with autotune modern hip hop flow.^[6]

June

• June 1 - Sons of Kemet announced the band would be dispanding after their final live tours this year, making Black To The Future from 2021 their final studio album^[7]

July

• July 26 - Geri Allen is inducted into the DownBeat hall of fame^[8]
• July 29 - July 31 - The 2022 Blue Note Jazz Festival occurs hosted by Dave Chappelle.^[9]

August

• Jon Batiste wins top Jazz Artist in the 70th Annual DownBeat critics poll, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels wins top Jazz group^[10]

September

• The 65th Monterey Jazz Festival Occurs^[11]

October

• October 1 to November 12 - Snarky Puppy set to go on tour in Europe to support their September 30 Album Empire Central^[12][13]
• October 6 to November 12 - French Kiwi Juice set to go on a North American tour^[14]
• October 10 - Domi and JD Beck start their first ever live tour in their hometown of Dallas, Texas and quickly sell out^[15]
• October 20 - Fergus McCreadie wins the Scottish Album of the Year Award for his album Forest Floor
• October 21 - Finding The Right Notes, a PBS documentary about the life of Ron Carter, releases^[16]
• October 28 - Black And Blues, a documentary about the life of Louis Armstrong, releases^[17]

November

• November 30 - The New York Times ranks Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ghost Song as the best jazz album of 2022, followed by Immanuel Wilkins' The 7th Hand in #2^[18]

December

• December 21 - NPR Music ranks Domi and JD Beck's NOT TiGHT in the top 10 albums of 2022 at #10^[19]
• December 30 - The Guardian ranks Charles Lloyd's Trios: Sacred Thread as the best jazz album of 2022, followed by Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis/Belladonna (treated as one album) in #2^[20]
• December 30 - Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force's 2021 album Dear Love ends off the year at the #1 spot with most radio airplay of the year as documented by JazzWeek.^[21]

Albums

Makaya McCraven, who released In These Times, one of the most acclaimed albums of 2022. Photo taken in 2013

Month	Day	Album	Artist	Label	Notes	Ref.
January	21	Flow of Everything	Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp	Fundacja Słuchaj
		2 Blues for Cecil	Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, Enrico Rava	TUM Records		[22]
	28	The 7th Hand	Immanuel Wilkins	Blue Note Records		[23]
February	4	Father's Wing	Rob Mazurek Quartet	Rogueart		[24]
	25	Feed The Machine	Binker and Moses	Gearbox Records		[25][26][27]
March	4	Ghost Song	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Nonesuch Records		[28]
		Pray For Me, I Don't Fit In	Melt Yourself Down	Universal International Music		[29]
	8	Four Brothers	Tony Monaco	Chicken Coup Records		[30]
	11	Live at GroundUP Music Festival	Snarky Puppy	GroundUP Music		[31]
April	1	GOLD	Alabaster DePlume	International Anthem Recording Company		[32]
	4	Forest Floor	Fergus McCreadie	Edition Records
	15	Pursuit of Ends	High Pulp	ANTI-records		[33]
May	6	John Scofield	John Scofield	ECM Records		[34]
	13	Amaryllis	Mary Halvorson	Nonesuch Records		[35]
		Belladonna	Mary Halvorson	Nonesuch Records		[36]
		Red Balloon	Tank and the Bangas	Verve Forecast		[37][38]
	20	Origin	Joey Alexander	Mack Avenue Records		[39]
	27	In The Spirit Of Ntu	Nduduzo Makhathini	Blue Note Records		[40]
Bluesthetic		Steve Davis	Smoke Sessions Records		[41]
June	10	Vincent	French Kiwi Juice	Mom + Pop Music		[42]
	15	Holding Space, Live In Berlin	Lizz Wright	Blues & Greens Records		[43]
	17	Pink Dolphins	Anteloper	International Anthem Recording Company		[44]
		Golden Hour	Jocelyn Gould			[45]
July	1	Jazz Codes	Moor Mother	Anti- Records		[46]
	15	Elastic Wave	Gard Nilssen Acoustic Unity, André Roligheten, Petter Eldh	ECM Records		[47][48]
	29	Not Tight	Domi and JD Beck	Blue Note Records		[49]
August	26	Everything I Know About Love	Laufey	AWAL		[50]
September	9	LongGone	Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Brian Blade	Nonesuch Records		[51]
	16	Linger Awhile	Samara Joy	Verve Records		[52]
		View with a Room	Julian Lage	Blue Note Records		[53]
	23	Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam	The Comet Is Coming	Impulse Records		[54]
		In These Times	Makaya McCraven	International Anthem, Nonesuch, XL		[55]
		Weather Alive	Beth Orton	Partisan Records		[56]
		Secrets of Inanna	Connie Han	Mack Avenue Records	Quintet with Bill Wysaske (drums), John Patitucci (bass, acoustic), Rich Perry (tenor sax), Katisse Buckingham (flute)	[57]
		Sparkle Beings	Angelica Sanchez Trio	Sunnyside Records		[58]
	30	Empire Central	Snarky Puppy	GroundUP Music		[59]
October	21	Nikki by Starlight	Nikki Yanofsky	MNRK Music Group		[60]
November	4	Voices of Bishara	Tom Skinner	Nonesuch International Anthem Brownswood
		Where I'm Meant to Be	Ezra Collective	Partisan Records		[61]
	11	KALAK	Sarathy Korwar	The Leaf Label	Produced by Photay
	18	Trios: Sacred Thread	Charles Lloyd	Blue Note Records		[62]

All critically reviewed albums ranked

Metacritic

Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	Binker And Moses	Feeding The Machine	89	8 reviews	[63]
2	Joshua Redman, Christian McBride, Brian Blade	LongGone	88	4 reviews	[64]
3	Makaya McCraven	In These Times	87	11 reviews	[65]
4	Sarathy Korwar	KALAK	87	6 reviews	[66]
5	Immanuel Wilkins	The 7th Hand	87	4 reviews	[67]
6	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Ghost Song	87	4 reviews	[68]
7	Mary Halvorson	Belladonna	86	6 reviews	[69]
8	Jeff Parker	Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy	85	5 reviews	[70]
9	Brian Jackson	This Is Brian Jackson	85	4 reviews	[71]
10	The Revelators	Revelators Sound System	85	5 reviews	[72]
11	Ezra Collective	Where I'm Meant to Be	84	8 reviews	[73]
12	Flora Purim	If You Will	84	5 reviews	[74]
13	Charles Lloyd	Trios: Ocean	84	4 reviews	[75]
14	Keith Jarrett	Bordeaux Concert	84	4 reviews	[76]
15	Melt Yourself Down	Pray for Me I Don't Fit In	83	5 reviews	[77]
16	The Comet Is Coming	Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam	82	8 reviews	[78]
17	Laufey	Everything I Know About Love	82	4 reviews	[79]
18	Mary Halvorson	Amaryllis	82	6 reviews	[80]
19	Oren Ambarchi	Shebang	82	6 reviews	[81]
20	DOMi & JD BECK	NOT TiGHT	82	5 reviews	[82]
21	Bruce Hornsby	'Flicted	82	5 reviews	[83]
22	The Bad Plus	The Bad Plus	82	4 reviews	[84]
23	Alabaster DePlume	Gold	81	6 reviews	[85]
24	Anteloper	Pink Dolphins	81	6 reviews	[86]
25	Tyshawn Sorey	Mesmerism	81	4 reviews	[87]
26	Sun Ra Arkestra	Living Sky	80	7 reviews	[88]
27	Charles Lloyd	Trios: Sacred Thread	80	4 reviews	[89]
28	Ben Marc	Glass Effect	79	5 reviews	[90]
29	Bill Frisell	Four	79	4 reviews	[91]

AnyDecentMusic

Number	Artist	Album	Average score	Number of reviews	Reference
1	Binker And Moses	Feeding The Machine	8.3	6 reviews	[92]
2	Sarathy Korwar	KALAK	8.0	5 reviews	[93]
3	Makaya McCraven	In These Times	7.9	7 reviews	[94]
4	Ezra Collective	Where I'm Meant to Be	7.8	9 reviews	[95]
5	Melt Yourself Down	Pray For Me I Don't Fit In	7.8	5 reviews	[96]
6	The Comet Is Coming	Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam	7.5	10 reviews	[97]
7	Kokoroko	Could We Be More	7.1	8 reviews	[98]

Deaths

January

Fred Van Hove, who died January 13

• January 13 – Fred Van Hove, 84, Belgian jazz musician^[99]

February

• February 21 – Ernie Andrews, Jazz and R&B singer^[100]

March

• March 8 - Ron Miles, 58, jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer^[101]

April

May

June

• June 3 – Grachan Moncur III, 85, American jazz musician^[102]
• June 14 – Meghan Stabile, 39, American jazz producer/marketer^[103]

July

• July 9 – Barbara Thompson, 77, British jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer^[104]
• July 19 – Michael Henderson, 71, American jazz fusion bassist^[105]
• July 25 – Milenko Stefanović, 92, Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist^[106]

August

• August 9 – Della Griffin, 100, American jazz vocalist and drummer^{[citation needed]}
• August 10 – Abdul Wadud, 75, American jazz cellist^[107]
• August 18 – Rolf Kühn, 92, German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist^[108]
• August 22 – Fredy Studer, 74, Swiss percussionist^[109]
• August 22 – Jaimie Branch, 39, American jazz trumpeter^[110]
• August 25 - Joey DeFrancesco, 51, Jazz Organist and Multi Instrumentalist ^[111]

Sebtember

• September 12 - Ramsey Lewis, 87, Jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality^{[112][113][114][115]}
• September 24 - Pharoah Sanders, 81, Tenor Saxophonist^[116]

October

• October 30 - Anthony Ortega, 94, clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist.^[117][118]

November

• November 16 - Mick Goodrick, 77, jazz guitarist and music teacher ^[119]

See also

• Jazz portal

• Lists of 2022 albums
• List of jazz festivals
• List of years in jazz
• 2022 in music