# 2022 in jazz

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

## Events
### 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
** Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette & Gonzalo Rubalcaba win Best Jazz Instrumental Album for their 2021 album Skyline
** Christian McBride Big Band wins Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for their 2021 album For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver
** Eliane Elias, Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés win Best Latin Jazz Album for their 2021 album Mirror Mirror
** Arooj Aftab was nominated for Best New Artist
* April 29 - After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19, JazzFest reopens
* 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"
* April 30 - International Jazz Day occurs with a concert at the United Nations directed by Herbie Hancock

### 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.

### 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

### July

* July 26 - Geri Allen is inducted into the DownBeat hall of fame
* July 29 - July 31 - The 2022 Blue Note Jazz Festival occurs hosted by Dave Chappelle.

### August

* Jon Batiste wins top Jazz Artist in the 70th Annual DownBeat critics poll, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels wins top Jazz group

### September

* The 65th Monterey Jazz Festival Occurs

### October

* October 1 to November 12 - Snarky Puppy set to go on tour in Europe to support their September 30 Album Empire Central
* October 6 to November 12 - French Kiwi Juice set to go on a North American tour
* October 10 - Domi and JD Beck start their first ever live tour in their hometown of Dallas, Texas and quickly sell out
* 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
* October 28 - Black And Blues, a documentary about the life of Louis Armstrong, releases

### 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

### December

* December 21 - NPR Music ranks Domi and JD Beck's NOT TiGHT in the top 10 albums of 2022 at #10
* 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
* 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.

## Albums

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

## All critically reviewed albums ranked
### Metacritic

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

### AnyDecentMusic

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

## Deaths
### January

* January 13 – Fred Van Hove, 84, Belgian jazz musician

### February

* February 21 – Ernie Andrews, Jazz and R&B singer

### March

* March 8 - Ron Miles, 58, jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer

### June

* June 3 – Grachan Moncur III, 85, American jazz musician
* June 14 – Meghan Stabile, 39, American jazz producer/marketer

### July

* July 9 – Barbara Thompson, 77, British jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer
* July 19 – Michael Henderson, 71, American jazz fusion bassist
* July 25 – Milenko Stefanović, 92, Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist

### August

* August 9 – Della Griffin, 100, American jazz vocalist and drummer
* August 10 – Abdul Wadud, 75, American jazz cellist
* August 18 – Rolf Kühn, 92, German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist
* August 22 – Fredy Studer, 74, Swiss percussionist
* August 22 – Jaimie Branch, 39, American jazz trumpeter
* August 25 - Joey DeFrancesco, 51, Jazz Organist and Multi Instrumentalist

### Sebtember

* September 12 - Ramsey Lewis, 87, Jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality
* September 24 - Pharoah Sanders, 81, Tenor Saxophonist

### October

* October 30 - Anthony Ortega, 94, clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist.

### November

* November 16 - Mick Goodrick, 77, jazz guitarist and music teacher