GEOFFREY HIMES’S 25 BEST JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2022:

1. Immanuel Wilkins: The 7^th Hand (Blue Note)
2. Charles Lloyd: Chapel Trio (Blue Note)
3. Cecile McLorin Salvant: Ghost Song (Nonesuch)
4. Bill Frisell: Four (Blue Note)
5. The Dave Douglas Quintet: Songs of Ascent (Greenleaf)
6. The Todd Marcus Jazz Orchestra: In the Valley (Stricker Street)
7. Grdina/Helias/Shipp: Pathways (Attaboygirl)
8. Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Orchestra: Community Music  (RPF)
9. Erik Friedlander: The Queen's Firefly (Skiptone)
10. Frank Catalano: Live at Birdland (Ropeadope)
11. Miguel Zenon: Musica de las Americas (Miel)
12. Julian Lage: View with a Room (Blue Note)
13. Joel Ross: The Parable of the Poet (Blue Note)
14. John Yao’s Triceratops Off-Kilter (See Tao)
15. Dierk Peters: Spring (Sunnyside)
16. Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding: Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
17. J.D. Allen: Americana, Vol. 2 (Savant)
18. Bad Plus: The Bad Plus (Edition)
19. Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano: Once Around the Toom: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM)
20. Matt Carmichael: Marrow (Edition)
21. Cyrus Chestnut: My Father's Hands (HighNote)
22. Andrew Cyrille: Blues for Cecil (ECM)
23. Ricky Ford: The Wailing Ricky Ford (Whaling City)
24. Hilario Duran & David Virelles: Front Street Duets (Alm)
25. Eugenie Jones: Players (Openmic)

GEOFFREY HIMES’S 25 BEST NON-JAZZ ALBUMS OF 2022:

• 1.      The Drive-By Truckers: Welcome to Club XIII (ATO)
• 2.      Beyonce: Renaissance (Columbia)
• 3.      The Delines: The Sea Drift (El Cortez)
• 4.      Craig Finn: A Legacy of Rentals (Partisan)
• 5.      Taylor Swift: Midnights (Republic)
• 6.      Kendrick Lamar: Mr. Morale & the Big-Steppers (Aftermath/Interscope)
• 7.      Charley Crockett: The Man from Waco (Son of Davy)
• 8.      The Dropkick Murphys: This Machine Still Kills Fascists (Dummy Luck)
• 9.      Bonny Light Horseman: Rolling Golden Holy (37d03d)
• 10.  Miranda Lambert: Palomino (RCA)
• 11.  Willi Carlisle: Peculiar, Missouri (Free Dirt)
• 12.  Mary J. Blige: Good Morning, Gorgeous (300 Entertainment)
• 13.  Lizzo: Special (Atlantic)
• 14.  Maggie Rogers: Surrender (Debay/Capitol)
• 15.  The Tedeschi-Trucks Band: I Am the Moon (Fantasy)
• 16.  Bad Bunny: Un Verano sin Ti (Rimas)
• 17.  Lee Fields: Sentimental Foot (Daptone)
• 18.  Trombone Shorty: Lifted (Blue Note)
• 19.  The North Mississippi Allstars: Set Sail (New West)
• 20.  Adeem the Artist: White Trash Revelry (Four Quarters/Thirty Tigers)
• 21.  Susanna Malkki and the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Steve Reich: Music for Ensemble and Orchestra (Nonesuch)
• 22.  Charlie Treat: Into the Wild Mystic Mountain (Treat)
• 23.  Courtney Marie Andrews: Loose Future (Fat Possum)
• 24.  Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness Hearts Aglow (Sub Pop)
• 25.  Sunny Sweeney: Married Alone (Aunt Daddy/Thirty Tigers)