Favorite new jazz releases of 2022
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Dave Wilson Quartet, Stretching Supreme (self-released)
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Lynne Arriale, The Lights Are Always On (Challenge)
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Wayne Shorter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Leo Genovese, esparanza spalding, Live st the Detroit Jazz Festival (Candid)
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Jo Harrop, The Heart Wants (Lateralize)
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Javon Jackson, The Gospel According to Nikki Giovanni (Solid Jackson)
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Samara Joy, Linger Awhile (Verve)
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Steven Feifke and Bijon Watson, … present Generation Gap Jazz Orchestra (Cellar)
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Sam Kirmayer, In This Moment (Cellar Music)
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Ricky Ford, Paul's Scene (Whaling City)
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Chris Cortez, Live at Blue Bamboo (Blue Bamboo)
Favorite 2022 vocal recordings:
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Jo Harrop, The Heart Wants (Lateralize)
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Samara Joy, Linger Awhile (Verve)
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Tierney Sutton, Paris Sessions 2 (BFM Jazz)
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Mark Winkler, Late Bloomin' Jazzman (Café Pacific)
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Carol Sloane, Live at Birdland (Club 44)
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San Gabriel 7 featuring Sinne Eeg, Under the Stars (JRL-SGS)
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Catherine Russell, Send For Me (Dot Time)
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Kim Nalley Band, I Want a Little Boy (self-released)
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Aymée Nuviola, Live in Marciac (5Passion)
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Xiomara Torres, La Voz Del Mar (Patois)
Favorite historical/reissues of 2022 (includes any recordings made over 10 years ago, whether newly released or reissued):
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Bill Evans, Morning Glory (Resonance)
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Ahmad Jamal, Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse1965-1966 (Jazz Detective)
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Dave Brubeck Trio, Live From Vienna 1967 (Derry Music)
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Charles Mingus, Mingus: The Los Album From Ronnie Scott's (Resonance)
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Ella Fitzgerald, Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (Verve)
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Elvin Jones, Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub(Blue Note)
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Chet Baker Trio, Live in Paris (Elemental)
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Clark Terry, Big Bad Band, Live in Holland 1979 (Storyville)
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Frank Kimbrough, 2003-2006 (Palmetto)
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Peck Allmond Quartet, Live at Yoshi's 1994 (Eastlawn)
Favorite 2022 debut recording:
Timothy Norton, Visions of Phaedrus(Truth Revolution Recording Collective)
Favorite 2022 Latin/Brazilian jazz recordings:
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Oscar Hernández & Alma Libre, Visión (Ovation)
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Miguel Zenón, Música de las Américas (Miel)
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Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Aymée Nuviola, Live in Marciac (5Passion)
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Xiomara Torres, La Voz Del Mar (Patois)
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Juan Carlos Quintero, Table for Five (Moondo)
Favorite new compositions from CDs released in 2022, listed alphabetically:
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Lynne Arriale, ”Sounds Like America” from The Lights Are Always On (Challenge)
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Bob Bowman, “Yae San”” from Josh Nelson/Bob Bowman Collective, Tomorrow is Not Promised (Steel Bird)
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Yelena Eckemoff, “Like Rain Upon the Mown Grass” from I Am a Stranger in This World (L&H)
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Yosef Gutman and Gilad Ronen, “Joshua” from Yosef Gutman, Upside Down Mountain (independent)
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Jo Harrop, Natalie Williams, James McCredie, Hannah Vasanth, “Weather the Storm” from Jo Harrop, The Heart Wants (Lateralize)
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Timothy Norton, “King's Inn” from Visions of Phaedrus (Truth Revolution Recording Collective)
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Rick Roe, “Agent 88” from Roe Bickley Kramer, Lucid Dream (RNR Unknown)
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Jamieson Trotter and Mark Winkler, “Old Enough” from Mark Winkler, Late Bloomin' Jazzman (Café Pacific)
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Walt Weiskopf, “Other Jewels” from Walt Weiskopf European Quartet, Diamonds and Other Jewels (AMM)
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Miguel Zenón, “Imperios” from Música de las Américas (Miel)