The 18th Annual
Francis Davis Jazz Critics Poll:
2023
Albums List: New Releases
This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have
received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:
- Idris Ackamoor & the Pyramids, Afro Futuristic Dreams (Strut)
- Jason Adasiewicz, Roy's World (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Jason Adasiewicz, Roscoe Village: The Music of Roscoe Mitchell (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Antonio Adolfo, Bossa 65: Celebrating Carlos Lyra and Roberto Menescal (AAM Music)
- Arooj Aftab-Vijay Iyer-Shahzad Ismaily, Love in Exile (Verve)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Owl Song (Nonesuch)
- Ambrose Akinmusire, Beauty Is Enough (Origami Harvest)
- Susan Alcorn & Septeto Del Sur, Canto (Relative Pitch)
- Ralph Alessi Quartet, It's Always Now (ECM)
- Constantine Alexander, Firetet (self-released)
- Eric Alexander, A New Beginning: Alto Saxophone With Strings (HighNote)
- Lina Allemano Four, Pipe Dream (Lumo)
- Lina Allemano, Canons (Lumo)
- JD Allen, This (Savant)
- João Almeida-Rodrigo Pinheiro-Vasco Furtado, Linae (Phonogram Unit)
- Joe Alterman, Big Mo & Little Joe: Joe Alterman Plays Les McCann (Joe Alberman Music)
- Rodrigo Amado/The Bridge, Beyond the Margins (Trost)
- Farida Amadou-Jonas Cambien-Dave Rempis, On the Blink (Aerophonic)
- Zoh Amba-Chris Corsano-Bill Orcutt, The Flower School (Palilalia)
- Zoh Amba, O Life, O Light Vol. 1 (577 '22)
- Roxana Amed & Frank Carlberg, Los Trabajos Y Las Noches (Sony Music Latin)
- Ray Anderson, Marching On (Double Moon '22)
- André 3000, New Blue Sun (Epic)
- Darcy James Argue's Secret Society, Dynamic Maximum Tension (Nonesuch)
- Steve Argüelles-Francesco Bigoni-Benoît Delbecq-Francesco Diodati, Weave4 (Parco della Musica)
- JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society, Inception (Black Earth Music)
- Artemis, In Real Time (Blue Note)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago, The Sixth Decade From Paris to Paris: Live at Sons D'Hiver (RogueArt)
- Atlantic Road Trip, One (Calligram)
- Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Les Jardins Mystiques Vol. 1 (Brainfeeder)
- Balimaya Project, When the Dust Settles (New Soil)
- David Bandrowski & the Rhumba Defense, French Onion Superman (self-released '22)
- Maria Baptist Quintet, Essays on Jazz (self-released)
- Kenny Barron, The Source (Artwork)
- Trina Basu & Arun Ramamurthy, Nakshatra (Spinster)
- Michael Bates, Metamorphoses: Variations on Lutosławski (Anaklasis)
- Doug Beavers, Luna (Circle 9)
- Benny Benack III, Third Time's the Charm (La Reserve/Bandstand Presents)
- Lakecia Benjamin, Phoenix (Whirlwind)
- Kris Berg, Perspective (Summit)
- Jerry Bergonzi, Extra Extra (Savant)
- Will Bernard & Beth Custer, Sky (Dreck to Disk)
- Tim Berne-Hank Roberts-Aurora Nealand, Oceans And (Intakt)
- Adam Birnbaum, Preludes (Chelsea Music Festival)
- Michael Bisio & Timothy Hill, Inside Voice/Outside Voice (Origin)
- Jim Black & the Schrimps, Ain't No Saint (Intakt)
- Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, Kings Highway (Stoner Hill)
- Johnathan Blake, Passage (Blue Note)
- Michael Blake, Dance of the Mystic Bliss (P&M)
- Ron Blake, Mistaken Identity (7ten33 Productions)
- BlankFor.Ms-Jason Moran-Marcus Gilmore, Refract (Red Hook)
- Blue Cranes, My Only Secret (Jealous Butcher/Beacon Sound)
- Blue Lake, Sun Arcs (Tonal Union)
- John Blum, Nine Rivers (ESP-Disk)
- John Blum-David Murray-Chad Taylor, The Recursive Tree (Relative Pitch)
- Benjamin Boone, Caught in the Rhythm (Origin)
- Antonio Borghini, Banquet of Consequences (We Insist!)
- Jaimie Branch, Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((World War)) (International Anthem)
- Anthony Branker & Imagine, What Place Can Be for Us? A Suite in Ten Movements (Origin)
- The Brass Monkeys, Lullabite (33 Jazz)
- Jamie Breiwick, Awake Volume 2: The Music of Don Cherry (Shifting Paradigm)
- Patrick Brennan Sonic Openings, Tilting Curvaceous (Clean Feed)
- Brew [Miya Masaoka-Reggie Workman-Gerry Hemingway], Heat/Between Reflections (1998/2019, Clean Feed)
- Jakob Bro & Joe Lovano, Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (ECM '22)
- Vilhelm Bromander, In This Forever Unfolding Moment (Thanatos)
- Peter Brötzmann-Majid Bekkas-Hamid Drake, Catching Ghosts (ACT)
- Peter Brötzmann-Heather Leigh-Fred Lonberg-Holm, Naked Nudes [Brötz 80th at ADA 2021] (Trost)
- Rob Brown, Oblongata (RogueArt)
- Peter Bruun-Søren Kjærgaard-Josas Westergaard, Thēsaurós (ILK Music)
- Freddie Bryant, Upper West Side Love Story: A Song Cycle (Tiger Turn)
- Tony Buck, Environmental Studies (Room40)
- Jane Bunnett and Maqueque, Playing With Fire (True North)
- Dave Burrell, Harlem Rhapsody (Parco Della Musica)
- Buselli-Wallarab Jazz Orchestra, The Gennett Suite (Patois)
- John Butcher, The Very Fabric (Hitorri)
- John Butcher, The Art of Noticing (Matchless)
- Butcher Brown, Solar Music (Concord Jazz)
- Jim Campilongo & Steve Cardenas, New Year (Sunnyside)
- Gunhild Carling, Good Evening Cats (Jazz Art '22)
- Terri Lyne Carrington, New Standards Vol. 1 (Candid '22)
- Edmar Castañeda World Ensemble, Viento Sur (self-released)
- Sara Caswell, The Way to You (Anzic)
- Joe Chambers, Dance Kobina (Blue Note)
- Ed Cherry, Are We There Yet? (Cellar)
- Chief Adjuah, Bark Out Thunder Roar Out Lightning (Ropeadope)
- Billy Childs, The Winds of Change (Mack Avenue)
- Cigar Box Serenaders, Spasm (self-released)
- Mike Clark, Kosen Rufu (Wide Hive)
- Scott Clark, Dawn & Dusk (Out of Your Head)
- Anat Cohen, Quartetinho (Anzic '22)
- Emmet Cohen, Master Legacy Series Volume 5: Featuring Houston Person (Bandstand Presents)
- George Coleman, Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar)
- Marc Copland Quartet, Someday (InnerVoice Jazz '22)
- The Chick Corea Elektrik Band, The Future Is Now (Candid)
- Mário Costa-Cuong Vu-Benoît Delbecq-Bruno Chevillon, Chromosome (Clean Feed)
- Sylvie Courvoisier & Cory Smythe, The Rite of Spring/Spectre D'Un Songe (Pyroclastic)
- Sylvie Courvoisier, Chimaera (Intakt)
- Andrew Cyrille, Music Delivery/Percussion (Intakt)
- Claire Daly With George Garzone, VuVu for Frances (Daly Bread)
- Harold Danko, Trillium (SteepleChase)
- Caroline Davis' Alula, Captivity (Ropeadope)
- Jesse Davis, Live at Smalls Jazz Club (Cellar)
- Kris Davis, Diatom Ribbons Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic)
- Angel Bat Dawid, Requiem for Jazz (International Anthem)
- Yussef Dayes, Black Classical Music (Brownswood/Nonesuch)
- Michael Dease, Swing Low (Posi-Tone)
- Christopher Dell-Christian Lillinger-Jonas Westergaard, Beats II (Plaist)
- Deon, Soft Steel (Trytone)
- Alabaster DePlume, Come With Fierce Grace (International Anthem)
- Aaron Diehl & the Knights, Zodiac Suite (Mack Avenue)
- Marike van Dijk Nonet, Stranded (Brooklyn Jazz Underground/ZenneZ)
- John Dikeman-Pat Thomas-John Edwards-Steve Noble, Volume 2 (577)
- Christian Dillingham, Cascades (Greenleaf Music)
- Mike Dillon & Punkadelick, Inflorescence (Royal Potato Family)
- Marcelo Dos Reis & Luis Vicente, (Un)prepared Pieces for Guitar and Trumpet (Cipsela)
- Mark Dresser, Times of Change (Pyroclastic)
- Marc Ducret, Palm Sweat: Marc Ducret Plays the Music of Tim Berne (Screwgun/Out of Your Head)
- Marc Ducret, Ici (Ayler)
- Paul Dunmall, Bright Light a Joyous Celebration (Discus Music)
- Paul Dunmall-Paul Rodgers-Tony Orrell, That's My Life (577)
- Paul Dunmall & Olie Brice, The Laughing Stone (Confront)
- Hilario Durán and His Latin Jazz Big Band, Cry Me a River (Alma)
- Jeremy Dutton, Anyone Is Better Than Here (self-released)
- Mia Dyberg Trio, Timestretch (Clean Feed)
- EABS Meets Jaubi, In Search of a Better Tomorrow (Astigmatic)
- Silke Eberhard & Céline Voccia, Wild Knots (Relative Pitch)
- Yelena Eckemoff, Lonely Man and His Fish (L&H Production)
- Rachel Eckroth, One (Blackbird Sessions)
- Nataniel Edelman Trio, Un Ruido De Agua (Clean Feed)
- Ekiti Sound, Drum Money (Crammed Discs)
- Kurt Elling & Charlie Hunter, SuperBlue: The Iridescent Spree (Edition)
- Kahil El'Zabar's Ethnic Heritage Ensemble, Spirit Gatherer: Tribute to Don Cherry (Spiritmuse)
- Ember, August in March (Imani)
- Andy Emler MegaOctet, No Rush! (La Buissonne)
- The End, Why Do You Mourn (Trost)
- Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos, Madd for Tadd: "Central Avenue Swing" & "Our Delight" (Tighten Up)
- Enji, Ulaan (Squama)
- Espen Eriksen Trio & Andy Sheppard, As Good as It Gets (Rune Grammofon)
- Wayne Escoffery, Like Minds (Smoke Sessions)
- Orrin Evans, The Red Door (Smoke Sessions)
- Peter Evans Being & Becoming, Ars Memoria (More Is More)
- Joe Farnsworth, In What Direction Are You Headed? (Smoke Sessions)
- Michael Feinberg, Blues Variant (Criss Cross)
- Alan Ferber Nonet, Up High, Down Low (Sunnyside)
- Sammy Figueroa, Something for a Memory (Busco Tu Recuerdo) (Ashé)
- Nick Finzer, Dreams Visions Illusions (Outside In Music)
- Fire! Orchestra, Echoes (Rune Grammofon)
- Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, As Things Do (Intakt)
- Anat Fort Trio, The Berlin Sessions (Sunnyside)
- Sullivan Fortner, Solo Game (Artwork)
- Rebecca Coupe Franks, Planets (RCF)
- George Freeman, The Good Life (HighNote)
- Jürg Frey (Quatuor Bozzini/Konus Quartett), Continuité, Fragilité, Résonance (Elsewhere)
- Eric Friedlander, She Sees (Skipstone)
- Bill Frisell, Four (Blue Note '22)
- Fred Frith & Susana Santos Silva, Laying Demons to Rest (RogueArt)
- Frog & Henry, Italy & England: 2020-2022 (self-released '22)
- Satoko Fujii & Otomo Yoshihide, Perpetual Motion (Ayler)
- Satoko Fujii, Torrent: Piano Solo (Libra)
- Satoko Fujii, Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams (Libra '22)
- Tomas Fujiwara, Pith (Out of Your Head)
- Drazek Fuscaldo, June 22 (Feeding Tube/Astral Spirits)
- Ray Gallon Trio, Grand Company (Cellar)
- Asher Gamedze, Turbulence and Pulse (International Anthem/Mushroom Hour)
- Ganavya & Munir Hossn, Sister, Idea (Ropeadope)
- Miha Gantar, Amsterdam (Clean Feed)
- Noah Garabedian, Consider the Stars Beneath Us (Outside In Music)
- The Garden of Joy, Bouncin' Around (self-released)
- Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets, Pan Africa (Impact Jazz)
- Laszlo Gardony, Close Connection (Sunnyside '22)
- Sally Gates-Trevor Dunn-Greg Fox, Deliriant Modifier (Riverworm)
- Leo Genovese-Demian Cabaud-Marcos Cavaleiro, Estrellero (Sunnyside)
- Kate Gentile & International Contemporary Ensemble, Biomei.i (Obliquity)
- Kate Gentile, Find Letter X (Pi)
- George, Letters to George (Out of Your Head)
- Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet, Songs and Symphoniques: The Music of Moondog (Cantaloupe)
- Tania Giannouli, Solo (Rattle)
- Terry Gibbs Legacy Band, The Terry Gibbs Songbook (Whaling City Sound)
- Rhiannon Giddens, You're the One (Nonesuch)
- Lafayette Gilchrist, Undaunted (Morphius)
- Marshall Gilkes, Cyclic Journey (Alternate Side '22)
- Anne Gillis + XT, Our/s Bouture(s) (Art Into Life)
- Frode Gjerstad & Matthew Shipp, We Speak (Relative Pitch)
- Glass Triangle, Blue and Sun-Lights (Relative Pitch)
- Larry Goldings-Kaveh Rastegar-Abe Rounds, Better (Ropeadope)
- Ricardo Dias Gomes, Muito Sol (Hive Mind)
- Jocelyn Gould, Sonic Bouquet (Jocelyn Gould Music)
- Devin Gray, Most Definitely (Rataplan)
- Benny Green, Solo (Sunnyside)
- Phil Grenadier, Regeneration (Butternotes)
- Mats Gustafsson & Ensemble E, EE Opus One (Trost)
- Barry Guy & Friends, Krakow 2018 (Not Two '22)
- Noah Haidu, Standards (Sunnyside)
- Rich Halley Quartet, Fire Within (Pine Eagle)
- Matthew Halsall, An Ever Changing View (Gondwana)
- Scott Hamilton Quartet, At Pizza Express Live (PX)
- Fareed Haque, Casseus! The Music of Frantz Casseus Re-Imagined (Wardude Music)
- Jan Harbeck Quartet, Balanced (Stunt '22)
- Elisabeth Harnik & Zlatko Kaučič, One Foot in the Air (Catalytic Sound)
- Lafayette Harris, Jr., Swingin' Up in Harlem (Savant)
- Big Chief Donald Harrison Jr., Congo Square Suite (Truth Revolution)
- Joel Harrison & Anthony Pirog, The Great Mirage (ASG)
- Alexander Hawkins Trio, Carnival Celestial (Intakt)
- Louis Hayes, Exactly Right! (Savant)
- Kevin Hays-Ben Street-Billy Hart, Bridges (Smoke Sessions)
- Miho Hazama, M_unit: Beyond Orbits (Edition)
- John Hébert, Sounds of Love (Sunnyside '22)
- Gerry Hemingway, Afterlife (Auricle '22)
- Magos Herrera, Aire (Sunnyside)
- Fred Hersch & Esperanza Spalding, Alive at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
- Nitai Hershkovits, Call on the Old Wise (ECM)
- Daniel Hersog Jazz Orchestra, Open Spaces: Folk Songs Reimagined (Cellar)
- Scott Hesse Trio, Intention (Calligram)
- Eric Hofbauer/The Five Agents, Waking Up! (Creative Nation Music)
- William Hooker, Flesh and Bones (Org Music)
- Ron Horton, A Prayer for Andrew (Newvelle)
- François Houle & Benoît Delbecq, Poise (Afterday)
- François Houle Genera Sextet, In Memoriam (Clean Feed)
- Jason Kao Hwang Critical Response, Book of Stories (True Sound)
- Tony Hymas & Catherine Delaunay, No Borders (Nato)
- Nikki Iles & the NDR Bigband, Face to Face (Edition)
- Illegal Crowns, Unclosing (Out of Your Heads)
- Kazuo Imai Quartet, Has the Future Become the Past (Jinya Disc '22)
- Irreversible Entanglements, Protect Your Light (Impulse!)
- Ayumi Ishito, Ayumi Ishito & the Spacemen, Vol. 2 (577)
- Janiece Jaffe & Monika Herzig, Both Sides of Joni (Acme)
- Javier Red's Imagery Converter, Life & Umbrella (Desafio Candente)
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Jungle: Wynton Marsalis: Symphony No. 4 (Blue Engine)
- Val Jeanty-Candice Hoyes-Mimi Jones, Nite Bjuti (Whirlwind)
- Per Texas Johansson, Orkester Omnitonal (Moserobie)
- Russ Johnson Quartet, Reveal (Calligram)
- Darren Johnston, Life in Time (Origin '22)
- Darius Jones, Fluxkit Vancouver (Its Suite but Sacred) (We Jazz)
- Samara Joy, Linger Awhile (Verve '22)
- Kaisa's Machine, Taking Shape (Greenleaf Music)
- Bobby Kapp, Synergy: Bobby Kapp Plays the Music of Richard Sussman (Tweed Boulevard)
- Charlotte Keefe/Right Here, Right Now Quartet, Alive! in the Studio (Discus Music)
- Arthur Kell Speculation Quartet, Live at Lunàtico (Origin)
- Jon-Erik Kellso and the EarRegulars, Live at the Ear Inn (Arbors)
- Snorre Kirk, Top Dog (Stunt)
- Guillermo Klein Quinteto, Telmo's Tune (Sunnyside)
- Kirk Knuffke & Joe McPhee Quartet + 1, Keep the Dream Up (Fundacja Sluchaj)
- Max Koch, Ten Bulls (Jazzwerkstatt)
- Koma Saxo, Post Koma (We Jazz)
- Benjamin Koppel-Scott Colley-Brian Blade, Perspective (Cowbell Music)
- Benjamin Koppel, White Buses: Passage to Freedom (Cowbell Music)
- Joe La Barbera Quintet, World Travelers (Sam First)
- Julian Lage, The Layers (Blue Note)
- Ingrid Laubrock, Monochromes (Intakt)
- Ingrid Laubrock, The Last Quiet Place (Pyroclastic)
- Laufey, Bewitched (AWAL)
- Bill Laurance & Michael League, Where You Wish You Were (ACT)
- Bettye LaVette, LaVette! (Jay-Vee)
- Jo Lawry, Acrobats (Whirlwind)
- Daunik Lazro-Benjamin Duboc-Mathieu Bec, Standards Combustion (Dark Tree)
- Marthe Lea Band, Herlighetens Vei (Motvind)
- Joëlle Léandre, Zurich Concert (Intakt)
- Joëlle Léandre-Craig Taborn-Mat Maneri, hEARoes (RogueArt)
- Leap Day Trio, Live at the Cafe Bohemia (Giant Step Arts)
- Jeff Lederer With Mary LaRose, Schoenberg on the Beach (Little (i) Music)
- Mike LeDonne-Eric Alexander-Jeremy Pelt-Vincent Herring-Kenny Washington-Peter Washington, The Heavy Hitters (Cellar)
- The Peggy Lee Band, A Giving Way (Songlines)
- Steve Lehman & Orchestre National de Jazz, Ex Machina (Pi)
- Urs Leimgruber, Air (Creative Works)
- Janel Leppin, The Brink (Shiny Boy Press)
- Gregory Lewis, Organ Monk Going Home (Sunnyside)
- James Brandon Lewis Red Lily Quintet, For Mahalia, With Love (Tao Forms)
- James Brandon Lewis Trio, Eye of I (Anti-)
- Dave Liebman, Live at Smalls (Cellar)
- Helge Lien Trio & Tore Brunborg, Funeral Dance (Ozella Music)
- Light.Box + Emil Karlsen, The Undanced Dance (Bead)
- Ivan Lins, My Heart Speaks (Resonance)
- Location Location Location [Michael Formanek/Anthony Pirog/Mike Pride], Damaged Goods (Cuneiform)
- Joe Locke, Makram (Circle 9)
- Mark Lomax Trio, Tapestry (CFG Multimedia)
- Dave Lombardo, Rites of Percussion (Ipecac)
- London Brew, London Brew (Concord)
- Brandon Lopez, Vilevilevilevilevilevilevilevile (Tao Forms)
- Michelle Lordi, Two Moons (Imani)
- Russ Lossing, Alternate Side Parking Music (Aqua Piazza)
- Antti Lötjönen Quintet East, Circus/Citadel (We Jazz)
- Joe Lovano Trio Tapestry, Our Daily Bread (ECM)
- Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, In the Dark (ESP-Disk)
- Allen Lowe and the Constant Sorrow Orchestra, America: The Rough Cut (ESP-Disk)
- Bill Lowe and the Signifyin' Natives Ensemble, Sweet Cane: Suites and Other Pedagogical Prompts (Mandorla Music)
- Chien Chien Lu, Built in System: Live in New York (Giant Step Arts)
- Lage Lund, Most Peculiar (Criss Cross)
- Mama Terra, The Summoned (Caffala)
- Mat Maneri Quartet, Ash (Sunnyside)
- Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra, Uptown on Mardi Gras Day (Troubadour Jass)
- Simon Mary & Krystal Mundi, Modal Morning (Label Ouest)
- Sean Mason, The Southern Suite (Blue Engine)
- Mata Atlantica, Retiro E Ritmo (7D Media '22)
- Shawn Maxwell, Story at Eleven (self-released)
- Bill Mays, Autumn Serenade (Sunnyside)
- Rob Mazurek Exploding Star Orchestra, Lightning Dreamers (International Anthem)
- Christian McBride's New Jawn, Prime (Mack Avenue)
- Brian McCarthy Nonet, After|Life (Truth Revolution)
- Donny McCaslin, I Want More (Edition)
- Benet McLean, Green Park (Sea Mammal)
- Joe McPhee & Tomeka Reid, Let Our Rejoicing Rise (Corbett vs. Dempsey '22)
- Joe McPhee-Mette Rasmussen-Dennis Tyfus, Oblique Strategies (Black Truffle)
- Brad Mehldau, Your Mother Should Know: Brad Mehldau Plays the Beatles (Nonesuch)
- Myra Melford's Fire and Water Quintet, Hear the Light Singing (RogueArt)
- Vince Mendoza & Metropole Orkest, Olympians (Modern)
- Mendoza Hoff Revels, Echolocation (AUM Fidelity)
- Mercury [Nicolas Caloia & Lori Freedman], Skin (Clean Feed)
- Lyia Meta, Always You (self-released)
- Pat Metheny, Dream Box (Modern)
- Colette Michaan, Earth Rebirth (Creatrix Music)
- Palle Mikkelborg-Jakob Bro-Marilyn Mazur, Strands (ECM)
- Allison Miller, Rivers in Our Veins (Royal Potato Family)
- Nick Millevoi, Digital Reaction (Ropeadope)
- Matt Mitchell, Oblong Aplomb (Out of Your Head)
- Roscoe Mitchell Orchestra and Space Trio, At the Fault Zone Festival (Wide Hive)
- Tyler Mitchell Octet, Sun Ra's Journey (Cellar)
- Billy Mohler, Ultraviolet (Contagious Music)
- Lesley Mok, The Living Collection (American Dreams)
- Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Maternity Beat (Rune Grammofon '22)
- Hedvig Mollestad Weejuns, Weejuns (Rune Grammofon)
- Nils Petter Molvær, Certainty of Tides (Modern)
- Aja Monet, When the Poems Do What They Do (Drink Sum Wtr)
- Jason Moran, From the Dancehall to the Battlefield (Yes)
- Matt Moran-Sarah Elizabeth Charles-Curtis Hasselbring, Audible Spirits (Diskonife)
- Séverine Morfin, Mad Maple (Garden)
- Paul Mottram, Seven Ages of Man (Ubuntu Music)
- Simon Moullier, Inception (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Simon Moullier, Isla (self-released)
- David Murray-Questlove-Ray Angry, Plumb (J.M.I./Outside In Music)
- Wolfgang Muthspiel, Dance of the Elders (ECM)
- Simon Nabatov, Extensions (Unbroken Sounds)
- Quinsin Nachoff, Stars and Constellations (Adyharopa)
- Roy Nathanson, 82 Days (Enja/Yellowbird)
- Natural Information Society, Since Time Is Gravity (Aguirre/Eremite)
- Naya Bazz [Rez Abbasi & Josh Feinberg], Charm (Whirlwind)
- Meshell Ndegeocello, The Omnichord Real Book (Blue Note)
- The Necks, Travel (Northern Spy)
- Josh Nelson, LA Stories: Live at Sam First (Sam First)
- Marius Neset, Geyser (ACT Music)
- Sam Newsome & Jean-Michel Pilc, Cosmic Unconsciousness Unplugged (Some New Music)
- The New Wonders, The New Wonders (Turtle Bay)
- Judy Niemack & Jay Clayton, Voices in Flight (GAM)
- Angelika Niescier-Tomeka Reid-Savannah Harris, Beyond Dragons (Intakt)
- Pascal Niggenkemper, Blòc (Subran/Musiques Aventureuses)
- Gard Nilssen's Supersonic Orchestra, Family (We Jazz)
- Thandi Ntuli, Rainbow Revisited (International Anthem)
- Bill O'Connell, Live at Montauk (Savant)
- Arturo O'Farrill, Legacies (Blue Note)
- Linda May Han Oh, The Glass Hours (Biophilia)
- Orchestre National de Jazz Montréal, Wayne Shines/Miles Smiles (ONJ)
- Aruán Ortiz, Pastor's Paradox (Clean Feed)
- Aruán Ortiz Trio, Serranias: Sketchbook for Piano Trio (Intakt)
- Kresten Osgood-Bob Moses-Tisziji Munoz, Spiritual Drum Kingship (Gotta Let It Out)
- Matt Otto, Umbra (Origin)
- Kassa Overall, Animals (Warp)
- Chuck Owen and the WDR Big Band, Renderings (MAMA)
- Engin Özşahin, Conversations in Chaos (self-released)
- Emile Parisien, Louise (ACT '22)
- Evan Parker & X-Jazz Ensemble, A Schist Story (JACC '22)
- Gretchen Parlato & Lionel Loueke, Lean In (Edition)
- Michel Pastre-Louis Mazetier-Guillaume Nouaux, Fine Ideas (Camille Productions)
- Jeb Patton, Preludes (Cellar Music)
- Jessica Pavone, Clamor (Out of Your Head)
- Hery Paz, Jardineros (577)
- Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra, Take Me to the Ragtime Dance (Rivermont)
- Pierrick Pédron & Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Pédron Rubalcaba (Gazebo)
- Ivo Perelman-Nate Wooley-Matt Moran-Mat Maneri-Fred Lonberg-Holm-Joe Morris, Seven Skies Orchestra (Fundacja Sluchaj)
- Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp, Tryptych I-III (SMP '22)
- Ivo Perelman & Elliott Sharp, Artificial Intelligence (Mahakala Music)
- Ivo Perelman & Nate Wooley, Polarity 2 (Burning Ambulance)
- Ivo Perelman & Joe Morris, Elliptic Time (Mahakala Music '22)
- Ivo Perelman & Matt Moran, Tuning Forks (Ibeji Music)
- Ethan Philion Quartet, Gnosis (Sunnyside)
- Barre Phillips & Giancarlo Nino Locatelli, Danze Degli Scorpioni (We Insist!)
- Jean-Michel Pilc, Symphony (Justin Time)
- Ted Piltzecker, Vibes on a Breath (OA2)
- Anthony Pirog, The Nepenthe Series Vol. 1 (Otherly Love)
- PJEV-Kit Downes-Hayden Chisholm, Medna Roso (Red Hook)
- Planet D Nonet, Blues to Be There (Eastlawn)
- Tineke Postma, Aria (Edition)
- Chris Potter, Got the Keys to the Kingdom: Live at the Village Vanguard (Edition)
- Precarious Towers, Ten Stories (Shifting Paradigm)
- Simona Premazzi, Wave in Gravity: Solo Piano (PRE)
- Eddie Prévost-N.O. Moore-James O'Sullivan-Ross Lambert, Chord (Shrike)
- Quartet San Francisco-Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band-Take Six, Raymond Scott Reimagined (Violinjazz)
- Reggie Quinerly, The Thousandth Scholar (Redefinition Music)
- Zoe Rahman, Colour of Sound (Manushi)
- Mette Rasmussen-Paul Flaherty-Zach Rowden-Chris Corsano, Crying in Space (Relative Pitch)
- Andrew Rathbun, The Speed of Time (SteepleChase)
- Jason Rebello & Tim Garland, Life to Life (Whirlwind)
- Red Hot Org, Red Hot & Ra: Solar: Sun Ra in Brasil (Red Hot Org)
- Joshua Redman, Where Are We (Blue Note)
- Eric Reed, Black, Brown, and Blue (Smoke Sessions)
- Mike Reed, The Separatist Party (We Jazz/Astral Spirits)
- The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Harvesters (Aerophonic)
- Dave Rempis-Elisabeth Harnik-Fred Lonberg-Holm-Tim Daisy, Earscratcher (Aerophonic)
- Marc Ribot/Ceramic Dog, Connection (Knockwurst)
- Matana Roberts, Coin Coin Chapter Five: In the Garden (Constellation)
- Sebastian Rochford & Kit Downes, A Short Diary (ECM)
- Aksel Røed's Other Aspects, Do You Dream in Colours? (Is It Jazz?)
- Roots Magic Sextet, Long Old Road: Retold Pasts and Present Day Musings (Clean Feed)
- Charley Rose Trio, Dada Pulp (Menace)
- Ben Rosenblum Nebula Project, A Thousand Pebbles (One Trick Dog)
- Dan Rosenboom, Polarity (Orenda)
- Kurt Rosenwinkel, Undercover: Live at the Village Vanguard (Heartcore)
- Daniel Rotem, Wave Nature (Colorfield)
- Ned Rothenberg, Crossings Four (Clean Feed)
- Jim Rotondi Quintet, Over Here (Criss Cross)
- Kyle Roussel, Nola à la Mode (self-released)
- Rudy Royston Flatbed Buggy, Day (Greenleaf Music)
- Andreas Røysum Ensemble, Mysterier (Motvind)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Borrowed Roses (Top Side Music)
- Adam Rudolph & Tyshawn Sorey, Archaisms (Defkaz)
- Heikki Ruokangas, Karu (Orbit577)
- Bobby Rush, All My Love for You (Deep Rush/Thirty Tigers)
- Jerome Sabbagh, Vintage (Sunnyside)
- Taiko Saito, Tears of a Cloud (Trouble in the East)
- Säje, Säje (Säjevoices)
- Felipe Salles Interconnections Ensemble, Home Is Here (Tapestry)
- Cécile McLorin Salvant, Mélusine (Nonesuch)
- Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band, Vox Humana (Jazzheads)
- Angelica Sanchez Nonet, Nighttime Creatures (Pyroclastic)
- Daniel Santiago & Pedro Martins, Movement (Heartcore)
- Marco Antonio Santos, About: Silence (Ears & Eyes)
- Nicky Schrire, Nowhere Girl (Anzic)
- Laura Schuler Quartet, Sueños Paralelos (Antidro)
- John Scofield, Uncle John's Band (ECM)
- Kendrick Scott, Corridors (Blue Note)
- Scree, Jasmine on a Night in July (Ruination)
- Brandon Seabrook's Epic Proportions, Brutalovechamp (Pyroclastic)
- Felipe Senna & Câmaranóva, Câmara Brasileira (Maritaca)
- Shakti, This Moment (Abstract Logix)
- Ian Shaw, Greek Street Friday (Silent Wish)
- Matthew Shipp, The Intrinsic Nature of Shipp (Mahakala Music)
- Wayne Shorter-Terri Lyne Carrington-Leo Genovese-Esperanza Spalding, Live at the Detroit Jazz Festival (Candid '22)
- Louis Siciliano, Ancient Cosmic Truth (Musica Presente)
- Todd Sickafoose, Bear Proof (Secret Hatch)
- Sick Boss, Businessless (Drip Audio)
- Antero Sievert, Dear Bossa (JMI)
- Antero Sievert, The_Underscore (JMI '19)
- Ayanda Sikade, Umakhulu (Afrosynth '22)
- Edward Simon, Femininas: Songs of Latin American Women (ArtistShare)
- Alex Sipiagin Quintet, Mel's Vision (Criss Cross)
- Isach Skeidsvoll, Dance to Summon (Ultraaani)
- SLUGish Ensemble, In Solitude (Slow & Steady)
- Andrew Smiley & Kate Gentile, Flagrances (Obliquity)
- Cecilia Smith, The Mary Lou Williams Resurgence Project, Vol. 1 (Innova)
- Wadada Leo Smith & Orange Wave Electric, Fire Illuminations (Kabell)
- Walter Smith III, Return to Casual (Blue Note)
- Smoking Time Jazz Club, Six Blues, Five Joys & a Stomp (self-released)
- Soft Machine, Other Doors (MoonJune)
- Soggy Po Boys, It's Good to Laugh Again (self-released '22)
- Sonar With David Torn and J Peter Schwalm, Three Movements (7D Media)
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio, Continuing (Pi)
- Tyshawn Sorey Trio + 1 [With Greg Osby], The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (Pi '22)
- Luciana Souza & Trio Corrente, Cometa (Sunnyside)
- Guido Spannocchi, Live at Porgy & Bess Vienna (Audioguido)
- Speakers Corner Quartet, Further Out Than the Edge (OTIH)
- Simon Spillett Big Band, Dear Tubby H (Mister PC)
- Terell Stafford, Between Two Worlds (Le Coq)
- Haralabos [Harry] Stafylakis, Calibrating Friction (New Amsterdam)
- Elias Stemeseder & Christian Lillinger, Umbra (Intakt)
- Bobo Stenson Trio, Sphere (ECM)
- Vahagn Stepanyan, A New Chapter (self-released)
- Loren Stillman, Time and Again (Sunnyside)
- Yuhan Su, Liberated Gesture (Sunnyside)
- SurdelSur Ensemble, Hernandez-Sanjuro-Nebbia (Ears & Eyes)
- Charu Suri, Rags & Ragas (self-released)
- Rajna Swaminathan, Apertures (Ropeadope)
- Steve Swell-Joe McPhee-Chris Corsano, Sometimes the Air Is (Mahakala Music)
- Veronica Swift, Veronica Swift (Mack Avenue)
- Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach, Four Hands Piano Pieces (Trost)
- Sam Taylor, Let Go (Cellar '22)
- Emilio Teubal, Futuro (Not Yet)
- Stephan Thelen, Fractal Guitar 3 (MoonJune '22)
- Thollem-Terry Riley-Nels Cline, The Light Is Real (Other Minds)
- Micah Thomas, Reveal (Artwork)
- Isaiah J. Thompson, The Power of the Spirit (Blue Engine)
- Henry Threadgill Ensemble, The Other One (Pi)
- Keith & Julie Tippett, Couple in Spirit/Sound on Stone (Discus Music)
- Ralph Towner, At First Light (ECM)
- Lukas Traxel, One-Eyed Daruma (We Jazz)
- Dwight Trible, Ancient Future (Gearbox)
- Trickster, Live in Brooklyn (Cygnus)
- Vasco Trilla, A Constellation of Anomaly (Thanatosis Produktion)
- Trio San, Hibiki (Jazzdor)
- Tuba Skinny, Hot Town (self-released)
- Mark Turner Quartet, Live at the Village Vanguard (Giant Step Arts)
- Jeremy Udden, Wishing Flower (Sunnyside)
- Billy Valentine, Billy Valentine and the Universal Truth (Flying Dutchman)
- Ken Vandermark & Hamid Drake, Eternal River (Corbett vs. Dempsey)
- Donald Vega, As I Travel (Imagery)
- Martina Verhoeven Quintet, Driven: Live at Roadburn 2022 (Klanggalerie '22)
- Fay Victor, Blackity Black Black Is Beautiful (Northern Spy)
- Daniel Villarreal, Lados B (International Anthem)
- David Virelles, Carta (Intakt)
- Visions of Nar [Jeremy Rose & Zela Margossian], Daughter of the Seas (Earshift Music)
- Brad Walker + Extended, Side by Side (self-released)
- Greg Ward's Rogue Parade, Dion's Quest (Sugah Hoof)
- Marta Warelis, A Piece of Earth (Relative Pitch '22)
- Anna Webber, Shimmer Wince (Intakt)
- Colin Webster Large Ensemble, First Meeting (Raw Tonk)
- Web Web x Mar Herre, Web Max II (Compost)
- Ben Wendel, All One (Edition)
- Paul Wertico, Paul Wertico's Drums Without Boundaries (Da Vinci Classics)
- Bobby West, Big Trippin' (Soulville Sound)
- Jennifer Wharton's Bonegasm, Grit & Grace (Sunnyside)
- Mareike Wiening, Reveal (Greenleaf Music)
- Buster Williams, Unalome (Smoke Sessions)
- Simón Willson, Good Company (Fresh Sound New Talent)
- Dan Wilson, Things Eternal (Brother Mister/Mack Avenue)
- Ben Wolfe, Unjust (Resident Arts)
- Dustin Wong, Perpetual Morphosis (Hausu Mountain)
- Nate Wooley, Four Experiments (Pleasure of the Text)
- Jack Wright & Ben Bennett, Augur (Palliative)
- Otomo Yoshihide Special Big Band, Stone Stone Stone (Little Stone)
- Adrian Younge, Jazz Is Dead 18: Tony Allen (Jazz Is Dead)
- Brandee Younger, Brand New Life (Impulse)
- Dhafer Youssef, Street of Minarets (Back Beat Edition)
- Denny Zeitlin, Crazy Rhythm: Exploring George Gershwin (Sunnyside)
- Miguel Zenón & Dan Tepfer, Internal Melodies (Main Door Music)
- Miguel Zenón & Luis Perdomo, El Arte Del Bolero, Vol. 2 (Miel Music)
- John Zorn, John Zorn's Bagatelles, Vols. 13-16 (Tzadik)
- John Zorn, Full Fathom Five (Tzadik)
- John Zorn, New Masada Quartet Vol. 2 (Tzadik)
- John Zorn, The Fourth Way (Tzadik)
- John Zorn, Homenaje a Remedios Varo (Tzadik)
- John Zorn & Bill Laswell, Memoria (Tzadik)
- John Zorn, Nothing Is as Real as Nothing (Tzadik)
- Nicole Zuraitis, How Love Begins (Outside In Music)
- Anthony Davis-Kyle Motl-Kjell Nordeson, Vertical Motion (Astral Spirits)
- Martin Wind-Jim McNeely-Ed Neumeister, Counterpoint (Laika)
- Five-Way Split, All the Way (Ubuntu Music)
- Muriel Grossmann, Devotion (Third Man Music)
Album count: 534.