The 17th Annual Jazz Critics Poll

January 10, 2023

For The Year 2022
Published in ArtsFuse

Ken Waxman (Jazz Word)

NEW RELEASES

1. Joe McPhee, Route 84 Quarantine Blues (Corbett vs. Dempsey ’21)
2. Jones Jones, Just Justice (ESP-Disk’)
3. Gordon Grdina’s Square Peg, Klotski (Attaboygirl ’21)
4. Marek Pospieszalski, Polish Composers of the 20th Century (Clean Feed)
5. Jason Stein-Damon Smith-Adam Shead, Volumes & Surfaces (Balance Point Acoustics)
6. Andreas Røysum Ensemble, Fredsfanatisme (Motvind ’21)
7. Yuko Fujiyama-Graham Haynes-Ikue Mori, Quiet Passion (Intakt)
8. Potsa Lotsa XL & Youjin Sung, Gaya (Trouble in the East)
9. Joel Futterman-William Parker-Chad Fowler-Steve Hirsh, The Deep (Mahakala Music)
10. Onno Govaert + Martina Verhoeven/Dirk Serries, Twofold (A New Wave of Jazz)

RARA AVIS (REISSUES/ARCHIVAL)

1. Cecil Taylor, The Complete, Legendary, Live Return Concert: The Town Hall, NYC November 4, 1973 (Oblivion)
2. Daunik Lazro-Carlos Zingaro-Sakis Papadimitriou-Jean Bolcato, Periφeria (1993, Fou)
3. Ahmad Jamal, Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (Jazz Detective/Elemental)

VOCAL
• No choice.

DEBUT
• Sana Nagano, Anime Mundi (577)

LATIN
• No choice.