But let’s get to it. Here are the best jazz albums of 2022, and 10 runners-up, listed alphabetically.

and the way their sleeve designs imitated famous jazz album covers — it’s done out of love, not mockery. I recently saw a pretty amazing movie that made that earnestness into its crowning virtue.

Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists ... she delivers an album whose qualitative excellence is matched by her inviting sense of adventure. Immanuel Wilkins, “Blues ...

A brilliant, inimitable guitarist, the late Joe Louis Walker merged Delta, Chicago, and West Coast blues styles with soul, ...

Blue Note Records has embodied the best jazz has to offer for over 80 years ... snapping photos of the artists as they performed or kicked back between takes. Cover-designer Reid Miles was the man who ...

Six of my 10 favorite jazz albums ... is one of the few albums that capture the great and tragic singer-pianist Nina Simone in all her dimensions—heartbreak ballads, jazz, blues, rock, African ...

The album’s primary cover is a playful ... to the power of the blues,” the piece weaves in elements of marches, ragtime, spirituals and Marsalis’ best-known idiom, jazz music.

This list from WBEZ and sister station Vocalo blurs lines and mixes genres, from hip-hop and R&B to indie rock, blues ... great live performance after getting inspired? A few of our favorite album ...

But on the trio’s quietly stunning third album, a series of extended and reimagined covers ... Jazz Guitar: The instrument hasn’t always been a central player in jazz, but the best guitarists ...

Here are my picks for the year’s 10 best new jazz albums—a diverse ... insistently tapping the blues. This is one of John Zorn’s most purely pleasurable albums in a while, yet it’s not ...