Chris May’s Best Albums Of 2022

It was a good year for jazz, as the world recovered from The Great Pause and bands got together once more for real-time live recordings. Twelve of 2022’s absolute top albums are presented here, half of them new recordings, the other half reissues or previously unreleased archive items. Number One Best New Album Of 2022 Oded TzurIsabelaECM Records Oded Tzur‘s 2020 album, Here Be Dragons, the Israeli-born, New York-based tenor saxophonist’s first release on ECM, triggered an eruption of purple prose… [ read more ]