Rhapsody Streamnotes: Year 2022 Index
- $ilkmoney: I Don't Give a Fuck About This Rap Shit, Imma Just Drop Until I Don't Feel Like It Anymore (2022, DB$B) B+(**)
- Alex Acuña: Gifts (2021 [2022], Le Coq) B+(**)
- Adeem the Artist: White Trash Revelry (2022, Four Quarters) A-
- [Ahmed]: Ahad/Wahid (2022, A Cheeseboard Production, EP) B+(*)
- Taru Alexander: Echoes of the Masters (2022, Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Rodrigo Amado: Refraction Solo: Live at Church of the Holy Ghost (2021 [2022], Trost) A-
- Zoh Amba: O, Sun (2021 [2022], Tzadik) A-
- JoVia Armstrong & Eunoia Society: The Antidote Suite (2022, Black Earth Music) B+(**)
- Kate Baker & Vic Juris: Return to Shore: The Duo Sessions (2019 [2022], Strikezone) B+(***)
- Balance: Conjure (2020 [2022], Two Rooms) B+(**)
- Barcelona Clarinet Players: Fantasías Barcelónicas: A Tribute to Paquito D'Rivera (2021 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(*)
- Basher: Doubles (2021 [2022], Sinking City) B+(*)
- Battle Trance: Green of Winter (2022, New Amsterdam) B+(*)
- The Baylor Project: The Evening: Live at Apparatus (2022, Be a Light) B+(**)
- Karl Berger/Kirk Knuffke: Heart Is a Melody (2022, Stunt) B+(***)
- Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Damon Smith: Duals (2021-22 [2022], Driff/Balance Point Acoustics, 3CD) B+(**)
- Michael Blake: Combobulate (2022, Newvelle) B+(***)
- Ran Blake: Looking Glass (2015 [2021], A-Side) B+(***)
- Jake Blount: The New Faith (2022, Smithsonian Folkways) B+(**)
- Blue Lines Trio: Chance and Change (2022, Casco) B+(***)
- Blue Moods: Myth & Wisdom (2021 [2022], Posi-Tone) B+(**)
- Surya Botofasina: Everyone's Children (2022, Spiritmuse) B+(*)
- Staffan Bråsjö: Stratosfär (2020 [2022], self-released) B+(***)
- Zach Bryan: American Heartbreak (2022, Warner, 2CD) B+(**)
- Anna Butterss: Activities (2022, Colorfield) B+(***)
- Call Super: Swallow Me (2022, Can You Feel the Sun, EP) B+(**)
- Frank Carlberg Trio: Reflections 1952 (2021 [2022], 577) B+(***)
- Sabrina Carpenter: Emails I Can't Send (2022, Island) B+(***)
- Melissa Carper: Ramblin' Soul (2022, Mae Music) B+(**)
- François Carrier/Alexander von Schlippenbach/John Edwards/Michel Lambert: Unwalled (2022, Fundacja Sluchaj) A-
- The Casual Dots: Sanguine Truth (2022, Ixor Stix) B+(**)
- Chicago Soul Jazz Collective Meets Dee Alexander: On the Way to Be Free (2022, JMarq) B+(*)
- Trish Clowes: A View With a Room (2021 [2022], Greenleaf Music) B+(**)
- Emmet Cohen: Uptown in Orbit (2022, Mack Avenue) B+(**)
- Marc Copland Quartet: Someday (2022, InnerVoice Jazz) A-
- Jon Cowherd Trio: Pride and Joy (2022, Le Coq) B+(*)
- Theo Croker Quartet: Jazz at Berlin Philharmonic XII: Sketches of Miles (2021 [2022], ACT) B+(**)
- Dandy Dandie: Hypnos & Morphée (2019 [2022], Yolk Music) B+(*)
- Harold Danko: Rite Notes (2021 [2022], SteepleChase) B+(*)
- Daphni: Cherry (2022, Jiaolong) B+(***)
- Eli Degibri: Henri and Rachel (2021 [2022], Degibri) B+(***)
- Allen Dennard: Flashback (2022, Allen Dennard Music) B+(*)
- Dopolarians: Blues for Alvin Fielder: Live at Crosstown Arts, Memphis (2022, Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- Dopolarians: Sunday Morning Sermon (2022, Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- Dezron Douglas: Atalaya (2021 [2022], International Anthem) B+(***)
- Hamid Drake: Dedications: Black Cross Solo Sessions 6 (2020 [2022], Corbett vs. Dempsey) B+(**)
- Mats Eilertsen: Hymn for Hope (2021, Hemli) B+(***)
- Espen Eriksen Trio Featuring Andy Sheppard: In the Mountains (2022, Rune Grammofon) B+(***)
- Extended: Without Notice (2020 [2022], self-released) B+(**)
- Ezra Collective: Where I'm Meant to Be (2022, Partisan) B+(**)
- Fazer: Plex (2022, City Slang) B+(**)
- Anthony Ferrara: Cold Faded (2022, SteepleChase) B+(**)
- Fractal Sextet: Fractal Sextet (2020-22 [2022], Alchemy) A-
- Free Form Funky Freqs: Hymn of the 3rd Galaxy (2020-21 [2022], Ropeadope) B+(*)
- Satoko Fujii: Hyaku: One Hundred Dreams (2022, Libra) A-
- Dai Fujikura/Jan Bang: The Bow Maker (2022, Punkt) B+(*)
- Charlie Gabriel: Eighty Nine (2022, Sub Pop) B+(***)
- Runhild Gammelsæter & Lasse Marhaug: Higgs Boson (2022, Ideologic Organ) B+(*)
- Marshall Gilkes: Cyclic Journey (2022, Alternate Side) B+(*)
- Onno Govaert + Martina Verhoeven/Dirk Serries: Twofold (2021 [2022], A New Wave of Jazz, 2CD) B+(***)
- Forbes Graham/Jeb Bishop/Pandelis Karayorgis/Nate McBride/Kresten Osgood: Water Lilies (2022, Driff) B+(***)
- Pasquale Grasso: Be-Bop! (2022, Sony Masterworks) B+(**)
- Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet: The Sound of Listening (2022, Edition) B+(**)
- Mats Gustafsson & Nu Ensemble: Hidros 8: Heal (2016 [2022], Trost) A-
- Craig Harris: Managing the Mask (2021 [2022], Aquastra) B+(**)
- Jo Harrop: The Heart Wants (2021, Lateralize) B+(**)
- Gerry Hemingway: Afterlife (2020-22 [2022], Auricle) A-
- Julia Hülsmann Quartet: The Next Door (2022, ECM) B+(***)
- Shawneci Icecold/Fred Lonberg-Holm: Sepphoris (2022, Underground45) B+(**)
- Shawneci Icecold/Shuishan Yu: Flowing Water: Music for Guqin & Harpsichord (2022, Underground45) B+(**)
- Ifsonever: Ifsonever (2022, Jazz & Milk) B+(***)
- Ulf Ivarsson/Bill Laswell: Nammu (2022, Ropeadope) B+(**)
- Keefe Jackson/Jim Baker/Julian Kirshner: Routines (2019 [2022], Kettle Hole) B
- Jazzanova: Strata Records: The Sound of Detroit (2022, BBE) B
- George V Johnson Jr: Walk Spirit Talk Spirit (2022, Your Majesty) B+(**)
- Max Johnson Trio: Orbit of Sound (2021 [2022], Unbroken Sounds) B+(***)
- Pandelis Karayorgis Trio: The Hasaan, Hope & Monk Project (2021-22 [2022], Driff) B+(**)
- Kassmasse: Bahil | Weg (2022, Meedo) B+(***)
- Lady Aicha & Pisco Crane's Original Fulu Miziki Band of Kinshasa: N'djila Wa Mudjimo (2022, Nyege Nyege Tapes) A-
- Ant Law & Alex Hitchcock: Same Moon in the Same World (2020-21 [2022], Outside In Music) B+(**)
- Janel Leppin: Ensemble Volcanic Ash (2022, Cuneiform) B+(***)
- Little Simz: No Thank You (2022, Age 101/Awal/Forever Living Originals) A-
- Igor Lumpert's Innertextures: I Am the Spirit of the Earth (2021 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(**)
- Ruben Machtelinckx + Arve Henriksen: A Short Story (2022, Aspen Edities) B+(***)
- João Madeira/Wagner Ramos: Meristema (2022, 4darecord) B+(***)
- Joe Magnarelli: New York Osaka Junction (2022, SteepleChase) B+(*)
- Majamisty Trio: Wind Rose (2021 [2022], Majamisty) B+(*)
- Miko Marks and the Resurrectors: Feel Like Going Home (2022, Redtone) B+(***)
- Hermon Mehari: Asmara (2022, Komos) A-
- Raul Midón: Eclectic Adventurist (2022, Artistry/Mack Avenue) B+(*)
- Per Møllehøj/Kirk Knuffke/Thommy Andersson: 'S Wonderful (2022, Stunt) B+(**)
- Hedvig Mollestad & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra: Maternity Beat (2021 [2022], Rune Grammofon) B+(*)
- Joyce Moreno: Brasileiras Canções (2022, Biscoito Fino) B+(**)
- Dado Moroni/Jesper Lundgaard/Lee Pearson: There Is No Greater Love (2016 [2022], Storyville) B+(***)
- Ra Kalam Bob Moses/Damon Smith: Purecicle (2021 [2022], Balance Point Acoustics) B+(**)
- Qasim Naqvi/Wadada Leo Smith/Andrew Cyrille: Two Centuries (2021 [2022], Red Hook) B+(***)
- Paal Nilssen-Love Circus: Pairs of Three (2021 [2022], PNL) B+(***)
- Odesza: The Last Goodbye (2022, Foreign Family/Ninja Tune) B+(**)
- Oxbow & Peter Brötzmann: An Eternal Reminder of Not Today: Live at Moers (2018 [2022], Trost) B+(***)
- Jeff Parker ETA IVtet: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy (2019-21 [2022], Eremite) A-
- Nicholas Payton: The Couch Sessions (2022, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
- Pillbox Patti: Florida (2022, Monument) B+(**)
- Dafnis Prieto Featuring Luciana Souza: Cantar (2021 [2022], Dafnison Music) B+(***)
- Ishmael Reed: The Hands of Grace (2022, Reading Group) B+(**)
- Revelators Sound System: Revelators (2022, 37d03d) B+(*)
- Stephen Riley: My Romance (2021 [2022], SteepleChase) B+(***)
- Gonzalo Rubalcaba & Trio D'ÉTÉ: Turning Point (2018 [2022], 5Passion) B+(***)
- Rich Ruth: I Survived, It's Over (2022, Third Man) B
- Sadistik x Kno: Bring Me Back When the World Is Cured (2022, self-released) B+(***)
- Sault: 11 (2022, Forever Living Originals) B+(*)
- Sault: AIIR (2022, Forever Living Originals) B
- Sault: Earth (2022, Forever Living Originals) B+(*)
- Sault: Today & Tomorrow (2022, Forever Living Originals) B+(*)
- Sault: Untitled (God) (2022, Forever Living Originals) B
- Scenes: Variable Clouds: Live at the Earshot Jazz Festival (2021 [2022], Origin) B+(***)
- Frank Paul Schubert/Kazuhisa Uchihashi/Klaus Kugel: Black Holes Are Hard to Find (2021 [2022], Nemu) B+(***)
- Maya Shenfeld: In Free Fall (2022, Thrill Jockey) B+(*)
- Patrick Shiroishi: Evergreen (2021 [2022], Touch) B+(*)
- James Singleton: Malabar (2022, Sinking City) B+(**)
- Tom Skinner: Voices of Bishara (2022, Brownswood/International Anthem/Nonesuch) A-
- Gary Smulyan: Tadd's All, Folks (2021 [2022], SteepleChase) B+(**)
- Cory Smythe: Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (2021 [2022], Pyroclastic) B
- Tyshawn Sorey + 1 [With Greg Osby]: The Off-Off Broadway Guide to Synergism (2022, Pi, 3CD) A
- Sowal Diabi: De Kaboul à Bamako (2022, Accords Croisés) A-
- Special Interest: Endure (2022, Rough Trade) B+(*)
- SWR Big Band/Magnus Lindgren/John Beasley: Bird Lives (2021, ACT) B+(*)
- SZA: SOS (2022, Top Dawg/RCA) B+(**)
- Jamaaladeen Tacuma/Mary Halvorson: Strings & Things (2014 [2022], Jam-All Productions) B+(**)
- Stephan Thelen: Fractal Guitar 3 (2021-22 [2022], Moonjune) A-
- Thollem: Obstacle Illusion (2021 [2022], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Micah Thomas: Piano Solo (2022, LP345) B+(**)
- Pat Thomas & XT [Seymour Wright/Paul Abbott]: Akisakila/Attitudes of Preparation (Mountains, Oceans, Trees) (2018 [2022], Edition Gamut) B+(***)
- Ricardo Toscano Trio: Chasing Contradictions (2021 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(**)
- Tuba Skinny: Magnolia Stroll (2021 [2022], self-released) B+(**)
- Tess Tyler: Fractals [Vol. 1] (2022, Manners McDade) A-
- Tess Tyler x Spindle Ensemble: Fractals [Vol. 2] (2022, Manners McDade) B+(*)
- Wako: Ut Av Det Nye (2022, Øra Fonogram) B+(**)
- Johannes Wallmann: Precarious Towers (2021 [2022], Shifting Paradigm) B+(**)
- Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow (2022, Sub Pop) B
- Rodney Whitaker: Oasis: The Music of Gregg Hill (2022, Origin) B+(**)
- Eri Yamamoto Trio: A Woman With a Purple Wig (2022, Mahakala Music) B+(*)
- Jeong Lim Yang: Zodiac Suite: Reassured (2021 [2022], Fresh Sound New Talent) B+(***)
- Jason Yeager: Unstuck in Time: The Kurt Vonnegut Suite (2022, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Yellowjackets: Parallel Motion (2022, Mack Avenue) B
- Per Zanussi & Vestnorsk Jazzensemble: Li (and the Infinite Game) (2022, Clean Feed) B+(**)
- The Zebra Street Band: Shirwku (2021 [2022], Trytone) A-
- Geri Allen/Charlie Haden/Paul Motian: Live at the Village Vanguard (Unissued Tracks) (1990 [2022], DIW) B+(**)
- Don Ayler: In Florence 1981 (1981 [2022], Railroad Town Music) A-
- Derek Bailey: Domestic Jungle (1990s [2022], Scatter) B+(***)
- Donald Byrd: Live: Cookin' With Blue Note at Montreux (1973 [2022], Blue Note) B+(*)
- Jean-Charles Capon/Philippe Maté/Lawrence "Butch" Morris/Serge Rahoerson (1977 [2021], Souffle Continu) B+(***)
- Elton Dean/Steve Miller/Pip Pyle: Home Brewed (1976 [2022], British Progressive Jazz) B+(***)
- Ellery Eskelin/Gerry Hemingway: From the Archives: Live at the Stone in NYC, 2010 (2010 [2022], Auricle) B+(***)
- Ronnie Foster: Two Headed Freap (1972 [2022], Blue Note) B+(*)
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 1 (1997 [2022], ICP) B+(***)
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 2 (1997 [2022], ICP) A-
- ICP Orchestra: 30 Yr Jubileum 1997: Day 3 (1997 [2022], ICP) B+(***)
- Ahmad Jamal: Live in Paris (1971 [2022], Transversales Disques) A-
- Joyce With Mauricio Maestro: Natureza (1977 [2022], Far Out) B+(**)
- Jack McDuff: Live at Parnell's (1982 [2022], Soul Bank Music) B+(**)
- Brother Jack McDuff: Moon Rappin' (1969 [2022], Blue Note) B+(**)
- Thelonious Monk: Celebrating 75 Years of His First Recordings Revisited (1947-52 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
- Thelonious Monk Quartet: Live Five Spot 1958 Revisited (1958 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) A-
- The Pyramids: AOMAWA: The 1970s Recordings (1973-76 [2022], Strut, 4CD) A-
- Buddy Tate & White Label: Tate's Delight (1982 [2022], Storyville) B+(***)
- Roland Alexander: Pleasure Bent (1961 [1962], New Jazz) B+(**)
- Willi Carlisle: Too Nice to Mean Much (2016, self-released, EP) B+(***)
- Willi Carlisle: To Tell You the Truth (2018, self-released) B+(**)
- Julieta Eugenio: Unaccompanied Saxophone Vol. 1 (2020, Greenleaf Music, EP) B+(**)
- Ronnie Mathews/Roland Alexander/Freddie Hubbard (1961-63 [2002], Prestige) B+(**)
- Willi Carlisle: Peculiar, Missouri (2022, Free Dirt) A-
- A-Trak: 10 Seconds: Volume 1 (2022, Fool's Gold, EP) B+(***)
- A-Trak: 10 Seconds: Volume 2 (2022, Fool's Gold, EP) B+(***)
- Adult.: Becoming Undone (2022, Dais) B+(***)
- Konrad Agnas/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Mattias Ståhl/Per Texas Johansson: All Slow Dream Gone (2022, Moserobie) A-
- Franco Ambrosetti: Nora (2022, Enja) B+(*)
- Arctic Monkeys: The Car (2022, Domino) B-
- The Attic [Rodrigo Amado/Gonçalo Almeida/Onno Govaert]: Love Ghosts (2020 [2022], NoBusiness) A-
- Au Suisse: Au Suisse (2022, City Slang) B+(*)
- Daniel Avery: Ultra Truth (2022, Phantasy Sound) B+(**)
- Simon Belelty: Pee Wee (2020 [2022], Jojo) B+(**)
- The Black Dog: Brutal Minimalism EP (2022, Dust Science, EP) B+(***)
- The Black Dog: Concrete Reasoning EP (2022, Dust Science, EP) B+(*)
- Wolfert Brederode: Ruins and Remains (2021 [2022], ECM) B+(**)
- Patricia Brennan: More Touch (2022, Pyroclastic) B+(***)
- Jakob Bro/Joe Lovano: Once Around the Room: A Tribute to Paul Motian (2021 [2022], ECM) B+(***)
- Armani Caesar: The Liz 2 (2022, Griselda) B+(*)
- Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1 (2022, Candid) B+(**)
- Frank Catalano: Live at Birdland (2022, Ropeadope) A-
- Brian Charette: Jackpot (2021 [2022], Cellar) B+(*)
- Sarah Elizabeth Charles: Blank Canvas (2022, Stretch/Ropeadope) B+(*)
- The Chicago Plan [Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Michael Zerang]: For New Zealand (2019 [2022], Not Two) B+(***)
- The Clarinet Trio: Transformations and Further Passages (2021 [2022], Leo) B+(***)
- Callista Clark: Real to Me: The Way I Feel (2022, Big Machine) B+(*)
- Coco & Clair Clair: Sexy (2022, self-released) B+(*)
- Louis Cole: Quality Over Opinion (2022, Brainfeeder) B+(*)
- George Colligan: King's Dream (2022, P.Ice) B+(**)
- Hollie Cook: Happy Hour (2022, Merge) B+(**)
- Cooper-Moore & Stephen Gauci: Conversations Vol. 1 (2019 [2020], 577) A-
- Shemekia Copeland: Done Come Too Far (2022, Alligator) B+(**)
- Duduka Da Fonseca & Quarteto Universal: Yes!!! (2022, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Craig Davis: Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa (2021 [2022], MCG Jazz) B+(***)
- Dungen: En Är För Mycket Och Tusen Aldrig Nog (2022, Mexican Summer) B+(*)
- Paul Dunmall Quintet: Yes Tomorrow (2021 [2022], Discus) B+(***)
- Trevor Dunn Trio - Convulsant Avec Folie à Quatre: Seances (2022, Pyroclastic) B+(***)
- Joe Fahey: Baker's Cousin (2022, Rough Fish) B+(**)
- Avram Fefer Quartet: Juba Lee (2022, Clean Feed) A-
- R.A.P. Ferreira: 5 to the Eye With Stars (2022, Ruby Yacht, EP) B+(***)
- Joe Fiedler: Solo: The Howland Sessions (2022, Multiphonics) B+(**)
- Chad Fowler/Ivo Perelman/Zoh Amba/Matthew Shipp/William Parker/Steve Hirsh: Alien Skin (2022, Mahakala Music) A-
- Fred Again: Actual Life (January 1-September 9 2022) (2022, Atlantic) B+(*)
- Bill Frisell: Four (2022, Blue Note) B+(*)
- Satoko Fujii: Hajimeru (2021, Libra, EP) B+(*)
- Satoko Fujii: Bokyaku (2022, Libra) B
- Steve Gadd/Eddie Gomez/Ronnie Cuber: Center Stage (2022, Leopard) B+(*)
- Laszlo Gardony: Close Connection (2022, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Gato Libre: Sleeping Cat (2022, Libra) B+(*)
- Ben LaMar Gay: Certain Reveries (2022, International Anthem) B+(***)
- Milford Graves/Jason Moran: Live at Big Ears (2018-20 [2021], Yes) B+(***)
- Buddy Guy: The Blues Don't Lie (2022, RCA/Silvertone) B+(***)
- Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen (2022, Blue Note) B
- Conrad Herwig: The Latin Side of Mingus (2022, Savant) B+(**)
- Olli Hirvonen: Kielo (2022, Ropeadope) B+(*)
- Homeboy Sandman: Still Champion (2022, self-released) A-
- Dan Israel: Seriously (2022, self-released) B+(*)
- Song Yi Jeon/Vinicius Gomes: Home (2020 [2022], Greenleaf Music) B+(***)
- Aubrey Johnson & Randy Ingram: Play Favorites (2022, Sunnyside) B
- Jupiter: The Wild East (2022, Moserobie) B+(*)
- Kanda Bongo Man: Yolele! Live in Concert (2016 [2021], No Wahala Sounds) B+(**)
- Kanda Bongo Man: Kekete Bue (2022, No Wahala Sounds) B+(**)
- Angélique Kidjo/Ibrahim Maalouf: Queen of Sheba (2022, Mister Ibé) B+(**)
- Sam Kirmayer: In This Moment (2021 [2022], Cellar Live) B+(*)
- Kittin + the Hacker: Third Album (2022, Nobody's Bizzness) B+(***)
- Kirk Knuffke/Michael Bisio: For You I Don't Want to Go (2020 [2022], NoBusiness) A-
- Konjur Collective: Blood in My Eye (A Soul Insurgent Guide) (2022, Cow:Music/Astral Spirits) B+(**)
- Sarathy Korwar: Kalak (2022, The Leaf Label) B+(***)
- Lantana: Elemental (2020 [2022], Cipsela) B+(**)
- Laufey: Everything I Know About Love (2022, AWAL) B+(**)
- Bill Laurance: Affinity (2022, Flint Music) B+(*)
- Jeffrey Lewis: When That Really Old Cat Dies (2022, self-released, EP) B+(*)
- Ramsey Lewis: The Beatles Songbook [The Saturday Salon Series: Volume One] (2020 [2022], Steele) B+(*)
- Dave Liebman: Trust and Honesty (2022, Newvelle) B+(**)
- Kirk Lightsey: Live at Smalls Jazz Club (2021 [2022], Cellar) A-
- Charles Lloyd: Trios: Sacred Thread (2020 [2022], Blue Note) B+(**)
- Dana Lyn: A Point on a Slow Curve (2022, In a Circle) B+(*)
- Mama's Broke: Narrow Line (2022, Free Dirt) B+(**)
- Mama's Broke: Count the Wicked (2017, self-released) B+(***)
- Mavi: Laughing So Hard, It Hurts (2022, United Masters) B+(**)
- Jim McNeely/Frankfurt Radio Big Band Featuring Chris Potter: Rituals (2015 [2022], Double Moon) B+(***)
- Abel Mireles: Amino (2021 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Modern Jazz Trio With Rick Margitza: Community Standards (2022, AMM) B+(***)
- Jasmine Myra: Horizons (2022, Gondwana) B+(*)
- Judy Niemack: What's Love (2021 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Timothy Norton: Visions of Phaedrus (2021 [2022], Truth Revolution) B+(***)
- Lina Nyberg Band: Anniverse (2022, Hoob) B
- Bill Orcutt: Music for Four Guitars (2021 [2022], Palilalia) B+(**)
- The Ostara Project: The Ostara Project (2022, Cellar) B+(*)
- Houston Person: Reminiscing at Rudy's (2022, HighNote) B+(***)
- Dierk Peters: Spring (2022, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Zach Phillips: Goddaughters (2022, self-released) A-
- Phoenix: Alpha Zulu (2022, Glassnote) B+(*)
- Piri & Tommy: Froge.mp3 (2022, Polydor) A-
- Plaid: Feorm Falorx (2022, Warp) B+(**)
- Plains: I Walked With You a Ways (2022, Anti-) A-
- Jana Pochop: The Astronaut (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- Flora Purim: If You Will (2022, Strut) B+(***)
- Pye Corner Audio: Let's Emerge! (2022, Sonic Cathedral) B+(**)
- Rufus Reid Trio and the Sirius Quartet: Celebration (2022, Sunnyside) B-
- Reverso: Harmonic Alchemy (2022, Outnote) B+(***)
- Emiliano Sampaio Jazz Symphonic Orchestra: We Have a Dream (2022, Alessa) B+(**)
- Antonio Sanchez: Shift (Bad Hombre Vol. II) (2022, Warner) B
- Josh Sinton's Predicate Quartet: Four Freedoms (2022, Form Is Possibility) A-
- Smino: Luv 4 Rent (2022, Zero Fatigue/Motown) B+(**)
- Hal Smith's New Orleans Night Owls: Early Hours (2021-22 [2022], self-released) B+(**)
- Hal Smith's Jazzologists: I Scream, You Scream, Everybody Wants Ice Cream (2021, self-released) B+(***)
- Hal Smith's Jazzologists: Black Cat on the Fence (2021, self-released) B+(**)
- Sonido Solar: Eddie Palmieri Presents Sonido Solar (2022, Truth Revolution) B+(**)
- Wil Swindler's Elevenet: Space Bugs: Live in Denver (2022, OA2) B
- Chad Taylor Trio: The Reel (2022, Astral Spirits) A-
- They Might Be Giants: Book (2021, Idlewild) B+(*)
- Thumbscrew: Multicolored Midnight (2021 [2022], Cuneiform) A-
- Dan Weiss Trio: Dedication (2020 [2022], Cygnus) B+(**)
- The Dave Wilson Quartet: Stretching Supreme (2017-18 [2021], Dave Wilson Music) B+(**)
- Lainey Wilson: Bell Bottom Country (2022, Broken Bow) B+(***)
- Neil Young & Crazy Horse: World Recod (2022, Reprise) B+(**)
- Crossroads Kenya: East African Benga and Rumba, 1980-1985 (1980-85 [2022], No Wahala Sounds) A-
- Elton Dean Quartet: On Italian Roads: Live at Teatro Cristallo, Milan, 1979 (1979 [2022], British Progressive Jazz) B+(***)
- Roy Eldridge Quartet/Ella Fitzgerald Quintet: In Concert: Falkoner Centret, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 21, 1959 (1959 [2022], SteepleChase) B+(***)
- Bill Evans: Morning Glory: The 1973 Concert at the Teatro Gran Rex, Buenos Aires (1973 [2022], Resonance) A-
- Bill Evans: Inner Spirit: The 1979 Concert at the Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires (1979 [2022], Resonance) B+(***)
- Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at the Hollywood Bowl: The Irving Berlin Songbook (1958 [2022], Verve) B+(***)
- Hal Galper: Ivory Forest Redux (1979 [2022], Origin) B+(***)
- Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1963-1964 (1963-64 [2022], Elemental, 2CD) A-
- Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights: Live at the Penthouse 1965-1966 (1965-66 [2022], Elemental, 2CD) B+(***)
- Elvin Jones: Revival: Live at Pookie's Pub (1967 [2022], Blue Note) B+(***)
- Dickie Landry/Lawrence Weiner: Having Been Built on Sand/With Another Base (Basis) in Fact (1978 [2022], Unseen Worlds) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: The Killer Keys of Jerry Lee Lewis (1956-60 [2022], Sun) B+(***)
- Alhaji Waziri Oshomah: World Spirituality Classics 3: The Muslim Highlife of Alhaji Waziri Oshomah (1978-84 [2022], Luaka Bop) A-
- Michel Petrucciani: Solo in Denmark (1990 [2022], Storyville) B+(***)
- John Sinclair Presents: Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz and Art in the Motor City 1965-1981 (1965-81 [2022], Strut/Art Yard) A-
- Esbjörn Svensson: Home.S. (2008 [2022], ACT) B+(*)
- Mototeru Takagi/Kim Dae Hwan/Choi Sun Bae: Seishin-Seido (1995 [2022], NoBusiness) B+(**)
- Yuji Takahashi/Sabu Toyozumi: The Quietly Clouds and a Wild Crane (1998 [2022], NoBusiness) B+(***)
- Gebhard Ullmann/Steve Swell/Hilliard Greene/Barry Altschul: We're Playing in Here? (2007 [2022], NoBusiness) B+(***)
- Brian Charette: Music for Organ Sextette (2011, SteepleChase) B+(*)
- Homeboy Sandman: Nourishment (Second Helpings) (2007, Boy Sand Industries) B+(**)
- Homeboy Sandman: Actual Factual Pterodactyl (2008, Boy Sand Industries) B+(***)
- Homeboy Sandman: Chimera EP (2012, Stones Throw, EP) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Lewis (1958, Sun) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: The Essential Jerry Lee Lewis: The Sun Years (1956-63 [2013], Legacy, 2CD) A-
- Jerry Lee Lewis: The Golden Cream of Country (1956-63 [1969], Sun) B
- Jerry Lee Lewis: A Taste of Country (1956-63 [1970], Sun) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Country Songs for City Folks (1965, Smash) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Soul My Way (1967, Smash) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Another Place, Another Time (1968, Smash) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis & Linda Gail Lewis: Together (1969, Smash) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: She Still Comes Around (To Love What's Left of Me) (1969, Smash) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 1 (1969, Smash) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Sings the Country Music Hall of Fame Hits, Vol. 2 (1969, Smash) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye (1970, Mercury) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: There Must Be More to Love Than This (1971, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Touching Home (1971, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Would You Take Another Chance on Me? (1971, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: The "Killer" Rocks On (1972, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano? (1972, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Sometimes a Memory Ain't Enough (1973, Mercury) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: The Session . . . Recorded in London With Great Artists (1973 [1984], Mercury) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Southern Roots: Back Home in Memphis (1973, Mercury) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: I-40 Country (1974, Mercury) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Boogie Woogie Country Man (1975, Mercury) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Odd Man In (1975, Mercury) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Country Class (1976, Mercury) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Country Memories (1977, Mercury) B+(***)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Keeps Rockin' (1977 [1978], Mercury) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Jerry Lee Lewis (1979, Elektra) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: When Two Worlds Collide (1980, Elektra) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Killer Country (1980, Elektra) B+(**)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Young Blood (1995, Sire) B+(*)
- Jerry Lee Lewis: Last Man Standing (2006, Artists First) B+(**)
- Linda Gail Lewis: The Two Sides of Linda Gail Lewis (1969, Smash) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn Sings (1963, Decca) A-
- Loretta Lynn: Before I'm Over You (1964, Decca) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: Songs From My Heart . . . (1965, Decca) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Blue Kentucky Girl (1965, Decca) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Hymns (1965, Decca) B
- Loretta Lynn: I Like 'Em Country (1966, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: You Ain't Woman Enough (1966, Decca) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Don't Come Home a Drinkin' (With Lovin' on Your Mind) (1967, Decca) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits (1961-67 [1968], Decca) A-
- Loretta Lynn: Who Says God Is Dead! (1968, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Fist City (1968, Decca) A-
- Loretta Lynn: Your Squaw Is on the Warpath Tonight (1969, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Here's Loretta Singing "Wings Upon Your Horns" (1969 [1970], Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn Writes 'Em and Sings 'Em (1965-69 [1970], Decca) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter (1970 [1971], Decca) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: I Wanna Be Free (1971, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: You're Lookin' at Country (1971, Decca) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Alone With You (1961-64 [1972], Vocalion) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: One's on the Way (1972, Decca) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: Here I Am Again (1972, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Entertainer of the Year (1972, Decca) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Love Is the Foundation (1973, MCA) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn/Conway Twitty: Country Partners (1974, MCA) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: They Don't Make 'Em Like My Daddy (1974, MCA) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Back to the Country (1975, MCA) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn/Conway Twitty: Feelins' (1975, MCA) B-
- Loretta Lynn: When the Tingle Becomes a Chill (1976, MCA) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn/Conway Twitty: United Talent (1976, MCA) B
- Loretta Lynn: I Remember Patsy (1977, MCA) B+(***)
- Loretta Lynn: Out of My Head and Back in My Bed (1978, MCA) B
- Loretta Lynn: Making Love From Memory (1982, MCA) B
- Loretta Lynn: Lyin', Cheatin', Woman Chasin', Honky Tonkin', Whiskey Drinkin' You (1983, MCA) B+(*)
- Loretta Lynn: Just a Woman (1985, MCA) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Who Was That Stranger (1988, MCA) B+(**)
- Loretta Lynn: Still Country (2000, Audium) B+(*)
- Charles Mingus: Tonight at Noon (1957-61 [1964], Atlantic) B+(***)
- Jason Moran: Bangs (2016 [2017], Yes) B+(***)
- Dolly Parton/Loretta Lynn/Tammy Wynette: Honky Tonk Angels (1993, Columbia) B+(**)
- Paul Smoker Trio: QB (1984, Alvas) B+(***)
- Paul Smoker Trio: Mississippi River Rat (1984 [1985], Sound Aspects) A-
- Paul Smoker Trio: Alone (1986 [1988], Sound Aspects) A-
- Paul Smoker Trio: Come Rain or Come Shine (1988 [1989], Sound Aspects) B+(***)
- Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn: Mr. and Mrs. Used to Be (1965, Decca) B
- Ernest Tubb and Loretta Lynn: Singin' Again (1967, Decca) B+(**)
- Conway Twitty and Loretta Lynn: Lead Me On (1972, Decca) B+(**)
- Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn: Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man (1973, MCA) B+(***)
- Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn: Two's a Party (1981, MCA) B
- Conway Twitty/Loretta Lynn: The Best of Conway Twitty & Loretta Lynn [20th Century Masters: The Millennium Collection] (1971-88 [2000], MCA Nashville) B+(***)
- Dick Hyman: One Step to Chicago: The Legacy of Frank Teschemacher and the Austin High Gang (1992, Rivermont) ++
- Seli I Ludy Performance Band: Bunch One (2019, self-released) B+(***)
- The 1975: Being Funny in a Foreign Language (2022, Dirty Hit) B+(***)
- Claudia Acuña: Duo (2022, Ropeadope) B+(*)
- Ahanes: Petrichor (2021 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(**)
- The Airport 77s: We Realize You Have a Choice (2022, Jem) B+(*)
- Akusmi: Fleeting Future (2022, Tonal Union) B+(**)
- Al-Qasar: Who Are We? (2022, Glitterbeat) B+(***)
- Alvvays: Blue Rev (2022, Polyvinyl) B+(**)
- Zoh Amba: Bhakti (2022, Mahakala Music) B+(***)
- Oren Ambarchi: Shebang (2022, Drag City) B+(***)
- Gyedu-Blay Ambolley: Gyedu-Blay Ambolley and Hi-Life Jazz (2022, Agogo) B
- Arild Andersen Group: Affirmation (2021 [2022], ECM) A-
- Horace Andy: Midnight Scorchers (2022, On-U Sound) B+(***)
- The Bad Plus: The Bad Plus (2021 [2022], Edition) B+(**)
- Kenny Beats: Louie (2022, XL) B+(*)
- Benjamin Tod: Songs I Swore I'd Never Sing (2022, Anti-Corp) B+(*)
- Kristin Berardi: The Light & the Dark (2019 [2022], Earshift Music) B+(*)
- Tim Berne/Matt Mitchell: One More, Please (2021 [2022], Intakt) B+(***)
- Bi Ba Doom: Graceful Collision (2022, Astral Spirits) B+(***)
- Bibio: Bib10 (2022, Warp) B+(*)
- Crow Billiken: If I Don't Have Red I Use Blue (2022, self-released, EP) B+(*)
- Bitchin Bajas: Bajascillators (2022, Drag City) B+(**)
- Björk: Fossora (2022, One Little Independent) B
- Owen Broder: Hodges: Front and Center, Vol. 1 (2021 [2022], Outside In Music) A-
- Sarah Buechi/Franz Hellmueller/Rafael Jerjen: Moon Trail (2021 [2022], Intakt) B+(**)
- Burial: Streetlands (2022, Hyperdub, EP) B
- Alina Bzhezhinska & HipHarpCollective: Reflections (2022, BBE) B+(*)
- Tito Carrillo: Urbanessence (2021 [2022], Origin) B+(*)
- Dan Cavanagh and James Miley With John Hollenbeck: Another Life (2019-21 [2022], S/N Alliance) B+(**)
- Tyler Childers: Can I Take My Hounds to Heaven? (2022, Hickman Holler/RCA, 3CD) B+(*)
- Corey Christiansen: Standards (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- The Claudettes: The Claudettes Go Out! (2022, Forty Below) B+(*)
- Anat Cohen: Quartetinho (2021 [2022], Anzic) B+(**)
- Tommy Crane: We're All Improvisers Now (2020-21 [2022], Whirlwind) B+(*)
- Criolo: Sobre Viver (2022, Oloko) B+(**)
- Zella Day: Sunday in Heaven (2022, Concord) B+(*)
- Death Cab for Cutie: Asphalt Meadows (2022, Atlantic) B
- James Devane: Beauty Is Useless (2022, Umeboshi) B+(*)
- Whit Dickey Quartet: Root Perspectives (2022, Tao Forms) B+(**)
- John Dikeman/Stefan Gonzalez/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Jonathan F Horne: Texas Butt Biters (2019 [2022], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- DJ Marz Y Los Flying Turntables/DJ Jester the Filipino Fist: Made in USA (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- Dodie: Hot Mess (2022, Doddleoddle, EP) B
- Charlotte Dos Santos: Morfo (2022, Because Music) B+(***)
- Dr. John: Things Happen That Way (2017 [2022], Rounder) B+(*)
- Kaja Draksler/Susana Santos Silva: Grow (2021 [2022], Intakt) B
- Dry Cleaning: Stumpwork (2022, 4AD) A-
- Jens Düppe: Ego_D (2022, Enja/Yellowbird) B+(***)
- Open Mike Eagle: Component System With the Auto Reverse (2022, Auto Reverse) A-
- Eliane Elias: Quietude (2022, Candid) B+(**)
- Brian Eno: Forever and Ever No More (2022, Verve) B+(*)
- John Escreet: Seismic Shift (2022, Whirlwind) B+(***)
- Amina Figarova: Joy (2022, AmFi) B+(*)
- Flohio: Out of Heart (2022, AWAL) B+(**)
- Fox Green: Holy Souls (2022, self-released) A-
- Paolo Fresu/Dino Rubino/Daniele Di Bonaventura/Marco Bardoscia: Ferlinghetti (2022, Tuk Music) B+(***)
- John Fullbright: The Liar (2022, Blue Dirt/Thirty Tigers) B+(**)
- Freddie Gibbs: $oul $old $eparately (2022, Warner/ESGN) B+(***)
- Gogol Bordello: Solidaritine (2022, Cooking Vinyl) A-
- Lincoln Goines: The Art of the Bass Choir (2020-21 [2022], Origin) B+(*)
- Gunna: DS4EVER (2022, YSL/300 Entertainment) B+(**)
- Darryl Harper: Chamber Made (2022, Stricker Street) B+(*)
- Paul Heaton + Jacqui Abbott: N.K-Pop (2022, EMI) B+(***)
- Hellbound Glory: The Immortal Hellbound Glory: Nobody Knows You (2022, Black Country) B+(*)
- Hickeys: Fragile Structure (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- Dylan Hicks & Small Screens: Airport Sparrows (2022, Soft Launch) B+(**)
- Jason Kao Hwang/J.A. Deane [Dino Duo]: Uncharted Faith (2021 [2022], Tone Science Music/Blue Coast Music) B+(**)
- Dieter Ilg: Dedication (2020 [2022], ACT) B+(**)
- Dieter Ilg: Ravel (2021 [2022], ACT) B+(*)
- Eric Jacobson: Discover (2022, Origin) B+(**)
- Loraine James: Building Something Beautiful for Me (2022, Phantom Limb) A-
- Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert (2016 [2022], ECM) B+(**)
- Carly Rae Jepsen: The Loneliest Time (2022, Interscope) A-
- Laura Jurd: The Big Friendly Album (2021 [2022], Big Friendly) B+(**)
- Ka: Languish Arts (2022, Iron Works, EP) B+(***)
- Ka: Woeful Studies (2022, Iron Works, EP) B+(**)
- Keith Kirchoff/Dominic Lash/Steve Noble: Christian Wolff: Exercises and Explorations (2013 [2021], Spoonhunt) B+(***)
- Ted Kooshian: Hubub! (2022, Summit) B+(**)
- Benjamin Lackner: Last Decade (2021 [2022], ECM) B+(**)
- Nikki Lane: Denim & Diamonds (2022, New West) B+(**)
- Pablo Lanouguere Quintet: Altar (2022, Piano Piano) B+(**)
- Ari Lennox: Age/Sex/Location (2022, Dreamville/Interscope) B+(**)
- Yosef Gutman Levitt: Upside Down Mountain (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- Tove Lo: Dirt Femme (2022, Pretty Swede) A-
- M Feat. Ben Stapp/Fred Lonberg-Holm/Marco Colonna/Steve Swell: Broken Songs (2022, Fundacja Sluchaj) B+(**)
- Maddie & Tae: Through the Madness (2022, Mercury Nashville, EP) B+(*)
- Maddie & Tae: Through the Madness Vol. 2 (2022, Mercury Nashville, EP) B+(*)
- Michael Marcus: Abstractions in Lime Caverns (2021 [2022], ESP-Disk) B+(***)
- Marxist Love Disco Ensemble: MLDE (2022, Mr Bongo) B+(**)
- Bennie Maupin/Adam Rudolph: Symphonic Tone Poem for Brother Yusef (2022, Strut) A-
- Wojtek Mazolewski Quintet: Spirit to All (2022, Wirlwind) A-
- Ashley McBryde: Presents: Lindeville (2022, Warner Music Nashville) B+(***)
- John McCowen: Models of Duration (2020 [2022], Dinzu Artefacts/Astral Spirits) B
- M.I.A.: Mata (2022, Island) A-
- Midlake: For the Sake of Bethel Woods (2022, ATO) B
- Rhett Miller: The Misfit (2022, ATO) B+(***)
- Momma: Household Name (2022, Lucky Number) B+(*)
- Marc Mommaas: The Impressionist (2021 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Louis Moutin/Jowee Omicil/François Moutin: M.O.M. (2022, Laborie Jazz) B+(***)
- Carlos Niño & Friends: Extra Presence (2019 [2022], International Anthem) B+(*)
- Mali Obomsawin: Sweet Tooth (2022, Out of Your Head) A-
- Off!: Free LSD (2022, Fat Possum) B+(**)
- The Ogún Meji Duo: Freedom Suite (2021 [2022], CFG Multimedia) A-
- J.S. Ondara: Spanish Villager No: 3 (2022, Verve Forecast) B+(*)
- Beth Orton: Weather Alive (2022, Partisan) B+(**)
- Margaux Oswald: Dysphotic Zone (2021 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(*)
- The Paranoyds: Talk Talk Talk (2022, Third Man) B+(*)
- Christopher Parker & the Band of Guardian Angels: Soul Food (2019 [2021], Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- John Patitucci Trio: Live in Italy (2022, Three Faces) B+(**)
- Ivo Perelman/Matthew Shipp: Fruition (2021 [2022], ESP-Disk) A-
- Barre Phillips/György Kurtág Jr.: Face à Face (2020-21 [2022], ECM) B
- Photay With Carlos Niño: An Offering (2021 [2022], International Anthem) B
- Kerry Politzer: In a Heartbeat (2022, P.Ice) B+(**)
- Marek Pospieszalski Quartet: Dürer's Mother (2019 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(***)
- Charlie Puth: Charlie (2022, Atlantic) B+(**)
- Kristjan Randalu/New Wind Jazz Orchestra: Sisu (2021 [2022], Whirlwind) B
- The Red Microphone: A Bleeding in Black Leather (2022, ESP-Disk) A-
- Susan Reed: Thousands of Ways (2021 [2022], OA2) B+(***)
- Jussi Reijonen: Three Seconds [Kolme Toista] (2021 [2022], Challenge) B+(**)
- Iara Rennó: Oríkì (2022, Dobra Discos) B+(**)
- Eve Risser/Red Desert Orchestra: Eurythmia (2021 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(***)
- Jeremy Rose & the Earshift Orchestra: Disruption! The Voice of the Drums (2022, Earshift Music) B+(**)
- The Daniel Rotem Quartet: Wise One: Celebrating the Music of John Coltrane: Live at Bluewhale (2020 [2022], self-released) B+(**)
- Harvie S & Roni Ben-Hur With Sylvia Cuenca: Wondering (2022, Dot Time) B+(***)
- The Angelica Sanchez Trio: Sparkle Beings (2022, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Collin Sherman: Organism Made Luminous (2022, Ex-Tol/Blujazz) B+(***)
- Collin Sherman: Suitable Benchmarks of Reform (2022, Ex-Tol) B+(***)
- Shygirl: Nymph (2022, Because Music) B+(*)
- Oliver Sim: Hideous Bastard (2022, Young/XL) B+(*)
- Todd Snider: Live: Return of the Storyteller (2021 [2022], Aimless, 2CD) A-
- Günter Baby Sommer & Raymond MacDonald: Sounds, Songs & Other Noises (2016-19 [2022], Clean Feed) B+(**)
- SonnyJim & the Purist: White Girl Wasted (2022, Daupe, EP) B+(*)
- Jason Stein/Damon Smith/Adam Shead: Volumes & Surfaces (2021 [2022], Balance Point Acoustics) B+(**)
- Sun Ra Arkestra Directed by Marshall Allen: Living Sky (2022, Omni Sound) A-
- Sunny Sweeney: Married Alone (2022, Aunt Daddy) B+(***)
- Taylor Swift: Midnights (2022, Republic) A-
- Tegan and Sara: Crybaby (2022, Mom + Pop) B+(***)
- Thick: Happy Now (2022, Epitaph) B+(**)
- Bernardo Tinoco & Tom Maciel: NoMad Nenúfar (2022, Clean Feed) B+(*)
- Steve Turre: Generations (2022, Smoke Sessions) B+(**)
- Valerie June: Under Cover (2022, Fantasy, EP) B
- Andrés Vial: When Is Ancient? (2020 [2022], Chromatic Audio) B+(**)
- Bilana Voutchkova/Susana Santos Silva: Bagra (2021 [2022], Relative Pitch) B
- Walking Cliché Sextet: Suite Chase Reflex (2019 [2021], self-released, EP) B+(*)
- Walking Cliché Sextet [SeaJun Kwon]: Micro-Nap (2020-21 [2022], Endectomorph Music) B+(***)
- RA Washington/Jah Nada: In Search of Our Father's Gardens (2021 [2022], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Bobby Watson: Back Home in Kansas City (2022, Smoke Sessions) B+(*)
- Brodie West Quintet: Meadow of Dreams (2020 [2022], Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Hannah White: About Time (2022, Paper Blue) B+(***)
- Chris Williams/Patrick Shiroishi: Sans Soleil II (2022, Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Billy Woods: Church (2022, Backwoodz Studioz) B+(***)
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs: Cool It Down (2022, Secretly Canadian) B+(**)
- Biluka Y Los Canibales: Leaf-Playing in Quito, 1960-1965 (1960-65 [2022], Honest Jon's) B+(**)
- Ron Carter: Finding the Right Notes (2014-21 [2022], In+Out) B+(**)
- Lionel Hampton Orchestra: 1958: The Mess Is Here Revisited (1958 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
- Andrew Hill: Point of Departure to Compulsion!!!!! Revisited (1965 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) A-
- The Jazz Passengers: Reunited (2010 [2022], Enja/Yellowbird) B+(**)
- Luciano Luciani Y Sus Mulatos: Mulata, Vamos A La Salsa (1970 [2022], Vampisoul) B+(***)
- William Parker: Universal Tonality (2002 [2022], Centering/AUM Fidelity, 2CD) A
- Rocket From the Tombs: That's How You Play Rock Music: 4AD, Diskmuide, Belgium: Dec 15 2015 (2015 [2022], Ubu Projex) B+(*)
- Archie Shepp: Fire Music to Mama Too Tight Revisited (1965-66 [2022, Ezz-Thetics) B+(**)
- Sun Ra & His Blue Universe Arkestra: Universe in Blue (1971 [2022], Cosmic Myth) B+(**)
- Sun Ra Arkestra/Salah Ragab/The Cairo Jazz Band: The Sun Ra Arkestra Meets Salah Ragab in Egypt (1983 [2022], Strut) B+(***)
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: The Quintet (1969 [2022], Mr Bongo) B+(***)
- Mal Waldron: Searching in Grenoble: The 1978 Solo Piano Concert (1978 [2022], Tompkins Square) B+(***)
- Amina Baraka/The Red Microphone: Amina Baraka & the Red Microphone (2017, ESP-Disk) A-
- Ronnie Boykins: The Will Come, Is Now (1975 [2009], ESP-Disk) B+(**)
- Detail [Johnny Dyani/Frode Gjerstad/John Stevens]: Backwards and Forwards: First Detail (1982 [1983], Impetus) B+(**)
- Detail [Frode Gjerstad/Johnny Dyani/John Stevens] + Paul Rutherford/Barry Guy: A Concert: Detail + (1983 [2020], Circulasione Totale) B+(***)
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- Detail/Billy Bang: Detail + Billy Bang (1989 [2019], Circulasione Totale) B+(***)
- Frode Gjerstad Trio: Remember to Forget (1997 [1998], Circulasione Totale) B+(***)
- Frode Gjerstad Trio: Mothers & Fathers & (2005 [2019], Circulasione Totale) B+(***)
- Frode Gjerstad/Louis Moholo-Moholo: MIR-13 (2013 [2019], Circulasione Totale) B+(*)
- Frode Gjerstad Trio With Steve Swell: At Constellation (2014 [2019], Circulasione Totale) B+(***)
- Matt Lavelle & Reggie Sylvester: Retrograde (2018, ESP-Disk) B+(***)
- Michael Marcus: Sunwheels (2000 [2001], Justin Time) B+(***)
- Michael Marcus Trio: Blue Reality (2001 [2002], Soul Note) A-
- Michael Marcus: Speakin' Out (2001-02 [2002], Drimala) B+(**)
- Michael Marcus: Stone Jump (2019-20 [2021], Not Two) B+(**)
- Mary McCaslin: Way Out West (1973, Philo) A-
- Mary McCaslin: A Life and Time (1981, Flying Fish) B+(***)
- The Ogún Meji Duo: For Those Who Have Gone, but Still Remain (2018, CFG Multimedia) B+(***)
- Old 97's: Hitchhike to Rhome (1994, Big Iron) B+(**)
- Old 97's: Wreck Your Life (1995, Bloodshot) B+(***)
- Old 97's: Hit by a Train: The Best of Old 97's (1994-2001 [2006], Rhino) A-
- Jowee Omicil: Let's Do This (2006, Jowee Juise) B
- Jowee Omicil: Let's Bash (2017, Jazz Village) B+(*)
- The Red Microphone: And I Became of the Dark (2020 [2021], ESP-Disk) B+(***)
- Jim Ringer: Waitin' for the Hard Times to Go (1972, Folk-Legacy) B+(*)
- Jim Ringer: The Band of Jesse James: Best of Jim Ringer (1973-81 [1996], Rounder) B+(*)
- Rocket From the Tombs: The Day the Earth Met the . . . Rocket From the Tombs (1975 [2002], Smog Veil) A-
- Archie Shepp/Attica Blues Big Band: Paris: Live at the Palais Des Glaces (1979 [2004], Blue Marge) B+(***)
- Ingrid Andress: Good Person (2022, Warner Music Nashville/Atlantic) B+(*)
- Stacy Antonel: Always the Outsider (2022, self-released) B+(*)
- Florian Arbenz: Conversation #6 & #7 (2021 [2022], Hammer) B+(***)
- Jeff Arnal/Curt Cloninger: Drum Major Instinct (2021 [2022], Mahakala Music) B+(***)
- Linda Ayupuka: God Created Everything (2022, Mais Um Discos) B+(**)
- Karl Berger/Max Johnson/Billy Mintz: Sketches (2017 [2022], Fresh Sound) B+(***)
- Sasha Berliner: Onyx (2022, self-released) B+(**)
- Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra: Popular Culture (Community Music Vol. 4) (2020 [2022], Royal Potato Family, EP) B+(**)
- The Beths: Expert in a Dying Field (2022, Carpark) B+(***)
- Blue Reality Quartet!: Ella's Island (2022, Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- The Broken Spokes: Where I Went Wrong (2022, Broken Spokes Music) B+(**)
- Bobby Broom: Keyed Up (2021 [2022], Steele) B+(**)
- Rob Brown/Juan Pablo Carletti: Fertile Garden (2020 [2022], NoBusiness) A-
- Butcher Brown: Butcher Brown Presents Triple Trey (2022, Concord Jazz) B+(*)
- Camp Cope: Running With the Hurricane (2022, Run for Cover) B+(*)
- George Cartwright/Steve Hirsh/Chad Fowler/Christopher Parker/Kelley Hurt: Notice That There (2020 [2022], Mahakala Music) B+(**)
- Cäthe: Chill Out Punk (2022, Träum Weiter!) B+(***)
- Cave In: Heavy Pendulum (2022, Relapse) B-
- Raven Chacon/Tatsuya Nakatini/Carlos Santistevan: Inhale/Exhale (2020 [2022], Other Minds) B+(*)
- The Chats: Get Fucked (2022, Bargain Bin) B+(***)
- The Comet Is Coming: Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam (2022, Impulse!) B+(**)
- Con+Kwake: Eyes in the Tower (2022, Native Rebel) B+(***)
- Confucius MC: Somewhere (2021, YNR Productions) B+(**)
- Gustavo Cortiñas: Kind Regards: Saludos Afectuosos (2022, Pesato Candente) B+(*)
- Charley Crockett: The Man From Waco (2022, Son of Davy) B+(**)
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- Raise Your Window: A Cajun Music Anthology Vol. 2: The Historic Victor/Bluebird Sessions 1928-1941 (1928-41 [1993], Country Music Foundation) A-
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- Songs From Chippy (1994, Hollywood) A-
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- Jane Ira Bloom/Mark Helias: See Our Way (2021-22 [2022], Radio Legs) +
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- Wild Up: Julius Eastman Vol. 2: Joy Boy (2022, New Amsterdam) B+(**)
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- A Chant About the Beauty of the Moon at Night: Hawaiian Steel Guitar Masters: Lost + Rare Performances 1913-1921 (1913-21 [2022], Magnificent Sounds) B
- Bob Corritore & Friends: Down Home Blues Revue (1995-2012 [2022], SWMAF/VizzTone) B+(**)
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- Sirone: Artistry (1978 [2022], Moved-by-Sound) B+(*)
- Horace Tapscott Quintet: Legacies of Our Grandchildren (1995 [2022], Dark Tree) A-
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- Lowkey: Soundtrack to the Struggle 2 (2019, Mesopotamia Music) A-
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- The United States Air Force Academy Band: The Falconaires: Sharing the Freedom (2010 [2011], self-released) B-
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- The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: The Jazz Heritage Series 2010 Radio Broadcasts (2010, self-released, 3CD) C-
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- Voivod: Synchro Anarchy (2022, Century Media) -
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- RZA Vs. Bobby Digital: Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater (2022, MNRK, EP) B+(**)
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- SFJazz Collective: New Works Reflecting the Moment (2021 [2022], SFJazz) B+(*)
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- Harry Skoler: Living in Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus (2021 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(**)
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- Syd: Broken Hearts Club (2022, Columbia) B+(***)
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- Tomberlin: I Don't Know Who Needs to Hear This . . . (2022, Saddle Creek) B+(*)
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- Molly Tuttle & Golden Highway: Crooked Tree (2022, Nonesuch) B+(***)
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- The United States Air Force Band Airmen of Note: The 2022 Jazz Heritage Series (2022, self-released) B-
- Sharon Van Etten: We've Been Going About This All Wrong (2022, Jagjaguwar) B+(*)
- Sachal Vasandani/Romain Collin: Midnight Shelter (2021, Edition) B-
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- Warpaint: Radiate Like This (2022, Virgin) B+(*)
- Cory Weeds: O Sole Mio! Music From the Motherland (2019 [2021], Cellar Music) B+(**)
- Cory Weeds With Strings: What Is There to Say? (2021, Cellar Music) B+(*)
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- Lucy Yeghiazaryan/Vanisha Gould: In Her Words (2021, La Reserve)
- África Negra: Antologia Vol. 1 (1981-95 [2022], Bongo Joe) A-
- Chet Baker: Tune Up: Live in Paris (1980 [2022], Circle) B+(*)
- Jim Black: My Choice (2000-13 [2021], Winter & Winter) B+(**)
- Peter Brötzmann/Fred Van Hove/Han Bennink: Jazz in Der Kammer Nr. 71: Deutsches Theater/Berlin/GDR/04/11/1974 (1974 [2022], Trost) B+(***)
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- Charles Mingus: The Lost Album: From Ronnie Scott's (1972 [2022], Resonance, 3CD) B+(***)
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- Ephat Mujuru & the Spirit of the People: Mbavaira (1983 [2021], Awesome Tapes From Africa, EP) B+(*)
- Papé Nziengui: Kadi Yombo (1989 [2022], Awesome Tapes From Africa) B+(***)
- Ann Peebles & the Hi Rhythm Section: Live in Memphis (1992 [2022], Memphis International) B+(**)
- Lionel Pillay: Shrimp Boats (1979-80 [2022], As-Shams) B+(**)
- The Rolling Stones: Live at the El Mocambo (1977 [2022], Polydor, 2CD) B+(***)
- George Russell: Ezz-thetics & The Stratus Seekers (1961-62 [2022], Ezz-Thetics) A-
- Cathy Segal-Garcia & Phillip Strange: Live in Japan (1992 [2022], Origin, 2CD) C+
- Sonic Youth: In/Out/In (2000-10 [2022], Three Lobed) B+(**)
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- Norma Tanega: I'm the Sky: Studio and Demo Recordings 1964-1971 (1964-71 [2022], Anthology) B-
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- Irma Thomas: Full Time Woman: The Lost Cotillion Album (1972 [2022], Real Gone Music) B
- Irma Thomas: Live! New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival 1976 (1976 [2022], Good Time) B+(***)
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- Toshiko Akiyoshi-Lew Tabackin Big Band: Tales of a Courtesan (Oirantan) (1976, RCA) B+(***)
- Amandla! A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony (1955-2001 [2003], ATO) B+(**)
- Louis Armstrong: 'Country & Western' (1970, Avco Embassy) B-
- Theresia Bothe/Peter Croton: I'll Sing a Song for You (2008, Zah Zah) B-
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- Anansy Cissé: Anoura (2021, Riverboat) B+(***)
- Chris Conde: Engulfed in the Marvelous Decay (2021, Fake Four) B+(*)
- Kiely Connell: Camulet Queen (2021, self-released) B+(**)
- The Coral: Coral Island (2021, Run On, 2CD) B
- Andrew Cyrille/William Parker/Enrico Rava: 2 Blues for Cecil (2021 [2022], TUM) A-
- Danger Dan: Das Ist Alles Von Der Kunstfreiheit Gedeckt (2021, Altilopen Geldwäsche) B+(*)
- Jesse Daniel: Beyond These Walls (2021, Die True) B+(***)
- Jamael Dean: Primordial Waters (2021, Stones Throw) B+(*)
- Dessa: Ides (2021, Doomtree, EP) B+(***)
- Dltzk: Frailty (2021, Deadair) B
- Bobby Dove: Hopeless Romantic (2021, self-released) A-
- Eris Drew: Quivering in Time (2021, T4T LUV NRG) B+(**)
- Ducks Ltd.: Modern Fiction (2021, Carpark, EP) B+(**)
- Hope Dunbar: Sweetheartland (2021, self-released) B+(***)
- Hope Dunbar: You Let the Light In (2021, self-released) B+(**)
- Kurt Elling: Superblue (2021, Edition) B
- Vincent Neil Emerson: Vincent Neil Emerson (2021, La Honda) A-
- John Escreet/Pera Krstajic/Anthony Fung: Cresta (2022, self-released) B+(*)
- Kari Faux: Lowkey Superstar (2020 [2021], Don Giovanni) B+(*)
- FKA Twigs: Caprisongs (2022, Young/Atlantic) B+(**)
- Flatland Cavalry: Welcome to Countryland (2021, self-released) B+(*)
- Béla Fleck: My Bluegrass Heart (2021, Renew, 2CD) B+(*)
- Linda Fredriksson: Juniper (2021, We Jazz) B+(**)
- Ezra Furman: Sex Education: Songs From Season 3 (2021, Bella Union, EP) B+(**)
- Ezra Furman: Sex Education Original Soundtrack (2020, Bella Union) B+(**)
- Slava Ganelin/Alexey Kruglov/Oleg Yudanov: Access Point (2017 [2021], Losen) B+(***)
- Derrick Gardner and the Big Dig! Band: Still I Rise (2020, Impact Jazz) B+(**)
- Myriam Gendron: Ma Délire: Songs of Love, Lost & Found (2021, Feeding Tube) B+(**)
- Ghost of Vroom: 1 (2021, Mod Y Vi) A-
- John Glacier: Shiloh: Lost for Words (2021, PLZ Make It Ruins) B+(**)
- Charles Wesley Godwin: How the Mighty Fall (2021, self-released) B+(*)
- Pasquale Grasso: Pasquale Plays Duke (2021, Sony Masterworks) B+(*)
- Charlotte Greve: Sediments We Move (2021, New Amsterdam) B+(**)
- John Hébert: Sounds of Love (2013 [2022], Sunnyside) B+(***)
- Lande Hekt: Going to Hell (2021, Get Better) B+(***)
- Lande Hekt: Gigantic Disappointment (2019, self-released, EP) B+(*)
- Fred Hersch: Breath by Breath (2021 [2022], Palmetto) A-
- Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Septet With Wynton Marsalis: The Democracy! Suite (2020 [2021], Blue Engine) B+(***)
- Sven-Åke Johansson/Niklas Fite/Joel Grip: Swinging at Topsi's (2020 [2021], Astral Spirits) B+(***)
- Tom Jones: Surrounded by Time (2021, S-Curve) B+(*)
- Kaytranada: Intimidated (2021, RCA, EP) B+(*)
- Kiefer: When There's Love Around (2021, Stones Throw) B
- The Killers: Pressure Machine (2021, Island) B+(*)
- Lily Konigsberg: Lily We Need to Talk Now (2021, Wharf Cat) B+(**)
- Koreless: Agor (2021, Young) B
- Boris Kozlov: First Things First (2020 [2022], Posi-Tone) B+(**)
- Christof Kurzmann/Sofia Jernberg/Joe Williamson/Mats Brandlmayr: Disquiet (2018 [2021], Trost) B+(*)
- Joëlle Léandre/Pauline Oliveros/George Lewis: Play as You Go (2014 [2021], Trost) B+(**)
- Alessandra Leão: Acesa (2021, self-released) B+(***)
- Mac Leaphart: Music City Joke (2021, self-released) A-
- Rob Leines: Blood Sweat and Beers (2021, self-released) B+(**)
- João Lencastre's Communion: Unlimited Dreams (2021, Clean Feed) B+(**)
- Carol Liebowitz/Adam Lane/Andrew Drury: Blue Shift (2019 [2022], Line Art) B+(**)
- L.U.M.E. [Lisbon Underground Music Ensemble]: Las Californias (2021, Clean Feed) B+(***)
- Roberto Magris: Match Point (2018 [2021], JMood) B+(**)
- Tony Malaby's Sabino: The Cave of Winds (2021 [2022], Pyroclastic) B+(***)
- Pete Malinverni: On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein (2021 [2022], Planet Arts) B+(***)
- Man on Man: Man on Man (2021, Polyvinyl) B+(**)
- Aimee Mann: Queens of the Summer Hotel (2021, SuperEgo) B+(*)
- Juçara Marçal: Delta Estácio Blues (2021, QTV Selo/Mais Um) A-
- Michael Mayo: Bones (2021, Artistry Music/Mack Avenue) B+(*)
- Kate McGarry + Keith Ganz Ensemble: What to Wear in the Dark (2021, Resilience) B+(**)
- John McLaughlin: Liberation Time (2021, Abstract Logix) B+(*)
- Joe McPhee: Route 84 Quarantine Blues (2020 [2021], Corbett vs. Dempsey) B+(**)
- Mike and the Moonpies: One to Grow On (2021, Prairie Rose) B+(*)
- Charnett Moffett: New Love (2019 [2021], Motéma) B
- Nation of Language: A Way Forward (2021, PIAS) B+(**)
- Youssou N'Dour Et Le Super Étoile De Dakar: Mbalax (2021, Universal Music Africa) A-
- Helado Negro: Far In (2021, 4AD) B+(*)
- Oz Noy/Ugonna Okegwo/Ray Marchica: Riverside (2020 [2022], Outside In Music) B+(***)
- NTsKI: Orca (2021, Orange Milk/EM) B+(**)
- The OGJB Quartet: Ode to O (2019 [2022], TUM) B+(***)
- Matt Olson: Open Spaces (2021 [2022], OA2) B+(**)
- Orquestra Afro-Brasileira: 80 Anos (2021, Day Dreamer) B+(***)
- Emile Parisien: Louise (2021 [2022], ACT) B+(**)
- Perila: How Much Time It Is Between You and Me? (2021, Smalltown Soupersound) B
- John Pizzarelli: Better Days Ahead: Solo Guitar Takes on Pat Metheny (2021, Ghostlight) B
- Pony: TV Baby (2021, Take This to Heart) B
- Poppy: Flux (2021, Sumerian) B+(***)
- Mike Pride: I Hate Work (2021, RareNoise) B+(*)
- Masha Qrella: Woanders (2021, Staatsakt) B+(***)
- Rainbow Girls: Rolling Dumpster Fire (2021, self-released, EP) B+(*)
- Isaiah Rashad: The House Is Burning (2021, Top Dawg Entertainment/Warner) B+(*)
- Raw Poetic Featuring Damu the Fudgemunk: Big Tiny Planet (2021, Redefinition, EP) B+(*)
- The Reds, Pinks & Purples: Uncommon Weather (2021, Tough Love) B+(*)
- Alex Riel/Bo Stief/Carsten Dahl: Our Songs (2021, Storyville) B+(**)
- The Rite of Trio: Free Development of Delirium (2021, Clean Feed) B+(*)
- Ritual Habitual: Pagan Chant (2021, Clean Feed) B+(***)
- Diego Rivera: Indigenous (2019 [2021], Posi-Tone) B+(**)
- Hank Roberts Sextet: Science of Love (2021, Sunnyside) B+(**)
- Rostam: Changeophobia (2021, Matsor Projects) B+(*)
- Charles Rumback: Seven Bridges (2021, Astral Spirits) B+(*)
- Samo Salamon/Cene Resnik/Jaka Berger: Takt Ars Sessions: Vol. 1 (2021, Samo) B+(***)
- Samo Salamon/Cene Resnik/Jaka Berger: Takt Ars Sessions: Vol. 2 (2021, Samo) B+(**)
- Anna B Savage: A Commmon Turn (2021, City Slang) B
- Doug Scarborough: The Color of Angels (2021 [2022], Origin) B+(**)
- Maria Sena: De Primeira (2021, Alá Comunicação E Cultura) B+(***)
- Elvie Shane: Backslider (2021, Wheelhouse) B+(*)
- Ayanda Sikade: Umakhulu (2021, Afrosynth) A-
- Connie Smith: The Cry of the Heart (2021, Fat Possum) B+(**)
- The Steel Woods: All of Your Stones (2021, Thirty Tigers) B
- Sufjan Stevens & Angelo De Augustine: A Beginner's Mind (2021, Asthmatic Kitty) B+(***)
- Billy Strings: Renewal (2021, Rounder) B+(**)
- Dave Stryker: As We Are (2021 [2022], Strikezone) B+(*)
- Aaron Lee Tasjan: Tasjan! Tasjan! Tasjan! (2021, New West) B
- The Tiptons Sax Quartet & Drums: Wabi Sabi (2021, Sowie Sound) B+(**)
- Ken Vandermark: The Field Within a Line (2020 [2021], Corbett vs. Dempsey) B+(***)
- Vario 34-3: Free Improvised Music (2018 [2021], Corbett Vs. Dempsey) B+(*)
- Piet Verbist: Secret Exit to Another Dimension (2020 [2022], Origin) B+(*)
- Viagra Boys: Welfare Jazz (2021, Year0001) B+(***)
- Villagers: Fever Dreams (2021, Domino) B
- Ghalia Volt: One Woman Band (2021, Ruf) B+(**)
- Kanye West: Donda (2021, GOOD Music/Def Jam, 2CD) C+
- Joyce Wrice: Overgrown (2021, Joyce Wrice Music) B+(**)
- Carlos "Zingaro"/Pedro Carneiro: Elogio Das Sombras (2012 [2021], Clean Feed) B+(**)
- Albert Ayler: La Cave Live Cleveland 1966 Revisited (1966 [2022], Ezz-Thetics, 2CD) B+(***)
- The Beaters: Harari (1975 [2021], Matsuli Music) B+(**)
- Chuck Berry: Live From Blueberry Hill (2005-06 [2021], Dualtone) A-
- Chuck Berry: Toronto Rock 'N' Roll Revival 1969 (1969 [2021], Sunset Blvd.) B+(***)
- Black Unity Trio: Al-Fatihah (1968 [2021], Salaam/Gotta Groove) B+(**)
- Paul Bley Trios: Touching & Blood Revisited (1965-66 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) B+(**)
- Marion Brown: Why Not? Porto Novo! Revisited (1966-67 [2021], Ezz-thetics) A-
- Cameroon Garage Funk (1970s [2021], Analog Africa) B+(***)
- Don Cherry: Complete Communion & Symphony for Improvisers Revisited (1965-66 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
- Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now & Love Call Revisited (1968 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) A-
- Duke Ellington & His Orchestra: Berlin 1959 (1959 [2021], Storyville, 2CD) B+(***)
- Essiebons Special 1973-1984: Ghana Music Power House (1973-84 [2021], Analog Africa) A-
- Harari: Rufaro/Happiness (1976 [2021], Matsuli Music) B+(**)
- I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico (2021, Verve) B+(***)
- Instant Composers Pool: Incipient ICP (1966-71 [2021], Corbett Vs. Dempsey) A-
- J Jazz: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan: Volume 3 (1970-85 [2021], BBE, 2CD) B+(***)
- Khan Jamal: Infinity (1982-84 [2021], Jazz Room) B+(***)
- Lily Konigsberg: The Best of Lily Konigsberg Right Now (2017-21 [2021], Wharf Cat) B+(*)
- Joe McPhee: Black Is the Color: Live in Poughkeepsie and New Windsor, 1969-70 (1969-70 [2021], Corbett Vs. Depsey, 2CD) B+(***)
- Modern Love (2021, BBE) B+(**)
- The New York Contemporary Five: Copenhagen 1963 Revisited (1963 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) A-
- New York Contemporary Five: Consequences Revisited (1963-64 [2020], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
- Leo Nocentelli: Another Side (1971 [2021], Light in the Attic) B+(*)
- George Otsuka Quintet: Loving You George (1975 [2021], Wewantsounds) B+(**)
- Pink Floyd: Live at Knebworth 1990 (1990 [2021], Pink Floyd) B+(***)
- Tom Prehn Kvartet: Centrifuga (1964 [2021], Centrifuga) B+(***)
- Ritmo Fantasía: Balearic Spanish Synth-Pop, Boogie & House (1982-1992) (1982-92 [2021], Soundway) B+(**)
- Akira Sakata/Takeo Moriyama: Mitochondria (1986 [2022], Trost) B+(***)
- Shintaro Quintet: Evolution (1984 [2021], BBE) B+(**)
- Star Lovers: Boafo Ne Nyame (1987 [2021], Hot Casa) B+(***)
- The Thing [Mats Gustafsson/Joe McPhee/Ingebrigt Håker Flaten/Paal Nilseen-Love]: She Knows . . . (2001 [2021], Ezz-Thetics) B+(***)
- The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes (1954-70 [2021], Polydor, 2CD) B+(***)
- The Allman Brothers Band: One Way Out: Live at the Beacon Theatre (2003 [2004], Sanctuary/Peach, 2CD) B+(***)
- David Bowie: ChangesOneBowie (1969-76 [1976], RCA) A
- David Bowie: ChangesNowBowie (1996 [2020], Parlophone) B
- Charles Brackeen Quartet: Attainment (1987 [1988], Silkheart) B+(**)
- Precious Bryant: Feel Me Good (2002, Terminus) B+(**)
- Precious Bryant: The Truth (2004, Terminus) A-
- Precious Bryant: My Name Is Precious (2005, Music Maker Relief Foundation) B+(***)
- Chicago Farmer: Quarter Past Tonight (2018, Chicago Farmer, 2CD) A-
- Anansy Cissé: Mali Overdrive (2014, Riverboat) B+(**)
- The Robert Cray Band: Shame + a Sin (1993, Mercury) B
- The Robert Cray Band: Heavy Picks: The Robert Cray Collection (1980-97 [1999], Mercury) B
- Hope Dunbar: Three Black Crows (2017, self-released) B+(***)
- Vincent Neil Emerson: Fried Chicken & Evil Women (2019, La Honda) A-
- Booker Ervin: Structurally Sound (1966 [2001], Blue Note) A-
- Booker Ervin: The In Between (1968, Blue Note) B+(***)
- Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society: Nasty (1981, Moers Music) A-
- Jaojoby: Malagasy (2004, Discorama) B+(***)
- Ladysmith Black Mambazo: Inala (1985 [1986], Shanachie) B+(***)
- Lifter Puller [LFTR PLLR]: Soft Rock (1996-2000 [2002], The Self Starter Foundation, 2CD) A-
- Los Guanches: The Corpse Went Dancing Rumba (1996, Corason) A-
- Orchestra Baobab: La Belle Époque: Volume 2 (1973-76 [2011], Syllart, 2CD) B+(***)
- Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Dahomey: The 1st Album (1973 [2011], Analog Africa) A-
- Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: The Vodoun Effect: Funk & Sato From Benin's Obscure Labels 1972-1975 (1972-75 [2008], Analog Africa) B+(**)
- Orchestre Poly Rythmo de Cotonou: Volume Two: Echos Hypnotiques: From the Vaults of Albarika Store 1969-1979 (1969-79 [2009], Analog Africa) B+(***)
- Orchetre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou: The Skeletal Essences of Afro Funk 1969-1980 (1969-80 [2013], Analog Africa) B+(***)
- The Platters: Enchanted: The Best of the Planters (1956-67 [1998], Rhino) A-
- Frederic Rzewski: Coming Together/Attica/Les Moutins de Panurge (1973 [1974], Opus One) A-
- Frederic Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (1986 [1990], Hat Art) B+(***)
- Frederic Rzewski: North American Ballads & Squares (1991, Hat Art) B+(***)
- Frederic Rzewski: De Profundis (1993 [1994], Hat Art) B+(**)
- Darius Jones: Raw Demoon Alchemy (A Lone Operation) (2019 [2021], Northern Spy) -
- The Jeffrey Lewis & Peter Stampfel Band: Both Ways (2017 [2021], self-released) ++
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