Terri Lyne Carrington’s “New Standards Vol. 1” was the Number-1 album in KCCK’s Top 88 jazz releases of 2022.  “Healing Power: The Music of Carla Bley” by Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison and Ted Nash was Number-88.  Following is the list of everything else in between.

KCCK’s Top 88 for 2022.

1. Terri Lyne Carrington “New Standards, Vol. 1”  (Candid)
2. Brian Lynch & Spheres of Influence “Songbook Vol. 2: Dance the Way U Want To”  (Hollistic Musicworks)
3. Ben Patterson “The Way of the Groove”  (Origin)
4. Scott Hamilton “Classics”  (Stunt)
5. Bob James “Feel Like Making Live” (Evolution Media)
6. Jazzmeia Horn and her Noble Force “Dear Love”  (Empress Legacy)
7. Anat Cohen & Marcello Gonsalves “Reconvexo”  (Anzic)
8. NYO Jazz “We’re Still Here”  (Carnegie Hall)
9. The Greyboy Allstars “Get a Job”   (Greyboy)
10. David Janeway “Distant Voices”  (SteepleChase)
11. The BBB featuring Bernie Dresel “The Pugilist”  (Dig It)
12. Dafnis Prieto featuring Luciana Souza “Cantar”  (Dafnison)
13. Tom Harrell “Oak Tree”  (High Note)
14. Tony Monaco “Four Brothers”  (Chicken Coup)
15. Kurt Rosenwinkel and Jean-Paul Brodbeck “The Chopin Project”  (Heartcore)
16. Jason Yeager Septet “Unstuck in Time: the Kurt Vonnegut Suite”  (Sunnyside)
17. Cyrus Chestnut “My Father’s Hands”  (High Note)
18. Ella Fitzgerald “Ella at the Hollywood Bowl”  (Verve)
19. Grant Geissman “Blooz”  (Futurism)
20. Craig Davis “Tone Paintings: The Music of Dodo Marmarosa”  (MCG Jazz)
21. Steve Turre “Generations”  (Smoke Sessions)
22. Alternative Guitar Summit “Honoring Pat Martino Vol. 1”  (High Note)
23. Ricky Peterson & the Peterson Brothers “Under the Radar”  (Leopard)
24. Tierney Sutton “Paris Sessions 2”  (BFM)
25. Lynne Arriale Trio “The Lights are Always On”  (Challenge)
26. Chucho Valdes and Paquito D’Rivera “I Missed You Too”  (Paquito)
27. Deanna Witkowski “Force of Nature”  (MCG Jazz)
28. Al Foster “Reflections”  (Smoke Sessions)
29. Lia Booth “Life Can Be Beautiful”  (Metajax)
30. The Reid Hoyson Project “That Sunday That Summer”  (Reid Hoyson)
31. Marshall Gilkes “Cyclic Journey”  (Alternate Side)
32. Larry Goldings, Peter Bernstein, & Bill Stewart “Perpetual Pendulum”  (Smoke Sessions)
33. Alvin Queen Trio “Night Train to Copenhagen”  (Stunt)
34. Curtis Stigers “This Life”  (Pandemic Poodle)
35. Gabriel Mark Hasselbach “Mid Century Modern Vol. 3”  (Blue Moon)
36. Idit Shner & Mhondoro “Heat Wave”  (OA2)
37. Dave Brubeck Trio “Live from Vienna 1967”  (Brubeck Editions)
38. Amina Figarova “Joy”  (Amfi)
39. Harry Skoler “Live in Sound: The Music of Charles Mingus”  (Sunnyside)
40. Way North “New Dreams, Old Stories”  (Way North)
41. Catherine Russell “Send for Me”  (Dot Time)
42. Yellowjackets “Parallel Motion”  (Mack Avenue)
43. Antonio Adolfo “Octet and Originals”  (AAM)
44. Kenneth Brown “Love People”  (Space Time)
45. Jeff Coffin “Between Dreaming and Joy”  (Ear Up)
46. Steve Davis “Bluesthetic”  (Smoke Sessions)
47. The Jazz Professors “Blues and Cubes”  (Flying Horse)
48. Caili O’Doherty “Quarantine Dream”  (Posi-Tone)
49. 3 More Sounds “3 More Sounds Play Ray Charles”  (Skipper)
50. Blue Moods “Myth and Wisdom”  (Posi-Tone)
51. Melissa Stylianou “Dream Dancing”  (Anzic)
52. Pasquale Grasso “Be-Bop!”  (Masterworks)
53. Julian Lage “View With a Room”  (Blue Note)
54. Remy Le Boeuf’s Assembly of Shadows “Architecture of Storms”  (Soundspore)
55. Pete Malinverni “On the Town: Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein”  (Planet Arts)
56. Bill O’Connell “A Change is Gonna Come”  (Savant)
57. Redman Mehldau McBride Blade “LongGone”  (Nonesuch)
58. Somi “Zenzile: The Reimagination of Miriam Makeba” (Salon Africana)
59. ARC Trio with the John Daversa Big Band “ARCeology” (Blue Canoe)
60. Brian Charette “Jackpot”  (Cellar)
61. Steve Gadd, Eddie Gomez & Ronnie Cuber “Center Stage”  (Leopard)
62. Boris Kozlov “First Things First”  (Posi-Tone)
63. Cecile McLorin Salvant “Ghost Song”  (Nonesuch)
64. John Lee “The Artist”  (Cellar)
65. Hendrik Meurkens “Samba Jazz Odyssey”  (Zoho)
66. Jeremy Pelt “Soundtrack”  (High Note)
67. Bobby Watson “Back Home in Kansas City”  (Smoke Sessions)
68. Roxy Coss “Disparate Parts”  (Outside In)
69. Michael Dease “Best Next Thing”  (Posi-Tone)
70. Gui Duvignau “Baden”  (Sunnyside)
71. Alon Farber & Hagiga “Reflecting on Freedom”  (Origin)
72. Mark Winkler “Late Bloomin’ Jazzman”  (Café Pacific)
73. Sean Fyfe “Late Night”  (Cellar)
74. Jon Gordon “Stranger Than Fiction”  (Artist Share)
75. Gregory Tardy “Sufficient Grace”  (WJ3)
76. Miguel Zenon “Musica de Las Americas”  (Miel)
77. Joey Alexander “Origin”  (Mack Avenue)
78. Snorre Kirk Quartet with Stephen Riley “Going Up” (Stunt)
79. Oscar Peterson “A Time for Love: Live in Helsinki 1987” (Mack Avenue)
80. Joe Alterman The Upside of Down”  (Rope-a-Dope)
81. Ethan Iverson “Every Note is True”  (Blue Note)
82. Troy Roberts “Nu-Jive: Nations United”  (Toy Robot)
83. Jeremy Manasia Trio “Butcher Block Ballet”  (BluJazz)
84. Chris Mondak “Glass Spheres”  (Summit)
85. Samara Joy “Linger Awhile”  (Verve)
86. Doug Scarborough “The Color of Angels”  (Origin)
87. Karl Silveira “A Porta Aperta”  (Karl Silveira)
88. Steve Cardenas, Ben Allison & Ted Nash “Healing Power: The Music of Carla Bley”  (Sunnyside)