Episode 214, Countdown: Top 10 Albums of 2022 (According to ‘experts ’).

I’ve tabulated the results of 97 reviewers and their top 10 albums lists for 2022. Here are the albums followed by the number of votes each one received.

Mary Halvorson: Amaryllis (also Belladonna…not quite so often) 31Cecille McLorin Salvant: Ghost Songs 28Immanuel Wilkins: Seventh Hand 26Makaya McCraven: In these Times 23Tyshawn Sorey Trio: Mesmerism 15Charles Lloyd: trio of Trios–Chapel 15Redman, Mehldau, McBride, Blade: Long Gone 14Samara Joy: Linger While 14Nduduzo Makhatini: In the Spirit of Ntu 13Terri Lyne Carrington: New Standards Vol. 1 13Melissa Aldana: 12 Stars 10Binker & Moses: Feeding the Machine 9Keith Jarrett: Bordeaux Concert 9Joel Ross: Parable of The Poet 9William Parker: Universal Tonality 8Sun Ra Arkestra: Living Sky 8Jeff Parker: Mondays at the Enfield Tennis Academy 8The Comet is Coming: Hyper Dimensional…. 8Myra Melford: For The Love of Fire and Water 8Avishai Cohen Trio: Shifting Sands 8Charles Mingus: Lost Album from Ronnie Scott’s 8Ahmad Jamal: Emerald City Nights 8Miles Davis Bootleg Series 8–That’s What Happened. 8

On this episode I play a track from eight of the top 10 ranked albums, plus two Canadian albums that were mentioned on some ‘top 10’ lists. The Canadian albums are The Ostara Project, and Neil Swainson’s ‘Fire in the West’.