2022 in jazz

This is a timeline documenting events of jazz in the year 2022.

• April 3 - The 64th Annual Grammy Awards occur.

• April 29 - After being cancelled in 2020 and 2021 due to COVID-19, JazzFest reopens

• April 29 - Domi and JD Beck sign a contract with Anderson .Paak's label APESHIT in partnership with Blue Note Records and release their debut single "SMiLE"

• April 30 - International Jazz Day occurs with a concert at the United Nations directed by Herbie Hancock

• May 26 - Subgenre MUMBLE JAZZ is invented with Unc D's single HPHCPH.MMBL. MUMBLE JAZZ mixes jazz scatting with autotune modern hip hop flow.

• June 1 - Sons of Kemet announced the band would be dispanding after their final live tours this year, making Black To The Future from 2021 their final studio album

• July 26 - Geri Allen is inducted into the DownBeat hall of fame

• July 29 - July 31 - The 2022 Blue Note Jazz Festival occurs hosted by Dave Chappelle.

• Jon Batiste wins top Jazz Artist in the 70th Annual DownBeat critics poll, Charles Lloyd & The Marvels wins top Jazz group

• The 65th Monterey Jazz Festival Occurs

• October 1 to November 12 - Snarky Puppy set to go on tour in Europe to support their September 30 Album Empire Central

• October 6 to November 12 - French Kiwi Juice set to go on a North American tour

• October 10 - Domi and JD Beck start their first ever live tour in their hometown of Dallas, Texas and quickly sell out

• October 20 - Fergus McCreadie wins the Scottish Album of the Year Award for his album Forest Floor

• October 21 - Finding The Right Notes, a PBS documentary about the life of Ron Carter, releases

• October 28 - Black And Blues, a documentary about the life of Louis Armstrong, releases

• November 30 - The New York Times ranks Cécile McLorin Salvant's Ghost Song as the best jazz album of 2022, followed by Immanuel Wilkins' The 7th Hand in #2

• December 21 - NPR Music ranks Domi and JD Beck's NOT TiGHT in the top 10 albums of 2022 at #10

• December 30 - The Guardian ranks Charles Lloyd's Trios: Sacred Thread as the best jazz album of 2022, followed by Mary Halvorson's Amaryllis/Belladonna (treated as one album) in #2

• December 30 - Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force's 2021 album Dear Love ends off the year at the #1 spot with most radio airplay of the year as documented by JazzWeek.

Makaya McCraven, who released In These Times, one of the most acclaimed albums of 2022. Photo taken in 2013

The 64th Annual Grammy Awards were held on April 3, 2022, honoring the best recordings, compositions, and artists from September 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021, as chosen by the members of the Recording Academy.

Best Improvised Jazz Solo

• "Humpty Dumpty (Set 2)" – Chick Corea
• "Sackodougou" – Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah
• "Kick Those Feet" – Kenny Barron
• "Bigger Than Us" – Jon Batiste
• "Absence" – Terence Blanchard

Best Jazz Vocal Album

• Songwrights Apothecary Lab – Esperanza Spalding
• Generations – The Baylor Project
• SuperBlue – Kurt Elling and Charlie Hunter
• Time Traveler – Nnenna Freelon
• Flor – Gretchen Parlato

Best Jazz Instrumental Album

• Skyline – Ron Carter, Jack DeJohnette and Gonzalo Rubalcaba
• Jazz Selections: Music from and Inspired by Soul – Jon Batiste
• Absence – Terence Blanchard featuring the E Collective and the Turtle Island Quartet
• Akoustic Band Live – Chick Corea, John Patitucci and Dave Weckl
• Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) – Pat Metheny

Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album

• For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver – Christian McBride Big Band
• Live at Birdland! – The Count Basie Orchestra directed by Scotty Barnhart
• Dear Love – Jazzmeia Horn and her Noble Force
• Swirling – Sun Ra Arkestra
• Jackets XL – Yellowjackets + WDR Big Band

Best Latin Jazz Album

• Mirror Mirror – Eliane Elias with Chick Corea and Chucho Valdés
• The South Bronx Story – Carlos Henriquez
• Virtual Birdland – Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra
• Transparency – Dafnis Prieto Sextet
• El Arte del Bolero – Miguel Zenón and Luis Perdomo

Fred Van Hove, who died January 13

• January 13 – Fred Van Hove, 84, Belgian jazz musician

• February 21 – Ernie Andrews, Jazz and R&B singer

• March 8 - Ron Miles, 58, jazz trumpeter, cornetist, and composer

• June 3 – Grachan Moncur III, 85, American jazz musician

• June 14 – Meghan Stabile, 39, American jazz producer/marketer

• July 9 – Barbara Thompson, 77, British jazz saxophonist, flautist and composer

• July 19 – Michael Henderson, 71, American jazz fusion bassist

• July 25 – Milenko Stefanović, 92, Serbian classical and jazz clarinetist

• August 9 – Della Griffin, 100, American jazz vocalist and drummer

• August 10 – Abdul Wadud, 75, American jazz cellist

• August 18 – Rolf Kühn, 92, German jazz clarinetist and saxophonist

• August 22 – Fredy Studer, 74, Swiss percussionist

• August 22 – Jaimie Branch, 39, American jazz trumpeter

• August 25 - Joey DeFrancesco, 51, Jazz Organist and Multi Instrumentalist

• September 12 - Ramsey Lewis, 87, Jazz pianist, composer, and radio personality

• September 24 - Pharoah Sanders, 81, Tenor Saxophonist

• October 30 - Anthony Ortega, 94, clarinetist, saxophonist, and flautist.

• November 16 - Mick Goodrick, 77, jazz guitarist and music teacher

• Lists of 2022 albums

• List of jazz festivals

• List of years in jazz

• 2022 in music