The Roots Music Report's
Top Contemporary Jazz Song Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | War & Insufficient Peace - Jeanne Ricks | Sonic Portraits Jazz Various Artists |
| 2 | Big Mac (feat. Randy Brecker) [Bonus Track] | Steve Slagle |
| 3 | The Night Has a Thousand Eyes | Lorraina Marro |
| 4 | Wouldn't Be Here Without You (feat. Mark Buselli) | Brent Laidler |
| 5 | Jazz Woman | Nancy Kelly |
| 6 | Idle Moments (Live) | Jim Snidero |
| 7 | Wray | Montreal Jazz Trio |
| 8 | I Remember Clifford (Live) | Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller |
| 9 | Mulberry Tree | Jackson Potter |
| 10 | Going Back to New Orleans | Catherine Russell |
| 11 | Hindsight is 2020 | Jackson Potter |
| 12 | Blue Visions | The Todd Herbert Quartet |
| 13 | What's Happening Brother | Michael Stephenson & Alexander Claffy |
| 14 | Musa (feat. Paco Soto, Sullivan Fortner, Eric Wheeler, Joe Dyson & Sabú Porrina) | Lauren Henderson |
| 15 | 24-7 | Alex Brown |
| 16 | Follow Your Road | Hope Diamond |
| 17 | Carlos | Ronnie Foster |
| 18 | King of Hearts | Troy Roberts |
| 19 | Bluedemic | Slide Attack |
| 20 | Funkafarian | Troy Roberts |
| 21 | Vortex | Kenny Shanker |
| 22 | Trinity Dance (Part Three) | Miró Henry Sobrer |
| 23 | Sierre (Live) | T.S. Monk |
| 24 | Tone Colors (feat. Rick Roe) | Randy Napoleon |
| 25 | Everybody in the World | Trombone Shorty |
| 26 | Pull Your Pants Up | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 27 | Exploración | Brian Grace |
| 28 | Wanderlust | Ana Nelson |
| 29 | Mind Melder | Troy Roberts |
| 30 | The Moon Singer | Thomas Heflin |
| 31 | The Visit (Live) | Chris Cortez |
| 32 | Step Down | The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble |
| 33 | Disco Ears | Joshua Redman |
| 34 | Young Moon | Connie Han |
| 35 | Low Hanging Fruit (feat. Tim Lefebvre & Christian Euman) | Rachel Eckroth |
| 36 | Onwards | Jasper Hoiby |
| 37 | Tell Me | Brendan Rothwell |
| 38 | My Romance | Amber Weekes |
| 39 | Simple #2 | Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio |
| 40 | Silk Road Music | Tunto |
| 41 | Bipolarious | Pablo Ablanedo |
| 42 | Different Strokes (Live) | Chris Cortez |
| 43 | Hunter | Kenny Shanker |
| 44 | Elation Now | Sandro Zerafa |
| 45 | Decoy | Gerah |
| 46 | Searching for a Place to Be | Henriette Müller |
| 47 | Peaceful Neighbors | Bogdan Gumenyuk |
| 48 | Something for Kenny | Roni Ben-Hur |
| 49 | In Common | The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble |
| 50 | Forward | Julian & Roman Wasserfuhr |
| 51 | Opus Pocus | Roberto Occhipinti |
| 52 | Speak Low | Hope Diamond |
| 53 | The Duke | Kenny Shanker |
| 54 | Gotta Get Up | Adam Hawley |
| 55 | Burkaan | Les Arrivants |
| 56 | Bicycle Ride | Ariane Racicot |
| 57 | Twilight | The Jazz Defenders |
| 58 | Cloud Groove | Karl Ivar Refseth Trio |
| 59 | Quarter Blues | Aaron Stroessner Quartet |
| 60 | Nine 2 Five | Nils |
| 61 | Yo Tengo | Paul Brown |
| 62 | Le Sucrier Velours (The Queen's Suite) | Steve Slagle |
| 63 | Impairment Process | Extended |
| 64 | The Gathering Storm | Brian Grace |
| 65 | Feed the Fire (with Harlem Quartet) | Helen Sung |
| 66 | Ascension | Sanja Markovic |
| 67 | Dig Up the Stories | Rebecca Hennessy |
| 68 | Heartland | Paul Shawn Quintet |
| 69 | Evident Monk | Jacek Kochan |
| 70 | Mosaic | Emmet Cohen |
| 71 | Sun Wall | The Bad Plus |
| 72 | Word for Word | Julian Lage |
| 73 | Sunalta | Jon McCaslin |
| 74 | East River | Sigmar Matthiasson |
| 75 | Time of the Barracudas | Alex LeFaivre Quartet |
| 76 | Wrongs | Dan Pitt Quintet |
| 77 | Haiku | Thomas Heflin |
| 78 | Only Now | Igor Butman |
| 79 | Arriving Home | Avishai Darash |
| 80 | The Rooster in Th Hat is Watching Tv | Adrien Chicot |
| 81 | What the Funk | Dan Harris |
| 82 | Here and Everywhere | Anne Pacéo |
| 83 | Eastern Avenue | Adema Manoukas Octet |
| 84 | Eventually (feat. Rachel Robinson) | Aaron Bazzell |
| 85 | The Diver | Simeon Davis Group |
| 86 | Dig | Way North |
| 87 | Reflections (feat. Randy Brecker) | Steve Slagle |
| 88 | Tribes & Tribulations | Troy Roberts |
| 89 | Big TT's Blues | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 90 | Pursuit | Xander Naylor |
| 91 | Lowdown | Manteca |
| 92 | Familiar Flower | Julian Lage |
| 93 | Wutnukcer | Greg Kavanagh.Peter Bleakney |
| 94 | Brendy's Run (Single) | Stu Weinberg |
| 95 | Law Hill | Fergus McCreadie |
| 96 | In a Sentimental Mood (single) | Carl Mayotte |
| 97 | Marshlands | Jerry Bergonzi |
| 98 | Ramble | Kenny Shanker |
| 99 | Unfurrowed Field | Fergus McCreadie |
| 100 | Dolphin's View | Alex Sipiagin |
| 101 | Night Shift | Mary Halvorson |
| 102 | Autumn in Long Beach | Brian Grace |
| 103 | Ereshkigal of the Underworld | Connie Han |
| 104 | Unquiet Respect | Patricia Brennan |
| 105 | Freedom Rhythm | Giovanni Angelini |
| 106 | Beyond the Seventh Galaxy | Chick Corea - Return to Forever |
| 107 | Keep on Keepin' on | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 108 | Wolfpack | Paul Brown |
| 109 | Missing Page (feat. Sarah Marie Young) Feat. Sarah Marie Young | Steve Million |
| 110 | The Jazzdiddy Waltz (feat. Quincy Davis) | Randy Napoleon |
| 111 | On the Stairs | Cory Weeds |
| 112 | Afro Blue | Beata Pater |
| 113 | Ain't That Love | Michael Stephenson & Alexander Claffy |
| 114 | Hazel's Hips | Amber Weekes |
| 115 | Good Morning Mr. Shmink | Lettuce |
| 116 | Mine or Blues | Makram Aboul Hosn |
| 117 | Brouhaha | Christian McBride |
| 118 | Caravan | Kristin Callahan |
| 119 | I Concentrate on You (feat. Paco Soto, Sullivan Fortner, Eric Wheeler & Joe Dyson) | Lauren Henderson |
| 120 | Increase and Persist | Aaron Bazzell |
| 121 | Falin Laglina | Ingi Bjarni |
| 122 | Grand Mesa | The Jon Cowherd Trio |
| 123 | The Rose of Shalamar (Live) | Chris Cortez |
| 124 | Risin' Up | Adam Hawley |
| 125 | What I Meant to Say | Steve Million |
| 126 | B Positive | Bob Baldwin |
| 127 | Slant Anagrams | Dana Fitzsimons |
| 128 | Waltse (feat. Christopher Pitts) | Evan Drybread |
| 129 | Fo Sho | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 130 | Fallin' | Trombone Shorty |
| 131 | Winter Song | Kenny Shanker |
| 132 | I'm Standing Here | Trombone Shorty |
| 133 | Overlook | Troy Roberts |
| 134 | Rokminoff | Beata Pater |
| 135 | Like Someone in Love | Jacqui Naylor |
| 136 | Just My Imagination (Live) | Hope Diamond |
| 137 | Blue Train | Susie Blue and the Lonesome Fellas |
| 138 | New Note (feat. Jeremy Pelt) | Steve Slagle |
| 139 | Cold As Weiss | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 140 | Circus (feat. Charlie Hunter) | Kurt Elling |
| 141 | The Tipster | Jeff Denson, Romain Pilon and Brian Blade |
| 142 | City by the Bay | Brent Laidler |
| 143 | Foo's Blues | Brent Laidler |
| 144 | Keeping It Simple | Brent Laidler |
| 145 | One More (A Samba) | Brent Laidler |
| 146 | Pretty Little Bossa | Brent Laidler |
| 147 | Sunday Mood | Brent Laidler |
| 148 | Walt's Waltz | Brent Laidler |
| 149 | You Ain't the Bossa Me | Brent Laidler |
| 150 | A Second Chance (Featuring Ned Boyd) | Brent Laidler |
| 151 | Wouldn't Be Here Without You (Featuring Mark Buselli) | Brent Laidler |
| 152 | Secret Sauce | Paul Brown |
| 153 | Carrying the Saxophones | Roger Lewis |
| 154 | Da Spot | Paul Brown |
| 155 | Elegance | Paul Brown |
| 156 | Promised Land | Paul Brown |
| 157 | Round and Round | Paul Brown |
| 158 | Hey Dude | Paul Brown |
| 159 | Cool Shades | Nils |
| 160 | West Wind | Beata Pater |
| 161 | Pace | Nubya Garcia |
| 162 | Freedom Song | Beata Pater |
| 163 | In the 6Th | Trombone Shorty |
| 164 | Capricci Di Camere | Cory Weeds |
| 165 | Keep Steppin Down | Brennen Schedler Quartet |
| 166 | Careless Whisper | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 167 | Rising over You | Chris Potter |
| 168 | Jaamm Rek | Julian Argüelles, Mário Laginha and Helge Andreas Norbakken |
| 169 | Echoes | Simon Chivallon |
| 170 | Cascade | Michael Mason |
| 171 | War Paint | Brian Woodruff Sextet |
| 172 | Round Midnight | Kristin Callahan |
| 173 | Olivia Benson | Brandee Younger |
| 174 | UFO | Igor Willcox Quartet |
| 175 | 3AM Breeze | Brennen Schedler Quartet |
| 176 | Freeway Doctor East | Brian Woodruff Sextet |
| 177 | Mental Maze | The May Fall Crew |
| 178 | Time Loops (with Harlem Quartet) | Helen Sung |
| 179 | That Old Feeling | Chick Corea Akoustic Band |
| 180 | Take Them on | The Bogie Band |
| 181 | Impairment Process | Extended Trio |
| 182 | Oddball (Radio Edit) | Thom Rotella |
| 183 | Chips & Slaw | Hughes Smith Quartet |
| 184 | Crosstalk | John Yoa's Triceratops |
| 185 | Send for Me | Catherine Russell |
| 186 | Let Go | The Unknowns |
| 187 | Bluesworthy | Jean Fineberg |
| 188 | Hikky Burr | The Jeff Benedict Big Big Band |
| 189 | The Nature of All Things | Zen Zadravec |
| 190 | The Total Experience | Boney James |
| 191 | No Go Sleep | Beata Pater |
| 192 | I Don't Know | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio |
| 193 | Chick's Tune | Cory Weeds |
| 194 | Yesterdays (Live) | Jim Snidero |
| 195 | Five Down Blues | The Kyle Asche Organ Trio |
| 196 | Lagniappe | Trombone Shorty |
| 197 | Morning Coffee | Herb Alpert |
| 198 | I'm Alive | Norah Jones |
| 199 | Tripped out Slim | Trombone Shorty |
| 200 | Blue in Green | Steve Slagle |
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