The Roots Music Report's
Top Jazz Song Chart
for the Year of 2022
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | War & Insufficient Peace - Jeanne Ricks | Sonic Portraits Jazz Various Artists | Contemporary Jazz |
| 2 | Witch Touch (feat. Mauricio Zottarelli) | Shiri Zorn & George Muscatello | Jazz |
| 3 | Old Brazil (feat. Duncan Lamont) | Beverley Beirne | Jazz |
| 4 | Soul Friend (feat. Sara Caswell) | Dave Stryker | Crossover Jazz |
| 5 | Monk’s Dream | Edward Simon | Jazz |
| 6 | Peak (feat. Alejo Poveda & Ruben Alvarez) | George Freeman | Jazz |
| 7 | Big Mac (feat. Randy Brecker) [Bonus Track] | Steve Slagle | Contemporary Jazz |
| 8 | Hey Friend (feat. Scott Kinsey, Leonardo Amuedo, Hadrien Feraud, Alexey Nikolaev & Gary Novak) | Elena Maque | Crossover Jazz |
| 9 | Better Get It in Your Soul | Blue Moods | Jazz |
| 10 | There Will Never Be Another You | Eliane Elias | Jazz |
| 11 | Findango | Take 2 | Traditional Jazz |
| 12 | Wouldn't Be Here Without You (feat. Mark Buselli) | Brent Laidler | Contemporary Jazz |
| 13 | Jazz Woman | Nancy Kelly | Contemporary Jazz |
| 14 | Homeward Bound (For Ana Grace) | Johnathan Blake | Jazz |
| 15 | The Phantom in the in Crowd | Cory Weeds | Jazz |
| 16 | Out of Nowhere | Bill Charlap Trio | Jazz |
| 17 | Soul Dancing | Joey DeFrancesco | Jazz |
| 18 | New Love | Charnett Moffett | Jazz |
| 19 | Big George | Nicholas Payton | Jazz |
| 20 | The Fat Man | Gerry Gibbs | Jazz |
| 21 | So Danço Samba (feat. Aubrey Johnson) | Yaron Gershovsky | Crossover Jazz |
| 22 | Falling in Love with Love | Mike Clark & Michael Zilber | Jazz |
| 23 | The New Abnormal | Shawn Maxwell | Jazz |
| 24 | Doodlin' | Jonathan Bauer | Jazz |
| 25 | More Elders (feat. the E-Collective & Turtle Island Quartet) | Terence Blanchard | Jazz |
| 26 | Shura | Alex Sipiagin | Jazz |
| 27 | No Moon at All | Joshua Jern Jazz Orchestra | Jazz |
| 28 | Number 9 (feat. Cyrus Chestnut, Kimon Karoutzos & Gary Kerkezou) | Francesco Amenta | Jazz |
| 29 | L.A. Blues | Dennis Mitcheltree | Jazz |
| 30 | After the Sleep of Lies | Julian Gerstin | Jazz |
| 31 | Marimbista | Jenny Klukken | Jazz |
| 32 | Bird’s Song (Relaxin’ at Camarillo) | Roseanna Vitro | Jazz |
| 33 | News Blues | Greg Amirault | Jazz |
| 34 | I Needs to Be Bee'd with (Live) | The Count Basie Orchestra | Jazz |
| 35 | Be Still, My Soul (feat. Karly Epp) | Earl MacDonald | Jazz |
| 36 | Fire & Rain (feat. Vinnie Colaiuta, John Beasley, Rick Margitza, Alex Acuña & Jon Cowherd) | John Patitucci & Andy James | Jazz |
| 37 | Idle Moments (Live) | Jim Snidero | Contemporary Jazz |
| 38 | Wray | Montreal Jazz Trio | Contemporary Jazz |
| 39 | I Remember Clifford (Live) | Roy Hargrove & Mulgrew Miller | Contemporary Jazz |
| 40 | Joy of Life | Jeannine Otis | Classic Jazz |
| 41 | Green Dolphin Street | Chris Standring | Classic Jazz |
| 42 | A Seat at the Table (Words by Bertha Hope) [Music with Commentary] | Jeremy Pelt | Crossover Jazz |
| 43 | Lighthouse (feat. Elena Pinderhughes) | Immanuel Wilkins | Jazz |
| 44 | Phone Dies | Andra Day | Jazz |
| 45 | Easy Walker (Live) | Houston Person | Jazz |
| 46 | Dat Dere (Live at Hibiya Public Hall, Tokyo, Japan 1/14/61) | Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Jazz |
| 47 | Mulberry Tree | Jackson Potter | Contemporary Jazz |
| 48 | Escapade | Diego Rivera | Jazz |
| 49 | Pillar of Fire | Kristen R. Bromley Quintet | Traditional Jazz |
| 50 | Going Back to New Orleans | Catherine Russell | Contemporary Jazz |
| 51 | These Foolish Things | Roseanna Vitro | Jazz |
| 52 | Hope Sweet Hope (feat. Danny Gottlieb & Jacob Jezioro) | Pat Coil | Traditional Jazz |
| 53 | Hindsight is 2020 | Jackson Potter | Contemporary Jazz |
| 54 | Blue Visions | The Todd Herbert Quartet | Contemporary Jazz |
| 55 | But Not for Me (Live) | Erroll Garner | Jazz |
| 56 | Warpath | Grant Ferguson | Fusion |
| 57 | Love Who You Love | The DIVA Jazz Orchestra | Big Band |
| 58 | What's Happening Brother | Michael Stephenson & Alexander Claffy | Contemporary Jazz |
| 59 | Arioso | Yoron Israel | Jazz |
| 60 | Freedom March / for John Lewis | Band of Other Brothers | Jazz |
| 61 | Musa (feat. Paco Soto, Sullivan Fortner, Eric Wheeler, Joe Dyson & Sabú Porrina) | Lauren Henderson | Contemporary Jazz |
| 62 | 24-7 | Alex Brown | Contemporary Jazz |
| 63 | City of Sounds | Joe Farnsworth | Classic Jazz |
| 64 | Ah-Bop | Gene Ess | Modern Jazz |
| 65 | Follow Your Road | Hope Diamond | Contemporary Jazz |
| 66 | Bluesthetic | Steve Davis | Jazz |
| 67 | Moon Song | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Jazz |
| 68 | Carlos | Ronnie Foster | Contemporary Jazz |
| 69 | Wt!... | Tom Kubis Big Band | Jazz |
| 70 | In Walked Bud (feat. Mike Eckroth, Daisuke Abe, Yoshi Waki & Brian Fishler) | Kenny Shanker | Jazz |
| 71 | It Don't Mean a Thing | Mercer Hassy Orchestra | Jazz |
| 72 | Freedom Jazz Dance (feat. Manuel Valera & Mike Clark) | Leon Lee Dorsey | Jazz |
| 73 | Love for Sale | Tony Bennett | Jazz |
| 74 | African Skies (feat. Tod Dickow) [Live] | Charged Particles | Jazz |
| 75 | Avalabop | Bob James | Jazz |
| 76 | Hard Times (feat. Jeff Tain Watts) | Michael Feinberg | Jazz |
| 77 | King of Hearts | Troy Roberts | Contemporary Jazz |
| 78 | Bluedemic | Slide Attack | Contemporary Jazz |
| 79 | Beatnik (feat. Bob Mintzer) | Ray Obiedo | Smooth Jazz |
| 80 | Sounds from the Ancestors | Kenny Garrett | Classic Jazz |
| 81 | Natural Mystic | Acute Inflections | Crossover Jazz |
| 82 | Despedida: Del Mar (feat. the Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble) | Arturo O'Farrill | Latin Jazz |
| 83 | Goodbye Pork Pie Hat | Benjamin Schnake Ensemble | Latin Jazz |
| 84 | I'm Confessin' (That I Love You) | David Finck | Traditional Jazz |
| 85 | See You at 8 | David Larsen | Traditional Jazz |
| 86 | Funkafarian | Troy Roberts | Contemporary Jazz |
| 87 | Talk to Your Daughter | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 88 | Maputo | Bob James | Jazz |
| 89 | Help the Poor | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 90 | Revelation | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 91 | Born Under a Bad Sign | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 92 | Getaway | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 93 | Third Prayer | George Burton | Jazz |
| 94 | Loser (feat. Bob Weir) | Dave McMurray | Jazz |
| 95 | Vortex | Kenny Shanker | Contemporary Jazz |
| 96 | Bullfrog Burp | Jim Dedrick | Modern Jazz |
| 97 | Low Funk (feat. Tatsu Aoki) | George Freeman | Jazz |
| 98 | Work Song | John DePaola Quartet | Traditional Jazz |
| 99 | Let It Be | Xiomara Torres | Jazz |
| 100 | Trinity Dance (Part Three) | Miró Henry Sobrer | Contemporary Jazz |
| 101 | Move over | Nancy Kelly | Traditional Jazz |
| 102 | For McCoy | Henry Godfrey Jazz Orchestra | Big Band |
| 103 | New York Minute | Angela O'Neill and the Outrageous8 | Big Band |
| 104 | Topaz | Cortez/Williams Project | Latin Jazz |
| 105 | Sierre (Live) | T.S. Monk | Contemporary Jazz |
| 106 | Polka Dot Pinup | Brian Charette | Jazz |
| 107 | Halleluja I Love Him So | Angela O'Neill and the Outrageous8 | Big Band |
| 108 | Alone Again Naturally | Marco Pignataro's Dream Alliance | Crossover Jazz |
| 109 | Come Together | Minas | Latin Jazz |
| 110 | Tone Colors (feat. Rick Roe) | Randy Napoleon | Contemporary Jazz |
| 111 | Mr. Gentle and Mr. Cool (feat. Kellin Hanas & Gianna Pedregon) | NYO Jazz | Jazz |
| 112 | La Cumbia De MacArthur Park | Will Lyle | Jazz |
| 113 | Calypso Trisha | Benn Clatworthy System 6 | Jazz |
| 114 | Five 'O Clock in the Morning (Live) | The Count Basie Orchestra | Jazz |
| 115 | Estrada Do Sol | Antonio Adolfo | Latin Jazz |
| 116 | Todo Se Acabó (feat. Barbarito Torres Y Su Piquete Cubano & Teresa Yanet Péres) | Dayramir Gonzalez | Latin Jazz |
| 117 | Brigitte | David Janeway | Traditional Jazz |
| 118 | Blue Steel | The Jazz Professors | Traditional Jazz |
| 119 | On the Horizon | Joey Alexander | Jazz |
| 120 | Northern Lights | Yaron Gershovsky | Crossover Jazz |
| 121 | Beyond Darkness (feat. Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan) [Live] | Charles Lloyd | Jazz |
| 122 | Corridors | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz |
| 123 | Little Angel (feat. Georgia Heers) | Griffin Woodard Group | Modern Jazz |
| 124 | It's All Your Fault (feat. Big Band) | Mike LeDonne | Jazz |
| 125 | Angelitos Negros | Ermelinda Cuellar | Latin Jazz |
| 126 | Amour, Amour | Melissa Errico | Traditional Jazz |
| 127 | Twilight Surfer | Julian Lage | Jazz |
| 128 | Mystic Mud | The Andy Rothstein Band | Fusion |
| 129 | Bird & Magic (feat. Derrek Phillips, Chris Wood & Nigel Hall) | Jeff Coffin | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 130 | Heart | The DIVA Jazz Orchestra | Big Band |
| 131 | Furtive | Mike Miller | Fusion |
| 132 | I Want to Talk About You | John Scofield | Jazz |
| 133 | Big Foot (feat. Joshua Redman) | Tigran Hamasyan | Jazz |
| 134 | We'll Get There | Henry Godfrey Jazz Orchestra | Big Band |
| 135 | Quase 9 (feat. Ralph Moore, Helio Alves, Mauricio Zottarelli, André Vasconcellos & Emilio Martins) | Sergio Pereira | Latin Jazz |
| 136 | Man in Motion | Charlton Singleton | Jazz |
| 137 | These Love Notes | Monty Alexander | Jazz |
| 138 | A Child is Born (feat. Serge Merlaud & Hubert Laws) | Tierney Sutton | Jazz |
| 139 | Latin Silver | David Larsen | Traditional Jazz |
| 140 | 17 18 19 | Ibibio Sound Machine | Fusion |
| 141 | Blues | The Andy Rothstein Band | Fusion |
| 142 | Dark Blues | Gene Ess | Modern Jazz |
| 143 | Between Canyon Walls | Kristen R. Bromley Quintet | Traditional Jazz |
| 144 | Waltz | Gene Ess | Modern Jazz |
| 145 | Generation Whatever (feat. Steve Hunt & John Carlson) | Randy Roos, Mike Rossi and Tim Gilmore | Fusion |
| 146 | Countdown | Alexander McCabe | Traditional Jazz |
| 147 | On the Dot (feat. Jim Snidero, Orrin Evans, Boris Kozlov & Donald Edwards) | Brian Lynch | Jazz |
| 148 | The Hague | Micah Graves | Crossover Jazz |
| 149 | Pull Your Pants Up | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | Contemporary Jazz |
| 150 | Exploración | Brian Grace | Contemporary Jazz |
| 151 | I'm Gonna Laugh You Right out of My Life | CeCe Gable | Traditional Jazz |
| 152 | Reindeer Glue | Mike Miller | Fusion |
| 153 | Wanderlust | Ana Nelson | Contemporary Jazz |
| 154 | Mind Melder | Troy Roberts | Contemporary Jazz |
| 155 | Triplet | Andy Adamson Quintet | Modern Jazz |
| 156 | Misty | Samara Joy | Traditional Jazz |
| 157 | Stand by Me | Marco Pignataro's Dream Alliance | Crossover Jazz |
| 158 | Shiny Stockings | Domi Edson Trio | Traditional Jazz |
| 159 | The Moon Singer | Thomas Heflin | Contemporary Jazz |
| 160 | Sabor a Mi | Ermelinda Cuellar | Latin Jazz |
| 161 | The Visit (Live) | Chris Cortez | Contemporary Jazz |
| 162 | Dreams Are Real | Dave Stryker | Crossover Jazz |
| 163 | Surprised by Joy | Ernesto Cervini | Jazz |
| 164 | Bleeding Tears | Scott Kinsey and Mer Sal | Fusion |
| 165 | Trance | Gene Ess | Modern Jazz |
| 166 | Git Along | Butcher Brown | Crossover Jazz |
| 167 | Flow My Tears | Stuart Hamm | Fusion |
| 168 | Hello | Stuart Hamm | Fusion |
| 169 | Groove O'clock Time | Kristen R. Bromley Quintet | Traditional Jazz |
| 170 | Bumpin' on Sunset | Wes Montgomery | Jazz |
| 171 | New York Attitude | Joe Farnsworth | Classic Jazz |
| 172 | Highlining (feat. Eddie Roberts & Lamar Williams Jr.) | New Mastersounds | Jazz |
| 173 | Dime Store Novel | Yuma Jazz Company | Jazz |
| 174 | Back at Ya | Norman Brown | Smooth Jazz |
| 175 | Jaramillo Blues (For Virginia and Danny) [feat. Anthony Wilson & Gerald Clayton] [Live] | Charles Lloyd | Jazz |
| 176 | Sdpm | The Andy Rothstein Band | Fusion |
| 177 | Dusk (feat. Sarah Marie Young, Sharon Irving & ATLYS) | Andrew Vogt | Crossover Jazz |
| 178 | Checkin' My Heart | Melissa Errico | Traditional Jazz |
| 179 | Manteca | George Freeman | Jazz |
| 180 | Step Down | The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble | Contemporary Jazz |
| 181 | Quick Pix (feat. Darryl Jones & Richard Patterson) | Frank Russell | Jazz |
| 182 | Open Plans | Al Foster | Jazz |
| 183 | Hallucinations (Budo) | Bobby Broom | Jazz |
| 184 | Young Moon | Connie Han | Contemporary Jazz |
| 185 | Low Hanging Fruit (feat. Tim Lefebvre & Christian Euman) | Rachel Eckroth | Contemporary Jazz |
| 186 | Onwards | Jasper Hoiby | Contemporary Jazz |
| 187 | El Guararey De Pastora (feat. Haila) | Dayramir Gonzalez | Latin Jazz |
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