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2022 began off rather well. A bunch of nice albums got here out in January, together with alto saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins\u2019 The seventh Hand<\/em>; bassist Luke Stewart\u2019s The Bottom<\/em>; the Matthew Shipp\/Michael Bisio duo Flow Of Everything<\/em>; 2 Blues For Cecil<\/em> by the trio of trumpeter Enrico Rava, bassist William Parker, and drummer Andrew Cyrille; John Zorn and Bill Laswell\u2019s first assortment of duos, The Cleansing<\/em>; and Historic Music Past Tense Future<\/em>, an archival recording by Peter Br\u00f6tzmann, Parker, and Milford Graves. I hosted a streaming occasion on New Year\u2019s Day, the Burning Ambulance Festival, that included performances from bassist William Parker, saxophonists Muriel Grossmann, Rodrigo Amado, and Patrick Shiroishi, pianist Lisa Ull\u00e9n, drummer Gard Nilssen\u2019s trio Acoustic Unity (see the listing under), and plenty of different musicians from the worlds of jazz, avant-garde improv, noise, and digital music. In February, my e-book Ugly Beauty: Jazz In The twenty first Century<\/a><\/em>, which I\u2019d spent most of 2021 writing, got here out. The yr held unimaginable promise.<\/p>\n And actually, it turned out to be a really robust yr for jazz. There have been a variety of main deaths, sadly; we misplaced saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Charles Brackeen; trumpeter Jaimie Branch, pianists Ramsey Lewis, Fred Van Hove, cellist Abdul Wadud, organist Joey DeFrancesco, vibraphonist Khan Jamal; and three key figures from Miles Davis\u2019s electrical period: bassist Michael Henderson, percussionist James Mtume, and Betty Davis, the funk singer who launched Miles to Jimi Hendrix, modified his private model, and impressed two key albums, Filles de Kilimanjaro<\/em> and Bitches Brew<\/em>. But each month noticed a string of spectacular albums that pushed the music ahead, and key reissues and archival releases, essentially the most notable of which, for me anyway, have been Cecil Taylor\u2019s The Complete, Legendary, Live, Return Concert At The Town Hall NYC<\/em> November 4, 1973, Albert Ayler\u2019s Revelations: The Complete ORTF 1970 Fondation Maeght Recordings<\/em>, the Pyramids\u2019 AOMAWA: The Seventies Recordings<\/em>, and bassist Sirone\u2019s Artistry<\/em>.<\/p>\n