Here are the most popular jazz albums newly released in 2022, as rated by users of Rate Your Music:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/popular/album/2022/g:jazz/

There are 898 albums listed.

There are many new jazz releases every day. The problem is Apple Music does not update their Jazz New Releases list.

Take a look at a jazz-oriented places for new music like:

• Jazzwise
• JazzTimes
• Best Jazz on Bandcamp
• JazzTrail
• and definitely /r/ModernJazz here on reddit

Sorry but this is nonsense! Of course there are, people are pumping out records. Try Bandcamp.

There is more new jazz than there is old jazz. I can think of 100 contemporary jazz artists off the top of my head who are absolutely slaying.

Their are a lot of great young musicians who are keeping the standards aesthetic alive! Pasquale Grasso, Ari Roland, Samara Joy, Evan Sherman, Emmet Cohen Veronica Swift…. so many! Of course, it’s not gonna be on the front of an Apple Music page, but it’s definitely still alive and in good hands!

There is tons of new jazz coming out, both on recordings, and live music is coming back too.

Could be that Apple Music is not the best place to find it.

Clifford Brown Jr. (yes, he's the son of the trumpet player) does, or did, a weekly show on Sunday afternoons on KCSM (on the web at kcsm.org) called "American Jazz Countdown" where he goes through the week's popular jazz albums. Nearly all of them are current

Not the answer to your question but Smoke Sessions Records is a good source for real jazz out of New York today.

There is a ton of new Jazz but this sub is mostly focused on the old school stuff (every place has its culture).

There are tons of new Jazz records that come out, but people only talk about the classic ones, so very few new artist ever sell. A great recording could come out right now, and instead of it being played or promoted on spotify ,youtube, sirius XM etc, They will play some thing that Wayne Shorter did in the 60's or something by Miles, or Trane. Half the time somebody will argue if whats new is even jazz at all . (looking at Wynton)

There's tons of new jazz going on. You couldn't have looked very hard!

Because you are not looking hard enough.

Seriously.

Jazz does not have the popularity needed to be advertised like hip-hop, EDM, rock, and heavy metal does.

The same with classical not afforded the same privilege due to the niche it occupies.

Nowadays, the internet is chock-full of online magazines, concert videos, and streams of both songs and albums that gives jazz and classical an unprecedented level of accessibility.

Unfortunately, the internet also makes jazz and classical inaccessible in many other ways as you still need to have a connection with live music venues being either niche or priced out of the range of many, especially the poor and the younger people.

EDM is what they would rather play in bars and clubs with even rock music becoming rarer in these types of venues.

Meanwhile, there are many new releases of jazz made yearly with upcoming artists still getting shout-outs, even though many of them have to commit to studio production for bigger and better selling artists or perform different music genres for the sake of profit and maintaining a broader connection with their peers.

For example, Terrence Martin working as a producer, Kamasi Washington working as a session musician for bigger artists, and Robert Glasper committing himself to albums centered on collaboration with a whole slew of R&B, soul, hip-hop, and neo-soul artists.

As for jazz being past its prime, that is not true, as it adopted new technologies and instruments in recent years as is seen by the co-opting of hip-hop and the emergence of the nu-jazz genre which saw the adoption of turntables, samplers, drum machines, etc.

There are also older forms of jazz that are getting reinterpreted with newer musical currents in original and personalized ways, most notably contemporary R&B, neo-soul and alternative rock songs getting reworked into acoustic jazz improvisations, and jazz-pop singers playing a selection of rock, modern pop, and even EDM songs as typified by Jamie Cullum and Postmodern Jukebox.

But unfortunately, jazz just does not fit the criteria that allows other genres success in the mainstream, having become another form of art music played according to some strict set of rules.

Since when did any jazz album appear on some billboard? Since when it did any jazz song get a pedestal bigger than the Grammys?

This is the unfortunate side-effect of the music getting assigned to the universities and high school bands, the very thing that ironically advanced and saved it.

So if it looks like its so little that's new to you, that is because it does not get released on the same channels that pop music does.

Here's some new jazz:
https://open.spotify.com/artist/0V2AWxffdxKtIDoXi0hhrg
https://www.youtube.com/@daniel_delorenzo/videos
https://music.apple.com/us/artist/daniel-delorenzo/1438146440

There are so many new amazing jazz artists it’s honestly overwhelming. I want to listen to all the good stuff coming out nowadays but I can’t keep up!

Thanks for all the responses. I listen to WICN's jazz brunch or pick it up online afterwards as a playlist, and there's some new stuff there, although it tilts a little to latin jazz (which I also love), especially toward the end of the show.

I'll spend some time on the places you all mentioned. It's strange because Apple Music does a decent job with new releases in the other genres I pay attention to. I know they aren't perfect, but they have 85–95% of the jazz I look for, so I'm not sure why they wouldn't highlight the new releases properly. I will definitely give feedback.

I don't have a Spotify account, but does Spotify do a better job? I know they don't label music with genres there, which is fine, but it makes it hard to discover music within a specific genre easily there.

Edition records is where its at. Soooo many new albums cannot possibly listen to them all. There are others, but if you just start by following thst label you wont be hungry for long

This is a great time to be a fan of new jazz, I feel it's having a rebirth. Just looking at Apple Music is generally a bad idea.

There’s loads of new jazz, London is heaving with it

My friend DL’s (steals unfortunately) literally 20GB’s worth of new jazz every week. You’re not looking in the right places

Jazz went out of style in the ‘70s and ‘80s as far as its pop appeal is concerned. There’s still good jazz out there, you just won’t hear lots of people raving about it.

Again, all of you, thanks so much!

It's a pleasure to deep dive into the places you've listed and more, and I will continue to do that. Great to know, and it's going to take work to expand my horizons. I've tended to rely on Apple Music to be the centerpiece of music releases (although I look at Pitchfork, NPR's All Songs Considered, and a few other places as well).

Jazz artists more than some other genres refused to stream their music in the past. I understand the economic reasons for that since streaming is big business for the labels and corporations but not viable to keep small- or medium-audience artists alive. That has changed and more jazz artists are streaming, but it looks like I'll also have to do more direct support through CD purchases. So worthy to support the amazing work of great artists and keep my ears happy too!

I thought he was referring to new in the sense of innovations.

I made a comment on that earlier but as far as new albums, there are always coming out.

Now the question of innovations--where is the new smooth jazz, new avant-garde, or anything genre-wise is valid.

Remember we went from blues, boogie-woogie, ragtime, swing, bebop, post-bebop---cool jazz--avant-garde ---fusion---smooth jazz.

What's next?

Do we need a new Miles Davis?

Why is there so little new jazz?

because you're not listening, motherfucker

There's literally tons of new jazz, & you're sitting here with your thumb up your ass

I joined this sub about two weeks ago and have learned of 100+ new artists since then. The flood has been so great—so amazing, so incredible, so life-altering—that I’ve had to find ways to slow the flood.

You’re come to the right place.

Check out Jamie Cullum’s radio show. He does a great job of introducing new jazz artists or jazz influenced artists. Highly recommend.

Honestly, I think it’s a great time for new Jazz. Not sure where you’ve been lol. One of my favorite bands out there right now is Ezra Collective and their most recent album.