My favorite 20 albums for 2023.

• Áron Tálas - New Questions, Old Answers
• ARTEMIS - In Real Time
• Ben Wendel - All One
• Billy Childs - The Winds of Change
• Bobby Sanabria - Vox Humana
• Chuck Owen - Renderings
• Clark Sommers - Feast Ephemera
• Darcy James Argue - Maximum Dynamic Tension
• Hugues Mayot & L'Arbre Rouge - Invocations
• Jalen Baker - Be Still
• Kenny Barron - The Source
• Lakecia Benjamin - Phoenix
• Lauren Henderson - Conjuring
• Leon Foster Thomas - Calasanitus
• Nicole Zuraitis - How Love Begins
• Peter Somuah - Letter to the Universe
• Sammy Figueroa - Searching For A Memory (Busco Tu Recuerdo)
• Tim Garland & Jason Rebello - Life to Life
• Vince Mendoza - Olympians
• Walter Smith III - return to casual

Read my summary for the year in Jazz on 33third.org