Best of 2022

WRTI hosts picked their favorite tunes from some of 2022's best albums. Here is the schedule of highlights, running every night from Dec. 26 through the New Years Eve.

From Snacktime to Chestnut (as in Cyrus), here are some of the albums and experiences that inspired our jazz hosts in 2022.

Here are the albums and experiences representing just a handful of musical moments that stopped WRTI's Classical hosts in their tracks this year.

After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.

Poet and critic Harmony Holiday spent her year interviewing descendants and torchbearers, finding that the soul of jazz needs preserving offstage and outside of the booth.

For Larry Blumenfeld, the story of Sorey this year was one of a MacArthur genius reconciling his universe of talent and ambition into a singular expression.

Marcus J. Moore reflects on the studio debut of pianist Julius Rodriguez, an artist seamlessly commingling jazz with more pop forms.

Nate Chinen, editorial director for WRTI, shares some of his favorite music of the year.