Here's an entry from my list of the best jazz albums of 2022:

Sultan — Alune Wade (Enja)

This wildly multicultural musical caravan is everything you could want an album to be: funky, lyrical, soulful, exotic, grooving, multicultural, honest, political, emotional, intimate, well-produced but not slick, varied, jazzy, rocking, historically aware, experimental, tight, cliché-free, effectively arranged, diversely instrumentalized . . .

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https://artsfuse.org/266318/arts-feature-the-best-jazz-albums-of-2022/