Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 24 January 2011
January 25, 2011 at 4:01 AM
Donna M in Blue Note 7, Clayton Brothers, Conrad Herwig, Cyrus Chestnut, Joe Lovano, Mary Stallings, Roberta Gambarini, Roger Davidson, Ryan Cohan

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1 RUSSELL MALONE Triple Play (MAXJAZZ)  

2 CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Mirror (ECM)

3 CYRUS CHESTNUT Journeys (JLP)

4 CASSANDRA WILSON Silver Pony (Blue Note)

5 LOUIS HAYES Lou’s Idea (American Showplace)

6 CLAYTON BROTHERS The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare)

7 HOUSTON PERSON Moment To Moment (HighNote)

8 KEVIN EUBANKS Zen Food (Mack Avenue)

9 BOB SHEPPARD Close Your Eyes (BFM Jazz) 

10 VIJAY IYER Solo (ActMusic)

11 BILL O’CONNELL Rhapsody In Blue (Challenge)

12 WAYNE WALLACE LATIN JAZZ 5TET To Hear From There (Patois)

13 DEFRANCESCO BROTHERS The DeFrancesco Brothers (Vectordisc)

14 LUTHER HUGHES & THE CANNONBALL-COLTRANE PROJECT Things Are Getting Better (Primrose Lane)

 15 JOE LOVANO Bird Songs (Blue Note)

16 EHUD ASHERIE Organic (Posi-Tone)

17 DENISE DONATELLI When Lights Are Low (Savant)

18 HELIO ALVES Musica (JLP)

19 BILL EASLEY Love Stories ()

20 KERMIT RUFFINS Happy Talk (Basin Street)

21 MARCUS SHELBY JAZZ ORCHESTRA Soul Of The Movement: Meditations On Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Porto Franco)

22 RYAN COHAN Another Look (Motema)

23 STEVE GADD Live At Voce (Varese Fontana)

24 PATRICK WILLIAMS Aurora (ArtistShare)

25 MARY STALLINGS Dream (HighNote)

26 JOE MAGNARELLI My Old Flame (Give@Go)

27 TAKUYA KURODA Bitter And High (Self-Released)

28 DAN ADLER Back To The Bridge (Emdan)

29 ROGER DAVIDSON Brazilian Love Song (Soundbrush)

30 DAN BLOCK From His World To Mine: The Music Of Duke Ellington (Miles High)  

31 RANDY WESTON The Storyteller (Motema)

32 THE MARSALIS FAMILY Music Redeems (Marsalis)

33 TONY GUERRERO Blue Room (Charleston Square)

34 JAMES MOODY Moody 4B (IPO)

35 THE BOB FLORENCE LIMITED EDITION Legendary (MAMA)

36 CONRAD HERWIG The Latin Side Of Herbie Hancock (Half Note)

37 TAMIR HENDELMAN Destinations (Resonance)

38 MARIO ROMANO Valentina (Alma)

39 BLUE NOTE 7 Mosaic: A Celebration Of Blue Note Records (Blue Note)

40 MATT SAVAGE Welcome Home (Savage)

41 THE COOKERS Warriors (JLP)

42 ROBERTA GAMBARINI So In Love (Emarcy)

43 JACKIE RYAN Doozy (Open Art)

44 BOBBY WATSON The Gates BBQ Suite (Lafiya)

45 DMITRY BAEVSKY Down With It (Sharp Nine)

46 LESLIE PINTCHIK We’re Here To Listen (Pintch Hard)

 47 LUIS BONILLA Twilight (Planet Arts)

48 JONATHAN KREISBERG Shadowless (NFN)

49 KENNY BURRELL Be Yourself (HighNote)

50 DANA LAUREN It’s You Or No One (Self-Released)

51 MATT NELSON Nostalgiamaniac (Chicago Sessions)

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