Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 31 January 2011

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1 RUSSELL MALONE Triple Play (MAXJAZZ)

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

3 JOE LOVANO Bird Songs (Blue Note)

4 CASSANDRA WILSON Silver Pony (Blue Note)

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

6 THE DEFRANCESCO BROTHERS The DeFrancesco Brothers (Vectordisc)

7 LOUIS HAYES Lou’s Idea (American Showplace)

8 KEVIN EUBANKS Zen Food (Mack Avenue)

9 CYRUS CHESTNUT Journeys (JLP)

10 THE WAYNE WALLACE LATIN JAZZ QUINTET To Hear From There (Patois)

11 THE CLAYTON BROTHERS The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare)

12 THE COOKERS Warriors (JLP)

13 BILL O’CONNELL Rhapsody In Blue (Challenge)

14 BILL EASLEY Love Stories ()

15 RYAN COHAN Another Look (Motema)

16 STEVE GADD Live At Voce (Varese Fontana)

17 DENISE DONATELLI When Lights Are Low (Savant)

18 BOB SHEPPARD Close Your Eyes (BFM Jazz)

19 JONATHAN KREISBERG Shadowless (NFN)

20 CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Mirror (ECM)

21 PATRICK WILLIAMS Aurora (ArtistShare)

22 EHUD ASHERIE Organic (Posi-Tone)

23 HOUSTON PERSON Moment To Moment (HighNote)

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

25 HELIO ALVES Musica (JLP)

26 CHANTALE GAGNE Wisdom Of The Water (Musique)

27 MARY STALLINGS Dream (HighNote)

28 ROGER DAVIDSON Brazilian Love Song (Soundbrush)

29 RANDY WESTON The Storyteller (Motema)

30 MATT SAVAGE Welcome Home (Savage)

31 KERMIT RUFFINS Happy Talk (Basin Street)

32 JANE IRA BLOOM Wingwalker (Outline)

33 JOE MAGNARELLI My Old Flame (Give@Go)

34 JAKE FRYER & BUD SHANK In Good Company (Capri)

35 DAN ADLER Back To The Bridge (Emdan)

36 ROY HARGROVE BIG BAND Emergence (Emarcy)

37 TAKUYA KURODA Bitter And High (Self-Released)

38 ROXY COSS Roxy Coss (Self-Released)

39 MARIO ROMANO Valentina (Alma)

40 JASON MORAN Ten (Blue Note)

41 MATT NELSON Nostalgiamaniac (Chicago Sessions)

42 KENNY BURRELL Be Yourself (HighNote)

43 SUZANNE PITTSON Out Of The Hub: The Music Of Freddie Hubbard (Vineland)

44  NOAH PREMINGER Before The Rain (Palmetto)

45 JAMES MOODY 4A (IPO Recordings)

46 JAMES MOODY Moody 4B (IPO

47 TONY GUERRERO Blue Room (Charleston Square)

48 THE DIZZY GILLESPIE ALL-STAR BIG BAND I’m BeBoppin’ Too (Half Note Records) PETE LEVIN Jump! (Pete Levin)

49 DAVE HOLLAND & PEPE HABICHUELA Hands (Dare2)