Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 21 March 2011
March 22, 2011 at 12:44 AM
Donna M in Brian Lynch, Top Jazz Albums, Top Jazz Albums for March 2011

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KURT ELLING The Gate (Concord Jazz)

2  VARIOUS ARTISTS Disney Jazz, Volume 1: Everybody Wants To Be A Cat (Disney Pearl Series)

3  JEREMY PELT The Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote)

4  ERNESTINE ANDERSON Nightlife: Live At Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola (HighNote)

5  JOE LOVANO Bird Songs (Blue Note)

6  BRIAN LYNCH Unsung Heroes (Hollistic)

7  GEOFFREY KEEZER & PETER SPRAGUE Mill Creek Road (SBE)

MARK WEINSTEIN Jazz & Brasil (Jazzheads)

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

10 YELLOWJACKETS Timeline (Mack Avenue)

11 GRACE KELLY Man With The Hat (Pazz)

12 ONE FOR ALL Invades Vancouver (Cellar Live)

13 T.K. BLUE Latinbird (Motema)

14 MARCUS MILLER A Night In Monte Carlo (Concord)

15 THE TRIO OF OZ The Trio Of OZ (OZmosis)

16 BEEGIE ADAIR I Love Being Here With You: A Jazz Piano Tribute to Peggy Lee (Green Hill)

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

18  ARTURO O’FARRILL 40 Acres And A Burro (Zoho)

19  THE DEFRANCESCO BROTHERS The DeFrancesco Brothers (Vectordisc)

20  CHARLIE HADEN Sophisticated Ladies (Decca)

21  RENE MARIE Voice Of My Beautiful Country (Motema)

22  BOB SHEPPARD Close Your Eyes (BFM Jazz)

23  ATSUKO HASHIMOTO Until The Sun Comes Up (Capri)

24  EDDIE MENDENHALL Cosine Meets Tangent (Miles High)

25  RUSSELL MALONE Triple Play (MAXJAZZ)

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

27  PHIL DEGREG Amazonas (Prevenient)

28  DOUG WEBB Renovations (Posi-Tone)

29  CHANTALE GAGNE Wisdom Of The Water (Musique)

30  JONATHAN KREISBERG Shadowless (NFN)

31  HELIO ALVES Musica (JLP)

32  NATIVE SOUL Soul Step (Talking Drum)

33  MATT NELSON Nostalgiamaniac (Chicago Sessions)

34  PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND Preservation: An Album To Benefit Preservation Hall & The Preservation Hall Music Outreach Program (Preservation Hall)

35  RALPH BOWEN Power Play (Posi-Tone)

36  LARRY CARLTON Plays The Sound Of Philadelphia (335)

37  FRED HERSCH Alone At The Vanguard (Palmetto)

38  BRAD MEHLDAU Live In Marciac (Nonesuch)

39  ROXY COSS Roxy Coss (Self-Released)

40  ESPERANZA SPALDING Chamber Music Society (Heads Up)

41  DELFEAYO MARSALIS Sweet Thunder (Troubadour Jass)

42  DAVE MILLER TRIO Rapture (Summit)

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

44  THE JAZZ PROFESSORS Live From The UCF-Orlando Jazz Festival (Flying Horse)

45  TOM LUER Project Popular (Origin)

46  BOBBY MATOS Beautiful As The Moon (Lifeforce Jazz)

47  ERIC REED The Dancing Monk (Savant)

48  GENE LUDWIG Love Notes Of Cole Porter (Big O)

49  EHUD ASHERIE Organic (Posi-Tone)

50  MARTY WILLIAMS Long Time Comin’ (In Moon Bay)

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