Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 23 May 2011

This is the weekly US/Canada radio airplay list from JazzWeek.com. Want to see stats regarding how many radio stations played your favorite album or how much it moved up or down the chart from last week? Click here.

I've known about trumpeter Sean Jones for over 5 years now. Check out his new CD No Need For Words that's being released this week. I know that you won't be disappointed. 

Sean Jones - No Need For Words1       MONTY ALEXANDER Uplift (JLP)

2       ERIC REED The Dancing Monk (Savant)

3       TERELL STAFFORD This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz)

4       LYNNE ARRIALE Convergence (Motema)

5       KARRIN ALLYSON Round Midnight (Concord Jazz)

6       BRIAN LYNCH Unsung Heroes (Hollistic)

7       KURT ELLING The Gate (Concord Jazz)

8       BENNY GREEN Source (JLP)

9       JOHN DEFRANCESCO A Philadelphia Story (Savant)

10     T.K. BLUE Latinbird (Motema)

11     GRETCHEN PARLATO The Lost And Found (Obliqsound)

12     SEAN JONES No Need For Words (Mack Avenue)

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

14     YELLOWJACKETS Timeline (Mack Avenue)

15     GORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND That’s How We Roll (Telarc)

16     RENE MARIE Voice Of My Beautiful Country (Motema)

17     AL DI MEOLA Pursuit Of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc)

18     REBIRTH BRASS BAND Rebirth Of New Orleans (Basin Street)

19     JAMES FARM James Farm (Nonesuch)

20     CHARLIE HADEN Sophisticated Ladies (Decca)

21     ONE FOR ALL Invades Vancouver (Cellar Live)

22     LARRY CORYELL & KENNY DREW, JR. Duality (Random Act)

23     THE NIGHTCRAWLERS Down In The Bottom (Cellar Live)

24     JESSICA WILLIAMS TRIO Freedom Trane (Origin)

25     KEN PEPLOWSKI In Search Of... (Capri)

26     BOBBY SANABRIA Tito Puente Masterworks Live (Jazzheads)

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

28     ELDAR DJANGIROV Three Stories (Sony Masterworks)

29     JEREMY PELT The Talented Mr. Pelt (HighNote)

30     WILLIE NELSON & WYNTON MARSALIS Here We Go Again: Celebrating The Genius Of Ray Charles (Blue Note)

31     SHERYL BAILEY 4 For All Those Living (Pure / Withanese)

32     THOMAS MARRIOTT Human Spirit (Origin)

33     THE DAVID LEONHARDT JAZZ GROUP David Leonhardt Jazz Group Plays Cole Porter (Big Band)

34     STEVE KHAN Parting Shot (Tone Center)

35     NILSON MATTA & RONI BEN-HUR Mojave: Jazz Therapy Series 3 (Motema)

36     AVERY SHARPE Running Man (JKNM)

37     LARRY CORYELL With The Wide Hive Players (Wide Hive)

38      CAPTAIN BLACK BIG BAND Captain Black Big Band (Posi-Tone)

39     TERRENCE BREWER Setting The Standard (Strong Brew)

40     PHIL RANELIN Perseverence (Wide Hive)

41     ROYCE CAMPBELL TRIO Make Me Rainbows (Moon Cycle)

42     NOAH HAIDU Slipstream (Posi-Tone)

43     AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)

44      LISA HILTON Underground (Ruby Slippers)

45     MARK RAPP Good Eats (Dinemec Jazz)

46     ATSUKO HASHIMOTO Until The Sun Comes Up (Capri)

47      STORMS/NOCTURNES TRIO VIA (Origin)

48     ABDULLAH IBRAHIM AND EKAYA Sotho Blue (Sunnyside)

49      WAYNE GOINS Chronicles Of Carmela (Little Apple)

50     WALT WEISKOPF Live (Capri)