Top 50+ Jazz Albums for the Week of 18 July 2011
July 18, 2011 at 11:45 PM
Donna M in Cedar Walton, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension, Stacey Kent, Terri Lyne Carrington, Top Jazz Albums, Top Jazz Albums for July 2011

Terri Lyne Carrington - The Mosiac ProjectThis is the weekly US/Canada radio airplay list from JazzWeek.com

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The releases this week include the highly anticipated album from Terri Lyne Carrington - The Mosaic Project. Remember me telling you about it? It's a project that consists of a "who's who" of almost all of the top tier female jazz musicians and singers in the game right now. Read about it and see video of the recording/collaborative process here.

Randy Brecker, John McLaughlin & The 4th Dimension, Cedar Walton and Stacey Kent also came out with new music this week. 

Click on any of the red links to hear and get the music on Amazon.com. 

  1. GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA Legacy (Mack Avenue)
  2. BENNY GREEN Source (JLP)
  3. CHICK COREA, STANLEY CLARKE, LENNY WHITE Forever (Concord)
  4. ELIANE ELIAS Light My Fire (Concord Picante)
  5. THE NEW GARY BURTON QUARTET Common Ground (Mack Avenue)
  6. JAMES FARM James Farm (Nonesuch)
  7. SEA
  8. N JONES No Need For Words (Mack Avenue)
  9. ERIC ALEXANDER Don’t Follow The Crowd (HighNote)
  10. GERALD CLAYTON Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)
  11. TOM HARRELL The Time Of The Sun (HighNote)
  12. ALPHONSE MOUZON Angel Face (Tenacious)
  13. RUFUS REID Hues Of A Different Blue (Motema)
  14. BELA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES Rocket Science (eOne)
  15. STEFON HARRIS, DAVID SANCHEZ, CHRISTIAN SCOTT Ninety Miles (Concord Picante)
  16. KARRIN ALLYSON Round Midnight (Concord Jazz)
  17. SACHAL VASANDANI Hi-Fly (Mack Avenue)
  18. H2 BIG BAND You’re It! (Jazzed Media)
  19. GORDON GOODWIN’S BIG PHAT BAND That’s How We Roll (Telarc)
  20. PAT METHENY What’s It All About (Nonesuch)
  21. FREDDIE HUBBARD Pinnacle Live & Unreleased: From Keystone Korner (Resonance)
  22. AL DI MEOLA Pursuit Of Radical Rhapsody (Telarc)
  23. GRETCHEN PARLATO The Lost And Found (Obliqsound)
  24. JEFF LEDERER Sunwatcher (Jazzheads)
  25. HAZMAT MODINE Cicada (Barbes)
  26. JUDY WEXLER Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media)
  27. BEN WILLIAMS State Of Art (Concord Jazz)
  28. NILSON MATTA & RONI BEN-HUR Mojave: Jazz Therapy Series 3 (Motema)
  29. ETTA JONES & HOUSTON PERSON The Way We Were (HighNote)
  30. RENE MARIE Voice Of My Beautiful Country (Motema)
  31. JOSE RIZO Mongorama (Saungu)
  32. TERELL STAFFORD This Side Of Strayhorn (Max Jazz)
  33. BRYAN CARTER Enchantment (Imaginate)
  34. SHERYL BAILEY 4 For All Those Living (Pure / Withanese)
  35. FEMI KUTI Africa For Africa (Knitting Factory) 
  36. JESSICA WILLIAMS TRIO Freedom Trane (Origin)
  37. RANDY BRECKER WITH DANISH RADIO BIG BAND The Jazz Ballad Song Book (Red Dot / Half Note)
  38. JOHN BROWN Dancing With Duke: A Homage To Duke Ellington (Brown Boulevard) 
  39. MONTY ALEXANDER Uplift (JLP)
  40. JIM SNIDERO Interface (Savant)
  41. STEVEN KROON Without A Doubt (Kroonatune)
  42. PHIL WOODS & BILL MAYS Woods & Mays (Palmetto)
  43.  BILL FRISELL Sign of Life (Savoy Jazz)
  44. HIROMI Voice (Telarc)
  45. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON The Mosaic Project (Concord)
  46. MARK RAPP Good Eats (Dinemec Jazz)
  47. ‘PAPA’ JOHN DEFRANCESCO A Philadelphia Story (Savant)
  48. ERIC REED The Dancing Monk (Savant)
  49. MONTY ALEXANDER Harlem-Kingston Express Live (Motema)
  50. FRANK GLOVER Politico (Owl Studios)
  51. ART HIRAHARA Noble Path (Posi-Tone)
  52. NOAH HAIDU Slipstream (Posi-Tone)
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