Top 50+ Jazz Albums for the Week of 8 October 2012 [JazzWeek]
October 8, 2012 at 9:15 PM
Donna M in Artists, Bruce Barth - Three Things of Beauty, Chick Corea & Gary Burton - Hot House, Donald Vega - Spiritual Nature, Kurt Elling - 1619 Broadway - The Brill Building Project, Robert Glasper - Black Radio Recovered The Remix EP, Tia Fuller - Angelic Warrior, Top Jazz Albums, Top Jazz Albums for October 2012

Here are the top 50+ jazz albums receiving the most airplay on US/Canadian radio (and internet) stations for the week of 8 October 2012!  

Do you want to see the stats on how many stations played your favorite jazz artist or how much s/he moved up or down the chart from last week? Click here to check out the chart.

There are a few Christmas jazz albums being released this week. The Robert Glasper Experiment's highly anticipated Black Radio Recovered: The Remix EP is available today.

Enjoy!

 

  1. BRUCE BARTH Three Things of Beauty (Savant)
  2. DONALD VEGA Spiritual Nature (Resonance)
  3. TIA FULLER Angelic Warrior (Mack Avenue) 
  4. CHICK COREA & GARY BURTON Hot House (Concord)
  5. KURT ELLING 1619 Broadway - The Brill Building Project (Concord)
  6. JOEY DeFRANCESCO Wonderful! Wonderful! (HighNote)
  7. CHERYL BENTYNE Let's Misbehave (Summit)
  8. MARCUS MILLER Renaissance (Concord)
  9. BRUBECK BROTHERS Lifetimes - A Celebration of Dave Brubeck (Blue Forest)
  10. MARK MASTERS ENSEMBLE Ellington Saxophone Encounters (Capri)
  11. FRED HERSCH TRIO Live at the Village Vanguard (Palmetto)
  12. GRAHAM DECHTER Takin' It There (Capri)
  13. RONI BEN-HUR & SANTI DEBRIANO Our Thing (Motema) 
  14. CLIFTON ANDERSON And So We Carry On (Daywood Drive)
  15. STEVE DAVIS Gettin' It Done (Posi-Tone) 
  16. JOE ALTERMAN Give Me the Simple Life (Miles High Records)
  17. JERRY BERGONZI Shifting Gears (Savant)
  18. LEWIS NASH QUINTET The Highest Mountain (Cellar Live)
  19. TOM HARRELL Number Five (HighNote)
  20. EZRA WEISS Our Path To This Moment (Roark Records)
  21. RANDY CRAWFORD AND JOE SAMPLE Live (Pra) 
  22. YORON ISRAEL Visions (Ronja Music)
  23. GRANT GEISSMAN Bop! Bang! Boom! (Futurism Music)
  24. BRAD MEHLDAU TRIO Where Do You Start (Nonesuch) 
  25. CHRISTIAN SCOTT Christian Atunde Adjuah (Concord Jazz)
  26. PAT METHENY Unity Band (Nonesuch)
  27. BOBBY SANABRIA BIG BAND Multiverse (Jazzheads)
  28. DIANA KRALL Glad Rag Doll (Verve)
  29. JOHN ABERCROMBIE Within A Song (ECM) 
  30. HOT CLUB OF DETROIT Junction (Mack Avenue)
  31. LEE RITENOUR Rhythm Sessions (Concord)
  32. ARTURO SANDOVAL Dear Diz, Every Day I Think of You (Concord Jazz)
  33. MACEO PARKER Soul Classics (Listen2)
  34. CAROL ROBINS Moraga (Jazz Cats)
  35. PAT MARTINO Alone Together With Bobby Rose (HighNote)
  36. MICHAEL PEDICIN Live at the Loft (Jazz Hut Records)
  37. JAE SINNETT Still Standing (J-Nett)
  38. ANAT COHEN Claroscuro (Anzic)
  39. BELA FLECK | MARCUS ROBERTS TRIO Across the Imaginary Divide (Rounder)
  40. BRAZILIAN TRIO Constelacao (Motema)
  41. STEVE EINERSON Arrival (Cellar Alive)
  42. NATIVE SOUL One Mind (American Showplace Music)
  43. DR. LONNIE SMITH The Healer (Pilgrimage)
  44. CURTIS FULLER Down Home (Capri)
  45. JOHN DAVERSA Artful Joy (BFM Jazz)
  46. LEE SMITH Sittin' On A Secret (Vectordisc)
  47. KEVIN COELHO Funkengruven (Chicken Soup / Summit)
  48. CONNIE EVINGSON Sweet Happy Life (Minnehaha Music)
  49. BILL EVANS TRIO Bill Evans Live at Art D'Lugoff's Top of the Gate (Resonance)
  50. AVERY SHARPE Soujourner Truth (JKNM)
  51. REGGIE QUINERLY Music Inspired By Freedmantown (Redefinition Music)
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