Top 50+ Jazz Albums for the Week of 24 June 2013 [JazzWeek]

June 24, 2013 at 10:20 PM
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Here are the top 50 jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations for the week of 24 June 2013.

1. BOB JAMES & DAVID SANBORN Quartette Humaine (OKeh)
2. CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & INSIDE STRAIGHT People Music (Mack Avenue Records)
3. MICHAEL DEASE Coming Home (D-Clef)
4. ELIANE ELIAS I Thought About You [A Tribute to Chet Baker] (Concord)
5. JOE LOCKE Lay Down My Heart (Motema)
6. CECILE McLORIN SALVANT Womanchild (Mack Avenue Records)
7. GEORGE BENSON Inspiration: A Tribute to Nat King Cole (Concord)
8. YELLOWJACKETS A Rise In The Road (Mack Avenue)
9. WALLACE RONEY Understanding (HighNote)
10. FRANK WESS Magic 101 (IPO Recordings)
11. JOSHUA REDMAN Walking Shadows (Nonesuch)
12. ELDAR DJANGIROV TRIO Breakthrough (Motema)
13. TERENCE BLANCHARD Magnetic (Blue Note)
14. MARK GROSS BlackSide (Jazz Legacy Productions)
15. FREDDY COLE This and That (HighNote)
16. ERIC ALEXANDER Touching (HighNote)
17. WAYNE WALLACE LATIN JAZZ QUINTET Latin Jazz / Jazz Latin (Patois)
18. KERMIT RUFFINS We Partyin' Traditional Style (Basin Street)
19. KEITH JARRETT | GARY PEACOCK | JACK DeJOHNETTE Somewhere (ECM)
20. GIACOMO GATES Miles Tones: Sings the Music of Miles Davis (Savant)
21. KCNS (Kikoski, Carpenter, Novak, Sheppard) From The Hip (BFM Jazz)
22. WILL CALHOUN Life in this World (Motema Music)
23. MONTY ALEXANDER Uplift 2 (Jazz Legacy Productions)
24. THE VERVE JAZZ ENSEMBLE It's About Time (Verve Jazz Ensemble)
25. AARON DIEHL The Bespoke Man's Narrative (Mack Avenue Records)
26. MICHEL CAMILO What's Up? (OKeh)
27. JD ALLEN Grace (Savant)
28. GERALD CLAYTON Life Forum (Concord)
29. DAVE BRUBECK Brubeck / Bennett White House Sessions Live 1962 (Columbia / Legacy)
30. EDDIE DANIELS & ROGER KELLAWAY Duke At The Roadhouse (IPO Recordings)
31. DAVE DOUGLAS QUINTET Time Travel (Greenleaf)
32. MICHAEL BLANCO No Time Like the Present (Nineteen-Eight)
33. ALBARE The Road Ahead (Enja) 
34. BEN SIDRAN Don't Cry For No Hipster (Nardis)
35. CHUCHO VALDES Border-Free (Jazz Village)
36. PAT METHENY Tap: John Zorn's Book of Angels (Nonesuch | Tzadik)
37. TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON Money Jungle: Provocative In Blue (Concord)
38. KYLE EASTWOOD The View From Here (Jazz Village)
39. LENNY MARCUS TRIO Tonk | A Tribute to Ray Bryant Vol. 2 (Lenny Marcus Music)
40. JERRY BERGONZI By Any Other Name (Savant)
41. ANGELA DAVIS The Art of the Melody (Nicholas)
42. JEFF BERLIN Low Standards (Random Act Records)
43. TOMMY EMMANUEL & MARTIN TAYLOR The Colonel & The Governor (Mesa | Bluemoon)
44. CORY WEEDS | BILL COON QUARTET With Benefits (Cellar Live)
45. CORY CHRISTIANSEN Lone Prairie (Origin)
46. NICOLAS BEARDE Visions (Nic Nac Music)
47. BARBARA MORRISON A Sunday Kind of Love (Savant)
48. RONDI CHARLESTON Signs of Life (Motema Music)
49. DIANE MARINO Loads Of Love (M&M)
50. DAVID MURRAY INFINITY QUARTET Be My Monster Love (Motema Music)
51. DAVID ARNAY 8 (Studio N)

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