Top 50 Jazz Albums For the Week of 20 October 2014 - JazzWeek

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from last week! Which albums are going to make it on your Top Ten list for 2014?  Let me know on Twitter or Facebook!

For your listening pleasure this week, my friend and Seattle jazz phenom Thomas Marriott talks about his bad-ass new album Urban Folklore with pianist Orrin Evans, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Donald Edwards ~ Enjoy!-

1. GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We’re Back (Whaling City Sounds)
2. MARK ELF Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)
3. CHICK COREA Trilogy (Concord)
4. AKIKO Commencement (At)
5. JASON MORAN All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (Blue Note)
6. SEAN JONES im.pro.vise - never before seen (Mack Avenue)
7. STANLEY CLARKE BAND Up (Mack Avenue)
8. PAUL CARR B3 Sessions [DC-NY] (PCJ Music)
9. COOKERS Time And Time Again (Motema)
10. CHRISTIAN TAMBURR QUINTET Voyage (Christian Tamburr Music)
11. DR. JOHN Ske-Dat-De-Dat: The Spirit of Satch (Concord)
12. ORRIN EVANS Liberation Blues (Smoke Sessions)
13. CYRILLE AIMEE It’s A Good Day (Mack Avenue)
14. CYRUS CHESTNUT Midnight Melodies (Smoke Sessions)
15. ANDY BEY Pages From An Imaginary Life (HighNote)
16. ROD McGAHA The Black Flower Project (Black Flower)
17. MACK AVENUE SUPERBAND Live At DJF 2013 (Mack Avenue)
18. BAD PLUS Inevitable Western (OKeh)
19. BOBBY BROOM My Shining Hour (Origin)
20. LARRY FULLER Larry Fuller (Capri)
21. TOM HARRELL Trip (HighNote)
22. MICHAEL DEASE Relentless (Posi-Tone)
23. MIKE LONGO TRIO Mike Longo Trio Celebrates Oscar Peterson Live (CAP)
24. ERIC REED Groovewise (Smoke Sessions)
25. TIERNEY SUTTON Paris Sessions (BFM Jazz)
26. CHRIS WALDEN BIG BAND Full-On! (Origin)
27. FREDDY COLE Singing The Blues (HighNote)
28. JOE MAGNARELLI Lookin’ Up! (Posi-Tone)
29. JANE BUNNETT and MAQUEQUE Maqueque (Justin Time)
30. JAE SINNETT Subject To Change (J-Nett Music)
31. CHARLIE HADEN | JIM HALL Charlie Haden | Jim Hall (Impulse!)
32. JOHN WEBBER QUARTET Down For The Count (Cellar Live)
33. RODNEY WHITAKER When We Find Ourselves Alone (Mack Avenue)
34. TOM LAGANA GROUP Vol. 1 (Harvesttime)
35. CARMEN LUNDY Soul To Soul (Afrasia Productions)
36. AL JARREAU My Old Friend: Celebrating George Duke (Concord)
37. DIVA A Swingin’ Life (MCG Jazz)
38. MICHAEL CARVIN Flash Forward (Motema)
39. FRED HERSCH Floating (Fred Hersch Music)
40. OTIS BROWN III The Thought Of You (Revive / Blue Note)
41. NANCY KELLY B That Way (Bluebay)
42. ROSEANNA VITRO Clarity | Music of Clare Fischer (Random Act)
43. DAVE LIEBMAN BIG BAND A Tribute To Wayne Shorter (Mama)
44. HENRY BUTLER-STEVEN BERNSTEIN and THE HOT 9 Viper’s Drag (Impulse! / Universal)
45. MARCUS ROBERTS and WYNTON MARSALIS Together Again – Live in Concert (J-Master)
46. CHARLIE APICELLA and IRON CITY Big Boss (Zoho Music)
47. WALTER WHITE Most Triumphant (Summit)
48. SOMI Lagos Music Salon (OKeh)
49. EZRA WEISS SEXTET Before You Know It [Live In Portland] (Roark)
50. WAYNE CONIGLIO and SCOTT WHITFIELD Fast Friends (Summit)