Top 50 Jazz Albums For The Week Of 21 December 2014 - JazzWeek

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past 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, GRAMMY-winner Irvin Mayfield's Jazz Playhouse with The Christmas Song ~ Enjoy! Merry Christmas and Happy Chanukkah to everyone that celebrates!

1. JIMMY GREENE Beautiful Life (Mack Avenue)
2. KENNY BARRON & DAVE HOLLAND The Art Of Conversation (Impulse!)
3. LOUIS HAYES AND THE CANNONBALL ADDERLEY LEGACY BAND Live at Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club (Cellar Live)
4. HOUSTON PERSON The Melody Lingers On (HighNote)
5. DAVID HAZELTINE I Remember Cedar (Sharp Nine)
6. JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Great American Songs (Capri)
7. PETER ZAK The Disciple (Peter Zak Music)
8. FREDDY COLE Singing The Blues (HighNote)
9. JASON MARSALIS VIBES QUARTET The 21^st Century Trad Band (Basin Street)
10. GREG ABATE QUARTET Motif (Whaling City Sounds)
11. PETER HAND BIG BAND Out Of Hand (Savant)
12. *GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We’re Back (Whaling City Sounds)
13. BILL O’CONNELL & THE LATIN JAZZ ALL-STARS Imagine (Savant)
14. VARIOUS ARTISTS – It’s Christmas on Mack Avenue (Mack Avenue)
15. JAMES FARM City Folk (Nonesuch)
16. JOEY DEFRANCESCO Home For The Holidays (JDM)
17. STEVE HECKMAN Search For Peace (Jazzed Media)
18. PETER LEITCH Landscape (Jazz House)
19. TONY MONACO Furry Slippers (Chicken Coop / Summit)
20. LARRY FULLER Larry Fuller (Capri)
21. GABRIEL ESPINOSA & HENDRIK MEURKENS Samba Little Samba (Zoho)
22. BILL FRISSELL Guitar In The Space Age (Sony Masterwork)
23. CARMEN LUNDY Soul To Soul (Afrasia Productions)
24. CONNIE EVINGSON All The Cats Join In (Minnehaha Music)
25. RICHARD GALLIANO Sentimentale (Resonance)
26. COOKERS Time And Time Again (Motema)
27. ERIC REED Groovewise (Smoke Sessions)
28. *JASON MORAN All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (Blue Note)
29. *BILLY CHILDS Map To The Treasure: Reimagining Laura Nyro (Sony Masterworks/OKeh)
30. CLARE FISCHER BIG BAND Directed By BRENT FISCHER Pacific Jazz (Clavo)
31. JOHN DAVID SIMON Phantasm (WarmGroove)
32. AL MUIRHEAD It’s About Time (Chronograph)
33. JOHN DAVID SIMON Phantasm (WarmGroove)
34. MARK ELF Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)
35. ALESSANDRO COLLINA, ROLDOFO CERVETTO, MARC PEILON & FABRIZIO BOSSO Michel On Air (ITI)
36. FRANK KIMBROUGH Quartet (Palmetto)
37. JOHN WEBBER QUARTET Down For The Count (Cellar Live)
38. SHAMIE ROYSTON Portraits (Hot Tone Music)
39. IRVIN MAYFIELD’S JAZZ PLAYHOUSE A New Orleans Creole Christmas (Basin Street)
40. *CHICK COREA Trilogy (Concord)
41. RENEE FLEMING Christmas In New York (Universal Music Classics)
42. BRIAN CHARETTE Good Tipper (Posi-Tone)
43. MANUEL VLAERA & NEW CUBAN EXPRESS In Motion (Criss Cross Jazz)
44. JEFF COFFIN & THE MU’TET Side Up (Ear Up)
45. CHAMPIAN FULTON Change Partners (Cellar Live)
46. DANA LANDRY TRIO Memphis Skyline (Artist Alliance)
47. ERIC JOHNSON and MIKE STERN Eclectic (Jazzed Media)
48. OTIS BROWN III The Thought Of You (Revive / Blue Note)
49. CHRIS WALDEN BIG BAND Full-On! (Origin)
50. HANK MARVIN Django’s Castle (MTM Music Pty Ltd)