Top 50+ Jazz Albums For the Week of 10 November 2014 - JazzWeek

Here are the top 50+ Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the 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, Ellis and Delfeayo Marsalis, on Voice of America's Beyond Category ~ Enjoy!

1. GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We’re Back (Whaling City Sounds)
2. MARK ELF Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)
3. JASON MORAN All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (Blue Note)
4. FREDDY COLE Singing The Blues (HighNote)
5. COOKERS Time And Time Again (Motema)

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Top 50 Jazz Albums For the Week of 3 November 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, one of my favorite saxophonists, Tia Fuller, on Voice of America's Music Mix ~ Enjoy!

1. GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We’re Back (Whaling City Sounds)
2. MARK ELF Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)
3. ERIC REED Groovewise (Smoke Sessions)
4. FREDDY COLE Singing The Blues (HighNote)
5. JASON MORAN All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller (Blue Note)

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Top 50+ Jazz Albums For the Week of 27 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, a 50 minute set of Raul Midón and Richard Bona performing at Jazz in Marciac 2011 ~ Enjoy!

1. GERRY GIBBS THRASHER DREAM TRIO We’re Back (Whaling City Sounds)
2. MARK ELF Mark Elf Returns 2014 (Jen Bay, Inc.)
3. STANLEY CLARKE BAND Up (Mack Avenue)
4. AKIKO Commencement (At)
5. ORRIN EVANS Liberation Blues (Smoke Sessions)

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Herbie Hancock: 'On A Path To Find My Own Answer'

Via NPR Books

To listen to the music of Herbie Hancock is to witness an artist in constant evolution. Even looking at highlights alone — from 1962's "Watermelon Man," a tune he says he named after a fruit seller he'd seen in his hometown of Chicago, to playing in Miles Davis' band, to his improbable hip-hop hybrid "Rockit" in 1983, to his recent collaboration with fellow electronic tinkerer Flying Lotus — to refer to the pianist and composer as a jazz artist feels utterly inadequate.

Now, at the age of 74, Hancock is looking back on his sweeping career in a memoir called Possibilities. He joined NPR's Steve Inskeep to talk about some of his more profound turning points, be it Buddhist chants as a gateway to funk music or getting into hard drugs and bouncing back. Hear the radio version at the audio link below!

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