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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Jazz News You Can Use: May 7th 2011

Screen shot of the Elements of Jazz Twitter PagePeople have asked me over the last few years, "Just what the heck do you do on Twitter?" To some, Twitter is a bizarrely random universe where friend or foe can post 140-character virtual notes to the world.

Yes, that's it in a nutshell. (smile) But, Twitter is so much more than that. Whether it's a struggle against suffocating governments or the raid on Bin-Laden's compound in Pakistan, the Twitter community is always there giving us first-hand commentary and real-time photos of the action.

So, what does Twitter have to do with jazz?

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Ellis Marsalis "An Open Letter to Thelonious" - 1st Traditional Jazz Album Released in iTunes "LP" Format

(New York, NY) – Nu Jazz Entertainment, a long time producer of high quality audio and video content in the genre of jazz, announces the January 2011 release of the critically acclaimed album, "An Open Letter to Thelonious" by Ellis Marsalis, a 2011 NEA Jazz Master inductee. This is the first traditional Jazz release in the new iTunes “LP” format with bonus audio, bonus high-definition videos, bonus photos, bonus liner notes and  bonus literary content.

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