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)

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NYC ~ Bassist/Composer Ben Wolfe Celebrates His Upcoming Release, "From Here I See," at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola March 28-31

Bassist & Composer

BEN WOLFE
Presents

FROM HERE I SEE
His Upcoming New Release on MAXJAZZ
Available April 2, 2013

CD Release Event at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, NYC

BEN WOLFE QUINTET
Orrin Evans, piano
Donald Edwards, drums
JD Allen, tenor sax
With Special Guest
Nicholas Payton, trumpet

Thursday, March 28 - Sunday, March 31
7:30PM & 9:30PM
Reservations

Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola
Broadway and 60th Street, NYC
212-258-9595

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Orrin Evans' "Flip The Script" in Stores Now!

PRESS RELEASE

 

Jazz pianist-composer Orrin Evans strides confidently forward with Flip The Script, a strong piano trio date featuring bassist Ben Wolfe and drummer Donald Edwards. While the session stays straight ahead and features some hard swinging highlights, the music is also elegantly lyrical and clearly suggestive of a modern jazz sensibility.

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