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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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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