Top 50 Jazz Albums for the Week of 24 January 2011

This weekly list is from JazzWeek.com  - "the definitive Jazz national radio airplay chart—a weekly report of the top fifty+ Jazz recordings played on radio stations across the United States and Canada." If you'd like to see the detailed list, click here.

1 RUSSELL MALONE Triple Play (MAXJAZZ)  

2 CHARLES LLOYD QUARTET Mirror (ECM)

3 CYRUS CHESTNUT Journeys (JLP)

4 CASSANDRA WILSON Silver Pony (Blue Note)

5 LOUIS HAYES Lou’s Idea (American Showplace)

6 CLAYTON BROTHERS The New Song And Dance (ArtistShare)

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Dizzy Gillespie's Legacy Lives On

✺Good morning✺

The Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band finished a 6-night engagement last evening (I'm sure with a packed house at every show) at New York City's legendary Blue Note!

During the summer of 1998, the band was formed to perform Gillespie's classic big band repertoire and continue the legacy left by the late Jazz master.

The current band members were many of his closest associates and collaborators:

• James Moody (saxophone and flute)
• Jimmy Heath (tenor saxophone)
• Paquito D'Rivera (alto & soprano saxophone, clarinet)
• Clark Terry (trumpet and flugelhorn)
• Roy Hargrove (trumpet)
• John Faddis (trumpet)
• Randy Brecker (trumpet and flugelhorn)
• Claudio Roditi (trumpet)

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JAM 2010: 156 Artists for a New Jazz Experience (Part IX)

Welcome to Part IX of the "156 Artists for a New Jazz Experience" series! Today you'll meet trumpeter Paolo Fresu; pianists Renee Rosnes, Robert Glasper and Peter Beets; saxophonists Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane and Ron Blake; bass guitarist Richard Bona and others.

Enjoy ~

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