Top 50 Jazz Albums - 10 January 2016 [Source: JazzWeek]

♫ Happy New Year ~ May 2016 be your best year yet! Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past week!

Even though it's been three weeks since the last list was released, not much has changed with the top 5. It's still the same artists but just in a different order. *sigh*

Please enjoy Dunlop Sessions: Snarky Puppy. Starts off chatty but that segues into a performance so be patient.  

1. JOEY DeFRANCESCO Trip Mode (HighNote)
2. HOUSTON PERSON Something Personal (HighNote)
3. CORY WEEDS & THE JEFF HAMILTON TRIO This Happy Madness (Cellar Live)
4. KENNY BURRELL The Road To Love (HighNote)
5. SCOTT HAMILTON & JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Live In Bern (Capri)

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Available Now! NEA Jazz Master Bobby Hutcherson Returns with "Somewhere in the Night" on Kind of Blue Records

PRESS RELEASE

First Release in Three Years Continues Vibraphonist's

Partnership With Organist Joey DeFrancesco

Streaming Tracks From Somewhere In The Night

New York City is the jazz capital of the world and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in Jazz at Lincoln Center is one of the music's greatest venues. On October 10, 2009, over the course of two sold-out sets, legendary vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson recorded what would become Somewhere In The Night. The album, which is being released on Kind of Blue Records on October 16, also features the Joey DeFrancesco Trio -- guitarist Peter Bernstein and drummer Byron Landham as well as its organist namesake.

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