Top 50 Jazz Albums - 20 December 2015 [Source: JazzWeek]

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past week!

Once again, Houston Person holds onto the number one slot with Something Personal and Kenny Burrell is number two with The Road To Love.

Please enjoy listening to Nat Birchall's performance of  Ancient World in the video below: 

1. HOUSTON PERSON Something Personal (HighNote)
2. KENNY BURRELL The Road To Love (HighNote)
3. JOEY DeFRANCESCO Trip Mode (HighNote)
4. SCOTT HAMILTON & JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Live In Bern (Capri)
5. CHESTER THOMPSON TRIO Simpler Times (Joyful Noise, Inc.)

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Top 50 Jazz Albums - 13 December 2015 [Source: JazzWeek]

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past week!

Houston Person continues to hold the number one slot with Something Personal and Kenny Burrell comes in at number two with The Road To Love. 

You're slippin' if you haven't been checking out NPR's second season of Jazz Night in America every Thursday either via radio or online. Set aside some time this week and watch the two hour performance of Kamasi Washington that was presented earlier in 2015. If the Recording Academy's nomination process was righteous, The Epic would have been nominated for a GRAMMY. 

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

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Top 50 Jazz Albums - 6 December 2015 [Source: JazzWeek]

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past week!

The new number one album this week is Houston Person's Something Personal and the number two album is Scott Hamilton and Jeff Hamilton Trio Live In Bern.  Please enjoy listening to the song Soliluna by two of my favorite vocalists: Magos Herrera and Iraida Noriega.

1. HOUSTON PERSON Something Personal (HighNote)
2. SCOTT HAMILTON & JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Live In Bern (Capri)
3. KENNY BURRELL The Road To Love (HighNote)
4. JOEY DeFRANCESCO Trip Mode (HighNote)
5. GERRY GIBBS and the THRASHER DREAM TRIO  Live In Studio (Whaling City Sounds)

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Top 50 Jazz Albums - 29 November 2015 [Source: JazzWeek]

Here are the top 50 Jazz albums that received the most airplay on US, Canadian and internet radio stations from the past week!

The new number one album this week is Kenny Burrell's The Road to Love and the number two album is Joey DeFrancesco's Trip Mode. 

I've been listening to JazzFM.com a lot lately. One of the many musicians that has caught my attention is trumpeter and composer Matthew Halsall. He released a new album in October 2015 entitled Into Forever with the Gondwana Orchestra. Below is the video for the title track.  Josephine Oniyama is the featured vocalist ~ Enjoy!

1. KENNY BURRELL The Road To Love (HighNote)
2. JOEY DeFRANCESCO Trip Mode (HighNote)
3. GERRY GIBBS and the THRASHER DREAM TRIO  Live In Studio (Whaling City Sounds)
4. HOUSTON PERSON Something Personal (HighNote)
5. SCOTT HAMILTON & JEFF HAMILTON TRIO Live In Bern (Capri)

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