Top 100 Jazz 2015

Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 1 Russell Malone Love Looks Good On You HighNote 1 26 5319 2 Harold Mabern Afro Blue Smoke Sessions 1 27 4930 3 Terell Stafford Brotherlee Love Capri 1 25 4913 4 Steve Turre Spiritman Smoke Sessions 1 28 4715 5 Steve Davis Say When Smoke Sessions 1 26 4649 6 Joey Alexander My Favorite Things Motema Music 1 26 4608 7 Dave Stryker Messin’ With Mr. T Strikezone 1 27 4424 8 Cyrus Chestnut A Million Colors In Your Mind HighNote 1 26 4247 9 Eddie Henderson Collective Portrait Smoke Sessions 1 26 4113 10 George Cables In Good Company HighNote 1 22 4103 11 Trio Covered Blue Note 3 26 3841 12 Jose James Yesterday I Had The Blues: The Music Of Billie Holiday Blue Note 2 27 3829 13 Cory Weeds Condition Blue Cellar Live 3 26 3809 14 Heads Of State Search For Peace Smoke Sessions 1 22 3799 Dee Dee Bridgewater, Irvin Mayfield and The New 15 Orleans Jazz Orchestra Dee Dee’s Feathers OKeh 1 19 3791 16 Bob Mintzer Big Band Get Up! MCG Jazz 4 25 3766 17 Charenee Wade Offering Motema 6 25 3757 17 Vincent Herring Night And Day Smoke Sessions 2 27 3757 19 Jacky Terrasson Take This! impulse! 1 26 3728 20 Charles McPherson The Journey Capri 5 26 3678 21 Cécile McLorin Salvant For One To Love Mack Avenue 1 20 3583 22 Mike LeDonne AwwlRight! Savant 3 19 3581 23 David Sanborn Time And The River OKeh 5 26 3563 24 Donald Vega With Respect To Monty Resonance 3 24 3514 25 Christian McBride Trio Live At The Village Vanguard Mack Avenue 1 16 3367 26 Steve Gadd Band 70 Strong BFM Jazz 5 26 3337 27 Aaron Diehl Space Time Continuum Mack Avenue 4 27 3327 28 Jeb Patton Shades And Tones Cellar Live 8 26 3313 29 Wolff & Clark Expedition 2 Random Act 3 26 3308 30 Afrodeezia Blue Note 8 25 3276 31 Eric Alexander The Real Thing HighNote 1 16 3179 32 Nick Finzer The Chase Origin 6 21 3150 33 Gerry Gibbs and the Thrasher Dream Trio Live In Studio Whaling City Sound 1 14 3138 34 Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet Intercambio Patois 10 24 3091 35 Jamie Cullum Interlude Blue Note 2 26 3064 36 Harry Allen For George, Cole And Duke Blue Heron Llc 2 26 3062 37 Joe Locke Love Is A Pendulum Motema 7 26 3017 38 Marc Cary Rhodes Ahead Vol 2 Motema 10 25 2987 39 Eliane Elias Made In Brazil Concord 7 26 2968 40 Justin Kauflin Dedication Jazz Village 1 20 2921 41 Kurt Elling Passion World Concord 6 26 2896 42 Jacques Lesure Camaraderie WJ3 11 25 2892 43 Orrin Evans The Evolution Of Oneself Smoke Sessions 1 14 2861 44 Ben Williams Coming Of Age Concord 10 26 2853 45 Allan Harris Black Bar Jukebox Love Productions 2 25 2821 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton 46 Marsalis Live In Cuba Blue Engine 4 16 2811 47 Sammy Figueroa Imaginary World Savant 9 22 2785 48 Mary Stallings Feelin’ Good HighNote 7 26 2771 49 David Hazeltine I Remember Cedar Sharp Nine 1 25 2764 50 Behn Gillece Mindset Posi-Tone 13 25 2745 50 Doug Webb Triple Play Posi-Tone 12 25 2745

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Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 52 George Freeman & Chico Freeman All In The Family Southport 10 23 2734 53 Kait Dunton trioKAIT Real & Imagined Music 11 19 2728 54 Joe Alterman Georgia Sunset Joe Alterman Music 6 26 2698 55 Quincy Davis Songs In The Key Of Q In The Know 1 26 2680 56 Louis Hayes and the Cannonball Adderly Legacy Band Live at Cory Weeds’ Cellar Jazz Club Cellar Live 1 25 2591 57 Maria Schneider Orchestra The Thompson Fields ArtistShare 16 25 2580 58 Bad Plus / Joshua Redman The Bad Plus Joshua Redman Nonesuch 8 24 2575 59 Dave Bass NYC Sessions Whaling City Sound 5 25 2574 60 Main Street Savant 7 25 2482 61 Lee Smith My Kind Of Blues Vectordisc 11 22 2468 62 Chip White Family Dedications and More Dark Colors 4 23 2410 63 Pat Bianchi A Higher Standard 21-H 11 26 2408 64 John Scofield Past Present Impulse! / Universal 3 12 2407 65 Sam Most New Jazz Standards Summit 7 23 2392 66 Terence Blanchard Featuring The E-Collective Breathless Blue Note 19 26 2365 67 Brian Charette Alphabet City Posi-Tone 17 25 2359 68 Giacomo Gates Everything Is Cool Savant 8 19 2352 69 Joshua Bruneau Septet Bright Idea Cellar Live 18 26 2347 70 H2 Big Band It Could Happen Origin 13 25 2342 71 Jeff Lorber & Chuck Loeb Bop ArtistShare 28 17 2331 72 Jason Miles / Ingrid Jensen Kind Of New Whaling City Sound 20 25 2312 73 John Fedchock New York Big Band Like It Is MAMA 7 18 2310 74 Vijay Iyer Trio Break Stuff ECM 9 26 2306 75 Rez Abbasi Acoustic Quartet Intents And Purposes Enja 11 24 2303 75 Arturo O’Farrill and The Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra Cuba | The Conversation Continues Motema 10 17 2303 77 Diana Krall Wallflower Verve 12 21 2282 78 Jeremy Pelt Tales, Musings And Other Reveries HighNote 8 26 2270 79 Kamasi Washington The Epic Brainfeeder 18 24 2264 80 Omer Avital New Song Motema 8 16 2251 81 John Fedchock Fluidity Summit 15 22 2206 81 Karrin Allyson Many A New Day Motema 7 13 2206 83 Open Road Posi-Tone 28 21 2203 84 David Gibson Boom! Posi-Tone 16 24 2198 85 Essiet Okon Essiet Shona Space Time 13 16 2194 86 Trio Cellar Live 19 26 2183 87 Antonio Adolfo Tema AAM Music 11 23 2160 88 Joe Magnarelli Three On Two Posi-Tone 12 16 2151 89 Gary McFarland Legacy Ensemble Circulation: The Music Of Gary McFarland Planet Arts Recordings 24 25 2149 90 Ray Obiedo There Goes That Rhythmus 18 27 2148 91 Luis Perdomo & Controlling Ear Unit Twenty-Two Hot Tone Music 17 23 2134 92 Snarky Puppy Sylva Universal 32 25 2129 92 Chris Washburne & Syotos Low Ridin’ Zoho Roots 21 25 2129 94 Steve Kaldestad New York Afternoon Cellar Live 28 25 2106 95 Ben Sidran Blue Camus Unlimited Media 16 27 2091 96 Charles Ruggiero Boom Bang, Boom Bang! Rondette Jazz 18 26 2070 97 Jeff Hamilton Trio Great American Songs Capri 3 24 2066 98 Art Hirahara Libations & Meditations Posi-Tone 6 22 2065 99 Jeff “Tain” Watts Blue Vol. 1 Dark Key Music 23 26 2054 100 Ramon Valle Take Off In + Out 38 22 2038

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