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Jazz Album Chart July 23, 2018 TW LW 2W Peak Artist Title Label TW LW Move Weeks Reports Adds John Coltrane 1 3 160 1 Both Directions at Once - The Lost Album Impulse / Verve 275 258 17 2 55 13 Most Reports 2 1 1 1 Joey Alexander Eclipse Motema 237 315 -78 10 48 0 3 2 4 2 Kenny Barron Quintet Concentric Circles Blue Note 227 284 -57 10 49 0 4 4 2 2 Eddie Henderson Be Cool Smoke Sessions 223 257 -34 10 48 0 5 14 64 5 Bob Mintzer Big Band - New York Voices Meeting of Minds MCG Jazz 222 190 32 2 49 4 6 8 5 4 Allan Harris The Genius of Eddie Jefferson Resilience 212 233 -21 9 45 1 7 6 10 6 Buster Williams Audacity Smoke Sessions 207 243 -36 4 54 1 8 18 14 8 Ellis Marsalis The Ellis Marsalis Quintet Plays the Music of ELM 206 180 26 8 42 3 Ellis Marsalis 9 10 3 3 Mike LeDonne and The Groover Quartet From The Heart Savant 200 223 -23 7 45 1 10 12 7 5 Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt Jubilation! Savant 185 215 -30 11 43 1 11 5 9 5 Freddy Cole My Mood Is You HighNote 184 249 -65 7 46 0 12 10 25 10 Marcus Miller Laid Black Blue Note 178 223 -45 3 40 1 13 7 6 2 Don Braden Earth, Wind and Wonder Creative Perspective Music 177 240 -63 11 42 0 14 9 7 6 Tia Fuller Diamond Cut Mack Avenue 175 231 -56 9 40 0 Black Art Jazz Collective 15 21 114 15 Armor Of Pride HighNote 172 164 8 2 55 5 Most Reports 16 22 21 16 Brad Mehldau Trio Seymour Reads The Constitution! Nonesuch 170 160 10 5 46 2 17 14 12 12 Cyrille Aimée Live Mack Avenue 167 190 -23 5 45 1 18 17 15 8 Benito Gonzalez, Gerry Gibbs & Essiet Essiet Passion, Reverence, Transcendence Whaling City Sound 166 184 -18 10 35 0 19 49 142 19 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth Young Turks 163 112 51 2 43 7 20 22 16 16 Tiffany Austin Unbroken Con Alma Music 158 160 -2 5 35 0 Cory Weeds Little Big Band 21 52 - 21 Explosion Cellar Live 154 111 43 1 43 10 Highest Debut 22 13 10 8 Manhattan Transfer The Junction BMG 152 194 -42 11 32 0 23 16 19 13 McClenty Hunter, Jr. The Groove Hunter Strikezone 149 189 -40 8 42 1 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels + Lucinda 24 38 - 24 Williams Vanished Gardens Blue Note 148 134 14 2 42 6 24 19 22 19 Eddie Daniels Heart Of Brazil Resonance 148 173 -25 4 38 0 26 30 109 26 Geoffrey Keezer On My Way to You MarKeez 147 147 0 2 41 3 27 27 127 27 JD Allen Lovestone Savant 145 155 -10 2 48 7 27 199 - 27 Antonio Adolfo Encontros – Orquestra Atlantica AAM Music 145 31 114 1 42 20 29 25 42 25 Stanley Clarke Band The Message Mack Avenue 143 158 -15 4 33 2 Erroll Garner 30 - - 30 Nightconcert Mack Avenue 141 0 141 1 38 38 Most Added / Biggest Gainer 31 20 24 20 Harold López-Nussa Un Día Cualquiera Mack Avenue 140 171 -31 4 36 2 32 32 37 20 Kait Dunton trioKAIT 2 Real & Imagined Music 130 141 -11 9 27 1 33 25 41 25 Jerry Weldon Those Were The Days Cellar Live 129 158 -29 5 27 1 34 29 17 7 Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco You’re Driving Me Crazy Sony / Legacy 126 148 -22 11 31 0 35 27 18 1 Kurt Elling The Questions OKeh 124 155 -31 16 29 0 36 35 28 28 Andrea Brachfeld If Not Now, When? Jazzheads 122 139 -17 6 37 2 36 36 27 16 Brubeck Brothers Timeline Blue Forest 122 136 -14 12 36 1 36 33 37 33 Dave McMurray Music Is Life Blue Note 122 140 -18 5 30 1 39 31 23 21 Jared Gold Reemergence Strikezone 121 146 -25 7 36 1 39 41 26 2 Renee Rosnes Beloved Of The Sky Smoke Sessions 121 132 -11 14 26 0 41 43 40 40 Joshua Redman Still Dreaming Nonesuch 117 130 -13 3 36 1 42 44 69 42 Lenny Marcus Trio Gloria’s Step Lenny Marcus Music 116 125 -9 2 30 3 43 22 13 7 Bill O’Connell Jazz Latin Savant 114 160 -46 10 29 0 44 36 39 32 Maguire Twins Seeking Higher Ground Three Tree 108 136 -28 5 32 1 45 84 84 45 Dayramir Gonzalez The Grand Concourse Machat 106 84 22 1 27 5 45 33 20 7 Eliane Elias Music from Man of La Mancha Concord 106 140 -34 13 24 0 47 80 193 47 Hendrik Meurkens & Bill Cunliffe Cabin in the Sky Height Advantage 104 86 18 1 35 9 48 49 34 6 Miles Davis & John Coltrane The Final Tour Legacy 103 112 -9 14 24 0 48 42 44 15 Dafnis Prieto Big Band Back to the Sunset Dafnison Music 103 131 -28 14 24 0 50 90 86 50 Lynne Arriale Trio Give Us These Days Challenge 102 78 24 1 35 11 50 44 98 44 Lauren Sevian Bliss Posi-Tone 102 125 -23 2 30 4 50 46 31 6 Monika Herzig Sheroes Whaling City Sound 102 123 -21 15 25 0 Most Added Increased Airplay Chartbound Erroll Garner Nightconcert (Mack Avenue) +38 Erroll Garner Nightconcert (Mack Avenue) +141 Ted Nash Quintet Live at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Plastic Sax) Antonio Adolfo Encontros - Orquestra Atlantica (AAM Music) +20 Antonio Adolfo Encontros - Orquestra Atlantica Jerry Vivino Coast To Coast (Blujazz Label and Promotions) Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Electric Miles (MAMA) +16 (AAM Music) +114 Richard Howell and Sudden Changes Coming of Age Mangaku Peter Lin With Respect (Lintet LLC) +15 Kamasi Washington Heaven and Earth (Young Turks) +51 (IYOUWE) Tim Warfield Jazzland (Criss Cross Jazz) +14 Cory Weeds Little Big Band Explosion (Cellar Live) +43 Gayelynn McKinney McKinFolk: The New Beginning (Detroit John Coltrane Both Directions at Once - The Lost Album Michika Fukumori Piano Images (Summit) +38 Music Factory) (Impulse / Verve) +13 Bobby Sanabria West Side Story Re-Imagined (Jazzheads) +38 Gabriel Mark Hasselbach Mid Century Modern (Windtunnel) Radam Schwartz Two Sides of the Organ Combo Rob Dixon Trio ft. Charlie Hunter and Mike Clark R+R=Now Collagically Speaking (Blue Note) (Arabesque Recordings) +13 Coast to Crossroads (Rob Dixon Music) +35 Tribu El Matador (Mandala) John Bailey In Real Time (Summit) +12 Bob Mintzer Big Band - New York Voices Meeting of Minds LehCats Movement to Egalitaria (IYOUWE) Troy Roberts Nu-Jive Perspective (Inner Circle Music) +12 (MCG Jazz) +32 Nellie McKay Sister Orchid (Palmetto) Tom Tallitsch Wheelhouse (Posi-Tone) +12 Charles Pillow Large Ensemble Electric Miles (MAMA) +30 Amy Cervini No One Ever Tells You (Anzic) Troy Roberts Nu-Jive Perspective (Inner Circle Music) +30 Chart and Data ©2018 Trefzger Media LLC.
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