Top 100 Jazz 2016

Rank Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 1 Gregory Porter Take Me To The Alley Blue Note 1 27 5377 2 Russell Malone All About Melody HighNote 1 26 4764 3 Warren Wolf Convergence Mack Avenue 2 27 4581 4 Kenny Garrett Do Your Dance Mack Avenue 1 26 4371 5 One For All The Third Decade Smoke Sessions 2 26 4336 6 Joey Alexander Countdown Motema 1 16 4116 7 René Marie Sound Of Red Motema 2 25 4098 8 Jim Rotondi Dark Blue Smoke Sessions 1 27 4032 9 Willie Jones III Groundwork WJ3 3 26 3876 10 Cyrus Chestnut Natural Essence HighNote 2 26 3855 11 Steve Turre Colors For The Masters Smoke Sessions 1 20 3836 12 Branford Marsalis & Kurt Elling The Upward Spiral OKeh 2 24 3814 13 Herlin Riley New Direction Mack Avenue 2 27 3812 14 George Coleman A Master Speaks Smoke Sessions 2 26 3757 15 Etienne Charles San Jose Suite Culture Shock Music 2 25 3753 16 Yellowjackets Cohearence Mack Avenue 2 25 3683 17 Renee Rosnes Written In The Rocks Smoke Sessions 1 27 3661 18 Dr. Lonnie Smith Evolution Blue Note 1 25 3559 19 Ken Fowser Standing Tall Posi-Tone 1 26 3505 20 Dave Stryker Eight Track II Strikezone 2 16 3498 21 Jae Sinnett Zero To 60 J-Nett Music 1 25 3442 22 John Beasley Presents MONK’estra Vol. 1 Mack Avenue 3 21 3360 23 Peter Bernstein Let Loose Smoke Sessions 4 26 3291 24 Brian Bromberg Full Circle Artistry Music 6 26 3239 25 Benny Golson Horizon Ahead HighNote 5 26 3235 26 Cyrille Aimée Let’s Get Lost Mack Avenue 1 28 3200 27 Jeremy Pelt #JIVECULTURE HighNote 2 26 3178 28 Eric Hargett w/ Joey D and Gerry Gibbs Steppin’ Up Whaling City Sound 6 20 3173 29 Houston Person & Ron Carter Chemistry HighNote 3 23 3158 30 Michael Dease Father Figure Posi-Tone 7 24 3143 31 Freddy Cole He Was The King HighNote 4 26 3127 32 Theo Croker Escape Velocity OKeh 11 23 3114 33 Power Quintet High Art HighNote 8 25 3098 34 Catherine Russell Harlem On My Mind Jazz Village 3 15 3094 35 Freddie Hendrix Jersey Cat Sunnyside 13 27 3075 36 Allen Toussaint American Tunes Nonesuch 8 25 3068 37 Clayton Brothers Soul Brothers ArtistShare 6 24 3025 38 Joe Chambers Landscapes Savant 6 26 3024 39 Bill Evans Some Other Time: The Lost Sessions from the Black Forest Resonance 6 27 3016 40 Eric Alexander Second Impression HighNote 1 12 3009 41 Kandace Springs Soul Eyes Blue Note 11 24 2970 42 Marquis Hill The Way We Play Concord 7 25 2961 43 Antonio Adolfo Tropical Infinito AAM Music 7 25 2951 44 Dominick Farinacci Short Stories Mack Avenue 9 26 2942 45 Ed Cherry Soul Tree Posi-Tone 7 25 2938 46 Chico Freeman 4-Tet Spoken Into Existence Jive Music 15 25 2856 47 Brad Mehldau Trio Blues And Ballads Nonesuch 11 26 2772 48 Ed Calle 360 Mojito 8 23 2769 49 Fred Hersch Trio Sunday Night At The Vanguard Palmetto 5 19 2748 50 Jerry Bergonzi Spotlight On Standards Savant 7 20 2745

Rank Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 51 Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha Ground Up / Universal 14 25 2735 52 Organik Vibe Trio Things We Did Last Summer Cellar Live 14 25 2726 53 Mack Avenue Superband Live From Detroit Jazz Festival 2015 Mack Avenue 1 23 2723 54 Leslie Odom Jr Leslie Odom Jr S-Curve 12 24 2706 55 Jane Monheit The Songbook Sessions: Ella Fitzgerald Emerald City Sessions 14 24 2675 56 Bill O’Connell & The Latin Jazz All-Stars Heart Beat Savant 6 26 2655 57 Hendrik Meurkens Harmonicus Rex Height Advantage 6 25 2613 58 Stryker / Slagle Band Expanded Routes Strikezone 2 23 2606 59 Sarah Vaughan Live At Rosy’s Resonance 10 26 2587 60 Kevin Mahogany The Vienna Affair Mahogany Jazz 13 24 2582 61 Ken Peplowski Enrapture Capri 10 23 2568 62 The Cookers The Call Of The Wild And Peaceful Heart Smoke Sessions 5 15 2564 63 Will Calhoun Celebrating Elvin Jones Motema 10 18 2497 64 Norah Jones Day Breaks Blue Note 1 11 2491 65 Tierney Sutton Band The Sting Variations BFM Jazz 4 14 2490 66 Verve Jazz Ensemble Perimeter The Verve Jazz Ensemble 23 24 2481 67 Laurence Hobgood Trio Honor Thy Fathers Circumstantial 12 24 2474 68 Charles Lloyd & The Marvels I Long To See You Blue Note 5 27 2463 69 Monika Herzig The Whole World In Her Hands Whaling City Sound 20 21 2452 70 Dena DeRose United HighNote 12 25 2450 71 Danny Green Trio Altered Narratives OA2 27 24 2423 72 Roxy Coss Restless Idealism Origin 7 24 2419 73 Oscar, with Love Oscar, with Love Two Lions 14 25 2415 74 Cory Weeds & The Jeff Hamilton Trio This Happy Madness Cellar Live 1 25 2400 75 Peter Erskine Dr. Um Fuzzy Music 7 24 2389 76 Wayne Bergeron Full Circle Scholz Productions 23 25 2383 77 Brian Charette Once & Future Posi-Tone 17 25 2357 78 Bob Mintzer Bob Mintzer All L.A. Band Fuzzy Music 17 17 2321 79 Hiromi Spark Heads Up 19 25 2273 80 Thad Jones | Mel Lewis Orchestra All My Yesterdays Resonance 9 25 2268 81 Joe Lovano Quartet Classic! Live At Newport Blue Note 12 21 2262 82 14 Jazz Orchestra Nothing Hard Is Ever Easy Dabon Music 9 26 2250 83 Murray Allen & Carrington Perfection Motema 18 23 2209 84 Jon Davis Changes Over Time Posi-Tone 14 26 2197 85 Doug Webb Bright Side Posi-Tone 15 22 2184 86 Kenny Barron Trio Book Of Intuition Impulse 15 25 2180 87 Michael Davis Hip-Bone Big Band Hip-Bonemusic 17 19 2177 88 Greg Murphy Summer Breeze Whaling City Sound 24 21 2163 89 Bria Skonberg Bria OKeh 6 12 2162 90 Til Bronner The Good Life OKeh 13 15 2157 91 Pat Metheny The Unity Sessions Nonesuch 18 24 2156 92 Charlie Hunter Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth Ground Up / Universal 19 21 2138 93 Nicolas Bearde Invitation Right Groove 16 25 2106 94 Sonny Rollins Holding The Stage | Road Shows, Vol. 4 Sony / OKeh 20 25 2104 95 JD Allen Americana Musings On The Blues Savant 20 25 2082 96 Grace Kelly Trying To Figure It Out Pazz Productions 25 24 2075 97 Adrienne Fenemor Mo’ Puddin’ Self Produced 27 21 2063 98 Allan Harris Nobody’s Gonna Love You Better Love Productions 7 13 2052 99 Tom Harrell Something Gold, Something Blue HighNote 6 12 2044 100 Oleg Kireyev & Keith Javors The Meeting Inarhyme 25 21 2021