Top 100 Jazz 2017

Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 1 Jazzmeia Horn A Social Call Prestige / Concord Music Group 1 26 4873 2 Louis Hayes Serenade for Horace Blue Note 1 27 4867 3 Terry Gibbs 92 Years Young: Jammin’ At The Gibbs House Whaling City Sound 1 26 4595 4 DeJohnette, Grenadier, Medeski and Scofield Hudson Motema 3 26 4253 5 Christian McBride Big Band Bringin’ It Mack Avenue 1 16 4111 6 Christian Sands Reach Mack Avenue 1 26 4103 7 Joey DeFrancesco + The People Project Freedom Mack Avenue 1 27 4048 8 Gerry Gibbs & The Thrasher People Weather or Not Whaling City Sound 1 26 3993 9 Diana Krall Turn Up The Quiet Verve 1 27 3846 10 Cyrus Chestnut There’s A Sweet, Sweet Spirit HighNote 1 20 3794 11 Billy Childs Rebirth Mack Avenue 1 26 3752 12 Steve Nelson Brothers Under The Sun HighNote 1 25 3707 13 Kevin Eubanks East West Time Line Mack Avenue 1 27 3575 14 Bobby Watson Made In America Smoke Sessions 4 25 3495 15 Heads Of State Four In One Smoke Sessions 2 26 3488 16 Antonio Adolfo Hybrido / From Rio To Wayne Shorter AAM Music 2 25 3484 17 Russell Malone Time For The Dancers HighNote 3 20 3479 18 Chick Corea The Musician Concord 11 27 3394 19 CÃ©cile McLorin Salvant Dreams and Daggers Mack Avenue 2 16 3373 20 Eliane Elias Dance of Time Concord 2 27 3341 21 Jerome Jennings The Beast Lola 9 24 3291 22 Steve Davis Think Ahead Smoke Sessions 2 26 3285 Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton 23 Marsalis featuring Jon Batiste The Music of John Lewis Blue Engine 4 27 3231 24 Nick Finzer Hear & Now Outside In Music 6 25 3227 25 Jaco Pastorius Truth, Liberty & Soul The Complete NPR Jazz Alive! Recording Resonance 5 26 3220 26 Bria Skonberg With A Twist OKEH 5 26 3203 27 Harold Mabern To Love and Be Loved Smoke Sessions 2 19 3193 28 Cory Weeds & The Jeff Hamilton Trio Dreamsville Cellar Live 8 26 3164 29 Gerald Cannon Combinations Woodneck 5 21 3093 30 Terell Stafford Forgive and Forget Herb Harris Music 1 25 3064 31 Dave Stryker Strykin’ Ahead Strikezone 3 17 2995 32 Jeremy Pelt Make Noise! HighNote 3 26 2988 33 Trombone Shorty Parking Lot Symphony Blue Note 6 26 2962 34 Dee Dee Bridgewater Memphis ... Yes I’m Ready OKEH 2 14 2950 35 Sean Jones Live from Jazz at the Bistro Mack Avenue 10 26 2851 36 Jimmy Greene Flowers: Beautiful Life Vol. 2 Mack Avenue 9 27 2823 37 Carmen Lundy Code Noir Afrasia Productions 6 26 2781 38 Akiko Tsuruga So Cute So Bad AT 9 24 2767 39 Regina Carter Ella: Accentuate The Positive Sony / OKeh 13 26 2736 40 Mark Whitfield Grace Self-Produced 4 26 2734 41 Dizzy Gillespie Concert Of The Century â€“ A Tribute To Charlie Parker Justin Time 5 26 2722 42 Steve Khan Backlog Tone Center 4 26 2701 43 Gerald Clayton Tributary Tales Motema 11 24 2675 44 Organissimo B3tles | A Soulful Tribute To The Fab Four Big-O-Records 6 26 2671 45 Yoko Miwa Pathways Ocean Blue Tear Music 6 25 2669 46 Terence Blanchard The Comedian Blue Note 12 26 2640 47 Charnett Moffet Music From Our Soul Motema 14 26 2637 48 Nicholas Payton Afro-Caribbean Mixtape Paytone 17 26 2576 49 Steve Slagle Alto Manhattan Panorama 4 24 2573 50 Charles Lloyd New Quartet Passin’ Thru Blue Note 7 23 2556

Artist Title Label Peak Weeks Spins 51 John Pizzarelli Sinatra & Jobim @ 50 CMG 6 21 2554 52 Katie Thiroux Off Beat Capri 11 19 2548 53 John Beasley Monk’estra Vol. 2 Mack Avenue 4 18 2534 54 Michael Dease All These Hands Posi-Tone 4 26 2514 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra w/ Wynton 55 Marsalis Handful Of Keys Blue Engine 2 13 2506 56 Ken Fowser Now Hear This! Posi-Tone 13 23 2477 57 Emmet Cohen Featuring Jimmy Cobb Masters Legacy Series Volume 1 Cellar Live 3 26 2451 58 Jeff “Tain” Watts Blue Vol. 2 Dark Key Music 9 26 2444 59 Tom Harrell Moving Picture HighNote 2 13 2440 60 Charlie Sepulveda & The Turnaround Mr. EP HighNote 4 26 2427 61 Greg Abate w/ Tim Ray Trio Road To Forever Whaling City Sound 12 24 2348 62 Barbara Morrison featuring Houston Person I Wanna Be Loved Savant 6 24 2346 63 Mike Longo Trio Only Time Will Tell CAP 15 24 2320 64 Ben Allison Layers Of The City Sonic Camera 9 24 2315 65 Ray Mantilla High Voltage Savant 11 26 2314 66 Organic Trio Saturn’s Spell Jazz Family 2 22 2299 67 Ariel Pocock Living In Twilight Justin Time 10 26 2274 68 Emily Bear Trio Into The Blue Ed Stone Rcords 12 23 2266 69 Uptown Jazz Tentet There It Is Irrabagast 18 25 2263 70 Don Aliquo Fathers & Sons MCG Jazz 8 24 2249 71 Cory Weeds Quintet featuring David Hazeltine It’s Easy To Remember Cellar Live 1 26 2241 72 Urbanity Urban Soul AlFi 27 21 2237 73 Matthew Whitaker Outta The Box Jazz Foundation Of America 18 23 2230 73 Nate Smith Kinfolk: Postcards From Everywhere Ropeadope 13 26 2230 75 Cedar Walton Charmed Circle Live at the Keystone Korner HighNote 14 26 2221 76 Ignacio Berroa Straight Ahead From Havana Jazz Promo Services 17 26 2193 77 Johnny O’Neal In The Moment Smoke Sessions 5 13 2179 78 Troy Roberts Tales & Tones Inner Circle Music 11 25 2157 79 Gregory Porter Nat King Cole & Me Blue Note 1 7 2138 80 Tardo Hammer Trio Swinging On A Star Cellar Live 12 23 2130 81 Patti Labelle Bel Hommage GPE 14 23 2106 82 Stanton Moore With You In Mind Mascot Label Group 9 21 2104 83 Cory Weeds Let’s Groove: The Music of Earth Wind & Fire Cellar Live 3 10 2094 84 Howard Johnson and Gravity Testimony Tuscarora 19 25 2086 85 Mark Masters Blue Skylight Capri 16 23 2068 86 Pat Martino Formidable HighNote 1 7 2055 87 Norah Jones Day Breaks Blue Note 1 27 2053 88 Vincent Herring Hard Times Smoke Sessions 3 9 2038 89 Bill Charlap Trio Uptown, Downtown Impulse / Verve 7 13 2020 90 Joey Alexander Joey. Monk. Live! Motema 4 10 2015 91 Champian Fulton Speechless Posi-Tone 19 22 2014 92 Wallace Roney A Place In Time HighNote 3 25 2001 93 Dave Liebman / Joe Lovano Compassion Resonance 16 24 1998 94 Mike Stern Trip Heads Up 13 15 1984 95 Taj Mahal & Keb ‘Mo’ Taj / Mo Concord Music Group 22 25 1972 96 Brandi Disterheft Blue Canvas Justin Time 11 25 1959 97 Petros Klampanis Chroma Motema Music 29 22 1947 98 Verve Jazz Ensemble Swing-A-Nova The Verve Jazz Ensemble 6 12 1933 98 Sounds Of A & R Sounds Of A & R Soaring 14 19 1933 100 Pete Malinverni Heaven Saranac 17 21 1928