Current Jazz Releases
Releases are listed here after they have been detected by Mediaguide as being in the top 200 for a given week, and remain here for 39 weeks.
3 COHENS Family (Anzic)
5 AFTER 4 Rome In A Day (Alma)
REZ ABBASI Suno Suno (Ejina)
MARK ADAMS Embellishments (The Q & A Project) (Roberts)
JASON ADASIEWICZ Spacer (Delmark)
ANTONIO ADOLFO Chora Baiao (AAM)
AFRO BOP ALLIANCE Una Mas (OA2)
LAURA AINSWORTH Keep It To Yourself (Eclectus)
AMINA ALAOUI Arco Iris (ECM)
MONTY ALEXANDER Harlem-Kingston Express Live (Motema)
CLIPPER ANDERSON The Road Home (Origin)
BRYAN ANTHONY A Night Like This (Mercator Media)
CHARLIE APICELLA & IRON CITY The Business (CArlo)
VARIOUS ARTISTS My Week With Marilyn [Soundtrack] (Sony Masterworks)
JAY ASHBY & STEVE DAVIS Mistaken Identity (MCG Jazz)
BRUCE BABAD A Tribute To Paul Desmond (Primrose Lane)
ANSYN BANKS Banks Gives Thanks (Sea Breeze)
RAHSAAN BARBER Everyday Magic (Jazz Music City)
JOHN BASILE Amplitudes (Stringtime Jazz)
GERALD BECKETT Standard Flute (Summit)
DEE BELL Sagacious Grace (Laser)
STEPHANE BELMONDO Same As It Never Was Before (Sunnyside)
TONY BENNETT Duets II (RPM / Columbia)
DAVID BENNETT THOMAS Jazz Portrait (Vectordisc)
GEORGE BENSON Guitar Man (Concord Jazz)
LAILA BIALI Tracing Light (Self-Released)
ANTHONY BRANKER & WORD PLAY Dialogic (Origin)
RICK BRAUN Sings With Strings (Artistry / Mack Avenue)
RANDY BRECKER WITH DANISH RADIO BIG BAND The Jazz Ballad Song Book (Red Dot / Half Note)
WOLFERT BREDERODE QUARTET Post Scriptum (ECM)
ALEX BROWN Pianist (Sunnyside)
PATRIZIO BUANNE Patrizio (Concord Jazz)
DAVID BUDWAY A New Kiss (MAXJAZZ)
KENNY BURRELL Tenderly (HighNote)
RICHIE CANNATA Richie Cannata (Brown Dog)
BRENT CANTER Urgency Of Now (Posi-Tone)
MINDY CANTER Fluteus Maximus (Self-Released)
TITO CARRILLO Opening Statement (Origin)
JAMES CARTER At The Crossroads (Emarcy)
RON CARTER Ron Carter's Great Big Band (Sunnyside)
LISA CASALINO Introducing Lisa Casalino (Self-Released)
AMY CERVINI Digging Me Digging You (Anzic)
ETIENNE CHARLES Kaiso (Culture Shock)
RAY CHARLES Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles [Sampler] (Concord)
CHILCANO Madera Corazon (Saponegro)
LIZ CHILDS Take Flight (Self-Released)
MAUREEN CHOI Maureen Choi Quartet (Self-Released)
CINQUE Catch A Corner (Alma)
GERALD CLAYTON Bond: The Paris Sessions (Emarcy)
EVAN COBB Falling Up (Self-Released)
AVISHAI COHEN Seven Seas (Sunnyside)
PAUL COHEN I Want You Back (Sage West)
JOE COHN Fuego (Criss Cross)
FREDDY COLE Talk To Me (HighNote)
GEORGE COLE QUINTET Riverside Drive (Oceanview)
CECILIA COLEMAN Oh Boy! (PandaKat)
CHICK COREA Further Explorations (Concord Jazz)
CHICK COREA & STEFANO BOLLANI Orvieto (ECM)
PATRICK CORNELIUS Maybe Steps (Posi-Tone)
JERRY COSTANZO Can\'t We Be Friends (Daywood Drive)
MIKE COTTONE Just Remember (Self-Released)
COW BOP Too Hick For The Room (B4Man)
KEVIN CRABB Waltz For Dylan (Crabb Claw)
SHIRLEY CRABBE Home (MaiSong)
JAZZ CRUSADERS Freedom Sound (EMI)
CARMEN CUESTA Mi Bossa Nova (Tweety)
MEREDITH D'AMBROSIO By Myself (Sunnyside)
DUDUKA DA FONSECA Plays Toninho Horta (Zoho)
CLAIRE DALY Mary Joyce Project: Nothing To Lose (Daly Bread)
EDDIE DANIELS & ROGER KELLAWAY Live At The Library Of Congress (IPO / Light Works)
EKENDRA DAS Ethnomusicology (World Radio 108)
JOHN DAVERSA Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album (BFM Jazz)
NORMAN DAVID AND THE ELEVENTET At This Time (Cool Craft)
RYAN DAVIDSON Ryan Davidson Trio (Self-Released)
DEEP BLUE ORGAN TRIO Wonderful! (Origin)
JOEY DEFRANCESCO 40 (HighNote)
JACK DEJOHNETTE Sound Travels (eOne)
BENOIT DELBECQ & FRANCOIS HOULE Because She Hoped (Songlines)
THE DYNAMIC LES DEMERLE BAND Gypsy Rendezvous, Vol. 2 (Origin)
MIKE DIRUBBO Four Hands, One Heart (Ksanti)
ARMEN DONELIAN Leapfrog (Sunnyside)
MIKE DOWLING & DAVID LANGE Eclectricity (Wind River Guitar)
DOWNIE Just Ask Me (Rhombus)
PHIL DWYER Changing Seasons (Alma)
ANTHONY E. NELSON JR Tenor For Two (Music Stand)
KYLE EASTWOOD Songs From The Chateau (Mack Avenue)
MELISSA ERRICO Legrand Affair (Ghostlight)
ESP Reach (Spider)
FALKNER EVANS The Point Of The Moon (C.A.P.)
ORRIN EVANS Freedom (Posi-Tone)
CHRISTIAN FABIAN West Coast Session (CAP)
THE FALCONAIRES Sharing The Freedom (Self-Released)
DOMINICK FARINACCI Dawn Of Goodbye (eOne)
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN \ (Concord Jazz)
JOE FIEDLER TRIO Sacred Chrome Orb (Yellow Sound Label)
SAMMY FIGUEROA Urban Nature (Senator)
JANICE FINLAY Anywhere But Here (Self-Released)
FOURTHOUGHT Fourthought (Self-Released)
KEN FOWSER & BEHN GILLECE DuoTone (Posi-Tone)
JACOB FRED JAZZ ODYSSEY Race Riot Suite (Kinnara)
FRED FRIED AND CORE EnCore (Ballet Tree Jazz / Fingerdance)
BILL FRISELL All We Are Saying... (Savoy Jazz)
THE JACK FURLONG QUARTET And That Happened (Bridge And Tunnel)
HAL GALPER Trip The Light Fantastic (Origin)
MIKE GARSON Bowie Variations (Reference)
GIACOMO GATES Revolution Will Be Jazz: The Songs Of Gil Scott-Heron (Savant)
GELBER & MANNING Moonlight Picnic ()
DAVID GIBSON End Of The Tunnel (Posi-Tone)
HANS GLAWISCHNIG Jahira (Sunnyside)
GOJOGO 28,000 Days (Porto Franco)
AARON GOLDBERG & ALI JACKSON Yes! (Sunnyside)
MAC GOLLEHON Oddyssey Of Nostalgia (1234 Go)
JERRY GONZALEZ Jerry Gonzalez Y El Comando De La Clave (Sunnyside)
STEPHANE GRAPPELLI & TOOTS THIELEMANS Bringing It Together (Lisem)
DANNY GRISSETT Stride (Criss Cross)
H2 BIG BAND You're It! (Jazzed Media)
JEFF HACKWORTH Night Owl (Big Bridge)
CHARLIE HADEN & HANK JONES Come Sunday (Emarcy)
TIM HAGANS The Moon Is Waiting (Palmetto)
STEVE HALL Cruisin' On Burnside (Moovealong)
TIANNA HALL Never Let Me Go (Blue Bamboo)
SIR ROLAND HANNA Colors From A Giant\'s Kit (IPO)
ERIC HARLAND Voyager: Live By Night (Sunnyside)
ALLAN HARRIS Open Up Your Mind (Love Production Records)
DONALD HARRISON This Is Jazz: Live At The Blue Note (Half Note)
ROY HAYNES Roy-Alty (Dreyfus)
KEVIN HAYS, BRAD MEHLDAU & PATRICK ZIMMERLI Modern Music (Nonesuch)
THE HEADHUNTERS Platinum (Owl Studios)
NICK HEMPTON The Business (Posi-Tone)
NICOLE HENRY Embraceable (ArtistShare)
MACE HIBBARD Time Gone By (Self-Released)
PAMELA HINES Lucky's Boy (Spice Rack)
ART HIRAHARA Noble Path (Posi-Tone)
TIM HORNER The Places We Feel Free (Miles High)
ROGER HUMPHRIES Keep The Faith (Corona)
CHARLIE HUNTER Public Domain (Reapandsow)
DAN JACOBS Play Song (Metro Jazz)
ETTA JAMES The Dreamer (Verve Forecast)
BOB JAMES & KEIKO MATSUI Altair & Vega (eOne / Tappan Zee)
KEITH JARRETT Rio (ECM)
JAZZ LINKS ENSEMBLE The Drive (JICSAR)
THE JEFF GAUTHIER GOATETTE Open Source (Cryptogramophone)
RANDY JOHNSTON People Music (Random Act)
STANLEY JORDAN Friends (Mack Avenue)
CHRIS JOSS No Play No Work (Eighteenth Street Lounge)
JASON KAO HWANG & SPONTANEOUS RIVER Symphony Of Souls (Mulatta)
KATCHIE & LE MONDE CACHE Tales & Tongues (Harriton Carved Wax)
RICHIE KAYE Richie Kaye's Music & Mirth (Self-Released)
GRACE KELLY Grace (Pazz)
STAN KILLIAN Unified (Summit/Hot Springs Records)
DENISE KING & OLIVER HUTMAN No Tricks (Cristal)
LISA KIRCHNER Something To Sing About (Albany)
YUKO KISHIMOTO Songbook (Planet Arts)
MARY LOUISE KNUTSON In The Bubble (Meridian Jazz)
AARON KOPPEL QUARTET Multiverse (Chicago Sessions)
ERNIE KRIVDA Blues For Pekar (Capri)
STEVEN KROON Without A Doubt (Kroonatune)
TAKUYA KURODA Edge (Self-Released)
RICK LAWN\'S POWER OF TEN BIG BAND Earth Tones (LawnWorks)
ALAN LEATHERMAN Detour Ahead (AJL)
MIKE LEDONNE Keep The Faith (Savant)
THE GEORGE LERNIS JAZZ QUARTET Shapes Of Nature (Self-Released)
CHARLES LLOYD Athens Concert (ECM)
CHUCK LOEB Plain N' Simple ()
MIKE LONGO To My Surprise (CAP)
DUDA LUCENA Duda Lucena Quartet - Live (Self-Released)
CARMEN LUNDY Night And Day (Afrasia)
VINCENT LYN Heaven Bound (Self-Released)
BRIAN LYNCH Conclave Vol. 2 (Criss Cross Jazz)
TERRI LYNE CARRINGTON The Mosaic Project (Concord)
KENNY MACKENZIE Moved (KMT)
RUDRESH MAHANTHAPPA Samdhi (Act / Vision)
TANIA MARIA Tempo (Naive)
RENE MARIE Black Lace Freudian Slip (Motema)
WYNTON MARSALIS & ERIC CLAPTON Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues (Reprise)
PAT MARTINO Undeniable: Live At Blues Alley (HighNote)
LISA MAXWELL Happy (Jazz, Lovers)
SHAWN MAXWELL Urban Vigilante (Chicago Sessions)
TIM MAYER Resilience (JLP)
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE Conversations With Christian (Mack Avenue)
CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE BIG BAND The Good Feeling (Mack Avenue)
MCG JAZZ ALL STARS Hill District BEAT A Tribute to Teenie Harris (MCG Jazz)
JEFF MCLAUGHLIN QUARTET Blocks (Owl Studios)
MARK MCLEAN Playground (Self-Released)
FRANCISCO MELA & CUBAN SAFARI Tree Of Life (Half Note)
MIKE MELITO The Right Time (Weebop)
VINCE MENDOZA Nights On Earth (Horizontal)
PAT METHENY What's It All About (Nonesuch)
HENDRIK MEURKENS Live At Bird's Eye (Zoho)
PAUL MEYERS Welcome Home (Little Chin)
SOPHIE MILMAN In The Moonlight (eOne)
NICOLE MITCHELL Awakening (Delmark)
YOKO MIWA Live At Scullers Jazz Club (Jazz Cat Amnesty)
SILVANO MONASTERIOS Unconditional (Savant)
CAROL MORGAN Blue Glass Music (Blue Bamboo)
MARK MOULTRUP Relaxin' On The Edge (Self-Released)
RUSS MULLEN & THE JAZZ ASSOCIATES Cityscape (Russsongs)
DAVID MURRAY David Murray Cuban Ensemble Plays Nat King Cole - En Espanol (Motema)
AL NAYLOR Legacy (Self-Released)
JACQUI NAYLOR Lucky Girl (Ruby Star)
JOSH NELSON Discoveries (Steel Bird)
NEW WEST GUITAR GROUP Round-Trip Ticket (Summit)
NEW WORLD JAZZ PROJECT Brave New World (Tahoe Blue)
THE NICE GUY TRIO Sidewalks And Alleys / Waking Music (Porto Franco)
PHIL NORMAN Encore (MAMA)
NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY JAZZ ENSEMBLE Slightly Blued (Self-Released)
SEAN NOWELL Stockholm Swingin\' (Posi-Tone)
BILL O'CONNELL After The Dust Settled: Live In Moscow (Random Chance)
BILL O'CONNELL Triple Play Plus Three (Zoho)
ONE O'CLOCK LAB BAND Lab 2011 (Self-Released)
ORGANIK VIBE TRIO Moscow (OVT)
JAMIE OUSLEY A Sea Of Voices (T.I.E.)
JIMMY OWENS The Monk Project (IPO)
DUANE PADILLA Sentimental Swing (Self-Released)
ALAN PASQUA Twin Bill: Two Piano Music Of Bill Evans (BFM Jazz)
BEATA PATER Blue (B)
SUNNIE PAXSON Bohemian Sun (Bungalo)
NICHOLAS PAYTON Bitches (In + Out)
PEAR Extemp'ore (PearStudio)
MICHAEL PEDICIN Ballads (Jazz Hut)
OSCAR PEREZ NUEVO COMIENZO Afropean Affair (Chandra)
HOUSTON PERSON So Nice (HighNote)
OSCAR PETERSON Unmistakable (Sony Masterworks)
REBECCA PIDGEON Slingshot (Toy Canteen)
JEAN-MICHEL PILC, FRANCOIS MOUTIN, ARI HOENIG Threedom (Motema)
MARC POMPE Everyone But Me (Kospaesthetics)
TINEKE POSTMA The Dawn Of Light (Challenge)
THE PUPPINI SISTERS Hollywood (Verve Forecast)
JASON RASO The Red Arrow (Summit)
ENRICO RAVA Tribe (ECM)
CHUCK REDD The Common Thread (Arbors)
ED REED Born To Be Blue (Blue Shorts)
ERIC REED Something Beautiful (WJ3)
KATE REID The Love I'm In (Self-Released)
GREG REITAN Daybreak (Sunnyside)
JOSE RIZO Mongorama (Saungu)
CLAUDIO RODITI Bons Amigos (Resonance)
DENNIS ROLLINS 11th Gate (Motema)
SONNY ROLLINS Road Shows Vol. 2 (Emarcy)
ROMAN STREET Shorelines (Self-Released)
MARLENE ROSENBERG Bassprint (Origin)
TED ROSENTHAL Out Of This World (Playscape)
HOLLI ROSS You\'ll See (Miles High)
ROSWELL RUDD Incredible Honk (Sunnyside)
RUE DE FUNK Weather The Storm (Bobby Campo)
NICK RUFFINI Pressin\' On (Self-Released)
JOSH RZEPKA Into The Night (Self-Released)
PONCHO SANCHEZ & TERENCE BLANCHARD Chano y Dizzy (Concord Jazz)
ELSPETH SAVANI Flights Of Mind-Pensamiento De Vuelo (4 Culture)
SCENES Silent Photographer (Origin)
JOHN SCOFIELD A Moment's Peace (Emarcy)
KENNY SHANKER Steppin' Up (Posi-Tone)
BRAD SHEPIK Across The Way (Songlines)
BOB SHIMIZU First & Monroe (Signal Strength)
TROMBONE SHORTY For True (Verve Forecast)
MATT SLOCUM After The Storm (Chandra)
ENOCH SMITH JR Misfits (Music4mypeople)
GARY SMULYAN Smul's Paradise (Capri)
SOMI Live At Jazz Standard (Palmetto)
TYSHAWN SOREY Oblique - I (Pi)
THE SOUL REBELS Unlock Your Mind (Rounder)
GREG SPERO Acoustic (Self-Released)
JASON STEIN The Story This Time (Delmark)
JOHN STEIN Hi Fly (Whaling City Sound)
JOAN STILES Three Musicians (Oo-Bla-Dee)
RICK STONE Fractals (Jazzand)
COLIN STRANAHAN Anticipation (Capri)
SYLVAN STREET Here In America (Summit)
BARBRA STREISAND What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings The Lyrics of Alan And Marilyn Bergman (Columbia)
SACHAL STUDIOS ORCHESTRA Interpretations of Jazz Standards & Bossa Nova (Sachal)
JC STYLLES Exhilaration & Other States (Motema)
TRAVIS SULLIVAN New Directions (Posi-Tone)
IRA SULLIVAN & STU KATZ A Family Affair: Live At Joe Segal\'s Jazz Showcase (Origin)
SWINGADELIC Other Duke: Tribute To Duke Pearson (Zoho)
CHRISTIAN TAMBURR Places (Tamburr Worldwide)
THE TIERNEY SUTTON BAND American Road (BFM Jazz)
HEAVY TIN Space Cats (Concinnity)
TRI-FI Three (Tri-Fi)
DWIGHT TRIBLE Cosmic (Katalyst)
DARA TUCKER Soul Said Yes (Watchman)
RICHARD UNDERHILL Free Spirit (Stubby)
DAVE VALENTIN Pure Imagination (HighNote)
VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA Forever Lasting - Live in Tokyo (Planet Arts)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Music On All Cylinders; The Best Of The Detroit Jazz Fest 2010 (Mack Avenue)
VARIOUS ARTISTS Miles Espanol (eOne)
SACHAL VASANDANI Hi-Fly (Mack Avenue)
ELIO VILLAFRANCA & ARTURO STABLE Dos Y Mas (Motema)
LARRY VUCKOVICH Somethin' Special (Tetrachord)
CEDAR WALTON The Bouncer (HighNote)
THE FRANK WALTON SEXTET The Back Step (Self-Released)
DIONNE WARWICK Only Trust Your Heart (MPCA)
WATSONS RIDDLE Watsons Riddle (Palmetto)
CORY WEEDS Just Like That (Cellar Live)
MARK WEINSTEIN El Cumbanchero (Jazzheads)
WELLSTONE CONSPIRACY Humble Origins (Origin)
KENNY WERNER Institute Of Higher Learning (Half Note)
WESTCHESTER JAZZ ORCHESTRA Maiden Voyage Suite (WJO)
TOM WETMORE The Desired Effect (Crosstown)
JUDY WEXLER Under A Painted Sky (Jazzed Media)
CHIP WHITE Personal Dedications & Percussive Tributes (Dark Colors)
JACK WILKINS The Blue & Green Project (Summit)
SKIP WILKINS After (Dreambox Media)
BEN WILLIAMS State Of Art (Concord Jazz)
REUBEN WILSON Revisited (American Showplace)
GERALD WILSON ORCHESTRA Legacy (Mack Avenue)
MITCH WINEHOUSE Rush Of Love (Janey)
MARK WINKLER Sweet Spot (Cafe Pacific)
DEBORAH WINTERS Lovers After All (Jazzed Media)
WOODY WITT Pots And Kettles (Blue Bamboo)
MIKE WOFFORD & HOLLY HOFMANN Turn Signal (Capri)
WARREN WOLF Warren Wolf (Mack Avenue)
ANDREA WOLPER Parallel Lives (Jazzed Media)
PHIL WOODS & BILL MAYS Woods & Mays (Palmetto)
TOM WOPAT Consider It Swung (LML)
SAM YAHEL From Sun To Sun (Origin)
YARON State Of Mind (Dorron)
YOTAM Brasil (JLP)
THE YOUNG LIZARDS Our Modern Lifestyle (Pony Boy)
DENNY ZEITLIN Labyrinth (Sunnyside)
MIGUEL ZENON Alma Adentro: The Puerto Rican Songbook (Marsalis)
LENORA ZENZALAI HELM I Love Myself When I\'m Laughing (Zenzalai)
