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Year End Jazz Chart: 2018

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	Artist	Title	Label	Peak	Weeks	Spins	Buy
1	Eddie Henderson	Be Cool	Smoke Sessions	2	26	4780	Buy
2	Joey Alexander	Eclipse	Motema	1	25	4779	Buy
3	John Coltrane	Both Directions at Once \| The Lost Album	Impulse / Verve	1	24	4718	Buy
4	Kenny Barron Quintet	Concentric Circles	Blue Note	2	26	4468	Buy
5	Jeff Hamilton Trio	Live From San Pedro	Capri	1	25	4369	Buy
6	Dr. Lonnie Smith	All In My Mind	Blue Note	1	27	4318	Buy
7	Kurt Elling	The Questions	OKeh	1	26	4316	Buy
8	Don Braden	Earth, Wind and Wonder	Creative Perspective Music	2	24	4272	Buy
9	Steve Hobbs	Tribute to Bobby	Challenge	1	26	4204	Buy
10	Allan Harris	The Genius of Eddie Jefferson	Resilience	4	26	4154	Buy
11	Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt	Jubilation!	Savant	5	26	4150	Buy
12	Chick Corea + Steve Gadd Band	Chinese Butterfly	Concord Jazz / Stretch	1	27	3867	Buy
13	Mike LeDonne and The Groover Quartet	From The Heart	Savant	3	26	3794	Buy
14	Cory Weeds Little Big Band	Explosion	Cellar Live	2	23	3717	Buy
15	Antonio Adolfo	Encontros – Orquestra Atlantica	AAM Music	2	23	3636	Buy
16	Verve Jazz Ensemble	Connect The Dots	Lightgroove Media	1	21	3634	Buy
17	Karrin Allyson	Some of That Sunshine	kasrecords	2	19	3615	Buy
18	DIVA Jazz Orchestra	25th Anniversary Project	ArtistShare	1	25	3582	Buy
19	Tia Fuller	Diamond Cut	Mack Avenue	6	26	3577	Buy
20	Ellis Marsalis	The Ellis Marsalis Quintet Plays the Music of Ellis Marsalis	ELM	8	25	3567	Buy
21	Count Basie Orchestra	All About That Basie	Concord Jazz	1	14	3521	Buy
22	Black Art Jazz Collective	Armor Of Pride	HighNote	2	24	3494	Buy
23	Wynton Marsalis Septet	United We Swing	Blue Engine	2	27	3484	Buy
24	Stefon Harris & Blackout	Sonic Creed	Motema	1	13	3483	Buy
25	Renee Rosnes	Beloved Of The Sky	Smoke Sessions	2	26	3457	Buy
26	Freddy Cole	My Mood Is You	HighNote	5	26	3456	Buy
27	Bob Mintzer Big Band \| New York Voices	Meeting of Minds	MCG Jazz	5	24	3428	Buy
28	Kamasi Washington	Heaven and Earth	Young Turks	4	24	3416	Buy
29	Buster Williams	Audacity	Smoke Sessions	6	26	3412	Buy
30	Bill O'Connell	Jazz Latin	Savant	7	25	3282	Buy
31	Monika Herzig	Sheroes	Whaling City Sound	6	25	3274	Buy
32	Alfredo Rodriguez	The Little Dream	Mack Avenue	4	26	3262	Buy
33	Jason Marsalis and the 21st Century Trad Band	Melody Reimagined: Book 1	Basin Street	4	26	3261	Buy
34	Marcus Miller	Laid Black	Blue Note	10	24	3252	Buy
35	Manhattan Transfer	The Junction	BMG	8	24	3232	Buy
36	Bob James	Espresso	Evolution Music	3	15	3217	Buy
37	Corcoran Holt	The Mecca	Holthouse Music	3	26	3176	Buy
38	Miles Davis & John Coltrane	The Final Tour	Legacy	6	26	3168	Buy
39	Azar Lawrence	Elementals	HighNote	2	26	3157	Buy
40	New Faces	Straight Forward	Posi-Tone	6	25	3129	Buy
41	Eric Alexander	Song of No Regrets	HighNote	2	25	3119	Buy
42	Yellowjackets	Raising Our Voice	Mack Avenue	1	15	3106	Buy
43	Benito Gonzalez, Gerry Gibbs & Essiet Essiet	Passion, Reverence, Transcendence	Whaling City Sound	8	25	3094	Buy
43	Lisa Hilton	Escapism	Ruby Slippers Production	8	25	3094	Buy
45	Scott Hamilton Trio featuring Rossano Sportiello & JJ Shakur	Live at Pyatt Hall	Cellar Live	6	25	3056	Buy
46	Pat Martino	Formidable	HighNote	1	25	3055	Buy
47	Bobby Sanabria	West Side Story Re-Imagined	Jazzheads	1	22	3001	Buy
48	Tiffany Austin	Unbroken	Con Alma Music	16	25	2984	Buy
49	Van Morrison and Joey DeFrancesco	You're Driving Me Crazy	Sony / Legacy	7	26	2982	Buy
50	Julian Lage	Modern Lore	Mack Avenue	11	27	2979	Buy
51	Michael Dease	Reaching Out	Posi-Tone	6	25	2973	Buy
52	Jeremy Pelt	Noir en Rouge Live in Paris	HighNote	4	26	2941	Buy
53	Alexis Cole w/ One For All	You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To	Venus	11	26	2937	Buy
54	Geoffrey Keezer	On My Way to You	MarKeez	14	24	2909	Buy
55	Erroll Garner	Nightconcert	Mack Avenue	5	23	2906	Buy
56	Christian Sands	Facing Dragons	Mack Avenue	2	14	2899	Buy
57	Cyrille Aimée	Live	Mack Avenue	12	26	2892	Buy
58	Leslie Pintchik	You Eat My Food, You Drink My Wine, You Steal My Girl!	Pintch Hard	4	26	2891	Buy
59	Steve Turre	The Very Thought of You	Smoke Sessions	1	17	2881	Buy
60	Dafnis Prieto Big Band	Back to the Sunset	Dafnison Music	15	25	2859	Buy
61	Lynne Arriale Trio	Give Us These Days	Challenge	15	20	2820	Buy
62	Mike Clark & Delbert Bump	Retro Report	Ropeadope	14	25	2813	Buy
63	Steven Kroon	In Your Dreams	Kroonatune	17	25	2808	Buy
64	Eliane Elias	Music from Man of La Mancha	Concord	7	25	2794	Buy
65	Jemal Ramirez	African Skies	Joyful Beat	9	26	2783	Buy
65	Cécile McLorin Salvant	The Window	Mack Avenue	3	14	2783	Buy
67	Ben Paterson	Live at Van Gelder's	Cellar Live	11	19	2773	Buy
68	Emmet Cohen featuring Ron Carter	Masters Legacy Series Volume 2	Cellar Live	6	25	2763	Buy
69	Jay Rodriguez	Your Sound	Whaling City Sound	9	25	2751	Buy
70	Brubeck Brothers	Timeline	Blue Forest	16	23	2735	Buy
71	Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette	After The Fall	ECM	9	25	2707	Buy
72	Houston Person	Rain or Shine	HighNote	3	25	2684	Buy
73	George Cotsirilos Quartet	Mostly In Blue	Origin	15	24	2642	Buy
74	Dan Block	Block Party	Miles High	9	24	2629	Buy
75	McClenty Hunter, Jr.	The Groove Hunter	Strikezone	13	25	2618	Buy
76	Charlie Sepulveda & The Turnaround	Songs For Nat	HighNote	6	18	2617	Buy
77	Rob Dixon Trio ft. Charlie Hunter and Mike Clark	Coast to Crossroads	Rob Dixon Music	13	21	2604
78	Roxy Coss	The Future Is Female	Posi-Tone	12	25	2580	Buy
79	Houston Person & Ron Carter	Remember Love	HighNote	7	18	2548	Buy
80	Ken Peplowski Big Band	Sunrise	Arbors	12	26	2543	Buy
81	George Kahn	Straight Ahead	Playing	16	26	2528	Buy
82	Akira Tana & Guests	JAZZaNOVA	Vega Music	21	24	2509	Buy
83	Gregory Porter	Nat King Cole & Me	Blue Note	1	25	2504	Buy
84	Helen Sung	Sung with Words (A Collaboration with Dana Gioia)	Stricker Street	9	15	2481	Buy
85	Brad Mehldau Trio	Seymour Reads The Constitution!	Nonesuch	16	24	2461	Buy
86	Harold López-Nussa	Un Día Cualquiera	Mack Avenue	20	23	2440	Buy
87	Steve Gadd Band	Steve Gadd Band	BFM Jazz	8	25	2434	Buy
88	Eddie Daniels	Heart Of Brazil	Resonance	19	26	2429	Buy
89	Dan Pugach Nonet	Plus 1	Unit	20	23	2427	Buy
90	Al Di Meola	OPUS	Ear Music	16	25	2422	Buy
91	Caesar Frazier	Instinct	Doodlin	5	25	2356
92	Kait Dunton	trioKAIT 2	Real & Imagined Music	20	26	2302	Buy
92	Stanley Clarke Band	The Message	Mack Avenue	25	26	2302	Buy
94	Dave McMurray	Music Is Life	Blue Note	31	24	2277	Buy
95	Dayramir Gonzalez	The Grand Concourse	Machat	23	23	2275	Buy
95	Greg Fishman Quintet	So You Say	Greg Fishman Jazz Studios	21	20	2275	Buy
97	Steve Slagle	Dedication	Panorama	7	25	2271
98	Mark Winkler & Cheryl Bentyne	Eastern Standard Time	Café Pacific	13	17	2239	Buy
99	Adam Shulman Sextet	Full Tilt	Cellar Live	18	26	2237	Buy
100	Lauren Henderson	Armame	Brontosaurus	38	25	2226	Buy

Year End Jazz Chart: 2018

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