KCCK Top 88 for 2016

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ARTIST TITLE LABEL
1) Charles Lloyd I Long to See You
(Purchase)
Blue Note
2) John Scofield Country for Old Men
(Purchase)
Impulse!
3) Matt Wilson’s Big Happy Family Beginning of a Memory
(Purchase)
Palmetto
4) Yellowjackets Cohearence
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
5) Erroll Garner Ready Take One
(Purchase)
Octave/Legacy
6) The Bad Plus It’s Hard
(Purchase)
Okeh
7) Renee Rosnes Written in the Rocks
(Purchase)
Smoke Sessions
8) Charlie Hunter Everybody Has a Plan Until They Get Punched in the Mouth
(Purchase)
GroundUp
9) Tierney Sutton The Sting Variations
(Purchase)
BFM
10) Allen Toussaint American Tunes
(Purchase)
Nonesuch
11) Marcus Strickland Nihil Novi
(Purchase)
Blue Note
12) Whirlpool with Ron Miles Dancing on the Inside
(Purchase)
Ears & Eyes
13) Bill O’Connell & the Latin Jazz All Stars Heart Beat
(Purchase)
Savant
14) Will Bernard Out and About
(Purchase)
Posi-Toneh
15) Jane Ira Bloom Early Americans
(Purchase)
Outlilne
16) Theo Croker Escape Velocity
(Purchase)
Okeh
17) Marquis Hill The Way We Play
(Purchase)
Concord
18) Ed Calle 360
(Purchase)
Mojito
19) Damian Draghici The American Dream
(Purchase)
Century Jazz
20) Snarky Puppy Culcha Vulcha
(Purchase)
GroundUp
21) Julian Lage Arclight
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
22) Chris Cheek Saturday Songs
(Purchase)
Sunnyside
23) Metalwood Twenty
(Purchase)
Cellar Live
24) Esperanza Spalding Emily’s D+Evolution
(Purchase)
Concord
25) Paquito D’Rivera Paquito & Manzanero
(Purchase)
Sunnyside
26) Allison Miller’s Boom Tic Boom Otis Was a Polar Bear
(Purchase)
Royal Potato Family
27) Dick Oatts/Mats Holmquist New York Jazz Orchestra A Tribute to Herbie + 1
(Purchase)
Mama
28) Corey Christiansen Factory Girl
(Purchase)
Origin
29) Gordon Goodwin’s Little Phat Band An Elusive Man
(Purchase)
Music of Content
30) Brian Bromberg Full Circle
(Purchase)
Artistry
31) Ryan Keberle & Catharsis Azul Infinito
(Purchase)
Greenleaf
32) Madeleine Peyroux Secular Hymns
(Purchase)
Impulse!
33) Scott Tixier Cosmic Adventure
(Purchase)
Sunnyside
34) Fahir Atakoglu Live at Umbria Jazz
(Purchase)
Far & Here
35) Nels Cline Lovers
(Purchase)
Blue Note
36) Afro Bop Alliance Big Band Revelation
(Purchase)
Oa2
37) Jason Miles To Grover With Love: Live in Japan
(Purchase)
Whaling City Sound
38) Jeff Coffin & Caleb Chapman’s Crescent Super Band The Inside of the Outside
(Purchase)
Ear Up
39) Dominick Farinacci Short Stories
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
40) Ray Obiedo Latin Jazz Project Vol. 1
(Purchase)
Rhythmus
41) Gregory Porter Take Me to the Alley
(Purchase)
Blue Note
42) Warren Wolf Convergence
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
43) Harry Allen’s All Star New York Saxophone Band The Candy Men
(Purchase)
Arbors Jazz
44) John Beasley Monk’estra Vol. 1
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
45) Wayne Bergeron Full Circle
(Purchase)
Yamaha
46) Kenny Garrett Do Your Dance!
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
47) Le Rex Wild Man
(Purchase)
Cunieform
48) Harold Lopez-Nussa El Viaje
(Purchase)
Mack Avenue
49) Rene Marie Sound of Red
(Purchase)
Motema
50) Christopher’s Very Happy Band We Are Bathed in Sunlight
(Purchase)
Realtown!
51) Monika Herzig The Whole World in Her Hands
(Purchase)
Whaling City Sound
52) Bob Mintzer All L.A. Band
(Purchase)
Fuzzy Music
53) Camila Meza Traces
(Purchase)
Sunnsyside
54) Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble Havana Blue
(Purchase)
316
55) Peter Erskine Dr. Um and the Lost Pages
(Purchase)
Fuzzy Music
56) Fred Hersch Trio Sunday Night at the Vanguard
(Purchase)
Palmetto
57) The Phil Norman Tentet Then & Now
(Purchase)
Mama
58) Susie Arioli Spring
(Purchase)
Spectra
59) Manuel Valera & Groove Square Urban Landscape
(Purchase)
Destiny
60) The 14 Jazz Orchestra Nothing Hard is Ever Easy
(Purchase)
Dabon
61) Ed Calle Mamblue
(Purchase)
Mojito
62) Ed Cherry Soul Tree
(Purchase)
Posi-Tone
63) SFJazz Collective The Music of Michael Jackson and Original Compositions
(Purchase)
SFJaz
64) Kenny Barron Book of Intuition
(Purchase)
Impulse!
65) Eric Hargett Trio Steppin’ Up
(Purchase)
Whaling City Sound
66) Silvano Monasterios Partly Sunny
(Purchase)
Savant
67) Enrico Rava Wild Dance
(Purchase)
ECM
68) Jim Rotondi Dark Blue
(Purchase)
Smoke Sessions
69) Dr. Lonnie Smith Evolution
(Purchase)
Blue Note
70) Steve Turre Colors for the Masters
(Purchase)
Smoke Sessions
71) JD Allen Americana: Musings on Jazz and Blues
(Purchase)
Savant
72) Jerry Bergonzi Spotlight on Standards
(Purchase)
Savant
73) Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra All My Yesterdays: the Debut 1966 Recordings
(Purchase)
Resonance
74) Branford Marsalis Quartet with Kurt Elling The Journey
(Purchase)
Marsalis/Okeh
75) Murray, Allan & Carrington Power Trio Perfection
(Purchase)
Motema
76) Ian Shaw The Theory of Joy
(Purchase)
Jazz Village
77) Dave Stryker Eight Track II
(Purchase)
Strike Zone
78) Steve Fidyk Allied Forces
(Purchase)
Posi-Tone
79) Ken Peplowski Enrapture
(Purchase)
Capri
80) Freddie Hendrix Jersey Cat
(Purchase)
Sunnyside
81) Guillermo Klein Los Guachos V
(Purchase)
Sunnyside
82) Jae Sinnett Zero to 60
(Purchase)
J-Nett
83) Stryker/Slagle Band Expanded Routes
(Purchase)
Strike Zone
84) Cory Weeds & the Jeff Hamilton Trio This Happy Madness
(Purchase)
Cellar Live
85) Bill Charlap Trio Notes From New York
(Purchase)
Impulse!
86) Michael Dease Father Figure
(Purchase)
Posi-Tone
87) Ted Nash Big Band Presidential Suite
(Purchase)
Motema
88) One for All The Third Decade
(Purchase)
Smoke Sessions