KCCK Top 88 for 2017

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1) DeJohnette Grenadier Medeski & Scofield Hudson Motema
2) Gerry Gibbs & Thrasher People Weather or Not Whaling City Sound
3) Dizzy Gillespie & Friends Concert of the Century Justin Time
4) Nate Smith KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere Rope-a-Dope
5) Mark Murphy Wild and Free: Live at the Keystone Korner High Note
6) Organissimo B3eatles: a Soulful Tribute to the Fab Four Big O
7) Steps Ahead Steppin’ Out Sunnyside
8) Jane Ira Bloom Wild Lines Outline
9) Diana Krall Turn Up the Quiet Verve
10) John Abercrombie Up and Coming ECM
11) Christian McBride Big Band Bringin’ It Mack Avenue
12) Bill Charlap Trio Uptown Downtown Impulse!
13) Dr. John The Musical Mojo of Dr. John Concord
14) Ben Allison Layers of the City Sonic Camera
15) )Kevin Eubanks East West Time Line Mack Avenue
16) Charlie Sepulveda Mr. EP: a Tribute to Eddie Palmieri High Note
17) Tom Dempsey & Tim Ferguson Waltz New OA2
18) Harold Mabern To Love and Be Loved Smoke Sessions
19) Nathan East Reverence Yamaha
20) Corbin Andrick Bonzo Squad Corbin Andrick
21) John Vanore Stolen Moments Acoustical Concepts
22) Mads Tolling & the Mads Men Playing the 60s City Hall
23) Audrey Ochoa After Thought Chronograph
24) Delfeayo Marsalis and the Uptown Jazz Orchestra Make America Great Again Troubadour Jass
25) Richard Elliot Summer Madness Heads Up
26) Pearl Django With Friends Like These Modern Hot
27) Yelena Eckemoff Blooming Tall Phlox L & H
28) Oregon Lantern CamJazz
29) Mike Stern Trip Heads Up
30) Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition Heart of the City BFM
31) All Angles Orchestra New Angle Outside In
32) Brandi Disterheft Blue Canvas Justin Time
33) The Jerry Douglas Band What If New Rounder
34) Ben Sidran Picture Him Happy Nardis
35) Zem Audu Spirits Origin
36) Antonio Adolfo Hybrido: From Rio to Wayne Shorter AAM
37) Steve Khan Backlog Tone Center
38) Ray Mantilla High Voltage Savant
39) Brian McCarthy Nonet The Better Angels of Our Nature Tenth Revolution
40) SFJazz Collective Music of Miles Davis and Original Compositions SFJazz
41) Various Artists The Passion of Charlie Parker Impulse!
42) Larry Carlton and the SWR Big Band Lights On 335
43) Oscar Hernandez The Art of Latin Jazz Origin
44) Lizz Wright Grace Concord
45) Joey DeFrancesco + the People Project Freedom Mack Avenue
46) Peter Erskine & the Dr. Um Band Second Opinion Fuzzy
47) Terry Gibbs 92 Years Young: Jammin’ at the Gibbs’ House Whaling City Sound
48) Victor Provost Bright Eyes Sunnyside
49) Various Artists Jazz Loves Disney Verve
50) Tom Marko Summit
51) Negroni’s Trio New Era Sony Latin
52) Steve Nelson Brothers Under the Sun High Note
53) Ahmad Jamal Marseilles Jazzbook
54) Petros Klampanis Chroma Motema
55) Curtis Stigers One More for the Road Concord
56) Charlie Watts Charlie Watts Meets the Danish Radio Big Band Impulse!
57) Scott Whitfield New Jazz Standards Volume 2 Summit
58) Tom Harrell Moving Picture High Note
59) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra The Music of John Lewis Blue Engine
60) Hilario Duran Contumbao Alma
61) Duchess Laughing at Life Anzic
62) Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Handful of Keys Blue Engine
63) Christian Sands Reach Mack Avenue
64) Bria Skonberg With a Twist Okeh
65) Space Orphan Shut Up About the Sun Jon Wirtz
66) Dee Dee Bridgewater Memphis…Yes I’m Ready Okeh
67) Heads of State Four in One Smoke Sessions
68) Dave Stryker Strykin’ Ahead Strike Zone
69) Will Bonness Halcyon Will Bonness
70) Adrian Cunningham Jazz Speak Arbors Jazz
71) Brian Dickinson Quintet The Rhythm Method Addo
72) Amanda Monaco Glitter Posi-Tone
73) Cory Weeds & the Jeff Hamilton Trio Dreamsville Cellar Live
74) Anat Cohen Tentet Happy Song Anzic
75) Chicago Jazz Orchestra Live from Space Chicago Jazz Orchestra
76) Tardo Hammer Trio Swinging on a Star Cellar Live
77) Mark Masters Ensemble Blue Skylight Capri
78) Jeremy Pelt Make Noise! High Note
79) Bobby Watson Made in America Smoke Sessions
80) Terence Blanchard The Comedian Blue Note
81) Louis Hayes Serenade for Horace Blue Note
82) Mark Colby All or Nothing at All RCI
83) Steve Davis Think Ahead Smoke Sessions
84) Miguel Zenon Tipico Miel
85) Spike Wilner Trio Odalisque Cellar Live
86) Farnell Newton Back to Earth Posi-Tone
87) Orbert Davis Paradise Blue 3Sixteen
88) John Daversa Wobbly Dance Flower BFM