The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
for the Week of May 6, 2017
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 4 | Four in One | Heads Of State | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| ▲ | 2 | 5 | Strunkin' | Leigh Pilzer | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| ▼ | 3 | 2 | Colors | Scott Brown | Random Chance | Jazz |
| ▼ | 4 | 3 | Country for Old Men | John Scofield | Impulse | Jazz |
| ▼ | 5 | 1 | Burn Notice | David Bandman | Self-Release | Jazz |
| - | 6 | 6 | Post Cool: Vol 1 the Night Shift | Carol Morgan | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 7 | 41 | Parking Lot Symphony | Trombone Shorty | Blue Note | Contemporary Jazz |
| *NEW* | 8 | - | Turn Up the Quiet | Diana Krall | Verve | Jazz |
| ▼ | 9 | 8 | Anbody's Spring | Sherri Roberts | Pacific Coast Jazz | Jazz |
| ▼ | 10 | 9 | The Beast | Jerome Jennings | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 11 | 19 | Meet Me at the Crossroads | Sweet Lu Olutosin | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 12 | 10 | Intertwined | Tal Cohen & Danielle Wertz | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 13 | 12 | REACH | Christian Sands | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▲ | 14 | 82 | Rebirth | Billy Childs | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | New Jazz Musette | Richard Galliano | Ponderosa Music & Art | Jazz |
| ▲ | 16 | 21 | Shine | Cilantro Boombox | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 17 | 14 | Talk to Your Daughter | Robben Ford | Warner Bros | Jazz |
| ▼ | 18 | 11 | All These Hands | Michael Dease | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| ▲ | 19 | 56 | Strange Beauty | Jeff Libman | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| ▲ | 20 | 59 | Infinite Distances | Noah Haidu | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| ▼ | 21 | 7 | Dance of Time | Eliane Elias | Concord | Jazz |
| ▼ | 22 | 15 | Rylesonable | Antonella Chionna | Dodicilune | Jazz |
| ▲ | 23 | 42 | Tako Tsubo | Paris Combo | DRG | Jazz |
| ▲ | 24 | 76 | Swimming in Place | Stockton Helbing | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 25 | 20 | KINFOLK: Postcards from Everywhere | Nate Smith | Waterbaby Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 26 | 73 | Code Noir | Carmen Lundy | Afrasia Productions | Jazz |
| ▲ | 27 | - | The Lock & the Key | Chaise Lounge | Modern Songbook | Jazz |
| ▼ | 28 | 18 | Bonzo Squad | Corbin Andrick | Self-Release | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 29 | - | Monk's Cha-Cha: Solo Piano (Live at the Carnegie-Farian Room) | Bill O'Connell | Savant | Jazz |
| ▲ | 30 | 35 | Jigsaw Puzzles | Volker Engelberth | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 31 | 26 | Al Nge Taa | Jan Galega Brönnimann | CPL | Jazz |
| ▲ | 32 | 91 | Northern Adventures - the Canada Sessions, Vol. 1 | Al Muirhead | Chronograph | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 33 | - | Ella: Accentuate the Positive | Regina Carter | Okeh | Jazz |
| ▼ | 34 | 31 | #JiveCulture | Jeremy Pelt | High Note | Jazz |
| ▼ | 35 | 34 | The Smile | Bacha Mdzinarashvili | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 36 | 24 | Love Song | Tuomo Uusitalo | Fresh Sound Records | Jazz |
| ▼ | 37 | 25 | Sea of Tranquility | Marcos Amorim | Adventure Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 38 | - | ABUC | Roberto Fonseca | impulse! | Jazz |
| ▼ | 39 | 27 | Montagnes Russes | Daniel Zimmermann | Label Bleu | Jazz |
| ▼ | 40 | 28 | Old Soul | Jon Spear Band | Self-Release | Contemporary Blues |
| ▼ | 41 | 23 | Islands | Rob Clearfield | Rob Clearfield | Jazz |
| ▲ | 42 | 46 | Anti-Hero | Kneebody | Motema Music | Jazz |
| ▼ | 43 | 38 | Ruler Rebel | Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah | Stretch Music | Jazz |
| ▼ | 44 | 39 | Villes Invisibles | Toufic Farroukh | TF | Jazz |
| ▲ | 45 | 47 | Leslie Odom Jr. | Leslie Odom, Jr. | BMG | Jazz |
| ▲ | 46 | 53 | Surrounded by the Night | Dave King Trucking Company | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| ▼ | 47 | 32 | Me & You | Edward Maclean | r3w records | Jazz |
| ▼ | 48 | 22 | Solid Gassuh | The Fat Babies | Delmark | Jazz |
| ▼ | 49 | 45 | Project Freedom | Joey DeFrancesco | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▲ | 50 | - | New Jazz Standards (Volume 2) | Scott Whitfield | Summit | Jazz |
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