The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
for the Week of Apr 14, 2018
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | The Bat Swings! | Flying Horse Big Band | Self-Release | Jazz |
| - | 2 | 2 | A Humdrum Star | GoGo Penguin | Decca | Jazz |
| - | 3 | 3 | The Diva Jazz Orchestra 25th Anniversary Project | The DIVA Jazz Orchestra | ArtistShare | Jazz |
| ▲ | 4 | 7 | Dreams and Daggers | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▼ | 5 | 4 | Motion | The Hughes Smith Quintet | Self-Release | Hard Bop |
| ▲ | 6 | 20 | The Ing... | OKB Trio | Queens Jazz Over Ground | Jazz |
| ▼ | 7 | 5 | Never Stop II | The Bad Plus | Legbreaker | Jazz |
| ▼ | 8 | 6 | Live in Europe | Melody Gardot | Decca | Smooth Jazz |
| ▲ | 9 | 44 | Habana to New Orleans | Jambalaya Brass Band | 890 West Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 10 | 55 | Harmony of Difference | Kamasi Washington | Young Turks | Jazz |
| ▲ | 11 | 13 | The Django Experiment III | Stephane Wrembel | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 12 | 18 | Close but No Cigar | Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio | Colemine | Jazz |
| ▲ | 13 | 23 | Green Street | The Joe Wilson Trio | Earthwork Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 14 | 24 | See the Light | Calle Mambo Project | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 15 | 8 | Smilessence | The Reggie Pittman & Loren Daniels Quartet | Ivory Hornz | Jazz |
| ▲ | 16 | 77 | Don't Look Down | Ken Fowser | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| ▲ | 17 | - | Music is | Bill Frisell | Sony | Jazz |
| ▼ | 18 | 12 | When You're Smiling | Sundae + Mr. Goessl | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| ▼ | 19 | 14 | Elements | Pat Battstone | Leo | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | The Pink Room | Rondi Marsh | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 21 | 22 | Duke Robillard and His Dames of Rhythm | Duke Robillard | M.C. | Jazz |
| ▲ | 22 | 26 | Historical Misappropriation | Scott Bradlee's Postmodern Jukebox | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 23 | 28 | Beasts of Burgundy | Squirrel Nut Zippers | Southern Broadcasting | Jazz |
| ▲ | 24 | 29 | Spangle-Lang Lane | Ryan Porter | Alpha Pup | Jazz |
| ▲ | 25 | 75 | Doin' the New Lowdown | Kevin Connor and Swing 3PO | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 26 | 31 | Sleight of Hand | New York Standards Quartet | Whirlwind | Jazz |
| ▲ | 27 | 32 | Love & Blues in the City | Jeff Cascaro | Herzog | Jazz |
| ▲ | 28 | 34 | ABUC | Roberto Fonseca | impulse! | Jazz |
| ▲ | 29 | 35 | Ella: Accentuate the Positive | Regina Carter | Okeh | Jazz |
| ▲ | 30 | 36 | Cirklar | Tingvall Trio | Skip | Jazz |
| ▲ | 31 | 37 | New Monk Trio | Laurent De Wilde | Gazebo | Jazz |
| ▲ | 32 | 38 | Eternal Life: Jeff Buckley Songs and Sounds | Negative Press Project | Ridgeway | Jazz |
| ▲ | 33 | 39 | Pickin' | Tommy Emmanuel | Acoustic Disc | Jazz |
| ▲ | 34 | 40 | Come Fall | Ellen Doty | Alma | Jazz |
| ▲ | 35 | 41 | Enki | Javier Ortí Group | Rizoma | Jazz |
| ▲ | 36 | - | Songs from the Swinghouse | The Lao Tizer Band | Yse | Jazz |
| ▲ | 37 | 47 | Toss | Shugo Tokumaru | Polyvinyl | Jazz |
| ▲ | 38 | 48 | Promethean | Theo Hill | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| ▲ | 39 | 49 | Erik Jekabson Quintet | Erik Jekabson | Wide Hive | Jazz |
| ▲ | 40 | 50 | The Vampires Meet Lionel Loueke | The Vampires | Earshift Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 41 | 51 | Hidden Beauty | Triosence | Sony | Jazz |
| ▲ | 42 | 52 | Marseille | Ahmad Jamal | Jazz Village | Jazz |
| ▲ | 43 | - | Old Soul | Jacob Damelin Group | Jacob Damelin | Jazz |
| ▲ | 44 | 53 | Secret Language | Sergej Avanesov | N.C.Music | Jazz |
| ▲ | 45 | 54 | Diving for Pearls – Jazz Interpretations of the Pearlfishers Songbook | Colin Steele Quartet | Marina | Jazz |
| ▲ | 46 | 56 | Jersey | Mark Guiliana Jazz Quartet | Motema | Jazz |
| ▲ | 47 | 57 | A Thing Called Joe | Guilhem Flouzat Trio | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| ▲ | 48 | 58 | Long Haul | Jessica Lurie | Chant | Jazz |
| ▲ | 49 | 59 | Before Dawn | Oddgeir Berg Trio | Ozella Music | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 50 | - | Freedom Suite Ensuite | Clovis Nicolas | Sunnyside | Jazz |
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