The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
for the Week of Jan 9, 2021
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Crossover (feat. Nicky Orta & Abel Pabon) | Jorge Garcia | Self-Release | Jazz |
| - | 2 | 2 | All Rise | Gregory Porter | Decca | Jazz |
| - | 3 | 3 | Sunday at Pilars | Chris Rottmayer | Pilars | Traditional Jazz |
| - | 4 | 4 | For Jimmy, Wes and Oliver | Christian McBride | Mack Avenue | Big Band |
| ▲ | 5 | 7 | Untitled (Rise) | Sault | Forever Living Originals | Crossover Jazz |
| ▲ | 6 | 8 | Acceptance | Billy Childs | Mack Avenue | Mainstream Jazz |
| ▼ | 7 | 5 | Florida Rays | Flying Horse Big Band | Self-Release | Big Band |
| ▲ | 8 | 11 | Solitude | Frank Kohl | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| ▲ | 9 | 12 | Artemis | Artemis | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▲ | 10 | 14 | Live in California | Dan Costa | Self-Release | Latin Jazz |
| ▼ | 11 | 6 | Rainbow Sign | Ron Miles | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▲ | 12 | 15 | What's the Hurry | Kenny Washington | Lower 9th | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 13 | 10 | Artspoke | Stu Hamm | Guitar One | Fusion |
| ▲ | 14 | 16 | Te Lo Dije | Harold López-Nussa | Mack Avenue | Latin Jazz |
| ▼ | 15 | 13 | Lost in Centralia | Project Alcazar | Guitar One | Fusion |
| ▲ | 16 | 22 | I'd Prefer | Alexander McCabe | WAMCO Music | Traditional Jazz |
| *NEW* | 17 | - | All in All | Dan Wilensky | Polyglot Music | Jazz |
| - | 18 | 18 | I Just Want to Be Horizontal | Samoa Wilson with the Jim Kweskin Band | Kingswood | Ragtime |
| - | 19 | 19 | The Latin Side of Horace Silver | Conrad Herwig | Savant | Latin Jazz |
| ▼ | 20 | 9 | Sir Duke | Mercer Hassy Orchestra | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▲ | 21 | 34 | Transparency | Dafnis Prieto Sextet | Dafnison Music | Latin Jazz |
| ▼ | 22 | 20 | Azymuth JID004 | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz is Dead | Crossover Jazz |
| ▼ | 23 | 21 | Event Horizon | Event Horizon Jazz Quartet | Ehjq | Jazz |
| ▼ | 24 | 23 | Deja Vu | Javon Jackson | Self-Release | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 25 | - | Dreamcatcher | George Khan | CD Baby | Jazz |
| ▼ | 26 | 24 | Jazz is Dead 001 | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz is Dead | Crossover Jazz |
| ▼ | 27 | 25 | The Poets Are Gathering | Benjamin Boone | Origin | Jazz |
| ▼ | 28 | 26 | Are You Ready? | Jihee heo | OA2 | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 29 | 33 | Time to Swing | Joe Farnsworth | Smoke Sessions | Classic Jazz |
| ▼ | 30 | 28 | Tomorrow's New Dream | Incognito | Bluey Music Limited | Smooth Jazz |
| *NEW* | 31 | - | Love is the Key | Sue Maskaleris | Jazilian | Latin Jazz |
| *NEW* | 32 | - | Honoring Louis Armstrong | John Redmon & The Thomas J. Dawson, Jr. iOrchestra | Reaching | Traditional Jazz |
| ▼ | 33 | 30 | Pathways & Passages (feat. Dwight Trible) | Cosmic Vibrations | Spiritmuse | Jazz |
| ▼ | 34 | 31 | Stil I Rise | Derrick Gardner & the Big Dig! Band | Impact | Big Band |
| ▼ | 35 | 32 | For Pete's Ache | The Pete Ellman Big Band | One Too Tree | Big Band |
| ▼ | 36 | 29 | Nathan East | Nathan East | Yamaha | Jazz |
| ▼ | 37 | 35 | Be Water | Christian Sands | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▼ | 38 | 36 | New Orleans High Society | New Orleans High Society | 1718 | Traditional Jazz |
| ▼ | 39 | 37 | Ella: the Lost Berlin Tapes (Live) | Ella Fitzgerald | Verve | Classic Jazz |
| ▼ | 40 | 39 | Spirit Fingers | Spirit Fingers | Shanachie | Contemporary Jazz |
| - | 41 | 41 | The Story Behind the Story | David Boswell | My Quiet Moon | Contemporary Jazz |
| - | 42 | 42 | For Now | Brian Landrus | Self-Release | Jazz |
| - | 43 | 43 | Mariposas Cantan | Jose Rizo’s Mongorama | Saungu | Latin Jazz |
| ▲ | 44 | 82 | Harlem Stories: the Music of Thelonious Monk | Teodross Avery | Wj3 | Classic Jazz |
| ▼ | 45 | 44 | Rah! Rah! | The Claire Daly Band | Ride Symbol | Jazz |
| ▼ | 46 | 45 | Ao Vivo No Rio | Ricardo Bacelar | Self-Release | Jazz |
| - | 47 | 47 | Trio in Motion | Alan Broadbent Trio | Savant | Jazz |
| ▼ | 48 | 38 | Midnight Blue | Kenny Burrell | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▼ | 49 | 27 | You Must Believe in Spring | Josie Falbo | Southport | Jazz |
| - | 50 | 50 | Moon over Tiburon | Richard Howell | Pomona Sunrise | Jazz |
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