The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
for the Week of Sep 26, 2026
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| - | 1 | 1 | Girl Talk | Jennifer Madsen | SingBaby | Big Band |
| ▲ | 2 | 3 | In Motion (feat. Keith Carlock) | Jeremy Green | Self-Release | Fusion |
| ▲ | 3 | 4 | Fool's Fate | Rik Wright's Fundamental Forces | HipSync | Fusion |
| ▲ | 4 | 5 | Sea Spell | Jeff Rupert Quartet | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| ▲ | 5 | 6 | Ride Five | Takashi Matsunaga | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 6 | 7 | If I Did Not Speak out | Ryan Barry | G2 | Traditional Jazz |
| ▲ | 7 | 8 | The Night Sky | Robert Jospe Quartet | Self-Release | Latin Jazz |
| ▲ | 8 | 9 | Hard Bop: for the Record | Greg Chako | Mint400 | Traditional Jazz |
| ▲ | 9 | 10 | What Next? | Russ Anixter's Hippie Big Band | Self-Release | Big Band |
| ▲ | 10 | 11 | A Study in Songbook | Dr. Gianni Bianchini | Self-Release | Vocal Jazz |
| ▲ | 11 | 12 | The Romance Continues | Tony Saunders | Baja/TSR | Smooth Jazz |
| ▼ | 12 | 2 | Cooler in the Shade | Lowell Hopper | Self-Release | Smooth Jazz |
| - | 13 | 13 | New Paradigm | Zen Zadravec | Marmite | Modern Jazz |
| - | 14 | 14 | Plays at the Wrong Time | Haruna Fukazawa | Orange Paw | Mainstream Jazz |
| *NEW* | 15 | - | Passionata: the Music of Gregg Hill | Technocats | Cold Plunge | Mainstream Jazz |
| *NEW* | 16 | - | The Man Who Would Be King | Adam De Lucia | Self-Release | Fusion |
| - | 17 | 17 | Seriously | BPM | Shanachie | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 18 | 16 | Rivers | Will Sumner | Guitar One | Smooth Jazz |
| ▼ | 19 | 18 | Soliloquies | Jason Kao Hwang | Self-Release | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| *NEW* | 20 | - | Music from the Bag | David Kollar | Self-Release | Fusion |
| ▲ | 21 | 28 | Lifeforce | 3rd Force | Baja/TSR | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 22 | 19 | Anomia | Flosse | Dynamite Platten | Modern Jazz |
| ▼ | 23 | 20 | Lean in | Gilles Peterson & Lionel Loueke | Edition | Modern Jazz |
| ▼ | 24 | 21 | Tides | Philip Weberndoerfer | Shifting Paradigm | Modern Jazz |
| ▼ | 25 | 22 | Everything You Could Be | Christopher Parnis | self-released | Modern Jazz |
| ▼ | 26 | 23 | Aloft | Bryn Roberts | Elastic Recordings | Mainstream Jazz |
| ▼ | 27 | 24 | Gemini | The Sure Fire Soul Ensemble | Colemine | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 28 | 25 | Arboresque | Artemis | Blue Note | Crossover Jazz |
| ▼ | 29 | 26 | Electric | Adam Hawley | MBF Ent. | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 30 | 33 | Velvet Vibe | Ronny Smith | Pacific Coast Jazz | Smooth Jazz |
| ▼ | 31 | 29 | Emerge Dancing (feat. Jeff Pittson) | Suzanne Pittson | Vineland | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 32 | - | Under the Moon over the Sky | Najee | Blue Horn Creative | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 33 | 15 | Time of Change | Chris Standring | Ultimate Vibe | Smooth Jazz |
| ▲ | 34 | - | Silver Lining | Andrea Lisa | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 35 | 27 | In My Dreams | Bill Frisell | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▼ | 36 | 30 | Modern Times | Mike Di Lorenzo | Keep The Groove | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 37 | 32 | Keep Holding on | Leigh Pilzer | Strange Woman | Traditional Jazz |
| ▼ | 38 | 35 | Prime (feat. Jared Gold & McClenty Hunter Jr.) | Dave Stryker | Strikezone | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 39 | 36 | Big Band Trax by WAX (Music of Michael Wetherwax) | Michael Wetherwax | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 40 | 38 | A Collective Cy: Jeff Harnar Sings Cy Coleman | Jeff Harnar | PS Classics | Jazz |
| ▼ | 41 | 40 | Tributes | Marcus McLaurine | Jade Elephant Productions | Contemporary Jazz |
| - | 42 | 42 | My Latin Heart | Roger Glenn | Patois | Latin Jazz |
| *NEW* | 43 | - | Just Doing Me | Marion Meadows | Shanachie | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 44 | - | Indigo | Bria Skonberg | Cellar Live | Vocal Jazz |
| ▲ | 45 | - | Pieces of Me | Carol Albert | Cahara | Contemporary Jazz |
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