The Roots Music Report's
Top 50 Jazz Album Chart
for the Week of Sep 19, 2020
| TW | LW | Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▲ | 1 | 2 | I Just Want to Be Horizontal | Samoa Wilson and the Jim Kweskin band | Kingswood | Ragtime |
| ▼ | 2 | 1 | All Rise | Gregory Porter | Decca | Jazz |
| ▲ | 3 | 13 | Artspoke the Best of (2007-2018) | Stuart Hamm | Guitar One | Fusion |
| ▲ | 4 | 18 | 2020 Hindsight | Grant Ferguson | Guitar One | Fusion |
| ▼ | 5 | 3 | Human Revolution | Zen Zadravec | Marmite | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 6 | 4 | Florida Rays | Flying Horse Big Band | Self-Release | Big Band |
| ▲ | 7 | 8 | I Love to See You Smile | 3D Jazz Trio | Self-Release | Classic Jazz |
| ▲ | 8 | 10 | More Than a Song | CeCe Gable | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 9 | 6 | The Story Behind the Story | David Boswell | My Quiet Moon | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 10 | 11 | You Must Believe in Spring | Sue Anne Gershenzon | Self-Release | Traditional Jazz |
| ▲ | 11 | 12 | Pick Me Up off the Floor | Norah Jones | Blue Note | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▲ | 12 | 21 | So in Love | Chris Rottmayer & Ashley Locheed | Timucua Arts Foundation | Crossover Jazz |
| ▼ | 13 | 7 | Event Horizon | Event Horizon Jazz Quartet | Ehjq | Jazz |
| ▲ | 14 | 28 | The Women Who Raised Me | Kandace Springs | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▲ | 15 | 29 | Nathan East | Nathan East | Yamaha | Jazz |
| ▼ | 16 | 9 | Fierce Heart | David Bach | Integrity Music | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 17 | 14 | Electric Fantastic | The Moore-McColl Jazz Society | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 18 | 17 | Hard Jazz | Kenny Carr | Zoozazz | Fusion |
| ▼ | 19 | 5 | Alive in Harlem | Steve Slagle Trio | Panorama | Jazz |
| ▼ | 20 | 19 | Stuff I Heard | Troy Roberts | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| ▼ | 21 | 20 | Fool's Journey | Matt DeMerritt | Self-Release | Contemporary Jazz |
| - | 22 | 22 | Jazz is Dead 001 | Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jazz is Dead | Crossover Jazz |
| - | 23 | 23 | Scarab | Wayne Alpern | Henri Elkan | Crossover Jazz |
| ▲ | 24 | 39 | Midnight Blue | Kenny Burrell | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▲ | 25 | 27 | Valve Bone Woe (with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble) | Chrissie Hynde | BMG | Jazz |
| ▲ | 26 | 85 | Battle Cry | Virginia Schenck | Airborne Ecstasy | Jazz |
| ▲ | 27 | 52 | Duets | Kevin Eubanks & Stanley Jordan | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▲ | 28 | 45 | Fire Wire | Larry Carlton | BMG | Jazz |
| ▲ | 29 | 46 | Wheelhouse | Greg Howe | Bad Racket | Fusion |
| *NEW* | 30 | - | Straight Up Guitar | Jurgen Burdorf | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 31 | 30 | Warna | Joey Alexander | Verve | Jazz |
| ▼ | 32 | 15 | The Tnek Jazz Quintet Plays the Music of Sam Jones | The Tnek Jazz Quintet | Self-Release | Jazz |
| ▼ | 33 | 32 | Be Water | Christian Sands | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| ▼ | 34 | 33 | Clarity | Alexa Tarantino | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| ▲ | 35 | 51 | Keep on Running | Robben Ford | Concord | Jazz |
| ▲ | 36 | 50 | Classical Gas | Tommy Emmanuel | Sony | Jazz |
| - | 37 | 37 | Mabern Plays Mabern | Harold Mabern | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| ▼ | 38 | 31 | Valentine | Bill Frisell | Blue Note | Jazz |
| ▲ | 39 | - | Without Deception (feat. Johnathan Blake) | Kenny Barron & Dave Holland | Dare2 | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 40 | - | Carl Saunders, Jazz Trumpet | Carl Saunders | Summit | Mainstream Jazz |
| - | 41 | 41 | Day by Day | Cory Weeds | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| ▲ | 42 | 68 | Public Domain | Charlie Hunter | Self-Release | Jazz |
| *NEW* | 43 | - | Movin’: the Complete Verve Recordings | Wes Montgomery | Verve | Jazz |
| ▲ | 44 | 54 | The Movement Revisited: a Musical Portrait of Four Icons | Christian McBride | Mack Avenue | Big Band |
| ▲ | 45 | 63 | Out of Dust | Laila Biali | ACT | Jazz |
| ▲ | 46 | 71 | Presence | Chuck Loeb | Christliz | Jazz |
| ▲ | 47 | 72 | The Diary of Patrick Xavier | Stuart Hamm | Self-Release | Fusion |
| ▲ | 48 | 70 | Veritas | Alex Skolnick Trio | Palmetto | Jazz |
| ▲ | 49 | 53 | Malandro | Miguel de Leon | Fina Flor | Latin Jazz |
| ▲ | 50 | 82 | Incontre (feat. Dayna Stephens, Sam Yahel & Jongkuk Kim) | Massimo Biolcati | Sounderscore | Contemporary Jazz |
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