The Roots Music Report's
Top Jazz Album Chart
for the Year of 2019
| Album Title | Band/Artist Name | Label | Sub Genre | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sugar Drops | Davina and The Vagabonds | Red House | Jazz |
| 2 | Valve Bone Woe (with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble) | Chrissie Hynde | BMG | Jazz |
| 3 | Intuition: Songs from the Minds of Women | Alicia Olatuja | Resilience | Jazz |
| 4 | The Fine Line | Bob Sheppard | Challenge | Jazz |
| 5 | Days Like These | Troy Roberts | Toy Robot Music | Jazz |
| 6 | Come What May | Joshua Redman Quartet | Nonesuch | Jazz |
| 7 | Alone Together | Catherine Russell | Dot Time | Jazz |
| 8 | GOOD NEWS! | Flying Horse Big Band | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 9 | Eight Track III | Dave Stryker | Strikezone | Jazz |
| 10 | Swing Out! | Eyal Vilner Big Band | Self-Release | Big Band |
| 11 | Emergence | Larry Corban | Nabroc | Jazz |
| 12 | Star People Nation | Theo Croker | Sony | Jazz |
| 13 | Passion - Latin Jazz | Raquel Cepeda | Self-Release | Latin Jazz |
| 14 | Quatro | Douyé | Rhombus | Jazz |
| 15 | Speakeasy | Paula Harris | Greaseland Studios | Crossover Jazz |
| 16 | Arvoles | Avishai Cohen Trio | Razdaz | Jazz |
| 17 | Down & Dirty | Rich Willey | Wise Cat | Jazz |
| 18 | New Age Old Ways | Peter Lin | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 19 | Skeleton | Wayne Alpern | Henri Elkan | Jazz |
| 20 | Wareika Hill Rastamonk Vibrations | Monty Alexander | MACD | Jazz |
| 21 | Bolden (Original Soundtrack) | Wynton Marsalis | Jazz at Lincoln Center | Jazz |
| 22 | Conspiracy | Rich Willey | Wise Cat | Jazz |
| 23 | Rubberband | Miles Davis | Rhino | Jazz |
| 24 | The Capitalist Blues | Leyla McCalla | Jazz Village | Jazz |
| 25 | Five Play (Live from the Firehouse Stage) | Five Play | Five Play | Jazz |
| 26 | Discovery | Marton Juhasz | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 27 | Patchwork | Steve Khan | Shrapnel | Latin Jazz |
| 28 | Electric Psychology | Acute Inflections | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 29 | KingMaker | Joel Ross | Blue Note | Jazz |
| 30 | Symmetricity | Shawn Purcell | Armored | Jazz |
| 31 | Perpetual Optimism | Herlin Riley | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 32 | Globetrotter | Luca Di Luzio | Self-Release | Fusion |
| 33 | Point of View | Abisko Lights | Fine music | Jazz |
| 34 | True Love: a Celebration of Cole Porter | Harry Connick, Jr. | Verve | Jazz |
| 35 | I'm All Smiles | George Cables | HighNote | Jazz |
| 36 | Swirl | Michael Wolff | Sunnyside | Jazz |
| 37 | Ballades | Ahmad Jamal | Jazz Village | Jazz |
| 38 | The Last Taxi: New Destinations (feat. Chiara Liuzzi & Giorgia Santoro) | Pat Battstone | Leo | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 39 | Trane's Delight | Poncho Sanchez | Concord Picante | Jazz |
| 40 | Ish | Mad Love | Gladitude | Jazz |
| 41 | Love and Liberation | Jazzmeia Horn and Her Noble Force | Concord | Jazz |
| 42 | Gravity | Simon Sammut & Omar Vázquez | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 43 | Soulophone | Chicago Soul Jazz Collective | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 44 | Anatomy of Angels: Live at the Village Vanguard | Jon Batiste | Verve | Jazz |
| 45 | In the Key of the Universe | Joey DeFrancesco | Mack Avenue | Jazz |
| 46 | Essence | Michel Camilo | Resilience Music | Contemporary Jazz |
| 47 | Everybody Gets the Blues | Eric Reed | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 48 | Nadi | Fazer | Squama | Jazz |
| 49 | Parallel Universe | Behn Gillece | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 50 | Blue World | John Coltrane | Impulse! | Jazz |
| 51 | Keep Talkin' | Yoko Miwa Trio | Ocean Blue Tear Music | Jazz |
| 52 | A Wall Becomes a Bridge | Kendrick Scott Oracle | Blue Note | Contemporary Jazz |
| 53 | Wind off the Hudson | Bill O'Connell | Savant | Jazz |
| 54 | A Love Requited | Myele Manzanza | First Word | Fusion |
| 55 | Right on Time | Ken Fowser | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 56 | Bassically Jazz | David Finck | Burton Avenue Music | Jazz |
| 57 | Duologue | Alfredo Rodríguez | Mack Avenue | Latin Jazz |
| 58 | Standards and Sweet Things | Fleur Seule | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 59 | Shades of Shirley Horn | Coniece Washington | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 60 | True Love | John Dokes | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 61 | Migrations | Jacques Kuba Seguin | Odd Sound | Jazz |
| 62 | Moving Mists | Luke Gillespie | Patois | Jazz |
| 63 | Awakening | Gary Dean Smith | Self-Release | Fusion |
| 64 | Samba Jazz Alley | Antonio Adolfo | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 65 | We've Only Just Begun | Ashley Pezzotti | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 66 | Inspirations & Dedications | Al Foster | Smoke Sessions | Jazz |
| 67 | Love's Tango | June Bisantz & Alex Nakhimovsky | EH2U | Latin Jazz |
| 68 | Elbow Grease | Alan Rosenthal | Street of Stars | Jazz |
| 69 | The Music Never Stops | Betty Carter | Blue Engine | Jazz |
| 70 | Baritone Madness | Baritone Madness | Chronograph | Jazz |
| 71 | You Get What You Give | Mark Walker | Fliposphere | Jazz |
| 72 | Live in Europe | Louis Armstrong | Dot Time Records | Jazz |
| 73 | Infinity | Tom Harrell | HighNote | Contemporary Jazz |
| 74 | Maximum Enjoyment | Something Blue | Posi-Tone | Jazz |
| 75 | Worlds Apart | Andrea Superstein | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 76 | Dream Notes | Giorgia Santoro & Pat Battstone | Leo | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 77 | The Keys of Cool | Richie Cole | Self-Release | Jazz |
| 78 | Live at Frankie's Jazz Club | Cory Weeds | Cellar Live | Jazz |
| 79 | The Secret Between the Shadow and the Soul | Branford Marsalis Quartet | Okeh | Jazz |
| 80 | Jazz Muses | Al Hood & the H2 Jazztet | Aquarian Records | Jazz |
| 81 | Partners in Time | Mike LeDonne | Savant | Jazz |
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