The Roots Music Report's
Top Jazz Song Chart
for the Year of 2018
| Rank | Song Title | Band/Artist Name | Sub Genre |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kiss | Acute Inflections | Jazz |
| 2 | Talk to Your Daughter | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 3 | Squeeze Me | Duke Robillard | Jazz |
| 4 | Wild Women Don't Have the Blues | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Jazz |
| 5 | Help the Poor | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 6 | The Last Time (feat. the Blind Boys of Alabama & Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Jazz |
| 7 | Easy Living | Duke Robillard | Jazz |
| 8 | I'm Gonna Move to the Outskirts of Town (feat. Ray Charles & Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Jazz |
| 9 | Milk Cow Blues (feat. Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Jazz |
| 10 | You're Driving Me Crazy | Van Morrison | Jazz |
| 11 | Dr. Mino | Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band | Fusion |
| 12 | Karnival Joe (From Kokomo) | Squirrel Nut Zippers | Jazz |
| 13 | Females Are Strong As Hell | Roxy Coss | Jazz |
| 14 | Holy-Hole-in-The-Doughnut | Flying Horse Big Band | Jazz |
| 15 | Just Smile | Extra Large | Crossover Jazz |
| 16 | West of Zanzibar | Squirrel Nut Zippers | Swing |
| 17 | Classical Gas | Tommy Emmanuel | Jazz |
| 18 | Drifting | Andy McKee | Jazz |
| 19 | Angel's Dance | Billy Joe Walker, Jr. | Jazz |
| 20 | Indian Summer | Billy Joe Walker, Jr. | Jazz |
| 21 | Walk Together Children | James Weidman | Jazz |
| 22 | Ventura | Charles Lloyd & The Marvels | Jazz |
| 23 | Cantaloop (Flip Out!) | Manhattan Transfer | Jazz |
| 24 | Part-Time Lover | James Austin Jr. | Jazz |
| 25 | You've Got to Give Me Some | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Jazz |
| 26 | Fly Me to the Moon | Willie Nelson | Jazz |
| 27 | Let's Groove | Cory Weeds | Jazz |
| 28 | Fall Back | Ken Fowser | Jazz |
| 29 | Waiting for Angela (feat. Branford Marsalis & Claudia Villela) | Akira Tana | Jazz |
| 30 | But Here's the Thing | Eric Alexander | Jazz |
| 31 | Evening Primrose | Peter Lin | Jazz |
| 32 | Professor Ghetto-Rig | Troy Roberts | Jazz |
| 33 | Let the Wild Rumpus Start | Renee Rosnes | Jazz |
| 34 | It Takes a Lot to Laugh, It Takes a Train to Cry (feat. Bob Dylan & Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Jazz |
| 35 | Inside a Silent Tear | Lauren Henderson | Jazz |
| 36 | The Eternal Triangle | Ken Peplowski | Jazz |
| 37 | Listening to Miles Davis | Larry McDonough Quartet | Jazz |
| 38 | Bubba Rides Again | Keyon Harrold | Jazz |
| 39 | Blue Waters | The Kenny Barron Quintet | Jazz |
| 40 | Satellite | Bill Charlap Trio | Jazz |
| 41 | Circles on Black | Josh Lawrence | Jazz |
| 42 | Pomponio | Nabaté Isles | Jazz |
| 43 | So What (Live from Olympia Theatre, Paris) | Miles Davis & John Coltrane | Jazz |
| 44 | Man Facing North | Yellowjackets | Jazz |
| 45 | The Golden Horn | Brubeck Brothers Quartet | Jazz |
| 46 | Pokadots and Moonbeams | Tom Bruner | Contemporary Jazz |
| 47 | Smoke Screen | Eddie Henderson | Jazz |
| 48 | Joe'n Around | Tia Fuller | Jazz |
| 49 | Baby I'm a Fool (Live in London) | Melody Gardot | Smooth Jazz |
| 50 | Revive (feat. Artyom Manukyan) | Sarah Reich | Jazz |
| 51 | Loose Cotton Shirt | Darrian Ford | Jazz |
| 52 | I Want Jesus to Walk with Me (Live) | Matt Lemmler | Jazz |
| 53 | An Intersection of Change | Todd Marcus | Jazz |
| 54 | That Girl | McClenty Hunter, Jr. | Jazz |
| 55 | The Way Young Lovers Do | Van Morrison | Jazz |
| 56 | Come Back Baby | Mike LeDonne | Jazz |
| 57 | I’ll Always Leave the Door a Little Open | Freddy Cole | Jazz |
| 58 | Ginza Samba | Jeff Rupert with Veronica Swift | Jazz |
| 59 | Better Git It in Your Soul | Tiffany Austin | Jazz |
| 60 | Just One of Those Things | Trevor Giancola | Jazz |
| 61 | Smiling | Dayramir Gonzalez | Jazz |
| 62 | My Foolish Heart | Phil DeGreg Trio | Jazz |
| 63 | Blues for Langston and LaRue | Charles Lloyd & The Marvels | Jazz |
| 64 | Untitled Original 11383 | John Coltrane | Jazz |
| 65 | What Now | Carl Filipiak and the Jimi Jazz Band | Fusion |
| 66 | Spiderman Theme | Flying Horse Big Band | Jazz |
| 67 | The Unknown Road (feat. Brian Lynch) | El Eco | Jazz |
| 68 | The Blunder | Peripheral Vision | Jazz |
| 69 | Empty Bed Blues (feat. Carrie Smith & Wynton Marsalis) | Wynton Marsalis Septet | Jazz |
| 70 | Count | Chip White | Jazz |
| 71 | Let's Sail Away | Jeff Rupert with Veronica Swift | Jazz |
| 72 | Somewhere (feat. Bobby Sanabria Multiverse Big Band) | Bobby Sanabria | Jazz |
| 73 | Hard Work | Vincent Herring | Jazz |
| 74 | Mambo Kings | Mike Freeman ZonaVibe | Jazz |
| 75 | Full Blown (feat. John Harbaugh & F. David Snider) | Greg Yasinitsky | Jazz |
| 76 | Spiderman Theme (feat. Take 6 & Chris Potter) | Randy Waldman | Jazz |
| 77 | Pernod | Jeff Rupert with Veronica Swift | Jazz |
| 78 | Back to Black | Hart, Scone & Albin | Jazz |
| 79 | Can You Hear Him | Kamasi Washington | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 80 | Nobody Said Love Was Easy | Karrin Allyson | Jazz |
| 81 | Invitation | Aimée Allen | Jazz |
| 82 | I Don't Worry About a Thing | John Proulx | Jazz |
| 83 | Theme for Malcolm | Tim Warfield | Jazz |
| 84 | Party Time | Jim Snidero & Jeremy Pelt | Jazz |
| 85 | Where's Earth? | Steve Gadd Band | Jazz |
| 86 | Hipsippy Blues | Pat Martino | Jazz |
| 87 | Window | GoGo Penguin | Jazz |
| 88 | Take Five | Harold Little | Jazz |
| 89 | By Myself | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Jazz |
| 90 | A Little Gossip | Eliane Elias | Jazz |
| 91 | Insieme | Al Di Meola | Jazz |
| 92 | Quizas, Quizas, Quizas | The Tiki Collective | Jazz |
| 93 | Flamenco Sketches | Larry McDonough Quartet | Jazz |
| 94 | Festival of Bahia | Lenny Marcus Trio | Jazz |
| 95 | It Was a Very Good Year | Willie Nelson | Jazz |
| 96 | Two Worlds (feat. Claudio Roditi & Helio Alves) | El Eco | Jazz |
| 97 | Sesame Street Theme | Delfeayo Marsalis | Jazz |
| 98 | The Gift | Steven Kroon | Jazz |
| 99 | Close Enough for Jazz | Van Morrison | Jazz |
| 100 | Sam Jones' Blues | Cécile McLorin Salvant | Jazz |
| 101 | Bali | Joey Alexander | Jazz |
| 102 | Carvin's Agreement | Henry Conerway III | Jazz |
| 103 | Figure 8 (Live) | Octobop | Jazz |
| 104 | Lawns (feat. Peter Erskine, Rachel Z & Mike Mainieri) | Scott Petito | Jazz |
| 105 | African Chant | Azar Lawrence | Jazz |
| 106 | Up Jumped Spring (Live) | Dr. Lonnie Smith | Jazz |
| 107 | Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood | Abiah | Jazz |
| 108 | Ce Petit Chemin | Nate Najar Trio | Jazz |
| 109 | How the Heart Approaches What It Yearns | Paul Simon | Smooth Jazz |
| 110 | Hialeah | Harold López-Nussa | Jazz |
| 111 | Blues Connotation | Jared Gold | Jazz |
| 112 | I Remember You | OKB Trio | Jazz |
| 113 | So What | Allan Harris | Jazz |
| 114 | Easy Living | Eddie Henderson | Jazz |
| 115 | Fight for Freedom | Christian Sands | Jazz |
| 116 | Unsophisticated (feat. Roy Hargrove) | Kandace Springs | Jazz |
| 117 | Honey Party | Madeleine Peyroux | Jazz |
| 118 | People Make the World Go 'Round | Kandace Springs | Jazz |
| 119 | Our Day Will Come | Houston Person | Jazz |
| 120 | Lonely Town (feat. Joey Calderazzo & Marquis Hill) | Kurt Elling | Jazz |
| 121 | Sun Song (feat. Lawrence Fields, Scott Colley, Roman Diaz & Bill Stewart) | Steve Slagle | Jazz |
| 122 | Billy's Bounce | Allan Harris | Jazz |
| 123 | Motionless Passage | Enrique Haneine | Jazz |
| 124 | The Ghosts of Tomorrow | Madeleine Peyroux | Jazz |
| 125 | Ringo Oiwake | Art Hirahara | Jazz |
| 126 | Saint James Infirmary Blues | Jon Batiste | Jazz |
| 127 | Ranky Tanky | Ranky Tanky | Jazz |
| 128 | Baku | Wayne Escoffery | Jazz |
| 129 | When She Looks at Me (Live) | Matt Lemmler | Jazz |
| 130 | Juba | Gayelynn McKinney | Jazz |
| 131 | Salvador (feat. DACA Artists) | John Daversa Big Band | Contemporary Jazz |
| 132 | Sweet As Honey | Peter Lin | Jazz |
| 133 | El Nino | Pat Martino | Jazz |
| 134 | Do It Again | Bobby Broom | Jazz |
| 135 | 100 Años De Bebo | Chucho Valdés | Jazz |
| 136 | See-Line Woman | Abiah | Jazz |
| 137 | New Creation | Steve Hobbs | Jazz |
| 138 | Obama Samba | Bill O'Connell | Jazz |
| 139 | Movers and Shakers | Andrea Brachfeld | Jazz |
| 140 | Forget Me | Deanne Matley | Jazz |
| 141 | God Will | Amy Cervini | Jazz |
| 142 | Adágio | Eddie Daniels | Jazz |
| 143 | Friends Again | Doug Webb | Jazz |
| 144 | The Way You Look Tonight | Houston Person & Ron Carter | Jazz |
| 145 | Mona Lisa | Gregory Porter | Jazz |
| 146 | Another Star | James Austin Jr. | Jazz |
| 147 | Smoke on the Water | Cyrus Chestnut | Jazz |
| 148 | Philafornia | Danny Janklow | Jazz |
| 149 | The Spin Doctor | Black Art Jazz Collective | Jazz |
| 150 | Moving Forward | Andrea Brachfeld | Jazz |
| 151 | Wish You Were Mine | Karrin Allyson | Jazz |
| 152 | Letter from Home | Brad Goode Quintet | Jazz |
| 153 | Uncle Southern | John Scofield | Jazz |
| 154 | Stumblin' | Buster Williams | Jazz |
| 155 | Atlantica | Antonio Adolfo | Big Band |
| 156 | You Rock My World | Alyson Murray | Jazz |
| 157 | Someday We'll All Be Free | Tiffany Austin | Jazz |
| 158 | Testify | Kamasi Washington | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 159 | Soul Eyes | Tia Fuller | Jazz |
| 160 | The Triumphant Journey | Dafnis Prieto Big Band | Jazz |
| 161 | Perspective | Kamasi Washington | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 162 | Democracy How (Harmony and Dissonance) | Aimée Allen | Jazz |
| 163 | Batmobile to Airport | Flying Horse Big Band | Jazz |
| 164 | When Love Was King | Gregory Porter | Jazz |
| 165 | Idol of the Flies | Reggie Watkins | Jazz |
| 166 | Sweet Papa Lou | Mike LeDonne | Jazz |
| 167 | Bossa for All (feat. David Hazeltine) | Cory Weeds | Jazz |
| 168 | Memphis BBQ & Fish Fry | Michael Dease | Jazz |
| 169 | So Cute, So Bad | Akiko Tsuruga | Jazz |
| 170 | Humpty Dumpty (feat. Matt Wilson) | Joris Teepe & Don Braden | Jazz |
| 171 | Happy Juice | Jon Davis | Jazz |
| 172 | Every Man is a King | Gerald Cannon | Jazz |
| 173 | You Don't Know What Love is | John Dokes | Jazz |
| 174 | Little B's Poem | Cyrus Chestnut | Jazz |
| 175 | Hittin' the Jug | Harold Mabern | Jazz |
| 176 | Bag's Mood | Behn Gillece | Jazz |
| 177 | Deadlines | Collective Order | Jazz |
| 178 | Second Light | Blue Note All-Stars | Jazz |
| 179 | People Will Say We're in Love (feat. Gregory Porter) | Ella Fitzgerald | Jazz |
| 180 | Jingles (feat. Dick Hyman) | Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra | Jazz |
| 181 | Very Early (feat. Joey Alexander) | Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra | Jazz |
| 182 | Charukeshi Express (feat. George Brooks) | Steve Smith and Vital Information NYC Edition | Jazz |
| 183 | Lonely Bull | Richie Cole | Jazz |
| 184 | Head over High Heels | Sinne Eeg | Jazz |
| 185 | Wanderer | Jared Hall | Jazz |
| 186 | The Group of 7 | Ilios Steryannis | Jazz |
| 187 | Danny Boy | Houston Person | Jazz |
| 188 | Prime Time (feat. Pat Belliveau & Al Muirhead) [Live] | Prime Time Big Band | Jazz |
| 189 | They Can't Take That Away from Me (feat. Louis Armstrong) | Ella Fitzgerald | Jazz |
| 190 | It Ain't Necessarily So | Jared Gold | Jazz |
| 191 | Mean What You Say | Helen Sung | Jazz |
| 192 | Ballad of Ernie Washington | Christian McBride | Jazz |
| 193 | Patria (Encore) | Jazz At Lincoln Center Orchestra | Jazz |
| 194 | I Remember You (feat. Bucky Pizzarelli) | Larry Newcomb Quartet | Contemporary Jazz |
| 195 | Ruse for Blues Shoes | Art Hirahara | Jazz |
| 196 | Go | Stefon Harris | Jazz |
| 197 | Getaway | Robben Ford | Jazz |
| 198 | Icons at the Fair | John Scofield | Jazz |
| 199 | Nature Boy | John Coltrane | Jazz |
| 200 | Barney's Fife | Jack Mouse Group | Contemporary Jazz |
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