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Top Jazz Cities

Which cities worldwide are tops in presenting jazz? Let us know—select up to ten.

Fantasy Festival

It's your festival, you're in charge of booking and you have an unlimited budget. Share your lineup.

Favorite Record Labels

From legacy labels to independent operators, vote for your favorites.

Reviews

Articles

Interview with Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive at Painted Bride Art Center

Live From Philadelphia

By Geno Thackara

Go: Organic Orchestra and Brooklyn Raga Massive at Painted...

Interview with Recollections of an Oslo experience

Jazzin' Around Europe

By Henning Bolte

Recollections of an Oslo experience

Mr. P.C.'s Guide to Jazz Etiquette...

By Mr. P.C.

Marcus Roberts And The Modern Jazz Generation At The Kimmel...

Radio

WORLD OF JAZZ

October Blue Note 50th's, Eddie Palmieri and More

With Marc Cohn

WORLD OF JAZZ

Joel Miller, Markus Howell, Curtis Taylor and More

With Bob Osborne

Tune in daily to hear some of the internet's top jazz radio programs including Mondo Jazz, Jazz Bastard, World of Jazz, The Third Story, One Man's Jazz, Jazz at 100, Gifts & Messages, Neon Jazz, A Broad Spectrum, and Doing Jazz. Programs range from music to talk to jazz ed. It's an eclectic mix of shows presenting emerging artists to living legends from around the globe.

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TW = this week; LW = last week; 2W = two weeks ago.

JazzWeek Radio Chart

TW	LW	2W	Artist	TW	LW	Move	Add	Rpts	Peak	Wks
1	1	1	Poncho Sanchez Trane's Delight (Concord Picante)	340	411	-71	1	54	1	5
2	2	2	Monty Alexander Wareika Hill (MACD)	271	305	-34	0	52	1	9
3	23	3	Chick Corea Trio Trilogy 2 (Concord Jazz)	242	169	+73	8	53	3	2
3	6	3	Houston Person I'm Just a Lucky So and So (HighNote)	242	246	-4	1	45	3	8
5	3	5	Jazzmeia Horn Love and Liberation (Concord Jazz)	239	277	-38	1	44	1	10
6	8	6	George Coleman The Quartet (Smoke Sessions)	233	226	+7	4	53	6	3
7	7	7	Scott Hamilton Quartet Danish Ballads ... & More (Stunt)	217	230	-13	2	47	7	6
8	5	8	Bill O'Connell and the Afro Caribbean Ensemble Wind Off The Hudson (Savant)	209	247	-38	2	42	4	8
9	4	9	Jimmy Cobb This I Dig Of You (Smoke Sessions)	204	264	-60	0	43	3	9
10	21	10	New York Voices Reminiscing In Tempo (Origin)	194	174	+20	0	36	10	8

Born Today

Jelly Roll Morton
Born:1890

The city of New Orleans has the distinction of being the ‘birthplace of jazz’ so its appropriate that in New Orleans in or around 1885 to 1890 would be born the self-proclaimed “inventor of jazz”. Ferdinand...

Jazz Story

By Giacomo Bruzzo & RareNoiseRecords
Member since: 2011

I love jazz because it gives me goosebumps. I was first exposed to jazz when I bought my very first recording was Mahavishnu Orchestra's BNAE (but is it jazz?) I met Bill Laswell in 2008. The best show I ever attended was Nitin Sawhney at the Royal Albert Hall in London

All About Jazz would like to thank the 4,000 members who participated in our poll to help us identify the world's top jazz venues. For a recap, click here.

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