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Night Train Top 40 For June 2020

KMUW | By Chris Heim
Published July 1, 2020 at 9:00 AM CDT

  1. Erroll Garner – Gemini/The Magician/Gershwin & Kern (Mack Avenue/Octave)
  2. Aquarela – A Bela Vida (Buda Musique)
  3. John Stein – Watershed (Whaling City Sound)
  4. Joey Alexander – Warna (Verve)
  5. Al Di Meola – Across the Universe (Ear Music)
  6. BK Trio – Hit It (BK Trio)
  7. Eric Alexander – With Strings (High Note)
  8. Kenny Barron/Dave Holland Trio – Without Deception (Dare 2)
  9. John Di Martino – Passion Flower (Sunnyside)
  10. Harold Mabern – Mabern Plays Mabern (Smoke Sessions)
  11. Audrey Ochoa – Frankenhorn (Chronograph)
  12. Michael Wolff – Bounce (Sunnyside)
  13. Brent Jensen – The Sound of a Dry Martini (Origin)
  14. Gerald Beckett – Mood (Pear Orchard)
  15. Jason Tieman – T-Man (T-Man)
  16. Jeremy Pelt – The Art of Intimacy, Vol. 1 (High Note)
  17. Jim Snidero – Project K (Savant)
  18. Bill Warfield & the Hell’s Kitchen Funk Orchestra – Smile (Planet Arts)
  19. Larry Willis – I Fall in Love Too Easily (High Note)
  20. Jeff Rupert/George Garzone – The Ripple (Rupe Media)
  21. La Lucha – Everybody Wants to Rule the World (Arbors)
  22. Idle Hands – Solid Moments (Posi-Tone)
  23. Gilfema – Three (Sounderscore)
  24. Kandace Springs – The Women Who Raised Me (Blue Note)
  25. Bobby Watson/Vincent Herring/Gary Bartz – Bird at 100 (Smoke Sessions)
  26. Vito Dieterle – Anemone (Ride Symbol)
  27. Peter and Will Anderson – Peter and Will Anderson (Outside In Music)
  28. Lorca Hart Trio – Colors of Jazz (Night Is Alive)
  29. Joshua Jern Jazz Orchestra – Midnight Stroll (Ch.Ill Jazz)
  30. Michael Dease – Never More Here (Posi-Tone)
  31. Tim Ray – Excursions and Adventures (Whaling City Sound)
  32. Duchess – Live at the Jazz Standard (Anzic)
  33. Robby Ameen – Diluvio (Origin)
  34. Brian Andres Trio Latino – Mayan Suite (Bacalao)
  35. Christian Tamburr – The Awakening (Christian Tamburr)
  36. Jim Robitaille Trio – Space Cycles (Whaling City Sound)
  37. Jim Self/John Chiodini Duo – The Light Fantastic (Basset Hound)
  38. Guitar Elation – Double Live at the Green Lady (Jazz Daddy)
  39. Baritone Madness – Baritone Madness (Chronograph)
  40. Oded Tzur – Here Be Dragons (ECM)
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Chris Heim
Chris Heim produces and hosts Global Village, a nationally and internationally distributed world music show; the nightly jazz show Night Train, and Crossroads, KMUW’s twice-weekly blues and R&B show. Chris is also a critic and freelance writer whose work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Utne, Global Rhythm, Dirty Linen, and Option, among others.
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