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Night Train's Top 40 Albums of January 2014

1. Hutchinson Andrew Trio - Prairie Modern (Chronograph)

2. Joe Locke - Lay Down My Heart (Motema)

3. Bobby Watson & the 'I Have A Dream' Project - Check Cashing Day (Bobby Watson)

4. Gregory Porter - Liquid Spirit (Blue Note)

5. Ahmad Jamal - Saturday Morning (Jazz Village)

6. Jane Ira Bloom - Sixteen Sunsets (Outline)

7. Dr. Lonnie Smith - In the Beginning Vols. 1 & 2 (Pilgrimmage)

8. Anne Drummond - Revolving (Origin)

9. Rene Marie - I Wanna Be Evil (Motema)

10. Christian McBride Trio - Out Here (Mack Avenue)

11. Kenny Garrett - Pushing the World Away (Mack Avenue)

12. Warren Wolf - Wolf Gang (Mack Avenue)

13. Mitch Frohman Latin Jazz Quintet - From Daddy with Love (Mitch Frohman)

14. Ken Peplowski - Maybe September (Capri)

15. Jim Alfredson's Dirty Fingers - A Tribute to Big John Patton (Big O)

16. Janis Siegel - Nightsongs (Palmetto)

17. Chris Parker Trio - Chris Parker Trio (GPR)

18. Mike Jones Trio - Plays Well with Others (Capri)

19. Bill O'Connell - Zocalo (Savant)

20. 3 Cohens - Tightrope (Anzic)

21. Brian Lynch - Unsung Heroes Vol. 2 (Holistic Music Works)

22. Joey DeFrancesco - One for Rudy (High Note)

23. Tierney Sutton - After Blue (BFM Jazz)

24. Tom Dempsey - Saucy (Planet Arts)

25. Stefan Aeby Trio - Utopia (Ozella)

26. Calvin Keys - Electric Keys (Wide Hive)

27. Paquito D' Rivera - Song for Maura (Sunnyside)

28. Marc Cary Focus Trio - Four Directions (Motema)

29. Matt Wilson Quartet + John Medeski - Gathering Call (Palmetto)

30. Carol Morgan - Retroactive (Blue Bamboo Music)

31. Florian Hoefner Group - Falling Up (OA2)

32. Roswell Rudd - Trombone for Lovers (Sunnyside)

33. Frank Potenza - For Joe (Capri)

34. Phill Fest - Projecto B.F.C. (Fest Productions)

35. Nightcrawlers - Volume Three (Cellar Live)

36. Tardo Hammer - Simple Pleasure (Cellar Live)

37. Ian Hendrickson-Smith - Tonight Is Now (Cellar Live)

38. Joe Fiedler's Big Sackbut - Sackbut Stomp (Multiphonic Music)

39. Gary Smulyan/Dominic Chianese - Bella Napoli (Capri)

40. Peter Bernstein & the Tilden Webb Trio - Live at Cory Weed's Cellar Jazz Club (Cellar Live)

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.