- Steve Kuhn - Wisteria (ECM)
- Chris Hazelton Trio - Peregrination (Artists Recording Collective)
- Florian Hoefner Group - Songs Without Words (OA2)
- Shawnn Monteiro - To Carmen with Love (Whaling City Sound)
- David Liebman/Nancy Reed - Neighbors (VectorDisc)
- Piero Odorici - Cedar Walton Presents Piero Odorici (Savant)
- Ahmad Jamal - Blue Moon (Jazz Village)
- Three Voices - Transitions (Summit)
- Jazz Soul Seven - Impressions of Curtis Mayfield (BFM Jazz)
- Stacey Kent - Dreamer in Concert (Blue Note)
- Brad Mehldau - Ode (Nonesuch)
- Carmen Lundy - Changes (Afrasia)
- Duke Ellington Legacy - Single Petal of A Rose (Renma)
- Eric Reed - The Baddest Monk (Savant)
- Cyrus Chestnut Quartet - Cyrus Chestnut Quartet (WJ3)
- Virginia Mayhew Quartet - Mary Lou Williams: The Next 100 Years (Renma)
- Joe Locke/Geoffrey Keezer Group - Signing (Motema)
- Tony Monaco - Celebration (Chicken Coop)
- Halie Loren - Heart First (Justin Time)
- John Brown - Quiet Time (Brown Boulevard)
- Mary Stallings - Don't Look Back (High Note)
- Dirty Dozen Brass Band - Twenty Dozen (Savoy Jazz)
- Sara Gazarek - Blossom and Bee (Palmetto)
- Esperanza Spaulding - Radio Music Society (Heads Up)
- Brian Ho - Organic (B2B)
- Meredith D'Ambrosio - By Myself (Sunnyside)
- Mads Tolling - Celebrating Jean-Luc Ponty (Madsman)
- Steve Turre - Woody's Delight (High Note)
- Nick Moran Trio - No time Like Now (Manor Sound)
- Brazilian Trio - Conselacao (Motema)
- Brian Bromberg - Compared to That (Artistry Music)
- Bela Fleck and the Marcus Roberts Trio - Across the Imaginary Divide (Rounder)
- Chaise Lounge - Insomnia (Modern Songbook)
- Pat Metheny - Unity Band (Nonesuch)
- Joe Chambers - Moving Pictures Orchestra (Savant)
- Bobby Broom - Upper West Side Story (Origin)
- Arturo Sandoval - Dear Diz (Concord)
- Sylvia Herold and the Rhythm Bugs - The Spider and the Fly (Sylvia Herold)
- David Reinhardt Trio - Colombe (Cristal)
- Lenny Marcus Trio - Sun Ray (LJM)
Top 40 Albums June 2012
By Chris Heim
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Jul 5, 2012