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Night Train Top 40 For December 2021

  1. Joe Fiedler’s Open Sesame – Fuzzy and Blue (Multiphonics Music)
  2. Eliane Elias – Mirror Mirror (Candid)
  3. Joey DeFrancesco – More Music (Mack Avenue)
  4. Bill Charlap -Street of Dreams (Blue Note)
  5. Bola Sete – Samba in Seattle (Tompkins Square)
  6. Houston Person – Live in Paris (High Note)
  7. David Janeway – Distant Voices (Steeplechase)
  8. Bruce Forman – Reunion! (B4Man Music)
  9. Samara Joy – Samara Joy (Whirlwind)
  10. Gerry Gibbs – Songs from My Father (Whaling City Sound)
  11. Helen Sung – Quartet+ (Sunnyside)
  12. Kyle Asche Organ Trio – Five Down Blues (Cellar)
  13. Heavyweights Brass Band – Stir Crazy (Slammin’ Media)
  14. Pat Bianchi – Something to Say (Savant)
  15. Pat Coil – How Deep is the Ocean (Burton Avenue)
  16. Lauren Henderson – Musa (Brontosaurus)
  17. Pasquale Grasso – Pasquale Plays Duke (Sony Masterworks)
  18. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers – First Flight to Tokyo (Blue Note)
  19. Stacey Kent – Songs from Other Places (Candid)
  20. Alexis Cole – Sky Blossom (Zoho)
  21. Louis Hayes – Crisis (Savant)
  22. Chick Corea Akoustic Band – Live (Concord)
  23. Harold Mabern – Mabern Plays Coltrane (Smoke Sessions)
  24. Patricia Barber – Clique (Impex)
  25. Anthony Wonsey – Lorraine’s Lullabye (Cellar)
  26. Farnell Newton – Feel the Love (Posi-Tone)
  27. Shawnn Monteiro – You Are There (Whaling City Sound)
  28. Roseanna Vitro – Sing a Song of Bird (Skyline)
  29. Graham Dechter – Major Influence (Capri)
  30. Various – Relief (Mack Avenue)
  31. Christian McBride & Inside Straight – Live at the Village Vanguard (Mack Avenue)
  32. Antonio Adolfo – Forever Jobim (AAM)
  33. Nicolas Payton – Smoke Sessions (Smoke Sessions)
  34. Randy Napoleon – Rust Belt Roots (OA2)
  35. Ray Obiedo – Latin Jazz Project Vol. 2 (Rhythmus)
  36. Royce Campbell – Cool School (Moon Cycle
  37. Alan Broadbent – Broadbent Plays Brubeck (River)
  38. Montreal Jazz Trio – Montreal Jazz Trio (Odd Sound)
  39. Steve Million – What I Meant to Say (Origin)
  40. Art Hirahara – Open Sky (Posi-Tone)
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.