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 Night Train Top 40 – December 2024

  1. Samara Joy – Portrait (Verve)
  2. Javon Jackson/Nikki Giovanni – Javon and Nikki Go to the Movies (Solid Jackson)
  3. Steve Davis – We See (Smoke Sessions)
  4. Ben Paterson – Cookin’ in the Couve (Cellar)
  5. Delfeayo Marsalis Uptown Jazz Orchestra – Crescent City Jewels (Troubadour Jass)
  6. Hot Toddies Jazz Band – Triple Step (Hot Toddies Jazz Band)
  7. Wayne Escoffery – Alone (Smoke Sessions)
  8. Warren Wolf – History of the Vibraphone (Cellar)
  9. George Cables – I Hear Echoes (High Note)
  10. Diego Rivera – Ofrenda (Posi-Tone)
  11. Doug MacDonald – Santa Monica Session (DMac Music)
  12. Catherine Russell/Sean Mason – My Ideal (Dot Time)
  13. Zaccai Curtis – Cubop Lives! (Truth Revolution)
  14. Diego Figueiredo – I Love Samba (Arbors)
  15. Ken Peplowski – Live at Mezzrow (Cellar)
  16. Michael Dease – Grove’s Groove (Le Coq)
  17. Miles Davis Quintet – Miles in France 1963 & 1964 (Columbia/Legacy)
  18. Dred Scott – Cali Mambo (Rope a Dope)
  19. Luther Allison – I Owe It All to You (Posi-Tone)
  20. Mike Clement – Hittin’ It! (Cellar)
  21. Hot Club of San Francisco – Original Gadjo (Hot Club Records)
  22. Larry Vuckovich – Blue Balkan Then and Now (Tetrachord Music)
  23. Oscar Peterson – City Lights (Mack Avenue)
  24. Thom Rotella – Side Hustle (High Note)
  25. John Fedchock – Justifiably J.J. (Summit)
  26. Alvin Queen Trio – Feeling Good (Strut)
  27. Jeff Rupert – It Gets Better (Rupe Media)
  28. Leslie Pintchik – Prayer for What Remains (PintchHard)
  29. Steve Allee – Zebra Stories (Steve Allee)
  30. Michael Mayo – Fly (Mack Avenue)
  31. Sean Hoag Wei/Jeremy Monteiro – The New Jersey Sessions (JazzNote)
  32. Dharma Down – Owl Dreams (Dharma Down Records)
  33. Heavy Hitters – That’s What’s Up (Cellar)
  34. Brandon Sanders – The Tables Will Turn (Savant)
  35. Something Else! – Soul Jazz (Smoke Sessions)
  36. Michael Wolff – Memoir (Sunnyside)
  37. Paul Carlon – Blues for Vita (Deep Tone)
  38. Peter Bernstein – Better Angels (Smoke Sessions)
  39. Ben Wolfe – The Understated (Resident Arts)
  40. Orrin Evans & the Captain Black Big Band – Walk a Mile in My Shoe (Imani)
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.