Charts

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on October 7th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Charlie Haden Family & Friends — Ramblin’ Boy (Decca)
2. Cassandra Wilson — Loverly (Blue Note)
3. The Hub — Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
4. Ram Dass And Kriece — Cosmix (Waveform)
5. Thievery Corporation — Radio Retaliation (ESL)
6. Sub Swara — Coup D'Yah (Low Motion)
7. Oberon, The Possum King — Who'll Stop The Reign? (Self-Released)
8. Lucinda Williams — Little Honey (Lost Highway)
9. Lonesome Brothers — The Last CD* (Self-Released)
10. Markley And Balmer — Markley And Balmer (Soona Songs)
11. Bobby Previte And The New Bump — Set The Alarm For Monday (Palmetto)
12. Robin Mckelle — Modern Antique (Cheap Lullaby)
13. Dominique Di Piazza Trio — Princess Sita (Sunnyside)
14. Roy Hargrove — Ear Food (Emarcy-Groovin' High)
15. Nick Sondy* — The Incidence Of Coincidence (self-released)
16. Sonarchy Trio — Sonarchy 1998 (Majmua)
17. Koushik — Out My Window (Stones Throw)
18. Ashley Brooke Toussant — All Songs in English (A.B. Toussant)
19. Abi Tapia — The Beauty In The Rain (MoonHouse)
20. Sonya Kitchell — This Storm (Decca-Velour)
21. Bittersweets — Goodnight, San Francisco (Compass)
22. Winterpills — Central Chambers (Soft Alarm-Signature Sounds)
23. Mystified — Sky Watcher (Small Doses)
24. Anna Estrada — Sonando Vuelos
25. Chris Flory — For You (ARBORS JAZZ)
26. Various Artists — Dutch Jazz Music 2008
27. Todd Sickafoose — Tiny Resistors (Cryptogramophone)
28. Jeff Gauthier — House Of Return (Cryptogramophone)
29. F**k The Facts — Disgorge Mexico (Relapse)
30. Straight Line Stitch — When Skies Wash Ashore (Raging Nation-Koch)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on September 23rd, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Bambara Trans — khalouna (self-released)
2. Lila Downs — Shake Away (Manhattan)
3. Various Artists — Blues Gold (Hip-O)
4. Various Artists — Calypsoul 70: Caribbean Soul And Calypsoul Crossover 1969-1979 (Strut)
5. Chiwoniso — Rebel Woman (Cumbancha)
6. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Acoustic Arabia (Putumayo)
7. Various Artists — Classic Piano Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)
8. Oberon, The Possum King — Who’ll Stop the Reign? (OPK)
9. John Brown's Body — Amplify (Easy Star)
10. Dubxanne — Police In Dub (Echo Beach)
11. Various Artists — Francophone Singles: April 2008 (Francophonie Diffusion)
12. Bill Frisell — History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
13. Lil’ed & The Blues Imperials — Full Tilt
14. Plena Libre — Plena Al Salsero - Live In Monterrey, Mexico (Ritmo Artists)
15. Klaus Schulze And Lisa Gerrard — Farscape (SPV)
16. Willie "the Lion" Smith & Don Ewell — Stride Piano Duets Live In Toronto, 1966 (Delmark)
17. Mary Lowe — Jazz Diva (Ambush)
18. Savina Yannatou — Songs Of An Other (ECM)
19. Burning Spear — Jah Is Real (Burning Music)
20. Sidestepper — The Buena Vibra Sound System (Palm Pictures)
21. Jackson Conti — Sujinho (Mochilla)
22. Albert Cummings — Feels So Good (Blind Pig)
23. E.g. Kight — It’s Hot in Here (MC Records)
24. Los Fabulocos — Los Fabulocos (Delta Groove)
25. Various Artists — FUTURE OF THE BLUES
26. Kenny Barron — The Traveler (Sunnyside)
27. Bob Mintzer Big Band — Swing Out (MCG Jazz)
28. Markley & Balmer — Markley & Balmer (Soona Songs)
29. Lonesome Brothers — The Last CD (Capivating)
30. Mr. Scruff — "Kalimba" [Single] (Ninja Tune)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on August 26th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Acoustic France (Putumayo)
2. Various Artists — Blues Gold (Hippo Recordings)
3. Bo Diddley — definitive collection
4. Dubxanne — Police In Dub (Echo Beach)
5. Jackson Conti — Sujinho (Mochilla)
6. Various Artists — Brief History of the Blues (Universal)
7. Liz Mandeville — Red Top (Earwig)
8. Travis Haddix — Daylight at Midnight
9. Esperanza Spalding — Esperanza (Heads Up)
10. Cassandra Wilson — Loverly (Blue Note)
11. Sonny Rollins — Rollins Plays For Bird (Prestige)
12. Johnny Osbourne — Truths And Rights (Heartbeat)
13. Gaelic Storm — What's The Rumpus? (MRI Associated)
14. Justin Adams — Soul Science (Wayward)
15. Rockamovya — Rockamovya (Young Tree)
16. Sub Swara — Coup D'Yah (Low Motion)
17. Ornette Coleman — Town Hall 1962 (ESP-Disk)
18. Little Ed & The Blues Imperials — Full Tilt
19. Glenn White — Sacred Machines (OA2 Records)
20. David Sanchez — Cultural Survival (Concord)
21. Dredd Foole — Kissing The Contemporary Bliss (Family Vineyard)
22. The Hub — Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
23. The Orb — The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (Six Degrees-Dragonfly)
24. Issa Bagayogo — Mali Koura (Six Degrees Records)
25. Various Artists — Future of the Blues
26. Magic Slim & The Teardrops — Midnight Blues (Blind Pig)
27. Albert Cummings — Feels So Good (Blind Pig)
28. Los Fabulocos — Los Fabulocos (Delta Groove)
29. Klaus Schulze And Lisa Gerrard — Farscape
30. Corey Wilkes — Drop It (Delmark)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on August 12th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. The Hub — Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
2. Esperanza Spalding — Esperanza (Heads Up)
3. Willie Nelson/wynton Marsalis — Two Men With The Blues (Blue Note)
4. Ellis Marsalis Quartet — An Open Letter To Thelonious (Elm)
5. Fernando Huergo — Provinciano (Sunnyside)
6. Abi Tapia — The Beauty In The Rain (MoonHouse)
7. Anna Laube — outta my head (ginkgo)
8. Beth Wood — Beachcomber's Daughter (Self-Released)
9. Mary Lowe — Jazz Diva (Ambush)
10. Wadada Leo Smith's Golden Quartet — Tabligh (Cuneiform)
11. Finders And Youngberg — Keep Your Suitcase Packed (Self)
12. Jeff Talmadge — Ein Abend Unter Freunden (Bozart)
13. Jonathan Byrd — The Law And The Lonesome (WATERBUG)
14. Mike And Ruthy — The Honeymoon Agenda (Self-Released)
15. Rebecca Martin — The Growing Season (Sunnyside)
16. Refugees — Unbound (Wabuko)
17. Tim Grimm — Holding Up The World (Vault)
18. Saxophone Summit — Seraphic Light (Telarc)
19. James Carter — Present Tense (Emarcy)
20. Miles Davis — Bags Groove (Concord Jazz)
21. Yuganaut — This Musicship (ESP-Disk)
22. Brazilian Girls — New York City (Verve Forecast)
23. Various Artists — Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered (Rapster)
24. F**k The Facts — Disgorge Mexico (Relapse)
25. Catalepsy — Iniquity (Stillborn)
26. Dredd Foole — Kissing The Contemporary Bliss (Family Vineyard)
27. Carrier Band — Voice Coil (Deep Listening)
28. The Orb — The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (Six Degrees-Dragonfly)
29. Quiet Village — Silent Movie (!K7)
30. Aborted — Strychnine.213 (Century Media)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on August 6th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Various Artists — Fabriclive 40: Noisia (Fabric)
2. Grupo Fantasma — Sonidos Gold (Aire Sol)
3. Cassandra Wilson — Loverly (Blue Note)
4. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Cafe Cubano (Putumayo)
5. Orchestra Baobab — Made In Dakar (Nonesuch)
6. Sergio Mendes — Encanto (Universal)
7. Various Artists — Ayombe! The Heart Of Colombia's Musica Vallenata (Smithsonian Folkways)
8. Duke Robillard — A Swingin' Session With Duke Robillard (Stony Plain)
9. Legendary Rhythm And Blues Revue — Command Performance (Delta Groove Productions-Delta Groove)
10. Roswell Rudd Quartet — "Keep Your Heart Right" [Single] (Sunnyside)
11. Jef Stott — Saracen (Six Degrees)
12. Alla — Es Tiempo (Crammed Discs)
13. 17 Hippies — Heimlich (Fat Wreck Chords)
14. Hot Club Of Detroit — Night Town (Mack Avenue)
15. Yuganaut — This Musicship (ESP-Disk)
16. Conrad Herwig — The Latin Side Of Wayne Shorter (Half Note)
17. James Hunter — The Hard Way (Hear)
18. Esperanza Spalding — Esperanza (Heads Up)
19. Saxophone Summit — Seraphic Light (Telarc)
20. Jamie Baum — Solace (Sunnyside Communications)
21. The Hub — Boundary Layer (Tzadik)
22. Tim Grimm — Holding Up The World (Vault)
23. Tape — Luminarium (Hapna)
24. Jonathan Byrd — The Law And The Lonesome (WATERBUG)
25. Refugees — Unbound (Wabuko)
26. Fire Room — Broken Music (Atavistic)
27. Mike And Ruthy — The Honeymoon Agenda (Self-Released)
28. Finders And Youngberg — Keep Your Suitcase Packed (Self)
29. Sidestepper — The Buena Vibra Sound System (Palm Pictures)
30. Jeff Talmadge — Ein Abend Unter Freunden (Bozart)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on July 29th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: African Party (Putumayo)
2. Jef Stott — Saracen (Six Degrees)
3. Byther Smith — Blues On The Moon (Delmark)
4. Ellis Marsalis Quartet — An Open Letter To Thelonious (Elm)
5. Ron Carter — Dear Miles (EMI)
6. The Orb — The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (Six Degrees-Dragonfly)
7. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Cafe Cubano (Putumayo)
8. Rockamovya — Rockamovya (Young Tree)
9. Orchestra Baobab — Made In Dakar (Nonesuch)
10. Maria Muldaur — Yes We Can (Telarc)
11. Teeny Tucker — Two Big M's (TeBo)
12. James Carter — Present Tense (Emarcy)
13. Scott Tuma — Not For Nobody (Digitalis)
14. Better Beatles — The Better Beatles (Hook or Crook)
15. Star Anna — Crooked Path (Malamute )
16. Crooked Still — Still Crooked (Signature Sounds)
17. Tim Grimm — Holding Up The World (Vault)
18. Jonathan Byrd — The Law & the Lonesome (Waterbug)
19. The Refugees — Unbound (Wabuko)
20. Herbaliser — Same As It Never Was (!K7)
21. Beata Soderberg And Justango — Bailata (World Village)
22. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Quebec (Putumayo)
23. Alla — Es Tiempo (Crammed Discs)
24. Sonantes — Sonantes (Six Degrees)
25. La Drivers Union Por Por Group — Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana (Smithsonian Folkways)
26. Natalia Clavier — Nectar (ESL)
27. Cecilia Villar Eljuri — En Paz (Lovecat)
28. Howard Tate — Blue Day (Evidence)
29. Deejay Om — Deejay Om's Reheated Naan N' Curry
30. Miles Davis — Muted Miles (Prestige)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on July 22nd, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Tab Benoit — Night Train To Nashville (Telarc)
2. Ron Carter — Dear Miles (EMI)
3. Dave Specter — Live From Chicago (Delmark)
4. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Cafe Cubano (Putumayo)
5. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: African Party (Putumayo)
6. Miles Davis — Bags Groove (Concord Jazz)
7. Various Artists — Blues Caravan: Guitar And Feathers (RUF)
8. Sonny Rollins — Rollins Plays For Bird (Prestige)
9. Watermelon Slim — No Paid Holidays (Northern Blues)
10. Luis Mario Ochoa — Momentos Cubanos (Cuban Music Productions)
11. Yuganaut — This Musicship (ESP-Disk)
12. Frank Rothkamm — Just 3 Organs (FLUX)
13. John Mellencamp — My Sweet Love (StarCon)
14. Legendary Rhythm And Blues Revue — Command Performance (Delta Groove-Delta Groove Productions)
15. Robin Rogers — Treat Me Right (Blind Pig)
16. Michael Burks — IRON MAN (Alligator)
17. Stanton Moore — Emphasis! On Parenthesis (Telarc)
18. Victor Wooten — Palmystery (Heads Up)
19. Sun Ra — Some Blues But Not The Kind That's Blue (Atavistic)
20. Various Artists — Life Beyond Mars: Bowie Covered (Rapster)
21. Quiet Village — Silent Movie (!K7)
22. Plena Libre — Plena Al Salsero - Live In Monterrey, Mexico (Ritmo Artists)
23. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Quebec (Putumayo)
24. Afrissippi — Alliance (Hill Country)
25. Etran Finatawa — Desert Crossroads (Riverboat)
26. Michael Doucet — From Now On (Smithsonian Folkways)
27. Sean Costello — "We Can Get Together" [Single] (Delta Groove)
28. Clarence Spady — Just Between Us (Severn)
29. Homemade Jamz Blues Band — Pay Me No Mind (Northern Blues)
30. Planeta Imaginario — BioMasa (Cuneiform)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on July 15th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Quebec (Putumayo)
2. The Orb — The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (Six Degrees-Dragonfly)
3. Niyaz — Nine Heavens (Six Degrees)
4. 17 Hippies — Heimlich (Fat Wreck Chords)
5. Various Artists — Miles From India (Four Quarters)
6. Big Blue Ball — Big Blue Ball (RealWorld-Real World)
7. Gypsy Nomads — eternal summer (E.A. Recordings)
8. Sergio Mendes — Encanto (Universal)
9. Computer Vs. Banjo — Computer Vs. Banjo
10. Orchestra Baobab — Made In Dakar (Nonesuch)
11. Natalia Clavier — Nectar (ESL)
12. David Sanchez — Cultural Survival (Concord)
13. John Coltrane — Settin' The Pace (Prestige)
14. Michael Doucet — From Now On (Smithsonian Folkways)
15. Various Artists — Singing For Life: Songs Of Hope, Healing And HIV-AIDS In Uganda (Smithsonian Folkways)
16. La Drivers Union Por Por Group — Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana (Smithsonian Folkways)
17. Etran Finatawa — Desert Crossroads (Riverboat)
18. Pink Martini — Hey Eugene! (Heinz)
19. Aimee Mann — Smilers (Superego)
20. Watson Twins — How I am to Be (Vanguard)
21. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: African Party (Putumayo)
22. Bolistik — Bolistik
23. Krzysztof — Jajouka (Small Doses)
24. Gabriel Alegria — Nuevo Mundo (Saponegro)
25. Dafnis Prieto — Taking The Soul For A Walk (Dafnison)
26. Peter Brotzmann/peeter Uusikyla — Born Broke (Atavistic)
27. Sonny Rollins — Rollins Plays For Bird (Prestige)
28. Yuganaut — This Musicship (ESP-Disk)
29. Nicholas Payton — Into The Blue (Nonesuch)
30. Fernando Huergo — Provinciano (Sunnyside)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on July 8th, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. 17 Hippies — Heimlich (Fat Wreck Chords)
2. Orchestra Baobab — Made In Dakar (Nonesuch)
3. Duke Robillard — A Swingin' Session With Duke Robillard (Stony Plain)
4. Various Artists — Putumayo Presents: Quebec (Putumayo)
5. The Orb — The Dream (The Future Academy Of Noise, Rhythm And Gardening Mix) (Six Degrees-Dragonfly)
6. Various Artists — Classic Piano Blues (Smithsonian Folkways)
7. Afrissippi — Alliance (Hill Country)
8. Lydia Mendoza — The Best Of Lydia Mendoza (Arhoolie)
9. Tony Demarco — The Sligo Indians (Smithsonian Folkways)
10. Janiva Magness — What Love Will Do (Alligator)
11. Willie 'big Eyes' Smith — Born In Arkansas (Big Eye)
12. Dave Specter — Live In Chicago (Delmark)
13. John Beasley — Letter To Herbie (RESONANCE)
14. Patrick De Santos — In The Mud With White Shoes
15. Dr. Ox — Dr. Ox (c74)
16. Quiet Village — Silent Movie (!K7)
17. Portishead — Third (Island)
18. Laromlab — Laromlab (Mushpot)
19. Plena Libre — Plena Al Salsero - Live In Monterrey, Mexico (Ritmo Artists)
20. La Drivers Union Por Por Group — Por Por: Honk Horn Music of Ghana (Smithsonian Folkways)
21. 3 Na Massa — 3 Na Massa (Nublu)
22. Jef Stott — Saracen (Six Degrees)
23. Various Artists — La India Canela: Merengue Tipico From The Dominican Republic (Smithsonian Folkways)
24. Various Artists — Chapinlandia: Marimba Music Of Guatemala (Smithsonian Folkways)
25. Ayombe! — The Heart of Colombia's Musica Valleneta (Smithsonian Folkways)
26. Jeff Healey — Mess Of Blues (RUF)
27. Nat Dove — Real Texas Piano (Triclef)
28. Dr. John — City That Care Forgot (429)
29. Kenny Neal — Let Life Flow (Blind Pig)
30. Deicide — Til Death Do Us Part (Earache)

Here is WEFT's weekly top-30 chart as reported to CMJ on July 1st, 2008. If you have any questions, please contact the WEFT Charting Coordinator at charts@weft.org.

1. The Orb — The Dream (Six Degrees)
2. Gene Harris Quartet — Live In London (Resonance Records)
3. Brad Mehldau Trio — Live (Nonesuch)
4. Booka Shade — The Sun & The Neon Light (Get Physical)
5. John Beasley — Letter To Herbie (Resonance Records)
6. Fernando Huergo — Provinciano (Sunnyside)
7. Krzysztof — Jajouka (Small Doses)
8. Carmen Rizzo — Ornament of an Imposter (Electrofone)
9. Tk Blue — Follow The North Star (JaJa Records)
10. Kj Denhert — Lucky Seven (Motéma)
11. Taylor Eigsti — Let It Come To You (Concord Jazz)
12. Dj Logic & Jason Miles — Global Noize (Shanachie)
13. Chip Mcneill — Four Steps 3 (Capri Records)
14. Stanton Moore Trio — Emphasis
15. Tape — Luminarium (Häpna)
16. Robert Rich & Ian Boddy — React (DiN)
17. Bitter:sweet — Drama (Quango)
18. Midnight Juggernauts — Dystopia (Astralwerks)
19. Eva Be — Moving Without Traveling (Sonar Kollektiv/Best Seven)
20. Deicide — Till Death Do We Part
21. Storms Approach — Storms Approach
22. Cryptopsy — The Unspoken King
23. Belphegor — Bondage Goat Zombie
24. Moonspell — Night Eternal
25. Gamma Goat — Beard Of Sound, Beard Of Sand (Eh?)
26. Chen Yi & Karen Tanaka — Invisible Curve (New World)
27. Tramaj Voyix — Tramaj Voyix
28. Fire Room — Broken Music (Atavistic)
29. Axis Gallery — Disturbing Behavior (self-released)
30. Various Artists — Delicious Rmxxology (Delicious Vinyl)