First on New Year’s Eve beginning at 6:30pm, KJazz presents The 30th annual New Year's Eve special Toast of the Nation with coast-to-coast live concerts by John Pizzarelli, The Bad Plus, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy and more from some of the best music venues in the country, including the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, and the Village Vanguard in New York City.

Then on January 1, 2010 at 6:00am, KJazz 88.1 presents its Top 88 spins of 2009 new releases. This annual New Year’s tradition features the KJazz DJs’ collective favorites released during the calendar year, resulting in an entirely new collection of fresh jazz gems every time.

Featured “Top 88” artists will include… Roy Hargrove Big Band, Tierney Sutton, Gerald Wilson Orchestra, Kurt Elling, Poncho Sanchez, to name a few.
RANK ARTIST TRACK DISC LABEL
1 Clayton Brothers Walking Bass Brother To Brother Artist Share
2 Jackie Ryan Doozy Doozy Open Art
3 The Jeff Hamilton Trio You Make Me Feel So Young Symbiosis Capri
4 Tierney Sutton My Heart Belongs to Daddy Desire Telarc
5 Poncho Sanchez Cantaloupe Island Psychedelic Blues Concord Picante
6 Grant Geissman Too Cool For School Cool Man Cool Futurism
7 Roy Hargrove Big Band Mambo For Roy Emergence Emarcy
8 The Blue Note 7 Inner Urge Mosaic Blue Note
9 Kurt Elling Dedicated to You Dedicated to You Concord Jazz
10 Venissa Santi Talkin' to You Bienvenida Sunnyside
11 Gerald Wilson Orchestra Everywhere Detroit Mack Avenue
12 Henry Franklin Soko Home Cookin' SP
13 Rickey Woodard Knucklehead Why Did I Do It RW
14 Andy Martin Pick Yourself Up Setting the Standard Drewbone
15 Graham Dechter Wave Right On Time Capri
16 Christian McBride Brother Mister Kind of Brown Mack Avenue
17 Jon Mayer Bohemia After Dark Nightscape Reservoir
18 Diana Krall Walk On By Quiet Nights Verve
19 John Proulx Look For the Silver Lining Baker's Dozen Maxjazz
20 Carl Allan & Rodney Whittaker Work to Do Work To Do Mack Avenue
21 Kristin Korb You Fascinate Me So In The Meantime Double Music
22 One For All Silver and Cedar Return of the Lineup Sharp Nine
23 Daniel Sadownick The Moon Has Flown There Will Be a Day In Time
24 Steve Davis Have You Met Miss Jones Eloquence Jazz Legacy Productions
25 Bobby Matos No Down, No Feathers Unity Life Force Jazz
26 Melissa Morgan The Lamp is Low Until I Met You Telarc
27 Derrick Gardner & the Jazz Prophets Afros & Cubans Echoes of Ethnicity Owl Studios
28 Bobby Hutcherson Aisha Wise One Kind of Blue
29 Resonance Big Band Waltzing is Hip Play Tribute to Oscar Peterson Resonance
30 Roberta Gambarini That Old Black Magic So In Love Emarcy
31 Tom Harrell Prana Prana Dance High Note
32 Michael Wolff Joe's Strut Joe's Strut Wrong
33 Bobby Broom Bemsha Swing Plays For Monk Origin
34 Herb Alpert & Lani Hall Para-Raio Anything Goes Concord Jazz
35 Alvin Queen Cape Verdean Blues Mighty Long Way Justin Time
36 Dr. Lonnie Smith Matterapat Rise Up! Palmetto
37 Angela Hagenbach Cinnamon and Clove The Way They Make Me Feel Resonance
38 Josh Nelson I Hear a Rhapsody I Hear a Rhapsody Steel Bird
39 Bob Florence Limited Edition Suicide is Painless Legendary Mama
40 Count Basie Orchestra Blues on Monk Avenue Swinging, Singing, Playing Mack Avenue
41 John Beasley So Tired Positootly! Resonance
42 Gerald Clayton Boogablues Two-Shade Artist Share
43 Benny Golson Epistrophy New Time, New'Tet Concord
44 Miami Saxophone Quartet Spunky Fourtified Fourtitude
45 Mike Clark Loft Funk Bluprints of Jazz, Vol. 1 Talking House
46 Papa John Defrancesco Maricopa Big Shot Savant
47 David ÒFatheadÓ Newman SKJ The Blessing High Note
48 Joe Locke-David Hazeltine Quartet What's Not to Love Mutual Admiration Society 2 Sharp Nine
49 Curtis Stigers Feels Right Lost in Dreams Concord Jazz
50 Eric Reed Pursuit of Peace Stand! WJ3
51 Cedar Walton Another Star Voices Deep Within High Note
52 Scotty Barnhart Con Alma Say It Plain Unity Music
53 Robert Glasper Think of One Double Booked Blue Note
54 Louis Hayes Double Rainbow The Time Keeper 18th & Vine
55 Mike Dubaniewics Along Came Betty Drive Time Jazzed Media
56 Mark Levine & the Latin Tinge Nana Off & On Left Coast Clave
57 Roy Gaines Send For Me Tuxedo Blues Black Gold
58 Heath Brothers Dusk in the City Endurance Jazz Legacy Productions
59 Jonathan Kreisberg September Song Night Songs Criss Cross Jazz
60 Dave Siebels Da Blues With Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band pbgl
61 David Kikoski Doxy Mostly Standards Criss Cross Jazz
62 Helio Alves Sweeping the Chimney It's Clear Reservoir Music
63 Dee Alexander Live Wild is the Wind Blujazz
64 Thomas Marriott Take it to the Ozone Flexicon Origin
65 Charlie Shoemake-Terry Trotter The Scene is Clean Inside CMG
66 Paul Gormley Quartet Sweet and Lovely Our Delight Talking Dog
67 Gary Burton & Pat Metheney Little African Flower Quartet Live Concord
68 Jessica Williams Lonnie's Lament The Art of the Piano Origin
69 Danny Grissett Are We There Yet? Form Criss Cross Jazz
70 Jim Rotondi Brother Ray Blues For Brother Ray Positone
71 Joe Cohn I Gotta Right to Sing the Blues Shared Contemplations Criss Cross Jazz
72 The Devin Kelly Organ Trio Ceora First Things First DPK
73 Jacques Voyemant Septet Desert Tale Arrival Elyria
74 Ernestine Anderson Day By Day A Song For You High Note
75 Eliane Elias Desafinado Bossa Nova Stories Blue Note
76 Ravi Coltrane One Wheeler Will Blending Times Savoy Jazz
77 Geoffrey Keezer Una Bruja Buena Aurea Artist Share
78 Royce Campbell Trio Laura Movie Songs Project Philology
79 Joey Defrancesco The Jody Grind Finger Poppin' Doodlin'
80 Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock, Jack Dejohnette Strollin' Yesterdays ECM
81 Bill Heid The Slinky Wylie Avenue Doodlin'
82 Vince Guaraldi Christmas Time is Here The Definitive Vince Guaraldi Fantasy
83 Cecil Brooks III Theme From Mannix Hot Dog Savant
84 Hendrik Meurkens Samba to Go! Samba To Go! Zoho
85 Roni-Ben Hur Fortuna Fortuna Motema
86 Dr. Lonnie Smith Turning Point The Art of Organizing Criss Cross Jazz
87 Altered Laws Jazz Quartet It's Real Metaphora Artist Jazz
88 Houston Person Blues in the AM Mellow High Note
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