Uncle Stuey's American Top 40, September 17th, 2009

Here's the AAA/Jazz radio chart for the week. Down at #24 you'll find one of those odd records that show how good looks trump talent; Ms. Johansson, it's probably worth noting, acts about as well as she sings. Then there are these noir chick singers that keep popping up on the charts, but never seem to break through, like Hope Sandoval at #25. I'm guessing that Bjork has filled the femme-fatale-mysterious-arty pop girl slot and there isn't room for anyone else, kind of like Marlene Dietrich did many years ago. If it wasn't Rosh Hashanah, I'd drive over the hill to see Sandoval play out this Friday just to check out the crowd.

On the musical and much more positive side of things, Tamir Hendelman is well worth a listen.

1 NOMO Invisible Cities Ubiquity 2009
2 Roy Hargrove Big Band Emergence EmArcy / Groovin' High 2009
3 Jackie Ryan Doozy Open Art 2009
4 Roberta Gambarini So In Love EmArcy / Groovin' High 2009
5 Christian McBride & Inside Straight Kind Of Brown Mack Avenue 2009
6 Stefon Harris & Blackout Urbanus Concord Jazz 2009
7 Bobby Sanabria Conducting The Manhattan School of Music Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra Kenya Revisited Live!!! Jazzheads 2009
8 Freddy Cole The Dreamer In Me HighNote 2009
9 Robert Glasper Double Booked Blue Note 2009
10 Heath Brothers Endurance Jazz Legacy 2009
11 James Moody 4A IPO 2009
12 Levon Helm Electric Dirt Vanguard 2009
13 Wilco Wilco (The Album) Nonesuch 2009
14 Cecil Brooks III Hot D.O.G. Savant 2009
15 Tamir Hendelman Playground Swing Bros. 2008
16 Akiko Tsuruga Oriental Express 18th & Vine 2009
17 Kurt Elling Dedicated To You: Kurt Elling Sings The Music Of Coltrane And Hartman Concord Jazz 2009
18 Bill Easley Hearing Voices 18th & Vine 2009
19 Bobby Broom Bobby Broom Plays For Monk Origin 2009
20 Jon Mayer Nightscape Reservoir 2009
21 Phish Joy JEMP 2009
22 Gerald Clayton Two-Shade ArtistShare 2009
23 John Beasley Positootly! Resonance 2009
24 Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson Break Up Rhino / Atco 2009
25 Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions Through The Devil Softly Nettwerk 2009
26 Eels Hombre Lobo: 12 Songs Of Desire Vagrant 2009
27 Eldar Virtue Sony 2009
28 The Terence Blanchard Group Choices Concord Jazz 2009
29 Monk's Music Trio Monk's Bones CMB 2006
30 Yo La Tengo Popular Songs Matador 2009
31 Dave Matthews Band Big Whiskey And The Groo Grux King RCA 2009
32 Mike Stern Big Neighborhood Heads Up 2009
33 The Charlie Shoemake/ Terry Trotter Quartets Inside Chase 2009
34 Gary Burton, Pat Metheny, Steve Swallow & Antonio Sanchez Quartet Live Concord Jazz 2009
35 Rodney Jones A Thousand Small Things 18th & Vine 2009
36 Grizzly Bear Veckatimest Warp 2009
37 Regina Spektor Far Sire 2009
38 Monsters Of Folk Monsters Of Folk Shangri-La 2009
39 Moby Wait For Me Mute 2009
40 The Bob Florence Limited Edition Legendary Mama 2009