THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR JAZZ ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Some of the artists below wouldn’t call the music they make jazz at all. Maybe we don’t need to either. Let’s just call these albums what ... grew out of more than 100 interviews that ...

But it’s more accurate to hail Lloyd, 86, McPherson, 85, and Allen, 100, as vibrant ... the Berklee Institute of Jazz & Justice, made one of the year’s standout albums. (Caroline Mardok ...

Bill Evans, the greatest lyrical jazz pianist, caught a second wind ... Mal Waldron, who died in 2002 at age 77, recorded more than 100 albums, mainly as sideman to the likes of John Coltrane ...

Rather, they are the ages of three storied jazz saxophonists — Charles Lloyd, Charles McPherson and Sun Ra Arkestra leader Marshall Allen — who each released standout albums this year.