KALX Specialty Charts – January 2026
Jazz
- SML – How You Been? (International Anthem)
- Alchemist Quintet – Ghost Radio (S/R)
- Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Tortoise – Touch (International Anthem/Nonesuch)
- Chet Baker – Swimming By Moonlight (Slow Down Sounds)
- Cochemea – Vol 3: Ancestros Futuros (Daptone)
- Chicago Underground Duo – Hyperglyph (International Anthem)
- Shoko Nagai – Forbidden Flowers (Infrequent Seams)
- Yusuf Mumin – Journey to the Ancient (We Want Sounds)
- Nat Adderley Jr. Trio – Took So Long (S/R)
- Otherworld Ensemble – Soul Bird (Edgetone)
- Chris Nemeth – Comity (S/R)
- Rent Romus & Tatsuya Nakatani – Uplift (Edgetone)
- Peggy Lee – Mirrors (Universal Music Enterprise)
- Ben Lamar Gay – Yowzers (International Anthem)
- Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know)
- Mark Sheman – Bop Contest (Miles High)
- Richard Carr – The Escarpment (Infrequent Seams)
- Peter Lin and AAPI Jazz Collective – Identity (OA2)
- Brad Mehldau – Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- Marco Eneidi Quintet – Wheat Fields Of Kleylehof (Botticelli)
- Tom Skinner – Kaleidoscopic Visions (Internatiional Anthem)
- Nala Sinephro – The Smashing Machine (Soundtrack) (Warp)
- Ami Taf Ra – The Prophet And The Madman (Brainfeeder)
- Fabio Rambelli,+ Dirk Wachtelaer – The Turning Point (Edgetone)
- Insect Life – Insect Life (577)
- Kenny Barron – Songbook (Artwork)
- The Jeff Hamilton Organ Trio – Coast to Coast (RMI)
- Pete McGuinness Jazz Orchestra – Mixed Bag (Summit)
- Michael Pisaro-Liu – Tombstones II (Circum-Disc)
- Noertker’s Moxie – Dream Suite (for Lily Loomis) (Edgetone)
- Citizens Jazz – Earth Angels (S/R)
- Anouar Brahem – After The Last Sky (ECM)
- Resavoir & Matt Gold – Horizon (International Anthem)
- Pink Martini – Bella Caio (Heinz)
Americana/Folk
- Wednesday – Bleeds (Dead Oceans)
- Meklit – A Piece of Infinity (Smithsonian Folkways)
- Sister Irene O’Connor – Fire of God’s Love (Freedom To Spend)
- Katsy Pline – Live at Three Teardrops (S/R)
- Mitski – The Land: The Live Album (Dead Oceans)
- Neko Case – Neon Grey Midnight Green (Anti-)
- Big Thief – Double Infinity (4AD)
- Willie Nelson – Working Man: Willie Sings Merle (Legacy)
- Phipps Pt. – Songs We No Longer Sing (S/R)
- Mavis Staples – Sad And Beautiful World (Anti-)
- Molly Tuttle – So Long Little Miss Sunshine (Nonesuch)
- Avi C. Engel – Mote (Fenny Compton)
- Lisa O’Neill – The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right (Rough Trade)
- Alex G – Headlights (RCA)
- Joan Baez – Farewell, Angelina (Craft)
- Jeff Tweedy – Twilight Override (dBpm)
- Parchman Prison Prayer – Another Mississippi Sunday Morning (Glitterbeat)
- Margo Price – Hard Headed Woman (Loma Vista)
- Waylon Jennings – Songbird (Thirty Tigers/Son of Jessi)
- Murry Hammond – Trail Songs of the Deep (Fluff and Gravy)
- Haley Heynderickx and Matt Garcia Conover – What of Our Nature (Fat Possum)
- Funkwrench Blues – Mischief in the Musitorium (Need to Know)
- Todd Snider – High, Lonesome and Then Some (Aimless)
- Terry Callier – The New Folk Sound of Terry Callier (Craft Recordings)
- Elena Loper – Weathervane Whale (S/R)
- Todd Novak and Brian Sagrafena – Lucky / Clutch Grinder (Casa Novak)
- Snocaps – Snocaps (Anti-)
- Brad Mehldau – Ride Into the Sun (Nonesuch)
- Lankum – Ghost Town (Rough Trade)
- The Brothers Comatose – Golden Grass (Swamp Jam)
- Hayes Carll – We’re Only Human (Hwy 87/Thirty Tigers)
- Hilary Hawke – Lift Up This Old Worlds (Pickin’ Chicken Music)
- Robert Plant – Saving Grace (Nonesuch)
- Geckøs – Geckøs (Org)
- Ultan O’Brien – Dancing The Line (Nyahh)
- Alice Phoebe Lou – Oblivion (Nettwerk)
- Case Oats – Last Missouri Exit (Merge)
- Flock of Dimes – The Life You Save (Sub Pop)
- D.K. Harrell – Talkin’ Heavy (Alligator)
- Emma Swift – The Resurrection Game (Tiny Ghosts)
- Hannah Frances – Nestled in Tangles (Fire Talk)
- John Fogerty – Legacy: The Creedence Clearwater Revival Years (Concord)
- Kristen Ford – Pinto (Righteous Babe)
- Leftover Salmon – Let’s Party About It (Compass)
- The Mountain Goats – Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan (Cadmean Dawn)
