Late greats show strong sales this week as Tito Puente, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington compilation CDs premiere on Billboard's Top Jazz Albums chart.

The Concord Picante release Party With Tito! — at #20 on the chart — contains some of the Latin jazz percussionist's liveliest songs, including "Oye Como Va" (RealAudio excerpt) and "Ran Kan Kan" (RealAudio excerpt). Puente recorded more than 100 albums and received five Grammys before his death in June.

The Great Summit — The Complete Session — at #21 — is a double-disc reissue by Blue Note of the historic Satchmo and Duke team-up recordings Together for the First Time and The Great Reunion. The set, featuring music recorded in 1961, contains 17 Ellington songs as well as previously unreleased outtakes. The discs include "Duke's Place" (RealAudio excerpt) and "The Mooche" (RealAudio excerpt).

Singer/pianist Diana Krall's When I Look in Your Eyes hangs on to #1 on the chart. The $1.98 BET on Jazz Presents: For the Love of Jazz stays at #2, followed by the Miles Davis compilation Love Songs (#3), singer Dianne Reeves' In the Moment (#4), pianist David Benoit's Here's to You, Charlie Brown: 50 Great Years! (#5) and Krall's reissued Stepping Out (#6). The soundtrack to Woody Allen's "Sweet and Lowdown" drops three spots to #7, trumpeter Roy Hargrove's Moment to Moment rises a notch to #8 and Harry Connick Jr.'s Come by Me falls five positions to #9. Medeski Martin & Wood's Tonic (#10) jumps up two spots to squeeze back into the top 10.

On the Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart, Boney James and Rick Braun's Shake It Up reigns for the 10th week in a row. Guitarist George Benson's Absolute Benson retakes the second seat, followed by the Higher Octave compilation Smooth Grooves — Essential Collection. Bela Fleck and the Flecktones' Outbound is at #4. Rounding out the top 10 are saxophonist Walter Beasley's Won't You Let Me Love You at #5, sax man Dave Koz's The Dance at #6, Kenny G's Classics in the Key of G at #7, warbler Al Jarreau's Tomorrow Today at #8, the Higher Octave compilation Panorama — The Best of Craig Chaquico at #9 and saxophonist Steve Cole's Between Us at #10.