Jazz 100 - Top 100 'New Breed' Jazz CDs

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Old	Rank	Artist	Title	Year	Amazon
1	1	Dave Holland Quintet	Extended Play: Live at Birdland	2003
2	2	Diana Krall	Live in Paris	2002
5	3	E.S.T.	Seven Days of Falling	2003
6	4	The Bad Plus	These Are the Vistas	2003
3	5	Wayne Shorter	Footprints Live!	2002
7	6	Ornette Coleman	Sound Grammar	2006
8	7	Dave Douglas	Strange Liberation	2004
45	8	Brad Mehldau Trio	Day is Done	2005
9	9	Thomasz Stanko Quartet	Soul of Things	2002
31	10	Keith Jarrett Trio	The Out-of-Towners	2004
10	11	Madeleine Peyroux	Careless Love	2004
12	12	Branford Marsalis Quartet	Eternal	2004
15	13	Michael Brecker	Pilgrimage	2007
11	14	Pat Metheny Group	Speaking of Now	2002
58	15	Joshua Redman Elastic Band	Momentum	2005
22	16	Tord Gustavsen Trio	Changing Places	2003
17	17	Wynton Marasalis	Live at the House of Tribes	2005
21	18	Herbie Hancock	River: The Joni Letters	2007
20	19	Geri Allen	The Life of a Song	2004
25	20	John Abercrombie Quartet	Class Trip	2004
16	21	Don Byron	Ivey-Divey	2004
19	22	Andrew Hill	Time Lines	2006
23	23	Charlie Haden	Nocturne	2000
29	24	Joe Zawinul	Faces & Places	2002
27	25	Bill Frisell	Unspeakable	2004
33	26	8 Bold Souls	Last Option	2000
28	27	Kenny Garrett	Standard of Language	2003
24	28	Charles Lloyd	Jumping the Creek	2005
26	29	Jason Moran	Black Stars	2001
90	30	Maria Schneider Orchestra	Sky Blue	2007
30	31	Patricia Barber	Verse	2002
42	32	Ben Allison & Medicine Wheel	Buzz	2004
51	33	Michel Petrucciani	Solo Live	1999
52	34	Claudia Acuna	Luna	2004
39	35	James Carter	Chasin' the Gypsy	2000
40	36	David S Ware Quartet	Corridors & Parallels	2001
36	37	Karrin Allyson	Ballads - Remembering Coltrane	2001
35	38	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Tribute to Lester	2003
—	39	Joe Lovano	Joyous Encounter	2005
65	40	Eric Alexander	Nightlife in Tokyo	2003
32	41	William Parker Quartet	O'Neal's Porch	2001
38	42	Andy Bey	American Song	2004
46	43	McCoy Tyner Quartet	McCoy Tyner Quartet	2007
60	44	Toshiko Akiyoshi	Hiroshima: Rising From the Abyss	2003
41	45	The Vandermark 5	Elements of Style	2004
—	46	Greg Osby	Channel Three	2005
48	47	John Scofield	That's What I Say	2005
49	48	Sonny Rollins	Without a Song: The 9/11 Concert	2005
—	49	Medeski, Martin & Wood	The Dropper	2000
55	50	Bebo Valdes	Bebo de Cuba	2005
44	51	Trio Beyond	Saudades [2CD]	2006
37	52	Alice Coltrane	Translinear Light	2004
—	53	John Abercrombie Quartet	The Third Quartet	2007
56	54	Matthew Shipp Quartet	Equilibrium	2003
43	55	Eddie Palmieri	Listen Here!	2005
66	56	Tomasz Stanko Quartet	Suspended Night	2004
53	57	Wayne Shorter	Beyond the Sound Barrier	2005
59	58	Brian Blade Fellowship	Perceptual	2000
64	59	Chris Potter	Gratitude	2001
54	60	Cuong Vu	It's Mostly Residual	2005
50	61	Nels Cline	New Monastery	2006
47	62	Vijay Iyer	Reimagining	2005
99	63	Brad Mehldau	Largo	2002
—	64	Terence Blanchard	Flow	2005
62	65	Matt Wilson's Arts & Crafts	Wake Up! (To What's Happening)	2004
63	66	Paul Motian Band	Garden of Eden	2006
—	67	Keith Jarrett	Up for It	2003
61	68	Dave Douglas	Soul On Soul	2000
—	69	Dave Holland Big Band	What Goes Around	2002
67	70	Marilyn Crispell	Amaryllis	2001
70	71	Saxophone Summit	Gathering of Spirits	2004
76	72	The Bad Plus	Give	2004
18	73	Joshua Redman	Beyond	2000
73	74	Pat Metheny Group	The Way Up	2005
74	75	Ron Carter	Dear Miles	2007
78	76	Randy Weston	Zep Tepi	2006
—	77	Kurt Elling	Nightmoves	2007
77	78	Bill Charlap	Written in the Stars	2000
72	79	Tom Harrell	Live at the Village Vanguard	2002
71	80	Billy Bang	Vietnam: Reflections	2005
69	81	Drew Gress	7 Black Butterflies	2005
95	82	Michel Camilo	Live at the Blue Note	2003
79	83	ScoLoHoFo	Oh!	2003
81	84	Dee Dee Bridgewater	This is New	2002
75	85	Henry Threadgill & Make a Move	Everybody's Mouth's a Book	2001
92	86	The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra	Thad Jones Legacy	1999
98	87	Jacky Terrasson	Smile	2003
84	88	Wayne Shorter	Alegria	2003
86	89	Steve Coleman	On the Rising of the 64 Paths	2003
85	90	Dianne Reeves	Good Night, and Good Luck	2005
88	91	Roy Campbell Pyramid Trio	Ethnic Stew and Brew	2001
100	92	Norah Jones	Come Away With Me	2001
—	93	E.S.T.	Viaticum	2005
93	94	Carla Bley	Looking for America	2003
94	95	Cyrus Chestnut	You Are My Sunshine	2003
—	96	Mulgrew Miller	The Sequel	2002
—	97	Bill Frisell	East/West	2005
34	98	Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra	Concert in the Garden	2004
—	99	Tim Berne	The Shell Game	2001
—	100	Shirley Horn	You're My Thrill	2001


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