Jazz 100 - Top 100 Jazz CDs

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Old	Rank	Artist	Title	Year	Amazon
1	1	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959
2	2	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1964
3	3	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959
4	4	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959
5	5	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958
6	6	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956
7	7	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959
8	8	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	1965
9	9	Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958
10	10	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1956
12	11	Keith Jarrett	The Koln Concert	1975
11	12	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch!	1964
13	13	Bill Evans Trio	Waltz for Debby	1961
14	14	Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	1963
15	15	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957
16	16	Louis Armstrong	Hot Fives & Sevens	1928
17	17	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959
18	18	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	1964
19	19	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	1963
20	20	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	1969
21	21	Charlie Parker	The Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions	1948
22	22	The Horace Silver Quintet	Song for My Father	1964
23	23	Oliver Nelson	The Blues & the Abstract Truth	1961
24	24	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Ellington At Newport [2CD]	1956
25	25	Charles Mingus	Black Saint & the Sinner Lady	1963
27	26	Wes Montgomery	Incredible Jazz Guitar	1960
26	27	Bill Evans Trio	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	1961
28	28	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella & Louis	1956
29	29	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	1960
30	30	Dexter Gordon	Go!	1962
33	31	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1977
31	32	Chet Baker	The Best of Chet Baker Sings	1956
34	33	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters	1973
32	34	Billie Holiday	Lady Day [2CD]	1944
35	35	The Oscar Peterson Trio	Night Train	1962
36	36	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969
37	37	Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	1963
38	38	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Study in Brown	1955
39	39	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	1960
40	40	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	1967
41	41	Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane	At Carnegie Hall	1957
42	42	Count Basie Orchestra	The Complete Atomic Basie	1957
43	43	Art Pepper	Meets the Rhythm Section	1957
44	44	Miles Davis	Birth of the Cool	1950
45	45	The Quintet (w/ Charlie Parker)	Jazz At Massey Hall	1952
46	46	Mahavishnu Orchestra	The Inner Mounting Flame	1971
47	47	Grant Green	Idle Moments	1963
48	48	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1964
50	49	Benny Goodman	Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert [2CD]	1938
49	50	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Blanton-Webster Recordings	1942
51	51	Lester Young	With the Oscar Peterson Trio	1952
52	52	Coleman Hawkins	Body & Soul [RCA]	1956
54	53	Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie	Bird and Diz	1950
53	54	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	1955
55	55	Chick Corea	Return to Forever	1972
56	56	Miles Davis	Sketches Of Spain	1960
57	57	Pat Metheny	Bright Size Life	1975
60	58	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea	1955
59	59	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954
58	60	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz	1960
61	61	Django Reinhardt	Best of Django Reinhardt	1940
64	62	Jaco Pastorius	Jaco Pastorius	1976
62	63	Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown	1954
63	64	Albert Ayler Trio	Spiritual Unity	1964
65	65	Larry Young	Unity	1965
66	66	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol 1)	1951
69	67	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	1958
67	68	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba	1962
68	69	Jimmy Smith	The Sermon	1958
72	70	Frank Sinatra	Sinatra At the Sands	1966
70	71	Ben Webster	Soulville	1958
71	72	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	1954
73	73	Ella Fitzgerald	The Best of the Song Books	1964
75	74	Joe Henderson	Page One	1963
74	75	Thelonious Monk	The Best of the Blue Note Years	1952
76	76	The Gil Evans Orchestra	Out of the Cool	1960
77	77	The Gerry Mulligan Quartet	The Best of... with Chet Baker	1953
78	78	Joe Pass	Virtuoso	1973
79	79	Brad Mehldau	The Art of the Trio - Volume Three	1998
82	80	John Abercrombie	Timeless	1974
85	81	Count Basie Orchestra	April in Paris	1956
80	82	John Scofield	A Go Go	1997
81	83	Fats Waller	The Very Best Of Fats Waller	1940
84	84	Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris	1963
83	85	Dave Holland Quartet	Conference of the Birds	1972
86	86	Gillespie, Rollins & Stitt	Sonny Side Up	1957
89	87	Diana Krall	All For You	1995
87	88	Miles Davis	Round About Midnight	1956
91	89	Freddie Hubbard	Open Sesame	1960
88	90	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	1956
90	91	Duke Ellington w/ Mingus & Roach	Money Jungle	1962
92	92	Sidney Bechet	Legendary Sidney Bechet	1941
93	93	Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures	1966
94	94	Louis Armstrong	Plays W C Handy	1954
95	95	Ahmad Jamal	At the Pershing/But Not For Me	1958
97	96	Charles Mingus	Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus	1963
96	97	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes	1985
98	98	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Light 'Til Dawn	1993
100	99	Bix Beiderbecke	At the Jazz Band Ball [ASV]	1928
106	100	Pharoah Sanders	Karma	1969


	NOTE: For contemporary recordings released after 1999 see New Breed 100


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