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Top 100 jazz albums of the twentieth century

(by Fred Kaplan)

 

1 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' else 1958
2 Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy 1954
3 Louis Armstrong Vol. 2 : The Hot fives and sevens 1927
4 Louis Armstrong Vol. 4 : Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines 1928
5 Count Basie The complete Decca recordings 1937
6 Count Basie The complete live Roulette recordings 1958
7 Ran Blake That certain feeling 1990
8 Art Blakey quintet A night at Birdland : volume 1 1954
9 Anthony Braxton 6 Monk's compositions 1987
10 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Clifford Brown with Max Roach 1954
11 Ornette Coleman Change of the century 1959
12 Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden Soapsuds soapsuds 1977
13 Ornette Coleman Sound museum : hidden man 1996
14 Ornette Coleman The shape of jazz to come 1959
15 John Coltrane A love supreme 1964
16 John Coltrane Blue train 1957
17 John Coltrane Giant steps 1959
18 John Coltrane My favourite things 1961
19 John Coltrane The complete 1961 village Vanguard recordings 1997
20 Miles Davis Cookin' 1956
21 Miles Davis Kind of blue 1959
22 Miles Davis & Sonny Stitt Live in Stockholm 1960
23 Miles Davis Miles ahead 1957
24 Miles Davis Miles smiles 1966
25 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain 1960
26 Miles Davis The complete live at the Plugged nickel, 1965 1996
27 Paul Desmond Easy living 1964
28 Eric Dolphy with Booker Little Far cry 1960
29 Eric Dolphy Out to lunch! 1964
30 Eric Dolphy Outward bound 1960
31 Duke Ellington And his mother called him Bill 1967
32 Duke Ellington At Newport 1956
33 Duke Ellington Such sweet thunder 1957
34 Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster band 1939
35 Duke Ellington The far Eastern suite 1966
36 Bill Evans trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961
37 Bill Evans The final Vanguard sessions 1980
38 Bill Evans Waltz for Debby 1961
39 Gil Evans Out of the cool 1960
40 Ella Fitzgerald Clap hand shere comes Charlie! 1961
41 Ella Fitzgerald Ella and Louis 1956
42 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter songbook 1956
43 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira songbook 1959
44 Chico Freeman Spirit sensitive 1979
45 Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge Roy and Diz 1954
46 Jimmy Giuffre 3 1961 1961
47 Dexter Gordon Go 1962
48 Dexter Gordon Our man in Paris 1963
49 Herbie Hancock Maiden voyage 1965
50 Coleman Hawkins Body and soul 1939
51 Andrew Hill Point of departure 1964
52 Billie Holiday Body and soul 1956
53 Billie Holiday Greatest hits ?
54 Billie Holiday Songs for distingué lovers 1956
55 Hank Jones, Billy Higgins & Dave Holland The oracle 1989
56 Roland Kirk Rip rig and panic 1965
57 Lee Konitz Motion 1961
58 Jackie McLean Let freedom ring 1963
59 Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus 1963
60 Charles Mingus Pithecantrophus erectus 1956
61 Charles Mingus Tijuana moods 1957
62 Thelonious Monk Brilliant corners 1956
63 Thelonious Monk Genius of modern music, vol. 1 1951
64 Thelonious Monk Monk's music 1957
65 Thelonious Monk Thelonious alone in San Francisco 1959
66 Thelonious Monk Thelonious with John Coltrane 1957
67 Jelly Roll Morton The birth of the hot : the classic Chicago "Red hot peppers" sessions 1995
68 Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker Complete Pacific jazz quartet recordings 1952
69 David Murray Ballads for bass clarinet 1991
70 Oliver Nelson The blues and the abstract truth 1961
71 Charlie Parker Jazz at Massey hall 1953
72 Charlie Parker The Charlie Parker story 1945
73 Charlie Parker The complete Dial sessions 1946
74 Charlie Parker The complete live performances on Savoy 1950
75 Charlie Parker The complete Verve recordings 1954
76 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm section 1957
77 Art Pepper Today 1978
78 Bud Powell Jazz giant 1950
79 Bud Powell The amazing Bud Powell 1949
80 Bud Powell The genius of Bud Powell 1950
81 Sonny Rollins Night at the Village Vanguard 1957
82 Sonny Rollins Our man in jazz 1962
83 Sonny Rollins Saxophone colossus 1956
84 Sonny Rollins Way out West 1957
85 Wayne Shorter Speak no evil 1964
86 Frank Sinatra & Count Basie Sinatra-Basie 1962
87 Sonny Stitt with Art Pepper Atlas blues (blow and ballad) 1980
88 Sun Ra Jazz in silhouette 1958
89 Sun Ra Sunrise in different dimensions 1980
90 Art Tatum Solo piano 1949
91 Art Tatum with Ben Webster The group recordings : vol. 8 1956
92 Cecil Taylor For Olim 1986
93 Sarah Vaughan Crazy and mixed up 1982
94 Sarah Vaughan & the Los Angeles Philharmonic Gershwin live! 1982
95 Sarah Vaughan Swingin' easy 1954
96 Sarah Vaughan With Clifford Brown 1954
97 World saxophone quartet Plays Ellington 1986
98 World saxophone quartet Revue 1980
99 Lester Young The Lester Young story : vol. 1 1936
100 John Zorn Masada 8 1996