Top 100 disks

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LOUIS ARMSTRONG: The Hot Fives and The Hot Sevens FLETCHER HENDERSON: A Study in Frustation JELLY ROLL MORTON: Creole Genious
Columbia 1925-1928 Columbia 1924-1937 Hot 'n Sweet 1926-1939
     
4 5 6
DUKE ELLINGTON: Early Ellington COLEMAN HAWKINS/BEN WEBSTER/BENNY CARTER: Three Great Swing Saxophones COUNT BASIE: The Original American Decca Recordings
RCA Bluebird 1927-1934 RCA Bluebird 1929-1941 MCA 1937-1939
     
7 8 9
BENNY GOODMAN: The Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert SIDNEY BECHET: Jazz Classics Vol. 1 DUKE ELLINGTON: The Webster/Blanton Band
Columbia 1938 Blue Note 1939-1951 RCA Victor 1940-1942
     
10 11 12
WOODY HERMAN: The Thundering Herds CHARLIE PARKER: The Very Best od Bird DIZZY GILESPIE: The Greatest of Dizzy Gilespie
Columbia 1945-1947 Warner 1946-1947 RCA Victor 1946-1949
     
13 14 15
THELONIOUS MONK: Genious of Modern Music, Vols 1 & 2 VARIOUS: The Original Mambo Kings MILES DAVIS: Birth of the Cool
Blue Note 1947-1951 Verve 1948-1954 Capitol 1949-1950
     
16 17 18
CHARLIE PARKER/DIZZY GILESPIE: Bird and Diz ART TATUM: Solo Masterpieces HORACE SILVER: And The Jazz Messengers
Verve 1950 Pablo 1953-1955 Blue Note 1953-1954
     
19 20 21
LOUIS ARMSTRONG: Plays W.C. Handy CLIFFORD BROWN: Jordu ERROL GARNER: Concert By The Sea
Columbia 1954 Mercury 1954 Columbia 1955
     
22 23 24
LENNIE TRISTANO: Lennie Tristano LESTER YOUNG/TEDDY WILSON: Prez And Teddy SONNY ROLLINS: Saxophone Colossus
Atlantic 1955 Verve 1956 Prestige 1956
     
25 26 27
DUKE ELLINGTON: At Newport THELONIOUS MONK: Brilliant Corners LEE KONITZ: With Warne Marsh
Columbia 1956 Riverside 1956 Atlantic 1956
     
28 29 30
CHET BAKER/ART PEPPER: Picture of Heath VARIOUS: The Birth of The Third Stream ART BLAKEY/THELONIOUS MONK: The Jazz Messengers
Blue Note 1956 Columbia 1956 Atlantic 1957
     
31 32 33
COUNT BASIE: The Atomic Mr. Basie SUN RA: Sound of Joy JOHN COLTRANE: Blue Train
Roulette 1957 Delmark 1957 Blue Note 1957
     
34 35 36
ART BLAKEY: Moanin' BILLIE HOLIDAY: Lady In Satin MILES DAVIS: Milestones
Blue Note 1958 Columbia 1958 Columbia 1958
     
37 38 39
CANNONBALL ADDERLEY: Somethin' Else ELLA FITZGERALD: Oh Lady Be Good! - Best of the Gershwin Songbook QUINCY JONES: The Birth of A Band
Blue Note 1958 Verve 1959 EmArcy 1959
     
40 41 42
MILES DAVIS: King of Blue DAVE BRUBECK: Time Out John Coltrane: Giant Steps
Columbia 1959 Columbia 1959 Atlantic 1959
     
43 44 45
ORNETTE COLEMAN: The Shape of Jazz to Come MILES DAVIS-GIL EVANS: Sketches of Spain CHARLES MINGUS: Presents Charles Mingus
Atlantic 1959 Columbia 1959-1960 Candid 1960
     
46 47 48
GIL EVANS: Out of the Cool ART PEPPER: Smack Up JOHN COLTRANE: My Favorite Things
Impulse 1960 Contemporary 1960 Atlantic 1960
     
49 50 51
ORNETTE COLEMAN: Free Jazz MAX RAOCH: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite OLIVER NELSON: The Blues And The Abstract Truth
Atlantic 1960 Candid 1960

Impulse 1961

     
52 53 54
BILL EVANS: Sunday At The Village Vanguard JIMMY GIUFRE 3: 1961 SUN RA: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy / Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow
Riverside 1961 ECM 1961 Evidence 1961-1963
     
55 56 57
STAN GETZ - JOAO GILBERTO: Getz - Gilberto DEXTER GORDON: Our Man In Paris ERIC DOLPHY: Out To Lunch
Verve 1963 Blue Note 1963 Blue
     
58 59 60
OSCAR PETERSON: We Get Requests ALBERT AYLER: Spiritual Unity JOHN COLTRANE: A Love Supreme
Verve 1964 ESP 1964 Impulse 1964
     
61 62 63
KENNY BURRELL: Guitar Forms HERBIE HANCOCK: Maiden Voyage CECIL TAYLOR: Unit Structures
Verve 1964-65 Blue Note 1965 Blue Note 1966
     
64 65 66
BLOOD SWEATT & TEARS: 2 CHARLIE HADEN: Liberation Music Orchestra MILES DAVIS: Bitches Brew
Columbia 1968 Impulse 1969 Columbia 1969
     
67 68 69
FRANK ZAPPA: Hot Rats ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO: People In Sorrow - Les Strances A Sophie SOFT MACHINE: Third
Rykodisc 1969 EMI 1969-1970 Columbia 1970
     
70 71 72
DUKE ELLINGTON: New Orleans Suite RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK: Blacknuss CARLA BLEY: Escalator Over The Hill
Atlantic 1970 Atlantic / 32 Jazz 1971 JCOA 1
     
73 74 75
JOHN McLAUGHLIN: The Inner Mounting Flame CHICK COREA & RETURN TO FOREVER: Light As A Feather JAK GARBAREK-BOBO STENSON: Witchi-Tai-To
Columbia 1971 Verve 1972 ECM 1973
     
76 77 78
KEITH JARRETT: Belonging HERBIE HANCOCK: Headhunters WAYNE SHORTER: Native Dancer
ECM 1974 Columbia 1973 Columbia 1975
     
79 80 81
KEITH JARRETT: The Koln Concert OLD AND NEW DREAMS: Old And New Dreams IRAKERE: Irakere
ECM 1975 ECM 1979 Columbia 1979
     
82 83 84
GANELIN TRIO: Gatalogue / Live In East Germany ABDULLAH IBRAHIM (DOLLAR BRAND): Africa, Tears And Laughter ART ENSEMBLE OF CHICAGO: Full Force
Leo Enja ECM 1980
     
85 86 87
CARLA BLEY: Social Studies KEITH TIPPETT: Mujician JIM PEPPER: Comin' And Goin'
Watt 1981 FMP 1981 Antilles 1983
     
88 89 90
HAL WILLNER: That's The Way I Feel Now/A Tribute To Thelonious Monk JOHN ZORN: The Big Gundown STEVE LACY: Morning Joy
A&M 1984 Nonesuch 1984 Hat Art 1986
     
91 92 93
RAN BLAKE: Short Life of Barbara Monk BILL FRISELL: Lookout For Hope BILL LASWELL: Hear No Evil
Soul Note 1987 ECM 1987 Venture 1988
     
94 95 96
MIKE WESTBROOK: Off Abbey Road BERLIN CONTEMPORARY JAZZ ORCHESTRA: Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra COURTNEY PINE: To The Eyes of Creation
Enja / Tiptoe 1989 ECM 1989 Island 1992
     
97 98 99
DON BYRON: Tuskegee Experiments CASSANDRA WILSON: Blue Light 'till Dawn BRANFORD MARSALIS: Buckshot LeFonque
Nonesuch 1992 Blue Note 1993 Columbia 1994
     
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DEE DEE BRIDGEWATER: Love And Peace
Verve 1995
     

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