100 Greatest Jazz Albums

Best albums list by AllAboutJazz.com.

#1 Miles Davis Kind Of Blue 1959	#2 John Coltrane Giant Steps 1959	#3 Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool 1949	#4 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um [Bonus Tracks] 1999	#5 Oliver Nelson Blues And The Abstract Truth 1961
#6 John Coltrane A Love Supreme (Deluxe Edition) 2002	#7 Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus 1956	#8 Eric Dolphy Out To Lunch 1964	#9 Louis Armstrong Hot Fives And Hot Sevens 2002	#10 Dave Brubeck Time Out 1959
#11 Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain 1959	#12 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners 1956	#13 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1964	#14 Henry Threadgill Too Much Sugar For A Dime 1993	#15 John Zorn Masada (Alef) 1994
#16 Ornette Coleman The Shape Of Jazz To Come 1959	#17 Miles Davis Porgy and Bess 1958	#18 Duke Ellington Ellington At Newport 1956	#19 Dave Holland Conference Of The Birds 1972	#20 Charles Mingus The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady 1963
#21 Charles Mingus Mingus At Antibes 1960	#22 Thelonious Monk Monk`s Blues 1968	#23 Sonny Sharrock Ask The Ages 1991	#24 Cannonball Adderley Somethin` Else 1958	#25 Benny Carter Further Definitions 1966
#26 Ornette Coleman Change Of The Century 1959	#27 John Coltrane Blue Trane - John Coltrane Plays The Blues 1958	#28 Duke Ellington Far East Suite [2003 bonus tracks] 1966	Duke Ellington Blanton/Webster Band	#30 Bill Evans Waltz for Debby 1961
#31 Gil Evans Out Of The Cool 1960	#32 Dexter Gordon Our Man In Paris 1963	#33 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage 1965	#34 Joe Lovano From The Soul 1991	#35 Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame (With John McLaughlin) 1971
#36 David Murray Ming 1980	#37 Charlie Parker The Complete Dial Masters 2004	#38 Charlie Parker Complete Jazz At Massey Hall 2004	#39 Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section 1957	#40 World Saxophone Quartet Plays Duke Ellington 1986
#41 Count Basie The Complete Atomic Basie 1994	#42 Art Blakey Moanin` (With The Jazz Messengers) 1999	#43 Don Byron Tuskegee Experiments 1991	#44 Ornette Coleman Dancing In Your Head 1975	#45 Miles Davis Miles Ahead (with Gil Evans) 1957
#46 Miles Davis In A Silent Way 1969	#47 Miles Davis Nefertiti 1967	#48 Jack DeJohnette Album Album 1984	#49 Eric Dolphy Outward Bound 1960	#50 Eric Dolphy At The Five Spot 1961
#51 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong Compact Jazz - Ella and Louis 1990	#52 Stan Getz Getz / Gilberto (with Joao Gilberto) 1963	#53 Stan Getz Jazz Samba (With Charlie Byrd) 1962	#54 Charlie Haden The Ballad Of The Fallen (With Carla Bley) 1982	#55 Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra 1969
#56 Coleman Hawkins Body And Soul 2001	#57 Joe Henderson Inner Urge 1964	#58 Joe Lovano Rush Hour 1994	#59 John McLaughlin Extrapolation 1969	#60 Charles Mingus Blues And Roots 1959
#61 Max Roach We Insist! Max Roach`s Freedom Now Suite 1960	#62 Horace Silver Quintet Song For My Father 1964	#63 Horace Silver Quintet Blowin` The Blues Away 1959	#64 Weather Report Heavy Weather 1977	#65 Randy Weston The Spirits Of Our Ancestors 1991
#66 George Adams Breakthrough (with Don Pullen Quartet) 1986	#67 George Adams Live At The Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (With Don Pullen) 1983	Cannonball Adderley (Sextet) Live in New York	#69 Louis Armstrong Louis Armstrong And Earl Hines 1928	#70 The Art Ensemble of Chicago Nice Guys 2006
#71 Albert Ayler Live In Greenwich Village (The Complete Impulse Recordings) 1998	#72 Count Basie The Complete Decca Recordings 1992	#73 Arthur Blythe Lenox Avenue Breakdown 1978	Anthony Braxton New York Fall 1974	#75 Don Cherry El Corazon (With Ed Blackwell) 1982
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