100 Greatest Jazz Albums

1. Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come

2. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
3. Charlie Parker / Dizzie Gillespie – Bird & Diz
4. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
5. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis
6. Getz/Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
7. Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea
8. Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
9. Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
10. Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser
11. Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert
12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
13. Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings
14. John Coltrane – Blue Train
15. Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch
16. Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here
17. Dexter Gordon – Go!
18. Count Basie – Count Basie at Newport
19. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda
20. Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
21. Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans
22. Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
23. Naked City – Naked City
24. Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
25. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall
26. Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Clifford Brown & Max Roach
27. Dizzy Gillespie – Afro
28. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
29. Pharoah Sanders – Karma
30. Abbey Lincoln – Staright Ahead
31. Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings
32. Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Somethin’ Else
33. Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
34. Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul
35. Art Blakey – A Night in Tunisia
36. Stephane Grappelli – Afternoon in Paris
37. Andrew Hill – Compulsion
38. Thelonius Monk – Monk’s Dream
39. The Bad Plus – Suspicious Activity?
40. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
41. Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off
42. Benny Goodman – The Famous Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert 1938
43. Oscar Peterson – The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean
Festival
44. Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
45. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit
46. George Gershwin – Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue
47. Grant Green – Idle Moments
48. Sun Ra – Secrets of the Sun
49. Patricia Barber – Mythologies
50. Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus
51. Duke Ellington – Such Sweet Thunder
52. Carmen McRae – The Great American Songbook
53. Blossom Dearie – Once Upon a Summertime
54. Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures
55. Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz – Hamp & Getz
56. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley – Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley
57. David Axelrod – Song Of Innocence
58. Weather Report – Heavy Weather
59. Albert Ayler – Slugs’ Saloon
60. Branford Marsalis – Trio Jeepy
61. Roland Kirk – We Free Kings
62. Shirley Horn – Travelin’ Light
63. Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard
64. Diana Krall – Live In Paris
65. Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings
66. Milt Jackson – Bags & Trane
67. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue
68. Etta Jones – Don’t Go To Strangers
69. Herb Ellis – Ellis in Wonderland
70. Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus
71. Rosemary Clooney – Blue Rose
72. Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section
73. Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill
74. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
75. Stanley Clarke – School Days
76. Brad Mehldau – Elegiac Cycle
77. Joshua Redman – Wish
78. Jason Moran – Artist in Residence
79. Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad’s Blues
80. Moondog – Sax Pax for a Sax
81. Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground)
82. Duke Pearson – The Right Touch
83. Astrud Gilberto – The Astrud Gilberto Album
84. Chick Corea – Return To Forever
85. Bill Frisell – Blues Dream
86. Sarah Vaughn / Lester Young – One Night Stand – The Town Hall Concert 1947
87. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights
88. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Full Force
89. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Bela Fleck & The Flecktones
90. Jimmy Scott – Mood Indigo
91. Elis Regina – Elis & Tom
92. Pat Metheny Group – Offramp
93. Stan Getz – Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio
94. Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet – Husky
95. Cuong Vu – Come Play with Me
96. Anthony Braxton – Five Compositions (quartet)
97. Madeline Peyroux – Careless Love
98. Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius
99. Max Roach – M’Boom
100. Robert Glasper – In My Element