The 100 Jazz Albums - That Shook The World (by Jazz Wise)

Posted by return to the underground July 25, 2024

The 100 Jazz Albums - That Shook The World (by Jazz Wise)

List

1 Miles Davis Kind of blue 1959 ~
2 John Coltrane Giant steps 1960
3 Charlie Parker Bird : the complete master takes - the Savoy recordings 1988
4 Ornette Coleman The shape of jazz to come 1959
5 Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961
6 Sonny Rollins Saxophone colossus 1956
7 Thelonious Monk Brilliant corners 1957
8 Charles Mingus Mingus ah um 1959
9 Miles Davis Bitches brew 1970
10 John Coltrane A love supreme 1965
11 Dave Brubeck Time out 1959
12 Louis Armstrong The complete Hot five and Hot seven recordings 2000
13 Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster band 1986
14 Eric Dolphy Out to lunch! 1964
15 Ornette Coleman Free jazz : a collective improvisation 1961
16 Weather report Mysterious traveller 1974 ~
17 Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing : but not for me 1958
18 Keith Jarrett The Köln concert 1975 ~
19 Charlie Christian The genius of the electric guitar 1987
20 Herbie Hancock Head hunters 1973 ~
21 Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly trio Smokin' at the Half note 1965
22 Mahavishnu orchestra The inner mounting flame 1971 ~
23 Bud Powell The amazing Bud Powell 1952
24 Cecil Taylor Unit structures 1966
25 Art Blakey & the Jazz messengers Moanin' 1959
26 Miles Davis The complete live at the Plugged nickel, 1965 1996
27 Herbie Hancock Maiden voyage 1965
28 Albert Ayler Spiritual unity 1965
29 Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto 1964
30 Return to forever Return to forever 1972 ~
31 Pat Metheny 80/81 1980
32 Jan Garbarek Afric Pepperbird 1970
33 Duke Ellington Ellington at Newport 1956
34 Ella Fitzgerald Ella in Berlin : Mack the Knife 1960
35 Charles Mingus The black saint and the sinner lady 1963
36 Cannonball Adderley Somethin' else 1958
37 Billie Holiday The complete original American Decca recordings 1991
38 Stan Getz West coast jazz 1955
39 Miles Davis Miles ahead 1957
40 George Russell New York, NY 1959
41 John Coltrane Blue train 1958
42 Jimmy Smith The sermon! 1959
43 Benny Goodman Jazz concert no. 2 1937-1938 1955
44 Nina Simone In concert 1964
45 Sun Ra The magic city 1966
46 Dizzy Gillespie Shaw 'nuff 1988
47 Stan Tracey Jazz suite : inspired by Dylan Thomas's 'Under milkwood' 1965
48 Pharoah Sanders Karma 1969
49 Miles Davis Birth of the cool 1957
50 Horace Silver Blowin' the blues away 1959
51 Clifford Brown & Max Roach Clifford Brown & Max Roach 1954 2
52 Coleman Hawkins A retrospective : 1929-1963 1995
53 Peter Brötzmann Machine gun 1968
54 John Coltrane Ascension 1966
55 Wayne Shorter Speak no evil 1966
56 Count Basie The original American Decca recordings 1992
57 Thelonious Monk Genius of modern music, vol. 1 1951
58 Charles Lloyd Forest flower : at Monterey 1967
59 Gerry Mulligan The Gerry Mulligan quartet with Chet Baker 1953
60 Gil Evans Out of the cool 1961
61 Esbjörn Svensson trio From Gagarin's point of view 1999 2
62 Lennie Tristano Lennie Tristano 1956
63 Maria Schneider Concert in the garden 2004
64 Rahsaan Roland Kirk We free kings 1961
65 Betty Carter The audience with Betty Carter 1980
66 Oliver Nelson The blues and the abstract truth 1961
67 Jelly Roll Morton Birth of the hot : the classic Chicago Red hot peppers 1926-27 1995
68 John Handy Recorded live at the Monterey jazz festival 1966
69 Art Tatum & Ben Webster The Art Tatum-Ben Webster quartet 1958
70 Art ensemble of Chicago Fanfare for the warriors 1973
71 John Surman Tales of the Algonquin 1971
72 Woody Herman The Thundering herds : 1945-1947 1988
73 Steve Coleman Motherland pulse 1985
74 Jan Johansson Jazz på Svenska 1964
75 Gary Burton A genuine tong funeral 1968
76 Komeda quintet Astigmatic 1967
77 Herbie Hancock The new standard 1996
78 Joe Harriott & John Mayer Indo-jazz suite 1966
79 Courtney Pine Journey to the urge within 1986
80 Sarah Vaughan Sassy swings the Tivoli 1963
81 Django Reinhardt Django Reinhardt : vol. 1 2000
82 Stan Kenton City of glass 1952
83 Wynton Marsalis Black codes (from the underground) 1985
84 Bix Beiderbecke The Bix Beiderbecke legend 1961
85 Abbey Lincoln Abbey is blue 1959
86 Michael Brecker Michael Brecker 1987
87 Larry Young Unity 1966 2
88 Jazz warriors Out of many, one people 1987
89 Robert Glasper Double booked 2009
90 Cassandra Wilson Blue light 'til dawn 1993
91 Jaco Pastorius Jaco Pastorious 1976
92 Tubby Hayes Mexican green 1967
93 Brad Mehldau The art of the trio : vol. 1 1997
94 Gregory Porter Water 2011
95 Michael Garrick Troppo 1974
96 Mike Westbrook Concert band Celebration 1967
97 Cécile McClorin Salvant WomanChild 2013
98 Kamasi Washington The epic 2015
99 Sons of Kemet Burn 2013
100 Loose tubes Delightful precipice 1986

List 2021

List 2022 update

1 Miles Davis Kind of blue 1959 ~
2 John Coltrane A love supreme 1965
3 Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster band 1986
4 Thelonious Monk The complete Blue note recordings 1983
5 Charles Mingus Mingus ah um 1959
6 Louis Armstrong The complete Hot five and Hot seven recordings 2000
7 Charlie Parker Bird : the complete master takes - the Savoy recordings 1988
8 Sonny Rollins Saxophone colossus 1956
9 Eric Dolphy Out to lunch! 1964
10 Miles Davis Bitches brew 1970
11 Billie Holiday The legacy (1933-1958) 1991
12 Ornette Coleman The shape of jazz to come 1959
13 Herbie Hancock Maiden voyage 1965
14 Bud Powell The genius of Bud Powell 1956
15 Bill Evans trio The Village Vanguard sessions 1973
16 John Coltrane Giant steps 1960
17 Art Blakey & the Jazz messengers Art Blakey's Jazz messengers with Thelonious Monk 1958
18 Albert Ayler Spiritual unity 1965
19 Count Basie The original American Decca recordings 1992
20 Herbie Hancock Head hunters 1973 ~
21 Charles Mingus The black saint and the sinner lady 1963
22 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain 1960
23 Charlie Parker The quintet at Massey Hall 1956
24 Jelly Roll Morton The centennial : his complete Victor recordings 1990
25 Dave Brubeck Time out 1959
26 Weather report I sing the body electric 1972 ~
27 Dizzy Gillespie The complete RCA Victor recordings : 1947-1949 1995
28 Lester Young The complete Aladdin sessions 1995
29 John Coltrane The complete 1961 village Vanguard recordings 1997
30 Wes Montgomery The incredible jazz guitar of Wes Montgomery 1960 2
31 Oliver Nelson The blues and the abstract truth 1961
32 Mahavishnu orchestra The inner mounting flame 1971
33 Andrew Hill Point of departure 1965
34 Clifford Brown & Max Roach At Basin street 1956
35 Ornette Coleman Free jazz : a collective improvisation 1961
36 Thelonious Monk Brilliant corners 1957
37 Coleman Hawkins Body and soul 1939
38 Gerry Mulligan The Gerry Mulligan quartet with Chet Baker 1953 3
39 Miles Davis Birth of the cool 1957
40 Archie Shepp Four for Trane 1964
41 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rip, rig & panic : now please don't you cry, beautiful Edith 1965
42 Komeda quintet Astigmatic 1967
43 John McLaughlin Extrapolation 1969
44 Jan Garbarek Afric Pepperbird 1970
45 Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter songbook 1956
46 Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro 1969
47 Peter Brötzmann Machine gun 1968
48 Lennie Tristano The new Tristano 1960
49 Horace Silver Song for my father 1965
50 Sun Ra The heliocentric worlds of Sun Ra : volume 1 1965
51 Eric Dolphy At the Five spot : vol. 1 1961
51 Eric Dolphy At the Five spot : vol. 2 1963
52 Art Blakey & the Jazz messengers Moanin' 1959
53 George Russell Ezz-thetics 1961
54 Roscoe Mitchell sextet Sound 1966
55 Hank Mobley Soul station 1960
56 Duke Ellington Ellington at Newport 1956
57 Keith Jarrett The Köln concert 1975 ~
58 John Coltrane My favorite things 1961
59 Art Tatum The complete Capitol recordings : volume 1 1989
59 Art Tatum The complete Capitol recordings : volume 2 1989
60 Return to forever Return to forever 1972 ~
61 Charles Mingus Pithecantrophus erectus 1956
62 Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm section 1957
63 Cecil Taylor Unit structures 1966
64 Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing : but not for me 1958
65 Weather report Heavy Weather 1977 ~
66 Larry Young Unity 1966
67 Modern jazz quartet Django 1955
68 John Handy Recorded live at the Monterey jazz festival 1966
69 Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! 1969 ~
70 Lee Morgan The sidewinder 1964
71 Charlie Haden Liberation music orchestra 1970
72 Pat Metheny Travels 1983 ~
73 Ganelin trio Catalogue : live in East-Germany 1984
74 Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto 1964
75 Jimmy Smith Back at the chicken shack 1960
76 John Zorn New traditions in East Asian barbands 1997
77 Charles Lloyd Forest flower : at Monterey 1967
78 Woody Herman The Thundering herds : 1945-1947 1988
79 John Surman Road to Saint Ives 1990
80 Cannonball Adderley Mercy, mercy, mercy! : live at "The club" 1966
81 Art ensemble of Chicago Live at Mandel Hall 1974
82 Steve Coleman The tao of Mad Phat : <fringe zones> 1993
83 Miles Davis We want Miles 1982
84 Herbie Hancock Sextant 1973 ~
85 Pharoah Sanders Karma 1969
86 Wynton Marsalis Black codes (from the underground) 1985
87 Sonny Rollins The bridge 1962 2
88 Joe Harriott & John Mayer Indo-jazz suite 1966
89 Gato Barbieri Latino America 1973
90 Stan Kenton City of glass 1952
91 Alice Coltrane Journey in Satchidananda 1971
92 Billy Cobham Spectrum 1973 ~
93 Michael Brecker Tales from the Hudson 1996
94 Wayne Shorter Speak no evil 1966
95 Cassandra Wilson Blue light 'til dawn 1993
96 Dexter Gordon Go! 1962
97 Edward Vesala Lumi 1986
98 Donald Byrd Black Byrd 1973
99 Zakir Hussain Making music 1987
100 Yuri Honing trio Star tracks 1996