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JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

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Albums with 30 ratings and more

A Love Supreme Post Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

Kind of Blue Cool Jazz
MILES DAVIS

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Progressive Big Band
CHARLES MINGUS

Blue Train Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

My Favorite Things Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

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New Jazz Artists

• FIRST HOUSE (DJANGO BATES KEN STUBBS MARTIN FRANCE MICK HUTTON) Post-Fusion Contemporary
• JACOB WUTZKE Hard Bop
• THE VERGE Jazz Related Rock
• DON THOMPSON Post Bop
• MISANTHROPE TRIO (LUIS LOPES - GONÇALO ALMEIDA - PHILIPP ERNSTING) Jazz Related Improv/Composition
• JIMSAKU Fusion
• KHRUANGBIN Nu Jazz
• ALEX MCLAUGHLIN Post Bop
• FABIENNE AMBÜHL (AMBUEHL) Post-Fusion Contemporary
• MARSHALL ALLEN Progressive Big Band
• RIGHTEOUS ROOSTER Soul Jazz
• CHARLES CHEN Hard Bop
• CUT TRIO Avant-Garde Jazz
• TANJA FEICHTMAIR Avant-Garde Jazz
• SIGNE EMMELUTH Avant-Garde Jazz
• MICAH THOMAS 21st Century Modern
• POSI-TONE SWINGTET Post Bop
• AMANDA GARDIER Eclectic Fusion
• BELIEVERS World Fusion
• KYLE ROWE Fusion

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