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JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
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

• BRIAN MARSELLA 21st Century Modern
• HENRIK GUNDE Post Bop
• INTERCOMMUNAL FREE DANCE MUSIC ORCHESTRA Avant-Garde Jazz
• ALON FARBER HAGIGA World Fusion
• AFFIRMATION Fusion
• FRANCESCO CROSARA Post Bop
• ANDY WHEELOCK Fusion
• ZACH RICH Fusion
• ANTONIO NEVES Latin Jazz
• LAST WORD QUINTET Pop/Art Song/Folk
• NICKI ADAMS & MICHAEL EATON Third Stream
• MAFALDA MINNOZZI Pop/Art Song/Folk
• TANIA GIANNOULI World Fusion
• SILT REMEMBRANCE ENSEMBLE / REMEMBRANCE QUINTET Avant-Garde Jazz
• ALEXANDER'S SWING TIME ORCHESTRA Big Band
• FUSIOON Jazz Related Rock
• RAFFI GARABEDIAN Nu Jazz
• ELDAD TARMU Hard Bop
• FIRST HOUSE (DJANGO BATES KEN STUBBS MARTIN FRANCE MICK HUTTON) Post-Fusion Contemporary
• JACOB WUTZKE Hard Bop

New Jazz Releases

Server Farm Eclectic Fusion
JON IRABAGON

Silent Moods Post-Fusion Contemporary
HENRIK GUNDE

New Dawn Progressive Big Band
MARSHALL ALLEN

Owls, Omens, and Oracles Pop/Art Song/Folk
VALERIE JUNE

Be Cool Vocal Jazz
NANCY KELLY

New Jazz Online Videos

Marshall Allen - New Dawn (Full Album Stream)
MARSHALL ALLEN
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Valerie June - Joy, Joy (In Studio Video)
VALERIE JUNE
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Goodbye Pork Pie Hat (Live at the Teatro Coliseo in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2, 1977)
CHARLES MINGUS
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Breaking Point (Live at the Blue Morocco in the Bronx, New York, April 10, 1967)
FREDDIE HUBBARD
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Blue Bossa (Live at the Blue Morocco in the Bronx, New York in 1967)
KENNY DORHAM
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New JMA Jazz Forum Topics

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