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The point of posting this is to see how different the top 100 will look like by the end of the year as I plan to explore more jazz.
This is taken from a masterlist of every album I've heard ranked from best to worst. This list has been improved on over 11 years starting from a humble 30 albums all the way up to 13,000. It just reached the point where I had to separate the list into multiple files. This list includes nu jazz, jazz-rock and jazz pop. This list doesn't include jazz rap because most of the jazz rap I've heard isn't jazzy enough. Btw, since I included jazz rock, expect some prog.
1. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way (Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz)
2. Pharoah Sanders - Karma (Spiritual Jazz)
3. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters (Jazz-Fusion, Jazz-Funk)
4. John Coltrane - Sun Ship (Spiritual Jazz) 5. Nina Simone - Pastel Blues (Vocal Jazz) 6. Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (Spiritual Jazz) 7. Pharoah Sanders - Thembi (Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz) 8. Charlies Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Third Stream, Avant-Garde Jazz) 9. Sun Ra - Lanquidity (Jazz-Fusion) 10. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats (Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion) 11. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - It's Your World (Jazz-Funk) 12. Steely Dan - Aja (Jazz-Rock) 13. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue (Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz) 14. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy (Post-Bop) 15. Soft Machine - Third (Jazz-Fusion) 16. John Coltrane - Ascension I (Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz) 17. Nina Simone - Wild Is the Wind (Vocal Jazz) 18. John Coltrane - My Favorite Things (Modal Jazz, Post-Bop) 19. Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver (Cool Jazz) 20. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (Avant-Garde Jazz) 21. Amon Tobin - Supermodified (Nu Jazz) 22. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert (ECM Style Jazz) 23. Amon Tobin - Permutation (Nu Jazz) 24. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louie (Vocal Jazz) 25. Jimmy Smith - Root Down: Jimmy Smith Live! (Soul Jazz) 26. Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty (Spiriitual Jazz, Jazz Fusion) 27. Freddie Hubbard - Straight Life (Post-Bop, Jazz-Fusion) 28. Keith Jarrett - The Survivor's Suite 29. Gil Evans - Out of the Cool (Progressive Big Band, Cool Jazz) 30. Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight (Hard Bop, Cool Jazz) 31. Don Cherry - Brown Rice (Spiritual Jazz) 32. Art Blakey - Moanin' (Hard Bop) 33. Charles Mingus - Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (Post-Bop) 34. Soft Machine - Volume Two (Jazz-Rock) 35. Bill Evans - Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Cool Jazz) 36. Nina Simone - I Put a Spell On You (Vocal Jazz) 37. Miles Davis - Dark Magus (Jazz-Funk, Jazz-Fusion) 38. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (Jazz-Rock) 39. Sonny Clark - Cool Struttin' (Hard Bop) 40. George Benson - Breezin' (Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Funk, Jazz Pop) 41. Eric Dolphy - Iron Man (Avant-Garde Jazz) 42. Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain (Modal Jazz, Third Stream) 43. Embryo - Steig Aus (Jazz-Rock) 44. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion)
45. John Coltrane - Ole Coltrane (Modal Jazz) 46. Duke Ellington - Ellington at Newport (Big Band) 47. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme (Spiritual Jazz) 48. Sonny Sharrock - Ask the Ages (Avant-Garde Jazz) 49. Pharoah Sanders - Black Unity (Spiritual Jazz) 50. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (Post-Bop) 51. Art Blakey - Mosaic (Hard Bop) 52. McCoy Tyner - Sama Layuca (Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz) 53. Shibusashirazu - Shibuboshi (Experimental Big Band, Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion) 54. Swing Out Sister - Somewhere Deep in the Night (Smooth Jazz, Jazz Pop) 55. Max Roach - It's Time (Avant-Garde Jazz) 58. Herbie Hancock - Empyrean Isles (Post-Bop) 59. Nina Simone - Little Girl Blue (Vocal Jazz, Soul Jazz) 60. Charles Mingus - Let My Children Hear Music (Third Stream, Avant-Garde Jazz, Experimental Big Band) 61. George Benson - The Other Side of Abbey Road (Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Pop) 62. Jukka Eskola - Jukka Eskola (Nu Jazz, Jazz-Funk) 63. Frank Sinatra - Songs for Swingin' Lovers (Vocal Jazz) 64. Herbie hancock - Sextant (Jazz-Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz) 65. Angelo Badalamenti - Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Dark Jazz) 66. Kamasi Washington - The Epic (Spiritual Jazz) 67. Dave Brubeck - Time Out (Cool Jazz) 68. Duke Ellington / Charlie Mingus / Max Roach - Money Jungle (Hared Bop) 69. Art Blakey - Indestructible (Hard Bop) 70. Charles Mingus - Blues & Roots (Hard Bop) 71. Don Cherry - Eternal Rhythm (Free jazz, Spiritual Jazz 72. Art Blakey - Free for All (Hard Bop) 73. Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz (Cool Jazz) 74. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz Fusion) 75. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil (Post-Bop) 76. Wyne Shorter - Juju (Modal Jazz) 77. Herbie Hancock - Death Wish (Jazz Fusion) 78. Vince Guaraldi - A Charlie Brown Christmas (Cool Jazz) 79. Miles Davis - On the Corner (Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk) 80. John Coltrane - Meditations (Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz) 81. Cecil Taylor - Love for Sale (Avant-Garde Jazz) 82. Frank Sinatra - Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (Vocal Jazz) 83. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire (Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock) 84. Naked City - Torture Garden (Avant-Garde Jazz) 85. Morphine - Cure for Pain (Jazz-Rock) 86. Sonny Criss - Sonny's Dream (Post-Bop, Progressive Big Band) 87. Wayne Shorter - Adam's Apple (Post-Bop, Hard Bop) 88. Cannonball Adderly - Something Else (Hard Bop) 89. John Coltrane - Crescent (Post-Bop) 90. Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin & Paco de Lucía - Friday Night in San Francisco (Flamenco Jazz, Latin Jazz) 91. Embryo - Embryo's Rache (Jazz-Rock) 92. Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Big Band, Swing) 93. Milt jackson - Wizard of the Vibes (Bebop) 94. - Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All (Jazz-Rock) 95. Hank Mobley - Soul Station (Post-Bop) 97. Duke Ellington - Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (Big Band) 98. Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention - Roxy & Elsewhere (Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion) 99. Earth Wind and Fire - Gratitude (Jazz-Funk) 100. Charlie Mingus - Pithecanthropus Erectus (Post-Bop)
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