{"id":151,"date":"2013-01-21T14:14:39","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T14:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/?p=151"},"modified":"2022-06-12T11:07:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T09:07:11","slug":"top-100-jazz-albums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jazzguitar.be\/blog\/top-100-jazz-albums\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 100 Jazz Albums"},"content":{"rendered":"

After doing a Jazz Guitar Albums Top 100<\/a>, I thought it was a good idea to do a Top 100<\/b> of greatest jazz albums<\/b> that don’t have a guitarist in the key position. I asked all forum members to post their favorite jazz albums and the result is this list.<\/p>\n

The Top 100 is by no means an attempt to find out what the ‘best jazz albums of all time’ are, but it reflects which jazz recordings are popular with our forum members.<\/p>\n

Funny thing is that the results of the forum poll are nearly identical with other Top 100s found on the internet.<\/p>\n

If you scroll down to the bottom of this page you’ll find a Top 15 of jazz musicians (guitarists not included), sorted according to how many times they showed up in the Top 100 poll.\u00a0 Again, I’m not trying to tell you that Miles Davis<\/a> is better than Charlie Parker<\/a>, it’s just a popularity list.<\/p>\n

So, if you ever get the question “What are some good jazz albums?” again, just refer to this page.<\/p>\n<\/span><\/span>\n

Jazz Albums Top 100 (No Guitars)<\/h2>\n

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  1. Miles Davis – Kind Of Blue<\/li>\n
  2. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme<\/li>\n
  3. Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else<\/li>\n
  4. The Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out<\/li>\n
  5. Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus<\/li>\n
  6. Ornette Coleman – Shape Of Jazz To Come<\/li>\n
  7. Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um<\/li>\n
  8. The Weather Report – Heavy Weather<\/li>\n
  9. John Coltrane – Giant Steps<\/li>\n
  10. John Coltrane – Blue Trane: John Coltrane Play the Blues<\/li>\n
  11. Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage<\/li>\n
  12. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew<\/li>\n
  13. Horace Silver – Song for My Father<\/li>\n
  14. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard<\/li>\n
  15. Miles Davis – Milestones<\/li>\n
  16. Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby<\/li>\n
  17. Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool<\/li>\n
  18. Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall<\/li>\n
  19. Charlie Parker – The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948<\/li>\n
  20. Keith Jarrett – The K\u00f6ln Concert<\/li>\n
  21. Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil<\/li>\n
  22. Count Basie – Complete Atomic Basie<\/li>\n
  23. Louis Armstrong – Complete Hot Fives and Hot Sevens<\/li>\n
  24. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain<\/li>\n
  25. Miles Davis – In a Silent Way<\/li>\n
  26. John Coltrane – My Favorite Things<\/li>\n
  27. Joshua Redman – Wish<\/li>\n
  28. Michael Brecker – Tales From The Hudson<\/li>\n
  29. Charlie Parker – Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection<\/li>\n
  30. Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans<\/li>\n
  31. Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz<\/li>\n
  32. Dexter Gordon – Go<\/li>\n
  33. Larry Young – Unity<\/li>\n
  34. Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder<\/li>\n
  35. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth<\/li>\n
  36. Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch!<\/li>\n
  37. Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Study in Brown<\/li>\n
  38. Jimmy Smith – Back at the Chicken Shack<\/li>\n
  39. Yusef Lateef – Eastern Sounds<\/li>\n
  40. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’<\/li>\n
  41. Return to Forever – Romantic Warrior<\/li>\n
  42. Thelonious Monk – Brilliant Corners<\/li>\n
  43. Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker with Strings<\/li>\n
  44. Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters<\/li>\n
  45. Count Basie – Straight Ahead<\/li>\n
  46. Freddie Hubbard – Red Clay<\/li>\n
  47. Sarah Vaughan – Sarah Vaughan w Clifford Brown<\/li>\n
  48. Duke Ellington – Live at Newport ’56<\/li>\n
  49. Weather Report – Mysterious Traveler<\/li>\n
  50. Ella Fitzgerald – The Complete Ella Fitzgerald Songbooks<\/li>\n
  51. Chick Corea – The Elektric Band<\/li>\n
  52. Sonny Clark – Cool Struttin’<\/li>\n
  53. McCoy Tyner – The Real McCoy<\/li>\n
  54. Modern Jazz Quartet – Django<\/li>\n
  55. Jean-Luc Ponty – Mystical Adventures<\/li>\n
  56. Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground)<\/li>\n
  57. Benny Goodman – Live At Carnegie Hall<\/li>\n
  58. Chet Baker – The Best of Chet Baker Sings<\/li>\n
  59. Andrew Hill – Point of Departure<\/li>\n
  60. Stan Getz – Au Go Go<\/li>\n
  61. Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol. 1<\/li>\n
  62. Ben Webster – Soulville<\/li>\n
  63. Bill Evans – Conversations with Myself<\/li>\n
  64. Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea<\/li>\n
  65. Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness<\/li>\n
  66. Art Pepper – Meets the Rhythm Section<\/li>\n
  67. Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century<\/li>\n
  68. Joe Henderson – Page One<\/li>\n
  69. Hank Mobley – Soul Station<\/li>\n
  70. Billie Holiday – Lady Day (2 CD)<\/li>\n
  71. Roy Hargrove – Habana<\/li>\n
  72. Herbie Mann – Memphis Underground<\/li>\n
  73. The Gil Evans Orchestra – Out of the Cool<\/li>\n
  74. Les McCann Trio – Swiss Movement<\/li>\n
  75. Brad Mehldau – The Art of Trio<\/li>\n
  76. Benny Carter – Jazz Giant<\/li>\n
  77. Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul<\/li>\n
  78. Roy Haynes Quartet – When it’s Haynes it Roars<\/li>\n
  79. Oscar Peterson Trio – Night train<\/li>\n
  80. Dizzy Gillespie – Sonny Side Up<\/li>\n
  81. Diana Krall – Live in Paris<\/li>\n
  82. Cassandra Wilson – Blue Light ‘Til Dawn<\/li>\n
  83. Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius<\/li>\n
  84. Nat King Cole – Unforgettable (Best Of)<\/li>\n
  85. Quincy Jones – Walkin’ in Space<\/li>\n
  86. Dave Holland Quartet – Conference of the Birds<\/li>\n
  87. Lambert, Hendricks,\u00a0and Ross – Everybody’s Boppin’<\/li>\n
  88. Milt Jackson – Ain’t But a Few of Us Left<\/li>\n
  89. Charles Lloyd – Voice in the Night<\/li>\n
  90. Sidney Bechet – Legendary Sidney Bechet<\/li>\n
  91. Lester Young – Complete Savoy Recordings<\/li>\n
  92. Sun Ra – Lanquidity<\/li>\n
  93. Grover Washington Jr. – All My Tomorrows<\/li>\n
  94. Bud Powell Trio – Bouncing with Bud Powell<\/li>\n
  95. Art Tatum – 20th Century Piano Genius<\/li>\n
  96. Frank Sinatra – Sings for Only The Lonely<\/li>\n
  97. Stephane Grappelli – Afternoon in Paris<\/li>\n
  98. Toots Thielemans – East Coast\/West Coast<\/li>\n
  99. Jan Garbarek – Visible World<\/li>\n
  100. Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Jazz Musicians Top 15<\/h2>\n

    Here is the top 15 of jazz musicians, sorted according to how many times they were mentioned in the forum poll.<\/p>\n

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    1. Miles Davis<\/li>\n
    2. John Coltrane<\/li>\n
    3. Bill Evans<\/li>\n
    4. Herbie Hancock<\/li>\n
    5. Stan Getz<\/li>\n
    6. Cannonball Adderley<\/li>\n
    7. Thelonious Monk<\/li>\n
    8. Weather Report<\/li>\n
    9. Sonny Rollins<\/li>\n
    10. Ornette Coleman<\/li>\n
    11. Charlie Parker<\/li>\n
    12. Charles Mingus<\/li>\n
    13. The Dave Brubeck Quartet<\/li>\n
    14. Oscar Peterson Trio<\/li>\n
    15. Duke Ellington<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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