Jazz 100 - Top 100 Jazz Albums

NOTE: For post-1980 albums see Top 100 (Post-1980)

Jazz 100
Top 100 (Pre-1980)
The Best Jazz Ever Released Digitally

1	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959
2	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1964
3	Charles Mingus	Black Saint & the Sinner Lady	1963
4	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters	1973
5	Charlie Parker	The Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions	1948
6	Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958
7	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969
8	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959
9	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959
10	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch!	1964
11	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959
12	Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	1963
13	Louis Armstrong	Hot Fives & Sevens	1925
14	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959
15	Mahavishnu Orchestra	The Inner Mounting Flame	1971
16	Pharoah Sanders	Karma	1969
17	Alice Coltrane	Journey in Satchidananda	1971
18	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956
19	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958
20	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	1970
21	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	1960
22	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	1965
23	Charles Mingus	Blues & Roots	1959
24	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1956
25	Mahavishnu Orchestra	Birds of Fire	1973
26	Keith Jarrett	The Köln Concert	1975
27	Vince Guaraldi Trio	A Charlie Brown Christmas	1965
28	Sun Ra	Lanquidity	1978
29	Miles Davis	A Tribute to Jack Johnson	1971
30	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	1965
31	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957
32	Charles Mingus	Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus…	1963
33	Count Basie Orchestra	The Best of Early Basie [Decca]	1939
34	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz	1960
35	Bill Evans Trio	Waltz for Debby	1961
36	The Horace Silver Quintet	Song for My Father	1964
37	Krzysztof Komeda	Astigmatic	1965
38	Herbie Hancock	Empyrean Isles	1964
39	Thelonious Monk Quartet	Monk's Dream	1962
40	Grant Green	Idle Moments	1963
41	Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain	1960
42	Duke Ellington w/ Mingus & Roach	Money Jungle	1962
43	John Coltrane	Ascension	1965
44	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1956
45	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol 1)	1951
46	Bill Evans Trio	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	1961
47	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	1963
48	Oliver Nelson	The Blues & the Abstract Truth	1961
49	Thelonious Monk	Monk's Music	1957
50	Wayne Shorter	JuJu	1964
51	Miles Davis	'Round About Midnight	1957
52	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Blanton-Webster Recordings	1942
53	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1965
54	John Coltrane	Olé Coltrane	1961
55	Billie Holiday	Columbia Recordings (1933-44)	1944
56	Charles Mingus	Tijuana Moods	1962
57	Chet Baker	The Best of Chet Baker Sings	1956
58	Max Roach	We Insist! Freedom Now Suite	1960
59	Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud	1970
60	Bill Evans Trio	Portrait in Jazz	1959
61	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie	1970
62	Charlie Christian	The Genius of the Electric Guitar	1941
63	Dexter Gordon	Go!	1962
64	Wes Montgomery	Incredible Jazz Guitar	1960
65	Chick Corea	Return to Forever	1972
66	Miles Davis Quintet	Miles Smiles	1967
67	Duke Ellington	The Far East Suite	1966
68	Billy Cobham	Spectrum	1973
69	Antonio Carlos Jobim	Wave	1967
70	Nina Simone	Little Girl Blue	1958
71	Joe 'King' Oliver	Creole Jazz Band	1923
72	The Quintet (w/ Charlie Parker)	Jazz at Massey Hall	1952
73	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	1967
74	Yusef Lateef	Eastern Sounds	1961
75	Eric Dolphy	Out There	1960
76	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	1960
77	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella & Louis	1956
78	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin' Lovers	1956
79	Miles Davis	Milestones	1958
80	Al Di Meola	Elegant Gypsy	1976
81	Pharoah Sanders	Black Unity	1972
82	Don Cherry	Brown Rice [aka Don Cherry]	1975
83	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954
84	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	1958
85	Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	1963
86	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Ellington at Newport [2CD]	1956
87	Bill Evans Trio	Explorations	1961
88	Miles Davis	Nefertiti	1968
89	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba	1962
90	Lee Morgan	Search for the New Land	1964
91	Roland Kirk	The Inflated Tear	1968
92	Don Cherry	Eternal Rhythm	1968
93	Ella Fitzgerald	Sings the Cole Porter Songbook	1956
94	Dave Holland Quartet	Conference of the Birds	1972
95	Andrew Hill	Black Fire	1964
96	Joe Henderson	Page One	1963
97	Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan	1954
98	Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay	1970
99	Bill Evans & Jim Hall	Undercurrent	1962
100	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music (Volume 1)	1947