The following is a table of all of the albums that have been given a crown (or coronet) designation in the various editions of The Penguin Guide to Jazz by Richard Cook & Brian Morton. The first two editions (1992, 1994) included LPs and cassettes; all subsequent volumes (1996, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006) have been limited to CD. The Guide switched from a one-column to a two-column format for the 5th edition (2000), and grew from 1195 pages in 1992 to 1725 pages in 2004. (The 2006 edition is 1534 pages, accomplished through smaller print.) Through these editions records, and in some cases whole artist entries, have come and gone, while some records have remained consistently available.

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