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Top 100 jazz albums of the twentieth century
(by Fred Kaplan)
1
Cannonball Adderley
Somethin' else
1958
2
Louis Armstrong
Plays W.C. Handy
1954
3
Louis Armstrong
Vol. 2 : The Hot fives and sevens
1927
4
Louis Armstrong
Vol. 4 : Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines
1928
5
Count Basie
The complete Decca recordings
1937
6
Count Basie
The complete live Roulette recordings
1958
7
Ran Blake
That certain feeling
1990
8
Art Blakey quintet
A night at Birdland : volume 1
1954
9
Anthony Braxton
6 Monk's compositions
1987
10
Clifford Brown & Max Roach
Clifford Brown with Max Roach
1954
11
Ornette Coleman
Change of the century
1959
12
Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden
Soapsuds soapsuds
1977
13
Ornette Coleman
Sound museum : hidden man
1996
14
Ornette Coleman
The shape of jazz to come
1959
15
John Coltrane
A love supreme
1964
16
John Coltrane
Blue train
1957
17
John Coltrane
Giant steps
1959
18
John Coltrane
My favourite things
1961
19
John Coltrane
The complete 1961 village Vanguard recordings
1997
20
Miles Davis
Cookin'
1956
21
Miles Davis
Kind of blue
1959
22
Miles Davis & Sonny Stitt
Live in Stockholm
1960
23
Miles Davis
Miles ahead
1957
24
Miles Davis
Miles smiles
1966
25
Miles Davis
Sketches of Spain
1960
26
Miles Davis
The complete live at the Plugged nickel, 1965
1996
27
Paul Desmond
Easy living
1964
28
Eric Dolphy with Booker Little
Far cry
1960
29
Eric Dolphy
Out to lunch!
1964
30
Eric Dolphy
Outward bound
1960
31
Duke Ellington
And his mother called him Bill
1967
32
Duke Ellington
At Newport
1956
33
Duke Ellington
Such sweet thunder
1957
34
Duke Ellington
The Blanton-Webster band
1939
35
Duke Ellington
The far Eastern suite
1966
36
Bill Evans trio
Sunday at the Village Vanguard
1961
37
Bill Evans
The final Vanguard sessions
1980
38
Bill Evans
Waltz for Debby
1961
39
Gil Evans
Out of the cool
1960
40
Ella Fitzgerald
Clap hand shere comes Charlie!
1961
41
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella and Louis
1956
42
Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the Cole Porter songbook
1956
43
Ella Fitzgerald
Sings the George and Ira songbook
1959
44
Chico Freeman
Spirit sensitive
1979
45
Dizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge
Roy and Diz
1954
46
Jimmy Giuffre 3
1961
1961
47
Dexter Gordon
Go
1962
48
Dexter Gordon
Our man in Paris
1963
49
Herbie Hancock
Maiden voyage
1965
50
Coleman Hawkins
Body and soul
1939
51
Andrew Hill
Point of departure
1964
52
Billie Holiday
Body and soul
1956
53
Billie Holiday
Greatest hits
?
54
Billie Holiday
Songs for distingué lovers
1956
55
Hank Jones, Billy Higgins & Dave Holland
The oracle
1989
56
Roland Kirk
Rip rig and panic
1965
57
Lee Konitz
Motion
1961
58
Jackie McLean
Let freedom ring
1963
59
Charles Mingus
Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus
1963
60
Charles Mingus
Pithecantrophus erectus
1956
61
Charles Mingus
Tijuana moods
1957
62
Thelonious Monk
Brilliant corners
1956
63
Thelonious Monk
Genius of modern music, vol. 1
1951
64
Thelonious Monk
Monk's music
1957
65
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious alone in San Francisco
1959
66
Thelonious Monk
Thelonious with John Coltrane
1957
67
Jelly Roll Morton
The birth of the hot : the classic Chicago "Red hot peppers" sessions
1995
68
Gerry Mulligan & Chet Baker
Complete Pacific jazz quartet recordings
1952
69
David Murray
Ballads for bass clarinet
1991
70
Oliver Nelson
The blues and the abstract truth
1961
71
Charlie Parker
Jazz at Massey hall
1953
72
Charlie Parker
The Charlie Parker story
1945
73
Charlie Parker
The complete Dial sessions
1946
74
Charlie Parker
The complete live performances on Savoy
1950
75
Charlie Parker
The complete Verve recordings
1954
76
Art Pepper
Meets the Rhythm section
1957
77
Art Pepper
Today
1978
78
Bud Powell
Jazz giant
1950
79
Bud Powell
The amazing Bud Powell
1949
80
Bud Powell
The genius of Bud Powell
1950
81
Sonny Rollins
Night at the Village Vanguard
1957
82
Sonny Rollins
Our man in jazz
1962
83
Sonny Rollins
Saxophone colossus
1956
84
Sonny Rollins
Way out West
1957
85
Wayne Shorter
Speak no evil
1964
86
Frank Sinatra & Count Basie
Sinatra-Basie
1962
87
Sonny Stitt with Art Pepper
Atlas blues (blow and ballad)
1980
88
Sun Ra
Jazz in silhouette
1958
89
Sun Ra
Sunrise in different dimensions
1980
90
Art Tatum
Solo piano
1949
91
Art Tatum with Ben Webster
The group recordings : vol. 8
1956
92
Cecil Taylor
For Olim
1986
93
Sarah Vaughan
Crazy and mixed up
1982
94
Sarah Vaughan & the Los Angeles Philharmonic
Gershwin live!
1982
95
Sarah Vaughan
Swingin' easy
1954
96
Sarah Vaughan
With Clifford Brown
1954
97
World saxophone quartet
Plays Ellington
1986
98
World saxophone quartet
Revue
1980
99
Lester Young
The Lester Young story : vol. 1
1936
100
John Zorn
Masada 8
1996