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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 |