Top 100 Jazz CDs

Rank	Artist	Title	Year
1	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	1959
2	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1964
3	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	1959
4	The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Time Out	1959
5	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin' Else	1958
6	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	1956
7	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	1959
8	Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers	Moanin'	1958
9	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	1965
10	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1956
11	Bill Evans Trio	Waltz for Debby	1961
12	Keith Jarrett	The Koln Concert	1975
13	Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	1963
14	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch!	1964
15	John Coltrane	Blue Train	1957
16	Louis Armstrong	Hot Fives & Sevens	1928
17	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959
18	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	1964
19	Lee Morgan	The Sidewinder	1963
20	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	1969
21	Charlie Parker	The Savoy & Dial Studio Sessions	1948
22	The Horace Silver Quintet	Song for My Father	1964
23	Oliver Nelson	The Blues & the Abstract Truth	1961
24	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Ellington At Newport [2CD]	1956
25	Charles Mingus	Black Saint & the Sinner Lady	1963
26	Bill Evans Trio	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	1961
27	Wes Montgomery	Incredible Jazz Guitar	1960
28	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella & Louis	1956
29	John Coltrane	My Favorite Things	1960
30	Dexter Gordon	Go!	1962
31	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	1977
32	Chet Baker	The Best of Chet Baker Sings	1956
33	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters	1973
34	The Oscar Peterson Trio	Night Train	1962
35	Billie Holiday	Lady Day [2CD]	1944
36	Miles Davis	In a Silent Way	1969
37	Kenny Burrell	Midnight Blue	1963
38	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Study in Brown	1955
39	Hank Mobley	Soul Station	1960
40	McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy	1967
41	Count Basie Orchestra	The Complete Atomic Basie	1957
42	Art Pepper	Meets the Rhythm Section	1957
43	Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane	At Carnegie Hall	1957
44	Miles Davis	Birth of the Cool	1950
45	The Quintet (w/ Charlie Parker)	Jazz At Massey Hall	1952
46	Mahavishnu Orchestra	The Inner Mounting Flame	1971
47	Grant Green	Idle Moments	1963
48	Benny Goodman	Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert [2CD]	1938
49	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1964
50	Lester Young	With the Oscar Peterson Trio	1952
51	Duke Ellington & His Orchestra	Blanton-Webster Recordings	1942
52	Modern Jazz Quartet	Django	1955
53	Miles Davis	Sketches Of Spain	1960
54	Pat Metheny	Bright Size Life	1975
55	Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie	Bird and Diz	1950
56	Coleman Hawkins	Body & Soul [RCA]	1956
57	Chick Corea	Return to Forever	1972
58	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	Clifford Brown & Max Roach	1954
59	Erroll Garner	Concert by the Sea	1955
60	Sonny Clark	Cool Struttin'	1958
61	Albert Ayler Trio	Spiritual Unity	1964
62	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz	1960
63	Django Reinhardt	Best of Django Reinhardt	1940
64	Jaco Pastorius	Jaco Pastorius	1976
65	Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown	Sarah Vaughan w/ Clifford Brown	1954
66	Larry Young	Unity	1965
67	Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba	1962
68	Ben Webster	Soulville	1958
69	Jimmy Smith	The Sermon	1958
70	Frank Sinatra	Sinatra At the Sands	1966
71	Bud Powell	The Amazing Bud Powell (Vol 1)	1951
72	Art Blakey Quintet	A Night at Birdland Vol. 1	1954
73	Joe Henderson	Page One	1963
74	John Abercrombie	Timeless	1974
75	The Gil Evans Orchestra	Out of the Cool	1960
76	Thelonious Monk	The Best of the Blue Note Years	1952
77	Ella Fitzgerald	The Best of the Song Books	1964
78	The Gerry Mulligan Quartet	The Best of... with Chet Baker	1953
79	Brad Mehldau	The Art of the Trio - Volume Three	1998
80	Joe Pass	Virtuoso	1973
81	Count Basie Orchestra	April in Paris	1956
82	Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris	1963
83	Miles Davis	Round About Midnight	1956
84	Diana Krall	All For You	1995
85	Sidney Bechet	Legendary Sidney Bechet	1941
86	Fats Waller	The Very Best Of Fats Waller	1940
87	Gillespie, Rollins & Stitt	Sonny Side Up	1957
88	Freddie Hubbard	Open Sesame	1960
89	Bix Beiderbecke	At the Jazz Band Ball [ASV]	1928
90	Sonny Rollins	Tenor Madness	1956
91	Louis Armstrong	Plays W C Handy	1954
92	John Scofield	A Go Go	1997
93	Duke Ellington w/ Mingus & Roach	Money Jungle	1962
94	Dave Holland Quartet	Conference of the Birds	1972
95	Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures	1966
96	Ahmad Jamal	At the Pershing/But Not For Me	1958
97	Charlie Christian	The Genius of the Electric Guitar	1941
98	Charles Mingus	Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus	1963
99	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes	1985
100	Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	Beyond the Missouri Sky	1996