Jazz Album Rankings (Top 100)

A definitive list of the most influential and celebrated jazz albums ever recorded, spanning multiple eras and styles.

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Kind of Blue – Miles Davis (1959)—

A Love Supreme – John Coltrane (1965)—

Time Out – Dave Brubeck (1959)—

Blue Train – John Coltrane (1957)—

Mingus Ah Um – Charles Mingus (1959)—

Giant Steps – John Coltrane (1960)—

Bitches Brew – Miles Davis (1970)—

The Shape of Jazz to Come – Ornette Coleman (1959)—

Head Hunters – Herbie Hancock (1973)—

Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter (1966)—

Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock (1965)—

Getz/Gilberto – Stan Getz & João Gilberto (1964)—

Somethin' Else – Cannonball Adderley (1958)—

Moanin' – Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers (1958)—

Saxophone Colossus – Sonny Rollins (1956)—

Out to Lunch! – Eric Dolphy (1964)—

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady – Charles Mingus (1963)—

Sunday at the Village Vanguard – Bill Evans (1961)—

Waltz for Debby – Bill Evans (1961)—

Birth of the Cool – Miles Davis (1957)—

In a Silent Way – Miles Davis (1969)—

Miles Smiles – Miles Davis (1967)—

E.S.P. – Miles Davis (1965)—

Round About Midnight – Miles Davis (1957)—

Sketches of Spain – Miles Davis (1960)—

Brilliant Corners – Thelonious Monk (1957)—

Monk's Dream – Thelonious Monk (1963)—

Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane – Thelonious Monk (1961)—

Ellington at Newport – Duke Ellington (1956)—

Money Jungle – Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach (1963)—

The Atomic Mr. Basie – Count Basie (1958)—

Jazz at Massey Hall – Charlie Parker (1953)—

Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954)—

Study in Brown – Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1955)—

Ah Um – Charles Mingus (1959)—

Let My Children Hear Music – Charles Mingus (1972)—

Black Codes (From the Underground) – Wynton Marsalis (1985)—

Heavy Weather – Weather Report (1977)—

Light as a Feather – Chick Corea (1973)—

Return to Forever – Chick Corea (1972)—

Romantic Warrior – Return to Forever (1976)—

The Köln Concert – Keith Jarrett (1975)—

Bright Size Life – Pat Metheny (1976)—

Offramp – Pat Metheny Group (1982)—

Still Life (Talking) – Pat Metheny Group (1987)—

Winelight – Grover Washington Jr. (1980)—

Journey in Satchidananda – Alice Coltrane (1971)—

Ptah, the El Daoud – Alice Coltrane (1970)—

Headhunters – Herbie Hancock (1973)—

Thrust – Herbie Hancock (1974)—

Empyrean Isles – Herbie Hancock (1964)—

Speak Like a Child – Herbie Hancock (1968)—

Idle Moments – Grant Green (1963)—

Midnight Blue – Kenny Burrell (1963)—

Soul Station – Hank Mobley (1960)—

Page One – Joe Henderson (1963)—

Inner Urge – Joe Henderson (1964)—

Mode for Joe – Joe Henderson (1966)—

Point of Departure – Andrew Hill (1964)—

Black Fire – Andrew Hill (1963)—

Unit Structures – Cecil Taylor (1966)—

Conference of the Birds – Dave Holland (1973)—

Now He Sings, Now He Sobs – Chick Corea (1968)—

The Epic – Kamasi Washington (2015)—

Black Radio – Robert Glasper (2012)—

We Insist! Freedom Now Suite – Max Roach (1960)—

Out There – Eric Dolphy (1961)—

Far East Suite – Duke Ellington (1966)—

Blues & Roots – Charles Mingus (1960)—

Night Train – Oscar Peterson (1963)—

The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery – Wes Montgomery (1960)—

Smokin' at the Half Note – Wes Montgomery (1965)—

Virtuoso – Joe Pass (1973)—

Undercurrent – Bill Evans & Jim Hall (1962)—

Live at the Plugged Nickel – Miles Davis (1965)—

Nefertiti – Miles Davis (1968)—

Filles de Kilimanjaro – Miles Davis (1968)—

Ascension – John Coltrane (1966)—

Meditations – John Coltrane (1966)—

Interstellar Space – John Coltrane (1967)—

Crescent – John Coltrane (1964)—

Olé Coltrane – John Coltrane (1961)—

The Bridge – Sonny Rollins (1962)—

Freedom Suite – Sonny Rollins (1958)—

The Sidewinder – Lee Morgan (1964)—

Cornbread – Lee Morgan (1965)—

Search for the New Land – Lee Morgan (1964)—

Red Clay – Freddie Hubbard (1970)—

Straight Life – Freddie Hubbard (1971)—

Maiden Voyage – Herbie Hancock (1965)—

Speak No Evil – Wayne Shorter (1966)—

Adam's Apple – Wayne Shorter (1967)—

Juju – Wayne Shorter (1965)—

Etcetera – Wayne Shorter (1965)—

The All Seeing Eye – Wayne Shorter (1965)—

Unity – Larry Young (1965)—

Expansions – McCoy Tyner (1968)—

The Real McCoy – McCoy Tyner (1967)—

Sahara – McCoy Tyner (1972)—