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1
Portrait of Art Farmer (1958)
Albert Ayler - Bells (1965)
Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano (1965)
Albert Ayler Quintet at Slugs' Saloon (1966)
Music Inc. - Live at Slugs' Vol. 1 & 2 (1970)
Charles Mingus - Cumbia and Jazz Fusion (1977)
David Liebman - Trio + One (1988)
2
Freddie Hubbard - The Body and the Soul (1963)
David Liebman - Trio + One (1988)
3
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Straight Ahead (1976)
Fred Anderson - Chicago Chamber Music (1996)
4
Art Blakey - The Jazz Messengers (1956)
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
Mal Waldron Quintet - Hard Talk (1974)
Jim McNeely - The Plot Thickens (1979)
Jay Hoggard - In the Spirit (1992)
Sonny Simmons Quartet - Judgment Day (1996)
5
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (1959)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Walt Dickerson - A Sense of Direction (1961)
Harry "Sweets" Edison - Edison's Lights (1976)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen (1980)
6
Herbie Nichols - The Third World (1955)
Dexter Gordon - Doin' Alright (1961)
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen (1980)
Equal Time - Regeneration X (2007)
7
Elmo Hope - The All-Star Sessions (1956)
Clark Terry/Thelonious Monk - In Orbit (1958)
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Serenade (1963)
Ornette Coleman - New York is Now / Love Call (1968)
Spontaneous Music Ensemble - Live (1971)
Hank Jones/Tommy Flanagan - I'm All Smiles (1983)
8
Charlie Parker - Bird/The Savoy Recordings Vol. 1 (1947)
Horace Silver Quintet - Silver's Serenade (1963)
The Jazz Composer's Orchestra (1968)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970)
9
Elmo Hope - Trio and Quintet (1954)
Sonny Rollins - East Broadway Run Down (1966)
10
Bob James - Explosions (1965)
Joe Morris - Singularity (2000)
Ahmed Abdullah's Ebonic Tones - Tara's Song (2004)
11
Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' / Steamin' / Workin' (1956)
Chick Corea - Is (1969)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970)
Air - Air Lore (1979)
12
Clark Terry/Thelonious Monk - In Orbit (1958)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um (1959)
Art Pepper + Eleven - Modern Jazz Classics (1959)
Chick Corea - Is (1969)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970)
Air - Air Lore (1979)
Jim Pepper - Comin' and Goin' (1983)
Derek Bailey/Barre Phillips - Figuring (1987)
13
Herbie Nichols - The Third World (1955)
Curtis Counce - You Get More Bounce With Curtis Counce! (1957)
Chick Corea - Is (1969)
14
Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven (1963)
Charles Lloyd in the Soviet Union (1967)
15
Charlie Parker - One Night in Birdland (1950)
The Quintet - Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960)
Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan (1970)
Philip Wilson Quartet - Live at Moers Festival (1978)
Marilyn Crispell - Spirit Music (1981)
16
Charlie Parker - One Night in Birdland (1950)
Barry Harris at the Jazz Workshop (1960)
Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Sheriff (1963)
Sonny Sharrock - Black Woman (1969)
Freddie Hubbard - The Black Angel (1969)
Andrew Hill - Lift Every Voice (1969)
Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - The Trio (1973)
Yusef Lateef - Part of the Search (1973)
17
Harold Land - West Coast Blues! (1960)
Bill Evans Trio - How My Heart Sings! (1962)
The Modern Jazz Quartet - The Sheriff (1963)
McCoy Tyner - Time for Tyner (1968)
Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - The Trio (1973)
18
Harold Land - West Coast Blues! (1960)
Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet (1967)
Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - The Trio (1973)
Oscar Peterson and Clark Terry (1975)
Roscoe Mitchell and the Note Factory - This Dance is for Steve McCall (1992)
19
Miles Davis - Blue Haze (1953)
Paul Chambers Quintet (1957)
Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall (1961)
Cecil Taylor - Unit Structures (1966)
Roscoe Mitchell - Old/Quartet (1967)
Creative Construction Company (1970)
Oscar Peterson/Joe Pass/Niels-Henning Orsted Pedersen - The Trio (1973)
20
Milt Jackson Quartet (1955)
Grant Green - Matador (1964)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970)
Steve Lacy - Momentum (1987)
21

Sam Rivers - Contours (1965)
Roswell Rudd - Inside Job (1976)

Leo Smith - Spirit Catcher (1979)
Steve Lacy - Momentum (1987)

22
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)
Stan Getz - Getz Au Go Go (1964)
Antonio Carlos Jobim - Stone Flower (1970)
Count Basie Trio - For the First Time (1974)
Steve Lacy - Momentum (1987)
Robert Barry & Fred Anderson - Duets 2001 (1999)
Fred Anderson & Harrison Bankhead - The Great Vision Concert (2003)
23
John Coltrane - Africa/Brass (1961)
Roy Haynes - Out of the Afternoon (1962)
Dexter Gordon - Our Man in Paris (1963)
24
Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness (1956)
Johnny Griffin Orchestra - The Big Soul-Band (1960)
Charles Mingus - Mingus Revisited (1960)
Freddie Hubbard/Oscar Peterson - Face to Face (1982)
Kahil El'Zabar & Billy Bang - Spirits Entering (1998)
25
Charles Mingus - Mingus Revisited (1960)
Kahil El'Zabar & Billy Bang - Spirits Entering (1998)
Jemeel Moondoc Vtet - Revolt of the Negro Lawn Jockeys (2000)
26
Pat Metheny - 80/81 (1980)
Kenny Wheeler Quintet - Flutter By, Butterfly (1987)
William Parker - O'Neal's Porch (2000)
27
Harold Vick - Steppin' Out! (1963)
Ken McIntyre - Way, Way Out (1963)
Pat Metheny - 80/81 (1980)
Kenny Wheeler Quintet - Flutter By, Butterfly (1987)
Joshua Redman (1992)
Billy Hart - Amethyst (1993)
28
Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around (1965)
John Coltrane - Live at the Village Vanguard Again! (1966)
Pat Metheny - 80/81 (1980)
29
Bill Evans Trio - How My Heart Sings! (1962)
Dexter Gordon - Gettin' Around (1965)
Oscar Peterson - Eloquence (1965)
George Benson - Bad Benson (1974)
Pat Metheny - 80/81 (1980)
Billy Hart - Amethyst (1993)
Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre & The Light - South Eastern (2001)
30
George Benson - Bad Benson (1974)
Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre & The Light - South Eastern (2001)
Hamid Drake & Assif Tsahar - Soul Bodies, Vol. 1 (2001)
31
Kenny Dorham - 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia (1956)
Ken McIntyre - Stone Blues (1960)
Johnny Griffin Orchestra - The Big Soul-Band (1960)
Max Roach Quartet - Scott Free (1984)

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