Jazz 100 - New Jazz Top 100

NOTE: For pre-1980 recordings see Top 100 (Pre-1980)

Jazz 100
Top 100 (Post-1980)
The Best Jazz Ever Released Digitally

Rank

Artist

Title

Year

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1	Seatbelts	Cowboy Bebop	1998
2	Sonny Sharrock	Ask the Ages	1991
3	Buena Vista Social Club	Buena Vista Social Club	1997
4	Kamasi Washington	The Epic	2015
5	Pat Metheny Group	The Way Up	2005
6	Natalia Lafourcade	De Todas las Flores	2022
7	Portico Quartet	Isla	2009
8	John Zorn	The Big Gundown	1985
9	Sons of Kemet	Black to the Future	2021
10	Nubya Garcia	Source	2020
11	David Murray Octet	Ming	1980
12	In Order to Survive	The Peach Orchard	1998
13	Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny	Beyond the Missouri Sky	1997
14	Mélanie de Biasio	No Deal	2013
15	Esbjorn Svensson Trio	Leucocyte	2008
16	Rabih Abou-Khalil	Blue Camel	1992
17	John Scofield	A Go Go	1998
18	Esperanza Spalding	Esperanza	2008
19	Madeleine Peyroux	Careless Love	2004
20	The Bad Plus	These Are the Vistas	2003
21	Jack DeJohnette	Special Edition	1980
22	Tomasz Stanko Septet	Litania	1997
23	Allen Toussaint	The Bright Mississippi	2009
24	Avishai Cohen Trio	Gently Disturbed	2008
25	Vijay Iyer	Far from Over	2017
26	Esbjorn Svensson Trio	Viaticum	2005
27	Medeski, Martin & Wood	The End of the World Party	2004
28	Medeski, Martin & Wood	Combustication	1998
29	Marc Ribot	The Prosthetic Cubans	1998
30	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Light 'til Dawn	1993
31	Roy Hargrove	Earfood	2008
32	Brad Mehldau	The Art of the Trio, Volume Three	1998
33	Kenny Wheeler	Angel Song	1997
34	Charles Gayle	Repent	1992
35	Ornette Coleman	Sound Grammar	2006
36	Diana Krall	All For You	1996
37	Ambrose Akinmusire	The Imagined Savior...	2014
38	Tomasz Stanko Quartet	Lontano	2006
39	Bill Frisell	Good Dog, Happy Man	1999
40	Cassandra Wilson	New Moon Daughter	1995
41	Dave Holland Quintet	Extended Play: Live at Birdland	2003
42	Joe Henderson	Lush Life	1992
43	The Lounge Lizards	No Pain for Cakes	1987
44	Henry Threadgill	Too Much Sugar for a Dime	1993
45	Tigran Hamasyan	Shadow Theater	2013
46	Tord Gustavsen Trio	Being There	2007
47	Jack DeJohnette	In Movement	2016
48	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Mélusine	2023
49	Jan Garbarek	In Praise of Dreams	2004
50	Pat Metheny & Brad Mehldau	Metheny/Mehldau	2006
51	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Ghost Song	2022
52	Michael Brecker	Michael Brecker	1987
53	Randy Weston	The Spirits of Our Ancestors	1991
54	Keith Jarrett	Bye Bye Blackbird	1993
55	Chet Baker	Let's Get Lost	1989
56	Bill Frisell	Blues Dream	2001
57	Dexter Gordon & Herbie Hancock	Round Midnight	1986
58	Michael Brecker	Tales From the Hudson	1996
59	Joshua Redman	MoodSwing	1994
60	Tord Gustavsen Trio	Changing Places	2003
61	Gregory Porter	Be Good	2012
62	Wayne Shorter	Footprints Live!	2002
63	Dave Holland Quintet	Prime Directive	1999
64	Joe Henderson	So Near, So Far (Musings for Miles)	1993
65	Cécile McLorin Salvant	Dreams and Daggers	2017
66	Harry Connick, Jr.	When Harry Met Sally...	1989
67	Matthew Halsall	Colour Yes	2009
68	Patricia Barber	Café Blue	1994
69	Erik Truffaz	The Walk of the Giant Turtle	2003
70	Lloyd Miller	(OST)	2010
71	John Scofield	Time on My Hands	1990
72	Don Byron	Bug Music	1996
73	Joe Lovano	From the Soul	1992
74	Patricia Barber	Mythologies	2006
75	Radka Toneff and Steve Dobrogosz	Fairytales	1982
76	Dave Douglas	Charms of the Night Sky	1998
77	William Parker	O'Neal's Porch	2001
78	Marc Johnson	Bass Desires	1986
79	Carla Bley	Social Studies	1981
80	José James	The Dreamer	2008
81	Jamie Saft Trio	Book of Angels: Astaroth Vol. 1	2005
82	Carmen McRae	Carmen Sings Monk	1990
83	Brian Blade	Season of Changes	2008
84	Michel Petrucciani	Power of Three	1986
85	Charles Lloyd	Hyperion With Higgins	2001
86	Marcin Wasilewski Trio	January	2008
87	Michel Petrucciani	Michel Plays Petrucciani	1988
88	Arthur Blythe	Illusions	1980
89	Wynton Marsalis	J Mood	1986
90	Brian Blade Fellowship	Perceptual	2000
91	Wayne Shorter	Emanon	2018
92	Horace Tapscott	The Dark Tree 1	1991
93	The Art Farmer Quintet	Blame It on My Youth	1988
94	Bobo Stenson Trio	Serenity	2000
95	Terence Blanchard	A Tale of God's Will	2007
96	Ralph Towner	Anthem	2001
97	Matthew Halsall	Sending My Love	2008
98	Marilyn Crispell	Nothing Ever Was, Anyway	1997
99	Shirley Horn	Here's to Life	1992
100	Branford Marsalis	Trio Jeepy	1988