101 | Antonio Carlos Jobim | Stone Flower | 1970 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
102 | Chick Corea & Return to Forever | Light As a Feather | 1972 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
103 | Miles Davis Quintet | Workin' (or Cookin') | 1956 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
104 | The Gerry Mulligan Quartet | The Best of with Chet Baker | 1953 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
105 | McCoy Tyner | Sahara | 1972 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
106 | Jackie McLean | Destination Out! | 1963 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
107 | Bobby Hutcherson | Dialogue | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
108 | Sonny Rollins | The Bridge | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
109 | Joe McPhee | Nation Time | 1971 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
110 | Pat Metheny Group | Pat Metheny Group | 1978 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
111 | Freddie Hubbard | Straight Life | 1971 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
112 | Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers | A Night in Tunisia | 1961 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
113 | Duke Ellington | The OKeh Ellington | 1926 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
114 | Grachan Moncur III | Evolution | 1964 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
115 | Miles Davis | Porgy and Bess | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
116 | Dizzy Gillespie | Groovin' High | 1946 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
117 | Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie | Bird and Diz | 1950 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
118 | Roland Kirk | Rip, Rig and Panic | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
119 | Jan Johansson | Jazz pa svenska | 1964 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
120 | Keith Jarrett | The Survivors' Suite | 1976 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
121 | Sam Rivers | Contours | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
122 | Sonny Rollins | Way Out West | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
123 | Louis Armstrong | Plays W.C. Handy | 1954 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
124 | The Oscar Peterson Trio | Night Train | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
125 | Clifford Brown & Max Roach | Study in Brown | 1955 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
126 | The Gil Evans Orchestra | Out of the Cool | 1960 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
127 | Thelonious Monk w/ John Coltrane | At Carnegie Hall | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
128 | Cannonball Adderley Quintet | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! | 1966 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
129 | Miles Davis | Birth of the Cool | 1950 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
130 | Gillespie, Rollins & Stitt | Sonny Side Up | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
131 | Wes Montgomery | Full House | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
132 | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | 1968 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
133 | Pete La Roca | Basra | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
134 | Ahmad Jamal | At the Pershing/But Not For Me | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
135 | Tina Brooks | True Blue | 1960 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
136 | Jim Hall | Concierto | 1975 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
137 | Art Pepper | Meets the Rhythm Section | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
138 | Donald Byrd | A New Perspective | 1963 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
139 | Jackie McLean | Let Freedom Ring | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
140 | Joe Henderson | Inner Urge | 1964 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
141 | Louis Armstrong | All Stars Recordings 1947-1951 | 1946 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
142 | Philip Cohran | On the Beach | 1967 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
143 | Wes Montgomery & Wynton Kelly | Smokin' at the Half Note | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
144 | Bix Beiderbecke | Singin' the Blues (1927) | 1927 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
145 | Horace Silver | Blowin' the Blues Away | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
146 | The Don Ellis Orchestra | Electric Bath | 1967 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
147 | Helen Merrill | Helen Merrill | 1955 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
148 | Ray Barretto | Acid | 1968 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
149 | Hank Mobley | No Room for Squares | 1963 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
150 | Django Reinhardt | Djangology | 1949 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
151 | Booker Ervin | The Freedom Book | 1963 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
152 | Mal Waldron | The Quest | 1961 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
153 | Moacir Santos | Coisas | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
154 | Art Blakey Quintet | A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 | 1954 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
155 | Roscoe Mitchell Sextet | Sound | 1966 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
156 | The Horace Silver Quintet | The Cape Verdean Blues | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
157 | John Abercrombie | Gateway | 1975 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
158 | Cecil Taylor | Silent Tongues | 1974 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
159 | Benny Goodman | Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert [2CD] | 1938 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
160 | Louis Armstrong | Satch Plays Fats | 1955 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
161 | Coleman Hawkins | Encounters Ben Webster | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
162 | Curtis Fuller | Blues-ette | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
163 | Art Tatum w/ Ben Webster | Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet | 1956 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
164 | Roland Kirk | We Free Kings | 1961 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
165 | Lou Donaldson | Blues Walk | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
166 | Dizzy Gillespie | At Newport | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
167 | Roy Haynes Quartet | Out of the Afternoon | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
168 | Roy Haynes | We Three | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
169 | Blue Mitchell | The Thing to Do | 1964 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
170 | Jelly Roll Morton | Birth of the Hot | 1927 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
171 | Lester Young | With the Oscar Peterson Trio | 1952 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
172 | Ike Quebec | Blue & Sentimental | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
173 | Paul Desmond | Take Ten | 1963 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
174 | The King Cole Trio | Decca/Capitol Trio Recordings | 1946 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
175 | Art Tatum | Piano Starts Here | 1949 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
176 | Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron | Blue Note & Capitol Recordings | 1949 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
177 | Kenny Wheeler | Gnu High | 1975 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
178 | Bessie Smith | Empress of the Blues | 1933 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
179 | Dinah Washington | Dinah Jams | 1954 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
180 | Benny Carter & His Orchestra | Further Definitions | 1961 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
181 | Art Pepper | Art Pepper + Eleven | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
182 | Joe Farrell | Moon Germs | 1972 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
183 | Jimmy Smith | The Sermon | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
184 | Ben Webster | Meets Oscar Peterson | 1960 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
185 | Bud Powell | Jazz Giant | 1950 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
186 | Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley | Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley | 1962 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
187 | Michel Legrand | Legrand Jazz | 1958 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
188 | Gabor Szabo | The Sorcerer | 1967 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
189 | Woody Shaw | Blackstone Legacy | 1971 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
190 | Milt Jackson & John Coltrane | Bags & Trane | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
191 | Jay Jay Johnson | The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson (Vol. 1) | 1953 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
192 | Barney Kessel | The Poll Winners | 1957 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
193 | Phil Woods | Musique du Bois | 1974 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
194 | Billie Holiday | The Commodore Master Takes | 1944 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
195 | The Lloyd McNeill Quartet | Washington Suite | 1970 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
196 | Johnny Hodges | Everybody Knows | 1965 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
197 | Mel Torme | Swings Shubert Alley | 1960 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
198 | Chet Baker | Chet | 1959 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
199 | Jean-Luc Ponty | Enigmatic Ocean | 1977 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | |
200 | Cal Tjader | Soul Sauce | 1964 | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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