1
The Entertainer
Scott Joplin
1902
2
Livery Stable Blues
Original Dixieland Jazz Band
1917
3
Black Bottom Stomp
Jelly Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers
1925
4
See See Rider Blues
Ma Rainey/Louis Armstrong
1924
5
St Louis Blues
Bessie Smith/Louis Armstrong
1925
6
Creole Love Call
Duke Ellington/Adelaide Hall
1927
7
West End Blues
Louis Armstrong
1928
8
Weatherbird
Louis Armstrong/Earl Hines
1928
9
Characteristic Blues
Sidney Bechet
1937
10
Taxi War Dance
Count Basie
1939
11
Tea for Two
Art Tatum
1939
12
Strange Fruit
Billie Holiday
1939
13
Body and Soul
Coleman Hawkins
1939
14
Harlem Air Shaft
Duke Ellington
1940
15
All of Me
Billie Holiday/Lester Young
1941
16
Solo Flight
Benny Goodman/Charlie Christian
1941
17
Nuages
Django Reinhardt
1941
18
Ko-Ko
Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie
1945
19
Scrapple From the Apple
Charlie Parker/Miles Davis
1947
20
Manteca
Dizzy Gillespie/Chano Pozo
1947
21
Parker’s Mood
Charlie Parker
1948
22
Jeru/Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis
1949
23
Requiem
Lennie Tristano
1955
24
Walking Shoes
Chet Baker/Gerry Mulligan
1952
25
Django
Modern Jazz Quartet
1953
26
Donna Lee
Lee Konitz/Warne Marsh
1955
27
Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue
Duke Ellington
1956
28
Brilliant Corners
Thelonious Monk
1956
29
Blue Seven
Sonny Rollins
1956
30
Bad Penny Blues
Humphrey Lyttelton
1956
31
Concerto for Billy the Kid
George Russell
1956
32
A Night in Tunisia
Art Blakey
1957
33
After Hours
Jimmy Smith
1957
34
Blues at Midnight
Sun Ra
1959
35
So What?
Miles Davis
1959
36
Lonely Woman
Ornette Coleman
1959
37
Giant Steps
John Coltrane
1959
38
Take Five
Dave Brubeck
1959
39
Killer Joe
Art Farmer/Benny Golson
1960
40
Airegin
Wes Montgomery
1960
41
Mack the Knife
Ella Fitzgerald
1960
42
Shadows
Joe Harriott
1961
43
Solar
Bill Evans
1961
44
D Trad, That’s What
Cecil Taylor
1962
45
Watermelon Man
Herbie Hancock
1962
46
Girl from Ipanema
Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto
1963
47
Mode D/E/F (The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady)
Charles Mingus
1963
48
Resolution
John Coltrane
1964
49
Hat and Beard
Eric Dolphy
1964
50
Refuge
Andrew Hill
1964
51
Ghosts
Albert Ayler
1964
52
Las Vegas Tango
Gil Evans
1964
53
Starless and Bible Black
Stan Tracey
1965
54
Footprints
Miles Davis/Wayne Shorter
1966
55
Dusk Fire
Rendell/Carr Quintet
1966
56
Indian Lady
Don Ellis
1967
57
Blood Count
Duke Ellington/Billy Strayhorn
1967
58
Machine Gun
Peter Brotzmann
1968
59
Karyobin
Spontaneous Music Ensemble
1968
60
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
Miles Davis
1969
61
Family Joy Oh Boy!
Michael Gibbs
1969
62
War Orphans
Carla Bley/Charlie Haden
1969
63
People in Sorrow
Art Ensemble of Chicago
1969
64
Universal Consciousness
Alice Coltrane
1971
65
Brotherhood of Breath MRA
Chris McGregor
1971
66
Return to Forever
Chick Corea
1972
67
Tintiyana
Abdullah Ibrahim
1973
68
Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit
McCoy Tyner
1974
69
Köln Concert Part 1
Keith Jarrett
1975
70
Birdland
Weather Report
1977
71
Vandrere
Jan Garbarek
1977
72
Can We Talk It Over?
Betty Carter
1979
73
Are You Going With Me?
Pat Metheny
1982
74
Rockit
Herbie Hancock
1983
75
Once Upon a Time in the West
John Zorn
1985
76
Much Later
Wynton Marsalis
1985
77
Song X Ornette
Coleman/Pat Metheny
1985
78
No Good Time Fairies
Steve Coleman
1985
79
Trilok Gurtu
Shobharock
1988
80
Sweet Williams
Loose Tubes
1988
81
Sweet Automatic
Pinski Zoo
1988
82
Since You Asked
John Scofield/Joe Lovano
1990
83
Aquatic
The Necks
1994
84
Nicolette
Kenny Wheeler
1996
85
Svantetic
Tomasz Stanko
1997
86
Dance in thy Soul
Dave Douglas
1997
87
Peel Me a Grape
Diana Krall
1997
88
Herbaceous
Dave Holland
1998
89
Dodge the Dodo
Esbjörn Svensson /EST
1998
90
River Man
Brad Mehldau
2000
91
Smells Like Teen Spirit
The Bad Plus
2001
92
Sigh Fry
Tim Berne/Craig Taborn
2001
93
UK
Courtney Pine
2003
94
Resolution
Kurt Elling
2003
95
Salt Water
Acoustic Ladyland
2006
96
Cerulean Skies
Maria Schneider
2007
97
Fall In
Esperanza Spalding
2008
98
No Neighbourhood Rough Enough
Steve Lehman
2009
99
Think of One
Robert Glasper
2009
100
Confessions to my Unborn Daughter
Ambrose Akinmusire
2011
