Top 5 Albums by Popular Jazz Artists

1. Somethin' Else
2. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! Live at 'The Club'
3. The Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco
4. Cannonball Adderley Quintet in Chicago
5. Know What I Mean? [with Bill Evans]

1. Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy
2. Satch Plays Fats
3. Together for the First Time [with Duke Ellington]
4. Louis Armstrong Meets Oscar Peterson
5. Louis Armstrong at the Crescendo, Vol. 1

1. Les stances à Sophie
2. People in Sorrow
3. Nice Guys
4. Urban Bushmen
5. Fanfare for the Warriors

1. Spiritual Unity
2. Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village
3. Ghosts/Vibrations
4. Spirits Rejoice
5. Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1

1. Chet Baker Sings
2. Blues for a Reason
3. It Could Happen to You
4. Chet
5. Chet's Choice

1. The Atomic Mr. Basie
2. April in Paris
3. Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings
4. At Newport
5. Count Basie and the Kansas City 7

1. Moanin'
2. A Night at Birdland, Vol. 1
3. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
4. A Night at Birdland, Vol. 2
5. Free for All

1. Open, to Love
2. Improvisie
3. Solo in Mondsee
4. Closer
5. Sankt Gerold [with Evan Parker & Barre Phillips]

1. For Alto
2. 3 Compositions of New Jazz
3. Dortmund (Quartet) 1976
4. Willisau (Quartet) 1991
5. The Montreux/Berlin Concerts

1. Clifford Brown and Max Roach
2. At Basin Street [with Max Roach]
3. Study in Brown [with Max Roach]
4. Memorial Album
5. Brown and Roach Incorporated

1. Time Out
2. Jazz Goes to College
3. At Carnegie Hall
4. Jazz at Oberlin
5. Time Further Out

1. Midnight Blue
2. Ellington Is Forever, Vol. 1
3. Guitar Forms
4. A Night at the Vanguard
5. Ellington Is Forever, Vol. 2

1. The Shape of Jazz to Come
2. Free Jazz
3. Change of the Century
4. Dancing in Your Head
5. At the Golden Circle, Volume One

1. A Love Supreme
2. Giant Steps
3. Blue Train
4. My Favorite Things
5. Ascension

1. Return to Forever
2. Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
3. Light as a Feather
4. Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
5. Tones for Joan's Bones

1. Kind of Blue
2. Bitches Brew
3. Birth of the Cool
4. In a Silent Way
5. Sketches of Spain

1. Out to Lunch!
2. At the Five Spot, Vol. 1
3. Far Cry
4. Out There
5. Outward Bound

1. Afro-Cuban
2. Una mas (One More Time)
3. 'Round About Midnight at the Cafe Bohemia
4. Quiet Kenny
5. Whistle Stop

1. Ellington at Newport
2. Far East Suite
3. Money Jungle [with Charles Mingus & Max Roach]
4. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
5. ...and His Mother Called Him Bill

1. Sunday at the Village Vanguard
2. Waltz for Debby
3. Portrait in Jazz
4. Explorations
5. Everybody Digs Bill Evans

1. Out of the Cool
2. The Individualism of Gil Evans
3. The Gil Evans Orchestra Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix
4. Gil Evans & Ten
5. New Bottle Old Wine

1. Blame It on My Youth
2. Meet the Jazztet [with Benny Golson]
3. Portrait of Art Farmer
4. Modern Art
5. Farmer's Market

1. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
2. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook
3. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
4. Ella and Louis [with Louis Armstrong]
5. Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook

1. The Cats [with John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell & Idrees Sulieman]
2. Giant Steps
3. Jazz Poet
4. Let's Play the Music of Thad Jones
5. Beyond the Blue Bird

1. Witchi-Tai-To [with the Bobo Stenson Quartet]
2. Afric Pepperbird
3. Twelve Moons
4. Dresden: In Concert
5. Triptykon [with Arild Andersen & Edward Vesala]

1. Getz/Gilberto [with João Gilberto]
2. Jazz Samba [with Charlie Byrd]
3. Focus
4. Sweet Rain
5. Captain Marvel

1. Roy and Diz [with Roy Eldridge]
2. At Newport
3. Birks' Works
4. Sonny Side Up [with Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins]
5. Gillespiana

1. Free Fall
2. Fusion
3. Thesis
4. The Jimmy Giuffre 3
5. The Easy Way

1. The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
2. B.G. in Hi-Fi
3. Together Again!
4. The Benny Goodman Story
5. Benny Goodman Sextet Session

1. Our Man in Paris
2. Go
3. Doin' Allright
4. Homecoming: Live at the Village Vanguard
5. A Swingin' Affair

1. Idle Moments
2. Matador
3. Born to Be Blue
4. Green Street
5. Feelin' the Spirit

1. Head Hunters
2. Maiden Voyage
3. Empyrean Isles
4. Takin' Off
5. Mwandishi

1. Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster
2. The Hawk Flies High
3. The Genius of Coleman Hawkins
4. Today and Now
5. Hawk Eyes

1. Page One
2. Inner Urge
3. Mode for Joe
4. Lush Life: The Music of Billy Strayhorn
5. The State of the Tenor – Live at the Village Vanguard, Volume 1

1. Point of Departure
2. Black Fire
3. Judgment!
4. Dance with Death
5. Passing Ships

1. Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington
2. Tour de Force
3. Blues in Thirds
4. Spontaneous Explorations
5. Tour de Force Encore

1. Lady in Satin
2. Lady Sings the Blues
3. Songs for Distingué Lovers
4. Body and Soul
5. Billie Holiday at Jazz at the Philharmonic

1. Hub-Tones
2. Open Sesame
3. Red Clay
4. Ready for Freddie
5. Straight Life

1. The Köln Concert
2. Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne
3. Belonging [with Jan Garbarek]
4. My Song
5. The Survivors' Suite

1. With Clifford Brown/The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Volume 1
2. The Eminent Jay Jay Johnson, Vol. 2
3. The Great Kai & J.J. [with Kai Winding]
4. J.J. Inc.
5. Proof Positive

1. New Concepts of Artistry in Rhythm
2. Kenton in Hi-Fi
3. Cuban Fire!
4. City of Glass
5. Kenton's West Side Story

1. Rip, Rig and Panic
2. The Inflated Tear
3. We Free Kings
4. Bright Moments
5. Blacknuss

1. Lee Konitz with Tristano, Marsh, & Bauer/Subconscious-Lee
2. The Lee Konitz Duets
3. Motion
4. Live at the Half Note
5. Konitz Meets Mulligan [with Gerry Mulligan]

1. From the Soul
2. Quartets: Live at the Village Vanguard
3. Rush Hour
4. Landmarks
5. Celebrating Sinatra

1. Black Codes (From the Underground)
2. Live at Blues Alley
3. Citi Movement
4. Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1
5. In This House, on This Morning

1. The Inner Mounting Flame
2. Birds of Fire
3. Extrapolation
4. My Goal's Beyond
5. Devotion

1. Let Freedom Ring
2. One Step Beyond
3. Destination... Out!
4. New and Old Gospel
5. New Soil

1. Combustication
2. Uninvisible
3. End of the World Party (Just in Case)
4. It's a Jungle in Here
5. Out Louder [with John Scofield]

1. Pat Metheny Group
2. Bright Size Life
3. Song X [with Ornette Coleman]
4. The Way Up
5. 80/81

1. Mingus Ah Um
2. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
3. Pithecanthropus Erectus
4. Blues & Roots
5. Tijuana Moods

1. Soul Station
2. Roll Call
3. Workout
4. No Room for Squares
5. Dippin'

1. Django
2. Fontessa
3. The Last Concert
4. European Concert
5. Dedicated to Connie

1. Brilliant Corners
2. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
3. Monk's Music
4. Monk's Dream
5. Thelonious in Action: Recorded at the Five Spot Cafe, New York City

1. The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
2. Full House
3. Smokin' at the Half Note [with the Wynton Kelly Trio]
4. So Much Guitar!
5. Movin' Along

1. The Sidewinder
2. Search for the New Land
3. Cornbread
4. The Gigolo
5. Live at the Lighthouse [Blue Note]

1. Gerry Mulligan Quartet [Pacific PJLP-1]
2. Gerry Mulligan Quartet [Pacific PJLP-5]
3. Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster
4. What Is There to Say?
5. Gerry Mulligan and the Concert Jazz Band at the Village Vanguard

1. Ming
2. Special Quartet
3. Home
4. Murray's Steps
5. Ballads

1. Jazz at Massey Hall [with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach]
2. Bird and Diz [with Dizzy Gillespie]
3. Charlie Parker and the Stars of Modern Jazz! Carnegie Hall, X-Mas '49
4. One Night in Birdland/Bird & Fats [with Fats Navarro]
5. Bird & Pres Carnegie Hall 1949/1949 Jazz at the Philharmonic [with Lester Young]

1. The Topography of the Lungs [with Derek Bailey & Han Bennink]
2. 50th Birthday Concert
3. Imaginary Values [with Barry Guy & Paul Lytton]
4. Saxophone Solos
5. Monoceros

1. Night Train
2. Oscar Peterson Trio + 1: Clark Terry
3. At the Stratford Shakespearean Festival
4. The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Concertgebouw
5. The Trio [Pablo]

1. Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section
2. Art Pepper + Eleven: Modern Jazz Classics
3. Smack Up
4. Straight Life
5. Winter Moon

1. The Amazing Bud Powell
2. The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 2
3. The Genius of Bud Powell/Bud Powell's Moods [Mercury]
4. Jazz Giant
5. Bud! (The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 3)

1. We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite
2. Percussion Bitter Sweet
3. Deeds, Not Words
4. Max Roach + 4
5. One in Two, Two in One [with Anthony Braxton]
Also See: Clifford Brown

1. Saxophone Colossus
2. A Night at the "Village Vanguard"
3. Way Out West
4. The Bridge
5. Freedom Suite

1. Ezz-thetics
2. The Jazz Workshop
3. Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature [1968]
4. New York N.Y.
5. Jazz in the Space Age

1. Karma
2. Black Unity
3. Thembi
4. Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
5. Journey to the One

1. Four for Trane
2. Fire Music
3. The Way Ahead
4. Mama Too Tight
5. Attica Blues

1. Speak No Evil
2. Adam's Apple
3. Juju
4. Night Dreamer
5. Native Dancer

1. Song for My Father
2. Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers
3. Blowin' the Blues Away
4. 6 Pieces of Silver
5. Finger Poppin'

1. The Sermon!
2. Back at the Chicken Shack
3. Jimmy & Wes: The Dynamic Duo [with Wes Montgomery]
4. Bashin': The Unpredictable Jimmy Smith
5. Root Down: Jimmy Smith Live!

1. Jazz in Silhouette
2. The Magic City
3. The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra
4. Atlantis
5. Space Is the Place [Blue Thumb]

1. The Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet/The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume Eight
2. An Art Tatum Concert/Piano Starts Here
3. 20th Century Piano Genius
4. Tatum Carter Bellson/Three Giants/The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Volume One
5. God Is in the House

1. Unit Structures
2. Conquistador!
3. Live at the Cafe Montmartre/Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
4. Silent Tongues
5. Looking Ahead!

1. The Real McCoy
2. Enlightenment
3. Sahara
4. Echoes of a Friend
5. Supertrios

1. Sarah Vaughan [with Clifford Brown]
2. Images/Swingin' Easy
3. In the Land of Hi-Fi
4. After Hours
5. Crazy and Mixed Up

1. Heavy Weather
2. Black Market
3. Mysterious Traveller
4. I Sing the Body Electric
5. Weather Report [1971]

1. Soulville
2. Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson
3. Ben Webster and Associates
4. See You at the Fair
5. The Consummate Artistry of Ben Webster/King of the Tenors

1. Plays Duke Ellington
2. Revue
3. W.S.Q.
4. Rhythm and Blues
5. Dances and Ballads

1. The President Plays with the Oscar Peterson Trio
2. Pres and Teddy [with Teddy Wilson]
3. The Jazz Giants '56
4. Pres & Sweets [with Harry Edison]
5. Lester Young in Washington, D.C. 1956, Vol. 2

1. Naked City
2. Spillane
3. The Big Gundown
4. Torture Garden [by Naked City]
5. Live in Jerusalem 1994 [by Masada]