Top Modal Jazz Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
29
 Miles Davis Kind of Blue Cool Jazz 1959
2
379
 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain Third Stream 1960
3
571
 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage 1966
4
686
 John Coltrane My Favorite Things Post-Bop 1961
5
1249
 John Coltrane Coltrane "Live" at the Village Vanguard Hard Bop 1962
6
1343
 Miles Davis Nefertiti Post-Bop 1968
7
1466
 Miles Davis Miles Smiles Post-Bop 1967
8
1863
 Wayne Shorter Juju Bebop 1965
9
1935
 Herbie Hancock Takin' Off Hard Bop, Post-Bop 1962
10
2005
 John Coltrane Ballads Cool Jazz 1963
11
2206
 McCoy Tyner Enlightenment Spiritual Jazz 1974
12
2438
 Bill Evans and Jim Hall Undercurrent Cool Jazz 1962
13
2521
 George Russell Ezz-Thetics Avant-Garde Jazz 1961
14
2747
 John Coltrane Olé Coltrane 1961
15
2834
 John Coltrane Africa/Brass Hard Bop, Post-Bop 1961

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans Cool Jazz 1959
John Coltrane Lush Life 1960
John Handy Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival 1966
George Russell The Outer View 1962
George Russell Jazz in the Space Age Avant-Garde Jazz 1960
John Coltrane Coltrane Post-Bop 1962
Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop 1965
John Coltrane The John Coltrane Quartet Plays Avant-Garde Jazz 1965
Miles Davis Someday My Prince Will Come 1961