Top Avant-Garde Jazz Songs
Rank
All Time
Artist
Song
Subgenre(s)
Other Genre(s)
Year
1
413
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Part 1: Acknowledgement
Spiritual Jazz
1965
2
1129
Ornette Coleman
Lonely Woman
1959
3
1998
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Part 2: Resolution
Spiritual Jazz
1965
4
2133
Kamasi Washington
Truth
Spiritual Jazz
2017
5
2876
Albert Ayler
Ghosts
Free Jazz
1965
6
3595
Charles Mingus
Track C - Group Dancers
Third Stream
1963
7
3688
John Coltrane
A Love Supreme, Part 3: Pursuance/Part 4: Psalm
Spiritual Jazz
1965
8
4347
Eric Dolphy
Hat and Beard
1964
9
4499
Ornette Coleman
Free Jazz
Free Jazz
1961
10
4685
The Bad Plus
Smells Like Teen Spirit
2003
11
4827
Miles Davis
Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
Jazz Fusion
1970
12
5427
Pharoah Sanders
The Creator Has a Masterplan
Spiritual Jazz
1969
13
5645
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
Jazz Fusion
1970
14
5993
Charles Mingus
Track A - Solo Dancer
Third Stream
1963
15
6038
Stan Kenton
City of Glass (Suite)
Experimental Big Band
Progressive Big Band
1952
16
6194
Sun Ra
Space Is the Place
1973
17
6208
Cecil Taylor
Enter, Evening (Soft Line Structure)
Free Jazz
1966
18
6362
John Coltrane
Ascension
Free Jazz
,
Spiritual Jazz
1966
19
6749
Alice Coltrane feat. Pharoah Sanders
Journey in Satchidananda
Spiritual Jazz
1971
20
6820
Peter Brötzmann
Machine Gun
European Free Jazz
1968
21
6908
Lennie Tristano
Intuition
Bebop
1950
22
7423
Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness
Free Jazz
,
Spiritual Jazz
1971
23
7435
Charlie Haden
Song for Ché
Experimental Big Band
1970
24
7589
Shelly Manne
Abstract No 1
Cool Jazz
1955
25
7719
David Bowie
Sue (Or in a Season of Crime)
Experimental Big Band
Experimental Rock
2014
26
7798
Max Roach
Driva' Man
Vocal Jazz
,
Work Songs
1961
27
8587
Miles Davis
Spanish Key
Jazz Fusion
1970
28
8651
Andrew Hill
Refuge
1965
29
8659
Kamasi Washington
Fists of Fury
Spiritual Jazz
Jazz Fusion
2018
30
9560
Sun Ra Arkestra
Nuclear War
1982
31
9710
John Coltrane
India
1963
Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Anthony Braxton
Comp. 23 B
1975
Gil Evans
Las Vegas Tango
Experimental Big Band
Post-Bop
1964
Eric Dolphy
Out to Lunch
1964
Charles Mingus
What Love
1961
Albert Ayler
Summertime
1964
David Murray
Flowers for Albert
1976
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Barnyard Scuffel Shuffel
1974
Charles Mingus
Mode D/E/F
Third Stream
1963
Joseph Jarman
Song For
Free Jazz
1967
Eric Dolphy
Fire Waltz
Post-Bop
1961
Cecil Taylor
Abyss
Free Jazz
1975
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Talk (Bright Moments)
Spiritual Jazz
Modal Jazz
1974
Dave Holland
Four Winds
1973
Ornette Coleman
Theme from a Symphony (Variation One)
Jazz Fusion
1977
Paul Bley
Syndrome
1963
The Lounge Lizards
Harlem Nocturne
No Wave
,
Post-Bop
1981
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra
Rocket Number Nine
1968
Sun Ra and His Arkestra
Door of the Cosmos
Spiritual Jazz
1979
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Thème de Yoyo
Film Soundtrack
1970
Miles Davis
Pharaoh's Dance
Jazz Fusion
1970
The Stooges
L.A. Blues
Free Jazz
Experimental Rock
,
Noise Rock
1970