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