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81: Frank Sinatra: Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise)
Key track: “Angel Eyes”

80: Pat Metheny: Bright Side Life (ECM)
Key track: “Bright Size Life”

79: Metropole Orkest feat. John Scofield: 54 (Emarcy)
Key track: “Carlos”

78: Art Tatum: Piano Starts Here (Columbia)
Key track: “How High The Moon”

77: Christian Scott and Tunde Adjuah: The Emancipation Procrastination (Ropeadope/Stretch Music)
Key track: “Ashes Of Our Forever”

76: Michael Brecker: Pilgrimage (Heads Up)
Key track: “When Can I Kiss You Again”

75: Cécile McLorin Salvant: Dream & Daggers (Mack Avenue)
Key track: “Never Will I Marry”

74: Brad Mehldau Trio: Anything Goes (Warner)
Key track: “Everything In Its Right Place”

73: Maria Schneider Orchestra: Data Lords (Artist Share)
Key track: “Sputnik”

72: Ambrose Akinmusire: When The Heart Emerges Glistening (Blue Note)
Key track: “Confessions to My Unborn Daughter”

71: Gregory Porter: Be Good (Motema)
Key track: “On My Way To Harlem”

70: Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue (Blue Note)
Key track: “Chitlins Con Carne”

69: Chet Baker – Chet Baker & Crew (Pacific Jazz)
Key track: “To Mickey’s Memory”

68: Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda (Impulse!)
Key track: “Journey In Satchidananda”

67: Oscar Peterson: Night Train (Verve)
Key track: “C Jam Blues”

66: Ella Fitzgerald: Sings The Cole Porter Songbook (Verve)
Key track: “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”

65: Wayne Shorter: Emanon (Blue Note)
Key track: “Prometheus Unbound”

64: Wynton Marsalis: Black Codes (From The Underground) (Columbia)
Key track: “Black Codes”

63: Ahmad Jamal: At The Pershing: But Not For Me (Argo)
Key track: “Poinciana”

62: Pharoah Sanders: Karma (Impulse!)
Key track: “The Creator Has A Master Plan”

61: Dave Holland Quartet: Conference Of The Birds (ECM)
Key track: “Four Winds”

60: The Modern Jazz Quartet: Lonely Woman (Atlantic)
Key track: “Lonely Woman”

59: Coleman Hawkins: Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster (Verve)
Key track: “Tangerine”

58: Roy Hargrove Quintet: Earfood (EmArcy)
Key track: “Strasbourg/St. Denis”

57: Freddie Hubbard: Red Clay (CTI)
Key track: “Red Clay”

56: Kamasi Washington: The Epic (Brainfeeder)
Key track: “Change Of The Guard”

55: Chick Corea & Return To Forever: Light As A Feather (Polydor)
Key track: “Spain”

54: Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Rollins, Sonny Stitt: Sonny Side Up (Verve)
Key track: “The Eternal Triangle”

53: Jackie McLean: Destination … Out! (Blue Note)
Key track: “Love and Hate”

52: Billie Holiday: Lady In Satin (Columbia)
Key track: “You’ve Changed”

51: Django Reinhardt – Retrospective 1934-53 (Saga)
Key track: “Limehouse Blues”

50: Thelonious Monk: Genius Of Modern Music Vols.1 & 2 (Blue Note)
Key track: “Well You Needn’t”

49: Count Basie: The Original American Decca Recordings (Decca)
Key track: “Pennies From Heaven”

48: Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol.1 (Blue Note)
Key track: “Bouncing With Bud”

47: Weather Report: Heavy Weather (Columbia)
Key track: “Birdland”

46: John Coltrane And Thelonious Monk: At Carnegie Hall (Blue Note)
Key track: “Blue Monk”

45: Horace Silver: Song For My Father (Blue Note)
Key track: “Song For My Father”

44: Grant Green: Idle Moments (Blue Note)
Key track: “Idle Moments”

43: Count Basie: The Complete Atomic Basie (Roulette)
Key track: “Kid From The Red Bank”

42: Hank Mobley: Soul Station (Blue Note)
Key track: “I Remember”

41: Charlie Christian: The Genius Of The Electric Guitar (Columbia)
Key track: “Solo Flight”

40: Art Pepper, Red Garland, Paul Chambers And Philly Joe Jones: Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section (Contemporary)
Key track: “Imagination”

39: John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (Atlantic)
Key track: “My Favorite Things”

38: Benny Goodman: At Carnegie Hall (Columbia)
Key track: “Sing, Sing, Sing (With A Swing)”

37: Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery (Riverside)
Key track: “Four On Six”

36: The Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlin: The Inner Mounting Flame (Columbia)
Key track: “The Dance Of Maya”

35: Clifford Brown And Max Roach: Clifford Brown & Max Roach (EmArcy)
Key track: “Joy Spring”

34: Andrew Hill: Point Of Departure (Blue Note)
Key track: “Flight 19”

33: Herbie Hancock: Head Hunters (Columbia)
Key track: “Chameleon”

32: Dexter Gordon: Go! (Blue Note)
Key track: “Cheese Cake”

31: Sarah Vaughan: Sarah Vaughan (With Clifford Brown) (EmArcy)
Key track: “Lullaby Of Birdland”

30: The Quintet: Jazz At Massey Hall (Debut)
Key track: “A Night In Tunisia”

29: Bill Evans Trio: Waltz For Debby (Riverside)
Key track: “My Foolish Heart”

28: Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (Blue Note)
Key track: “The Sidewinder”

27: Bill Evans: Sunday At The Village Vanguard (Riverside)
Key track: “My Man’s Gone Now”

26: Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners (Riverside)
Key track: “Bemsha Swing”

25: Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert (ECM)
Key track: “Part 1”

24: John Coltrane: Giant Steps (Atlantic)
Key track: “Giant Steps”

23: Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (Blue Note)
Key track: “Maiden Voyage”

22: Duke Ellington: Ellington At Newport (Columbia)
Key track: “Diminuendo And Crescendo In Blue”

21: Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (Blue Note)
Key track: “Steps”

20: Charlie Parker: Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings (Concord)
Key track: “Now’s The Time”

19: Miles Davis: Birth Of The Cool (Capitol)
Key Track: “Boplicity”

18: Art Blakey And The Jazz Messengers: Moanin’ (Blue Note)
Key track: “Moanin’”

17: Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (ESP-Disk’)
Key track: “Spirits”

16: Eric Dolphy: Out To Lunch! (Blue Note)
Key track: “Hat And Beard”

15: Oliver Nelson: The Blues And The Abstract Truth (Impulse!)
Key track: “Stolen Moments”

14: Erroll Garner: Concert By The Sea (Columbia)
Key track: “Red Top”

13: Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (Blue Note)
Key track: “Infant Eyes”

12: Stan Getz And João Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (Verve)
Key track: “The Girl From Ipanema”

11: Louis Armstrong: Best Of The Hot 5s And 7s (Columbia)
Key track: “West End Blues”

10: John Coltrane: Blue Train (Blue Note)
Key track: “Blue Train”

9: Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (Columbia)
Key track: “Spanish Key”

8: Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus (Prestige)
Key track: “St Thomas”

7: Cannonball Adderley: Somethin’ Else (Blue Note)
Key track: “Autumn Leaves”

6: Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (Impulse!)
Key track: “Duet Solo Dancers” (aka “Hearts Beat And Shades In Physical Embraces”)

5: Ornette Coleman: The Shape Of Jazz To Come (Atlantic)
Key track: “Lonely Woman”

4: Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Columbia)
Key track: “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”

3: Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia)
Key track: “Take Five”

2: John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!)
Key track: “Part One: “Acknowledgement’”

1: Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (Columbia)
Key track: “So What”

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