Top Post-Bop Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
394
 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um 1959
2
686
 John Coltrane My Favorite Things Modal Jazz 1961
3
760
 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1966
4
906
 Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus 1956
5
1047
 Charles Mingus Blues and Roots 1960
6
1343
 Miles Davis Nefertiti Modal Jazz 1968
7
1466
 Miles Davis Miles Smiles Modal Jazz 1967
8
1572
 Charles Mingus Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods 1962
9
1605
 Chick Corea Now He Sings, Now He Sobs 1968
10
1679
 McCoy Tyner The Real McCoy 1967
11
1688
 Sun Ra Jazz in Silhouette 1958
12
1785
 Charles Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus 1964
13
1881
 Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring 1962
14
1935
 Herbie Hancock Takin' Off Hard Bop, Modal Jazz 1962
15
1939
 Rahsaan Roland Kirk The Inflated Tear 1968
16
1977
 Rahsaan Roland Kirk Rip, Rig and Panic 1965
17
2000
 Lee Morgan Search for the New Land 1966
18
2242
 Eric Dolphy At the Five Spot, Vol. 1 Avant-Garde Jazz 1961
19
2335
 Larry Young Unity 1966
20
2681
 Miles Davis E.S.P. 1965
21
2698
 Wynton Marsalis Black Codes (from the Underground) 1985
22
2728
 John McLaughlin Extrapolation 1969
23
2814
 John Coltrane Crescent Avant-Garde Jazz 1964
24
2834
 John Coltrane Africa/Brass Hard Bop, Modal Jazz 1961
25
2853
 Steve Lacy Reflections: Steve Lacy Plays Thelonious Monk 1959
26
2857
 Charles Mingus Oh Yeah 1962
27
2888
 John Coltrane Live at Birdland 1964
28
2889
 Wayne Shorter Adam's Apple Hard Bop 1967
29
2950
 Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster/Blue Saxophones 1959

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Charles Mingus Mingus at Antibes 1976
Miles Davis My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert 1965
Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette Standards Live 1986
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay Soul Jazz 1970
McCoy Tyner Sahara 1972
Thelonious Monk Misterioso 1958
Sun Ra and The Arkestra Sound of Joy 1968
Roy Haynes Out of the Afternoon 1962
Sonny Rollins East Broadway Run Down Avant-Garde Jazz 1966
Eric Dolphy with Booker Little Far Cry 1962
Bill Evans Conversations with Myself 1963
Eric Dolphy Out There 1960
Gary Burton Duster 1967
Charles Mingus Changes One 1975
Miles Davis Filles de Kilimanjaro 1969
Eric Dolphy Iron Man Avant-Garde Jazz 1969
Jackie McLean One Step Beyond 1963
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith 1967
Cecil Taylor Jazz Advance Avant-Garde Jazz 1956
Jackie McLean Destination... Out! 1964
Charles Mingus Town Hall Concert Avant-Garde Jazz 1964
Charles Mingus The Great Concert of Charles Mingus Avant-Garde Jazz 1970
Charles Mingus The Clown 1957
Rahsaan Roland Kirk We Free Kings Hard Bop 1962
McCoy Tyner Trident 1975
John Coltrane Coltrane Modal Jazz 1962
Sun Ra Arkestra Sunrise in Different Dimensions Free Jazz 1981
Bobby Hutcherson Dialogue Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz 1965
Sun Ra and His Arkestra Super-Sonic Jazz 1957
Booker Ervin The Freedom Book 1964
Charles Mingus Mingus Dynasty 1960
Krzysztof Komeda Astigmatic Avant-Garde Jazz 1966
Andrew Hill Judgment! 1964
Herbie Hancock V.S.O.P Jazz Fusion 1976
Sam Rivers Contours Avant-Garde Jazz 1965
Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus/Interstellar Low Ways 1965
Andrew Hill Black Fire 1964
Herbie Hancock V.S.O.P. - The Quintet 1977
Vijay Iyer Sextet Far from Over 2017
John Coltrane Newport '63 1993