Top Soul Jazz Songs
Rank All Time Artist Song Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
2108
 Nina Simone Mississippi Goddam Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz 1964
2
2440
 Herbie Hancock Watermelon Man Hard Bop 1962
3
2503
 Jimmy Forrest Night Train 1952
4
2611
 Nina Simone Feeling Good Big Band 1965
5
3324
 Nina Simone Sinnerman Rhythm & Blues, Vocal Jazz 1965
6
3827
 Roy Ayers Everybody Loves the Sunshine 1976
7
3843
 Cannonball Adderley Mercy, Mercy, Mercy 1966
8
4030
 Lee Morgan The Sidewinder Hard Bop 1964
9
4215
 Horace Silver The Preacher Hard Bop 1955
10
4459
 Herbie Hancock Cantaloupe Island Hard Bop, Latin Jazz 1964
11
4782
 The Ramsey Lewis Trio The "In" Crowd 1965
12
5166
 Grover Washington Jr. feat. Bill Withers Just the Two of Us Smooth Jazz, Smooth Soul 1980
13
5546
 Jimmy Smith The Sermon 1959
14
5911
 George Benson This Masquerade Jazz Pop, Smooth Jazz 1976
15
6269
 Antony and The Johnsons Fistful of Love Chamber Pop, Singer/Songwriter 2004
16
6318
 Hugh Masekela Grazing in the Grass Afro-Jazz 1968
17
6543
 Della Reese Don't You Know Vocal Jazz 1959
18
8774
 James Brown King Heroin Spoken Word 1972
19
9432
 Ray Charles Crying Time Pop Soul 1965
20
9528
 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson Winter in America Jazz-Funk, Soul 1975

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10000:
Young-Holt Unlimited Soulful Strut 1968
Ronny Jordan So What! Acid Jazz 1992
Freddie Hubbard Red Clay Jazz-Funk 1970
Jimmy McGriff I've Got a Woman Rhythm & Blues 1962
Les McCann and Eddie Harris Compared to What 1969
Nina Simone Don't Explain Vocal Jazz 1966
Kindness feat. Kelela & Ade World Restart 2014
Ray Charles One Mint Julep 1961
BADBADNOTGOOD feat. Samuel T Herring Time Moves Slow Jazz Fusion 2016