| Rank | All Time | Artist | Album | Subgenre(s) | Other Genre(s) | Year |
1 |
379 |
Miles Davis | Sketches of Spain | Modal Jazz | 1960 | |
2 |
412 |
Charles Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | Avant-Garde Jazz | 1963 | |
3 |
1501 |
Moondog | Moondog | Modern Classical | 1969 | |
4 |
1587 |
The Modern Jazz Quartet | Django | Cool Jazz | 1956 | |
5 |
1904 |
Jimmy Giuffre 3 | Thesis/1961 | Cool Jazz | 1961 | |
6 |
2135 |
Jimmy Giuffre 3 | Fusion/1961 | Cool Jazz | 1961 | |
7 |
2323 |
Charles Mingus | Let My Children Hear Music | Experimental Big Band | 1972 | |
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
| Don Ellis | Electric Bath | Experimental Big Band | 1967 | |||
| Ornette Coleman | Skies of America | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Classical | 1972 | |||
| Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra | Angels and Demons at Play | Avant-Garde Jazz | 1965 | |||
| Charles Mingus | Pre-Bird/Mingus Revisited | 1961 | ||||
| Wadada Leo Smith | Ten Freedom Summers | Avant-Garde Jazz | 2012 | |||
