Best Jazz Albums


Here's a list of the best jazz albums by decade and individual years as compiled by somebody I've never heard of. As with any list of this type it's open to disagreement, but it's a good starting point particularly for someone just getting into the music.

I have absolutely no idea who Piero Scaruffi is, but I do know that he has good taste in movies. On one of his other list, and there are several, he rates "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" as the 9th greatest film of all time. The man clearly knows something about something.
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My personal favorites out of my cd collection, I would say Patricia Barber's Modern Cool and Campanion; Big Phat Band Swinging For The Masses"; Diana Krall "The Girl In The Other Room"; Miles Davis "Kind of Blue" and "Porgy and Bess"; Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald "Porgy and Bess"; John Coltrane "The Ultimate Blue Train"; Getz/Gilberto "Jazz Samba"; John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola "Guitar Trio";
ok. Here are a FEW:

John Coltrane: A love supreme
John COltrane: Crescent
Miles Davis: In a silent way
Pat Metheny: 80/81
Pat Metheny: New Chautagua
Pat Metheny: One quiet night
Ed Blackwell Project: WHat it is
anything by Chris Potter - especially Gratitude
MIngus - mid 60's
Monk mid 60's
MIles 60's quintet boxset
Audiotomb is right ... Chris Potter deserves both attention and recognition. Rather than name the same names, try Marcus Miller, and some of the Dulfer work is exquisite, too.