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Acclaimed Music Top 100 Jazz Albums

I thought I'd post a list of the 100 highest-ranking jazz albums from the October 29 Acclaimed Music genre-expansion update. As you might expect, this one dude that played the trumpet totally dominates the list, with a whopping 19 entries:

1 Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
2 John Coltrane – A Love Supreme
3 Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
4 Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
5 Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come
6 John Coltrane – Giant Steps
7 Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
8 Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch!
9 Miles Davis – Birth of the Cool
10 Herbie Hancock – Maiden Voyage
11 The Dave Brubeck Quintet – Time Out
12 Charles Mingus – Mingus Ah Um
13 Miles Davis – In a Silent Way
14 Duke Ellington – Ellington at Newport
15 Thelonius Monk – Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1
16 The Quintet – Jazz at Massey Hall
17 Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto
18 Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
19 Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
20 Miles Davis – Porgy and Bess
21 Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
22 Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Cole Porter Songbook
23 Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz – A Collective Improvisation
24 John Coltrane – My Favorite Things
25 Benny Goodman – The Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert
26 Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea
27 Thelonius Monk – Brilliant Corners
28 Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby
29 John Coltrane – Blue Train
30 Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin
31 Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of …
32 Albert Ayler Trio – Spiritual Unity
33 Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters
34 Count Basie – The Atomic Mr. Basie
35 Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder
36 Cannonball Adderley – Somethin’ Else
37 The Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame
38 Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots
39 Miles Davis – Miles Ahead
40 Miles Davis – Milestones
41 Sarah Vaughan w/Clifford Brown – s/t
42 Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil
43 Thelonius Monk – Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2
44 Miles Davis – A Tribute to Jack Johnson
45 Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century
46 Bud Powell – The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1
47 Charles Mingus – Pithecanthropus Erectus
48 Keith Jarrett – The Koln Concert
49 Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’
50 Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the George and Ira Gershwin Songbook
51 Miles Davis – Live-Evil
52 Weather Report – Heavy Weather
53 Gil Evans – Out of the Cool
54 Chick Corea – Return to Forever
55 Ella Fitzgerald – Sings the Rodgers and Hart Songbook
56 Thelonius Monk w/John Coltrane – s/t
57 John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman – s/t
58 Miles Davis – ‘Round about Midnight
59 Horace Silver – Song for My Father
60 Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Daahoud/Clifford Brown and Max Roach
61 Thelonius Monk – Monk’s Music
62 Duke Ellington – The Far East Suite
63 Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard
64 John Coltrane – Live at the Village Vanguard
65 John Coltrane – Ascension
66 Miles Davis – On the Corner
67 Count Basie – April in Paris
68 Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off
69 Andrew Hill – Point of Departure
70 Sonny Rollins – Way Out West
71 Miles Davis – Steamin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
72 Stan Getz/Charlie Byrd – Jazz Samba
73 Dinah Washington – Dinah Jams
74 Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis
75 Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Porgy and Bess
76 Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers – s/t
77 Duke Ellington w/Charles Mingus and Max Roach – Money Jungle
78 Art Pepper – Meets the Rhythm Section
79 Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures
80 Miles Davis – Cookin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
81 Sonny Rollins – Tenor Madness
82 Charles Mingus – Tijuana Moods/New Tijuana Moods
83 Duke Ellington and John Coltrane – s/t
84 The Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire
85 Louis Armstrong – Plays W.C. Handy
86 Miles Davis – Miles Smiles
87 Archie Shepp – Fire Music
88 Miles Davis – Workin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
89 Miles Davis – Nefertiti
90 Miles Davis – Relaxin’ with the Miles Davis Quintet
91 Jackie McLean – Let Freedom Ring
92 Benny Carter – Further Definitions
93 Lambert, Hendricks and Ross – The Hottest New Group in Jazz
94 Hank Mobley – Soul Station
95 Betty Carter – The Audience with Betty Carter
96 Chick Corea – Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
97 Clifford Brown and Max Roach – Study in Brown
98 Miles Davis – Live at the Plugged Nickel, 1965
99 Ornette Coleman – Dancing in Your Head
100 Dexter Gordon – Go!