Favorite Jazz

These are my favorite jazz albums that I consider essential listening

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  1. Nils Petter Molvær

  2. BeebleBrox

  3. Dorothy Ashby

  4. Alice Coltrane

  5. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto

  6. Doug Carn

  7. Lonnie Liston Smith, The Cosmic Echoes

  8. Various Artists

  9. Toshiko Akiyoshi, Lew Tabackin, Toshiko Akiyoshi=Lew Tabackin Big Band

  10. Kamasi Washington

  11. Matthew Shipp

  12. Donald Byrd

  13. Reuben Wilson

  14. Yussef Dayes

  15. Kenny Dorham

  16. Eberhard Weber

  17. Pharoah Sanders

  18. Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band

  19. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

  20. Don Cherry

  21. Chick Corea

  22. Billy Cobham

  23. Calvin Keys

  24. Miles Davis

  25. The Dave Brubeck Quartet

  26. Eric Dolphy

  27. Barney Wilen

  28. Donald Byrd

  29. Matthew Halsall, The Gondwana Orchestra

  30. Sun Ra

  31. Pharoah Sanders

  32. Cannonball Adderley

  33. Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble

  34. The Blue Series Continuum

  35. Nala Sinephro

  36. Ill Considered

  37. The Tony Williams Lifetime

  38. Clifford Jordan

  39. Makaya McCraven

  40. Tony Allen

  41. 鈴木宏昌

  42. Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media

  43. This is my all-time favorite

  44. Miles Davis

  45. Wayne Shorter

  46. Sonny Sharrock

  47. John Coltrane

  48. Eric Ghost

  49. Jaco Pastorius

  50. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders

Favorite Jazz is an album list curated by Skyler.

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