Favorite Jazz

These are my favorite jazz albums that I consider essential listening

Under construction

  1. James Brandon Lewis, Red Lily Quintet

  2. Aaron Shaw

  3. Amon Tobin

  4. Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy

  5. Bengt Berger

  6. Tony Allen, Adrian Younge

  7. John Coltrane Quartet

  8. Ari Hoenig

  9. Krzysztof Komeda, Komeda Quintet, Zbigniew Namysłowski

  10. Nils Petter Molvær

  11. BeebleBrox

  12. Dorothy Ashby

  13. Alice Coltrane

  14. Julian Priester Pepo Mtoto

  15. Doug Carn

  16. Lonnie Liston Smith, The Cosmic Echoes

  17. Various Artists

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

  19. Kamasi Washington

  20. Matthew Shipp

  21. Donald Byrd

  22. Reuben Wilson

  23. Yussef Dayes

  24. Kenny Dorham

  25. Eberhard Weber

  26. Pharoah Sanders

  27. Hailu Mergia, Dahlak Band

  28. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers

  29. Don Cherry

  30. Chick Corea

  31. Billy Cobham

  32. Calvin Keys

  33. Miles Davis

  34. The Dave Brubeck Quartet

  35. Eric Dolphy

  36. Barney Wilen

  37. Donald Byrd

  38. Matthew Halsall, The Gondwana Orchestra

  39. Sun Ra

  40. Pharoah Sanders

  41. Cannonball Adderley

  42. Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble

  43. The Blue Series Continuum

  44. Nala Sinephro

  45. Ill Considered

  46. The Tony Williams Lifetime

  47. Clifford Jordan

  48. Makaya McCraven

  49. Tony Allen

  50. 鈴木宏昌

  51. Jiro Inagaki and His Soul Media

  52. This is my all-time favorite

  53. Miles Davis

  54. Wayne Shorter

  55. Sonny Sharrock

  56. John Coltrane

  57. Eric Ghost

  58. Jaco Pastorius

  59. Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders

Favorite Jazz is an album list curated by Skyler.

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