aaron’s jazz music report
Updated: Jun 17, 2024 (15:44 MDT)
About
I started listening to jazz music in 2020 and have been documenting the jazz releases that I’ve listened to since.
This webpage describes the various characteristics of these jazz releases using data from Rate Your Music which has a database of 88,266 jazz releases (albums, EPs, singles).
Quick Stats
Currently, I have listened to 766 jazz releases.
Genres
I listen to most frequently: Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop, Post-Bop, Free Jazz, and Spiritual Jazz.
I particularly enjoy: Spiritual Jazz, Stride, Modal Jazz, Hard Bop and Post-Bop.
I tend to avoid: Smooth Jazz, Swing Revival, Soul Jazz, British Dance Band, and Vocal Jazz.
Years
Musicians
I listen to most frequently: John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Anthony Braxton, and Sun Ra.
My favorite jazz musician is Anthony Braxton and my favorite jazz album is Six Monk’s Compositions (1987).
Jazz Albums Listened to by Genre
In the following table, MyCount is the number of albums I’ve listened to in the genre, PopCount is the number of albums in the RateYourMusic database in the genre, and LR is the likelihood ratio. LR > 1 means I listen to the genre more than expected based on the number of albums in the genre and LR < 1 means I listen to the genre less than expected.
Jazz-ish Albums Listened to by Genre
A list of Jazz-adjacent genres.
| Genre | MyCount | PopCount | LR |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modern Creative | 33 | 350 | 25.88 |
| Free Improvisation | 23 | 13335 | 0.47 |
| Jazz-Rock | 23 | 5394 | 1.17 |
| Ragtime | 12 | 1687 | 1.95 |
| Nu Jazz | 6 | 2614 | 0.63 |
| Jazz Rap | 4 | 2815 | 0.39 |
| Jazz Pop | 4 | 2774 | 0.40 |
| Acid Jazz | 2 | 1219 | 0.45 |
| Jazzstep | 1 | 314 | 0.87 |
Most Jazz Releases Listened to by Artist
Jazz Albums Listened to by Release Year
Jazz Albums Listened to by Decade
Ten Jazz Album Favorites
| Artist | Album | Year | Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthony Braxton | Six Monk’s Compositions (1987) | 1988 | Bebop, Hard Bop |
| Anthony Braxton | Willisau (Quartet) 1991 | 1992 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop | Pithecanthropus erectus | 1956 | Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane “Live” at the Village Vanguard | 1962 | Modal Jazz, Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | In a Silent Way | 1969 | Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come | 1959 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Science Fiction | 1972 | Free Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Tauhid | 1967 | Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Thelonious Monk | Solo Monk | 1965 | Stride |
| ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ [Mulatu Astatke] | Mulatu of Ethiopia | 1972 | Ethio-Jazz |
List of Jazz Albums Listened to
| Artist | Album | Year | Genres |
|---|---|---|---|
| Abdullah Ibrahim | Water From an Ancient Well | 1986 | Cool Jazz, Cape Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | My Name Is Albert Ayler | 1963 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Albert Ayler | Spirits | 1964 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | Bells | 1965 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | Albert Ayler in Greenwich Village | 1967 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | New Grass | 1968 | Soul Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | Love Cry | 1968 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe | 1970 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Albert Ayler | Swing Low Sweet Spiritual | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Spirituals |
| Albert Ayler Quartet | Ghosts | 1965 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler Quintet | Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 1 | 1971 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler Quintet | Nuits de la Fondation Maeght, Vol. 2 | 1971 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Albert Ayler Trio | Spiritual Unity | 1965 | Free Jazz |
| Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray | New York Eye and Ear Control | 1966 | Free Jazz, Film Score, Free Improvisation |
| Alberta Hunter | Amtrak Blues | 1980 | Vocal Jazz, Vaudeville Blues |
| Alexander von Schlippenbach TrioSchlippenbach TrioAlexander von Schlippenbach | Pakistani Pomade | 1973 | European Free Jazz |
| Alice Coltrane | Ptah, the El Daoud | 1970 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Alice Coltrane | Universal Consciousness | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Alice Coltrane featuring Pharoah Sanders | Journey in Satchidananda | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Andrew Bird’s Bowl of Fire | Oh! The Grandeur. | 1999 | Swing Revival, Jazz manouche |
| Andrew Hill | Compulsion | 1967 | Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Andrews Sisters | Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy / Bounce Me Brother | 1941 | Swing, Vocal Group, Film Soundtrack, Traditional Pop, Boogie Woogie |
| Angel Bat Dawid | The Oracle | 2019 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Angelo Badalamenti | Twin Peaks | 1990 | Television Music, Dark Jazz, Ambient |
| Angelo Badalamenti | Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me | 1992 | Dark Jazz, Film Score |
| Anouar Brahem | Barzakh | 1991 | Arabic Jazz |
| Anouar Brahem | Le pas du chat noir | 2002 | Chamber Jazz, Arabic Jazz |
| Anouar Brahem | Le voyage de Sahar | 2006 | Arabic Jazz, Chamber Jazz |
| Anouar Brahem | The Astounding Eyes of Rita | 2009 | Chamber Jazz, Arabic Jazz |
| Anteloper | Pink Dolphins | 2022 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Nu Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | 3 Compositions of New Jazz | 1968 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Anthony Braxton [B-X° / N O I 47ᴬ] | 1969 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | This Time… | 1970 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Saxophone Improvisations Series F | 1972 | Free Jazz, Modern Creative, Free Improvisation |
| Anthony Braxton | In the Tradition | 1974 | Post-Bop |
| Anthony Braxton | Five Pieces 1975 | 1975 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | New York, Fall 1974 | 1975 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Recital Paris 71 | 1975 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Trio and Duet | 1975 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | Creative Orchestra Music 1976 | 1976 | Experimental Big Band, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | The Montreux / Berlin Concerts | 1977 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Four Compositions (1973) | 1977 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | In the Tradition Volume 2 | 1977 | Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | Alto Saxophone Improvisations 1979 | 1979 | Free Jazz, Free Improvisation, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Six Compositions: Quartet | 1982 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Anthony Braxton | Four Compositions (Quartet) 1983 | 1983 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Six Compositions (Quartet) 1984 | 1985 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Five Compositions (Quartet) 1986 | 1986 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Six Monk’s Compositions (1987) | 1988 | Bebop, Hard Bop |
| Anthony Braxton | Seven Compositions (Trio) 1989 | 1990 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Dortmund (Quartet) 1976 | 1991 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Willisau (Quartet) 1991 | 1992 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Knitting Factory (Piano/Quartet) 1994, Vol. 1 | 1994 | Free Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | Charlie Parker Project 1993 | 1995 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | Quartet (Santa Cruz) 1993 | 1997 | Free Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Quintet (Basel) 1977 | 2001 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton | Solo (Milano) 1979 | 2003 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | 23 Standards (Quartet) 2003 | 2004 | Post-Bop, Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton | 20 Standards (Quartet) 2003 | 2005 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton & Gino Robair | Duets 1987 | 1987 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton & Jacqueline Kerrod | Duo (Bologna) 2018 | 2020 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton & Ted Reichman | Duo (Leipzig) 1993 | 1995 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Anthony Braxton With Muhal Richard Abrams | Duets 1976 | 1976 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Anthony Braxton, Milford Graves & William Parker | Beyond Quantum | 2008 | Free Jazz |
| Anthony Davis | Variations in Dream-Time | 1983 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream, Modern Creative |
| Antônio Carlos Jobim | Inédito | 1995 | Bossa nova, Samba-jazz |
| Archie Shepp | Four for Trane | 1964 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Archie Shepp | Live in San Francisco | 1966 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Archie Shepp | The Magic of Ju-Ju | 1968 | Free Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Archie Shepp | Live at the Panafrican Festival | 1971 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz, Afro-Jazz |
| Archie Shepp | Attica Blues | 1972 | Soul Jazz, Jazz-Funk |
| Archie Shepp & Jasper van’t Hof | Mama Rose | 1982 | Jazz Fusion |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | A Night in Tunisia | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers [Moanin’] | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | The Big Beat | 1960 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | A Night in Tunisia | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Caravan | 1962 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Mosaic | 1962 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Free for All | 1965 | Hard Bop, Post-Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Indestructible | 1966 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Album of the Year | 1981 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | The Best of Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers: The Blue Note Years | 1989 | Hard Bop |
| Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers | Just Coolin’ | 2020 | Hard Bop |
| Art Ensemble of Chicago | Full Force | 1980 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Art Tatum | Tiger Rag / St. Louis Blues | 1933 | Stride |
| Art Tatum | Decca Presents Art Tatum (In an Album of Piano Solos) | 1940 | Stride |
| Art Tatum | Art Tatum Trio | 1944 | Swing |
| Art Tatum | Piano Starts Here | 1968 | Stride |
| Art Tatum | The Art Tatum Solo Masterpieces, Vol. 3 | 1992 | Jazz, Stride |
| Art Tatum-Ben Webster Quartet | The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet | 1958 | Cool Jazz, Stride |
| Art Tatum, Roy Eldridge, Alvin Stoller & John Simmons | The Art Tatum - Roy Eldridge - Alvin Stoller - John Simmons Quartet | 1955 | Bebop |
| Artie Shaw & His Orchestra | Star Dust / Temptation | 1940 | Big Band, Swing |
| Arun Ghosh | Seclused in Light | 2022 | Indo Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Arve Henriksen | Chiaroscuro | 2004 | Ambient, ECM Style Jazz |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | BBNG2 | 2012 | Jazz Fusion |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | III | 2014 | Jazz Fusion |
| BADBADNOTGOOD | IV | 2016 | Nu Jazz, Jazz Fusion |
| Batsumi | Batsumi | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz, Afro-Jazz |
| Béla Fleck and The Flecktones | Béla Fleck and The Flecktones | 1990 | Jazz Fusion, Progressive Bluegrass |
| Ben Webster & Oscar Peterson | Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson | 1960 | Cool Jazz, Standards |
| Bengt Berger & Bitter Funeral Beer Band | Bitter Funeral Beer | 1982 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Afro-Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Benny Goodman | Benny Goodman Sextet | 1944 | Swing |
| Benny Goodman and His Orchestra | Sing, Sing, Sing (Parts 1 & 2) | 1937 | Swing, Big Band |
| Benny Goodman and His Orchestra | Solo Flight / The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise | 1943 | Big Band, Swing |
| Bessie Smith | Nobody Knows You When You’re Down and Out / Take It Right Back (’Cause I Don’t Want It Here) | 1929 | Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz |
| Bessie Smith | Gimme a Pigfoot / Take Me for a Buggy Ride | 1934 | Vaudeville Blues, Vocal Jazz |
| Bill Dixon Orchestra | Intents and Purposes: The Jazz Artistry of Bill Dixon | 1967 | Third Stream, Modern Creative, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Bill Evans | You Must Believe in Spring | 1981 | Cool Jazz |
| Bill Evans Trio | Everybody Digs Bill Evans | 1959 | Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Bill Evans Trio | Portrait in Jazz | 1960 | Cool Jazz |
| Bill Frisell | Unspeakable | 2004 | Jazz Fusion |
| Billie Holiday | Gloomy Sunday (The Famous Hungarian Suicide Song) / I’m in a Low Down Groove | 1941 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday | God Bless the Child / Solitude | 1941 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday | Billie Holiday | 1947 | Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Standards |
| Billie Holiday | Easy Living / Deep Song | 1947 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday | Solitude | 1956 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday & Ray Ellis and His Orchestra | Lady in Satin | 1958 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra | Summertime / Billie’s Blues | 1936 | Vocal Jazz, Standards |
| Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra | Strange Fruit / Fine and Mellow | 1939 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billie Holiday and Her Orchestra | I’ll Be Seeing You / I’ll Get By | 1944 | Vocal Jazz |
| Billy Bang | Rainbow Gladiator | 1981 | Hard Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Billy Harper | Capra Black | 1973 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Billy Harper | In Europe | 1979 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Billy Harper | Knowledge of Self | 1979 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Billy Harper | Knowledge of Self | 1979 | Spiritual Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| Black Unity Trio | Al - Fatihah | 1969 | Free Jazz |
| Bob Dylan | Shadows in the Night | 2015 | Standards, Vocal Jazz |
| Bob Dylan | Fallen Angels | 2016 | Standards, Vocal Jazz |
| Bohren & der Club of Gore | Sunset Mission | 2000 | Dark Jazz |
| Bohren & der Club of Gore | Black Earth | 2002 | Dark Jazz |
| Bohren & der Club of Gore | Dolores | 2008 | Dark Jazz |
| Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago | Comme à la radio | 1970 | Chamber Jazz |
| Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink | Balls | 1970 | European Free Jazz |
| Brötzmann/Drake Duo | The Dried Rat-Dog | 1995 | Free Jazz, Free Improvisation |
| Bruno Pernadas | Those Who Throw Objects at the Crocodiles Will Be Asked to Retrieve Them | 2016 | Progressive Pop, Art Pop, Jazz Pop, Jazz Fusion |
| Bryan Ferry and His Orchestra | Bitter-Sweet | 2018 | British Dance Band |
| Bryan Ferry Orchestra | The Jazz Age | 2012 | British Dance Band, Dixieland, Swing |
| Buba Kuyateh & Michał Górczyński | Cut the Air | 2017 | Mande Music, Chamber Folk, Chamber Jazz |
| Bud Powell | Piano Solos | 1952 | Stride, Bebop |
| Cab Calloway and His Orchestra | Minnie the Moocher (The Ho De Ho Song) / Doin’ the Rumba | 1931 | Swing, Big Band |
| Cannonball Adderley | Somethin’ Else | 1958 | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz |
| Cannonball Adderley Quintet | Mercy, Mercy, Mercy! | 1967 | Hard Bop, Soul Jazz |
| Caretaker | Everywhere at the End of Time: Stage 1 | 2016 | Turntable Music, Ambient, British Dance Band |
| Carlo Actis Dato Quartet | Bagdad Boogie | 1992 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Casiopea | Super Flight | 1979 | Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz |
| Casiopea | Casiopea | 1979 | Jazz Fusion |
| Casiopea | Mint Jams | 1982 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Cecil Taylor | The World of Cecil Taylor | 1961 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Live at the Cafe Montmartre | 1963 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Unit Structures | 1966 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Conquistador! | 1968 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Solo | 1973 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Indent | 1973 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Silent Tongues | 1975 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | The Cecil Taylor Unit | 1978 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | 3 Phasis | 1979 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! Fly! | 1981 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | For Olim | 1987 | Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come | 1997 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor | The Willisau Concert | 2002 | Free Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor & Buell Neidlinger | New York City R&B | 1987 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Cecil Taylor Quartet | Jazz Advance | 1957 | Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz, Hard Bop |
| Cecil Taylor Quartet | Looking Ahead! | 1959 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Cecil Taylor Quintet | Hard Driving Jazz | 1959 | Post-Bop |
| Cecil Taylor Segments II (Orchestra of Two Continents) | Winged Serpent (Sliding Quadrants) | 1985 | Free Jazz, Experimental Big Band |
| Cecil Taylor Trio and Quartet | Love for Sale | 1959 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Cecil Taylor Unit | Dark to Themselves | 1977 | Free Jazz |
| Charles Brackeen Quartet | Worshippers Come Nigh | 1988 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Charles Gayle | Repent | 1992 | Free Jazz |
| Charles Gayle Trio | Homeless | 1989 | Free Jazz |
| Charles Lloyd | The Water Is Wide | 2000 | ECM Style Jazz, Cool Jazz |
| Charles Lloyd, Gerald Clayton & Anthony Wilson | Trios: Ocean | 2022 | Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | The Clown | 1957 | Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus Ah Um | 1959 | Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus | 1961 | Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Charles Mingus | Oh Yeah | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus | 1964 | Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | Right Now: Live at the Jazz Workshop | 1966 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Charles Mingus | Let My Children Hear Music | 1972 | Third Stream, Experimental Big Band |
| Charles Mingus & John LaPorta | Jazzical Moods, Vol. 1 | 1955 | Hard Bop |
| Charles Mingus Quintet + Max RoachCharles MingusMax Roach | The Charles Mingus Quintet + Max Roach | 1963 | Post-Bop, Hard Bop |
| Charlie Mingus | East Coasting | 1957 | Post-Bop |
| Charlie Mingus | Blues & Roots | 1960 | Post-Bop |
| Charlie Mingus | Tijuana Moods | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop | Pithecanthropus erectus | 1956 | Post-Bop |
| Charlie Parker | Charlie Parker With Strings | 1950 | Cool Jazz |
| Charlie Parker | Bird | 1988 | Bebop, Film Soundtrack |
| Charlie Parker | Jam Session | 1990 | Bebop |
| Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie | Bird and Diz | 1952 | Bebop |
| Charlie Parker Septet | A Night in Tunisia / Ornithology | 1946 | Bebop |
| Chet Baker | Chet Baker Sings | 1954 | Vocal Jazz, Standards, Cool Jazz |
| Chick Corea | Return to Forever | 1972 | Jazz Fusion |
| Chick Corea | Three Quartets | 1981 | Post-Bop |
| Chick Corea | Children’s Songs | 1984 | Modern Classical, Third Stream |
| Chick Webb and His Orchestra | A-Tisket A-Tasket / Liza (All the Clouds’ll Roll Away) | 1938 | Vocal Jazz, Swing |
| Chilly Gonzales | Solo Piano | 2004 | Modern Classical, ECM Style Jazz |
| Chilly Gonzales | Solo Piano II | 2012 | Modern Classical, ECM Style Jazz |
| Clarence Williams’ Blue Five / Chauncey C. LeeClarence WilliamsChauncey C. Lee | Cake Walking Babies From Home / Banjo Rag | 1925 | Dixieland, Ragtime |
| Clark Terry With Thelonious MonkClark TerryThelonious Monk | In Orbit | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Clifford Brown & Max Roach | At Basin Street | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Clusone Trio | Soft Lights and Sweet Music | 1994 | Free Jazz, Jazz, Standards |
| Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra | Body and Soul / Fine Dinner | 1939 | Swing |
| Collin Walcott | Cloud Dance | 1976 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Coltrane | Live at Birdland | 1964 | Post-Bop |
| Comet Is Coming | Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery | 2019 | Jazz Fusion, Nu Jazz |
| Conference Call | Poetry in Motion | 2008 | Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Cool Crooners | Blue Sky | 2001 | Bulawayo Jazz |
| Count Basie | Count Basie at the Piano | 1940 | Stride |
| Count Basie | Blues by Basie | 1944 | Swing, Piano Blues |
| Dadisi Komolafe | Hassan’s Walk | 1983 | Soul Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Dave Brubeck Quartet | Time Out | 1959 | Cool Jazz |
| Dave Burrell | Windward Passages | 1980 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Dave Holland Quartet | Extensions | 1990 | Post-Bop |
| David Holland Quartet | Conference of the Birds | 1973 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| David Murray | Ballads for Bass Clarinet | 1993 | Post-Bop |
| David Murray Octet | Home | 1982 | Post-Bop |
| David Murray Octet | Murray’s Steps | 1982 | Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| David S. Ware | Go See the World | 1998 | Free Jazz |
| David S. Ware | Surrendered | 2000 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| David S. Ware Quartet | Godspelized | 1997 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| David S. Ware Quartet | Corridors & Parallels | 2001 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Dewan Motihar Trio / Irène Schweizer Trio / Manfred Schoof / Barney WilenDiwan MotiharIrène SchweizerManfred SchoofBarney Wilen | Jazz Meets India | 1967 | Spiritual Jazz, Indo Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Salt Peanuts / Hot House | 1945 | Bebop |
| Dizzy Gillespie | Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac | 1967 | Bebop, Latin Jazz |
| Dizzy Gillespie & Machito | Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods | 1976 | Afro-Cuban Jazz, Big Band |
| Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra | Manteca / Cool Breeze | 1948 | Afro-Cuban Jazz, Big Band |
| Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra | Afro | 1954 | Afro-Cuban Jazz, Big Band |
| Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins | Sonny Side Up | 1959 | Bebop |
| Django Reinhardt | Djangology | 1961 | Jazz manouche |
| Don Byron | Bug Music: Music of the Raymond Scott Quintette, John Kirby & His Orchestra, and the Duke Ellington Orchestra | 1996 | Swing, Cartoon Music |
| Don Cherry | Complete Communion | 1966 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Don Cherry | Symphony for Improvisers | 1967 | Free Jazz |
| Don Cherry | “mu” First Part | 1969 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Don Cherry | Where Is Brooklyn? | 1969 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Don Cherry | Don Cherry | 1977 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Donald Byrd | Ethiopian Knights | 1972 | Jazz-Funk |
| Duke Ellington | The Duke Plays Ellington: Piano Reflections | 1953 | Stride, Swing |
| Duke Ellington | Duke Ellington’s Far East Suite | 1967 | Big Band |
| Duke Ellington | The Afro-Eurasian Eclipse | 1976 | Big Band |
| Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | 1963 | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz |
| Duke Ellington and His Cotton Club Orchestra | Mood Indigo / When a Black Man’s Blue | 1931 | Dixieland |
| Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra | It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) / Rose Room | 1932 | Swing, Big Band |
| Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra | Caravan / Azure | 1937 | Big Band, Swing |
| Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra | Take the “A” Train / The Sidewalks of New York | 1941 | Big Band, Swing |
| Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra | A Duke Ellington Panorama | 1943 | Swing |
| Duke Ellington and His Kentucky Club Orchestra | East St. Louis Toodle-O / Birmingham Breakdown | 1927 | Dixieland |
| Duke Ellington and His Orchestra | Duke Ellington’s Liberian Suite | 1949 | Big Band |
| Duke Ellington and His Orchestra | Ellington Uptown | 1953 | Big Band |
| Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus & Max Roach | Money Jungle | 1963 | Hard Bop |
| Earl Hines | Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington | 1971 | Swing |
| Eberhard Weber | The Colours of Chloë | 1974 | Chamber Jazz, Third Stream, Jazz Fusion, ECM Style Jazz |
| Eberhard Weber | Later That Evening | 1982 | ECM Style Jazz, Chamber Jazz |
| Eberhard Weber Colours | Silent Feet | 1978 | ECM Style Jazz, Jazz Fusion |
| Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas | 1960 | Christmas Music, Vocal Jazz |
| Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong | Dream a Little Dream of Me / Can Anyone Explain? (No, No, No!) | 1950 | Vocal Jazz |
| Elvin Jones / Jimmy Garrison Sextet Featuring McCoy TynerElvin JonesJimmy GarrisonMcCoy Tyner | Illumination! | 1964 | Post-Bop |
| Eric Dolphy | Out There | 1961 | Post-Bop |
| Eric Dolphy | Far Cry | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Eric Dolphy | Out to Lunch | 1964 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Eric Dolphy Quintet | Outward Bound | 1960 | Hard Bop |
| Erroll Garner | Erroll Garner | 1953 | Stride, Cool Jazz |
| Erroll Garner | Contrasts | 1955 | Bebop, Stride |
| Erroll Garner | Concert by the Sea | 1956 | Stride |
| Erroll Garner | Nightconcert | 2018 | Stride, Bebop |
| Esbjörn Svensson Trio | Leucocyte | 2008 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz, Chamber Jazz |
| Evan Parker | The Snake Decides | 1986 | Free Improvisation, European Free Jazz |
| Evan Parker, Daunik Lazro & Joe McPhee | Seven Pieces – Live at Willisau 1995 | 2016 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation |
| Fats Navarro / Dizzy Gillespie / Miles Davis / Kenny Dorham | Modern Jazz Trumpets | 1951 | Bebop |
| Fats Waller | Waller on the Ivories | 1942 | Stride |
| Fats Waller | Ain’t Misbehavin’ | 1956 | Stride |
| Fjordne | Charles Rendition | 2011 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra | Promises | 2021 | Post-Minimalism, Third Stream |
| Flying Lotus | You’re Dead! | 2014 | Nu Jazz, Wonky, Jazz Fusion |
| Frank Sinatra | In the Wee Small Hours | 1955 | Standards, Vocal Jazz |
| Frank Zappa | Hot Rats | 1969 | Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Frank Zappa | Waka / Jawaka | 1972 | Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Frank Zappa | Jazz From Hell | 1986 | Electronic, Jazz Fusion, MIDI Music |
| Freddie Hubbard | Red Clay | 1970 | Post-Bop, Soul Jazz |
| Freddie Hubbard | Straight Life | 1971 | Post-Bop, Jazz Fusion |
| Fuubutsushi | Fuubutsushi (風物詩) | 2020 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Fuubutsushi | Setsubun (節分) | 2021 | ECM Style Jazz, Ambient, Chamber Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Gabor Szabo | Spellbinder | 1966 | Jazz manouche |
| Gabor Szabo | Jazz Raga | 1967 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Raga Rock |
| Gabor Szabo | Dreams | 1968 | Chamber Jazz, Jazz manouche |
| George Benson | The Other Side of Abbey Road | 1970 | Smooth Jazz, Soul Jazz, Jazz Pop |
| George Benson | Breezin’ | 1976 | Smooth Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Soul Jazz |
| George Russell | Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature | 1971 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Getatchew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests | Moa Anbessa | 2006 | Ethio-Jazz, Art Punk |
| Gianluigi Trovesi | Les hommes armés | 1996 | European Free Jazz |
| Gil Evans Orchestra | Into the Hot | 1962 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Gil Scott-Heron | Reflections | 1981 | Soul, Soul Jazz |
| Glenn Miller and His Orchestra | In the Mood / I Want to Be Happy | 1939 | Swing, Big Band |
| Grant Green | Idle Moments | 1965 | Hard Bop |
| Greg Foat | Symphonie Pacifique | 2020 | Jazz Fusion |
| Hailu Mergia & Dahlak Band | Wede Harer Guzo | 2016 | Ethio-Jazz |
| Hank Mobley, Al Cohn, John Coltrane & Zoot Sims | Tenor Conclave | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Hannibal | The Angels of Atlanta | 1981 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Hazel Scott | Great Scott! - Hazel Scott, Her Piano and Vocals | 1948 | Vocal Jazz, Bebop |
| Henry Hall and His Orchestra | Teddy Bears’ Picnic / Hush Hush Hush - Here Comes the Bogey Man | 1942 | British Dance Band, Children’s Music, Nursery Rhymes |
| Henry Mancini | The Pink Panther | 1964 | Film Score, Lounge, Spy Music |
| Henry Threadgill | Too Much Sugar for a Dime | 1993 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Henry Threadgill Sextet | Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket | 1983 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Henry Threadgill Sextet | Rag, Bush and All | 1989 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Herbie Hancock | Takin’ Off | 1962 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| Herbie Hancock | Empyrean Isles | 1964 | Hard Bop, Post-Bop |
| Herbie Hancock | Maiden Voyage | 1966 | Modal Jazz |
| Herbie Hancock | Mwandishi | 1971 | Jazz Fusion |
| Herbie Hancock | Head Hunters | 1973 | Jazz-Funk, Jazz Fusion |
| Herbie Hancock | Sextant | 1973 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Herbie Hancock | Thrust | 1974 | Jazz-Funk, Jazz Fusion |
| Herbie Hancock | The New Standard | 1996 | Post-Bop |
| Horace Silver Quintet | Song for My Father (Cantiga para meu pai) | 1965 | Hard Bop |
| Ibrahim Ferrer | Buena Vista Social Club Presents Ibrahim Ferrer | 1999 | Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bolero |
| Idrees Sulieman, Webster Young, John Coltrane, Bobby JasparIdrees SuliemanWebster YoungJohn ColtraneBobby Jaspar | Interplay for 2 Trumpets and 2 Tenors | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Irène Schweizer & Pierre Favre | Ulrichsberg | 2003 | Free Jazz, Free Improvisation |
| Irreversible Entanglements | Irreversible Entanglements | 2017 | Jazz Poetry, Free Jazz |
| Irving Joseph | Murder, Inc. | 1960 | Crime Jazz, Progressive Big Band, Spy Music |
| Jack DeJohnette | Special Edition | 1980 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Jaimie Branch | Fly or Die | 2017 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| James Booker | Spiders on the Keys | 1993 | Stride, New Orleans Blues, Piano Blues |
| James P. Johnson | Keep Off the Grass / Carolina Shout | 1922 | Stride |
| James P. Johnson | New York Jazz | 1944 | Stride |
| Jan Johansson | Jazz på svenska | 1964 | Chamber Jazz, Jazz |
| Jane Ira Bloom | The Red Quartets | 1999 | Post-Bop, Jazz |
| Jaubi | Nafs at Peace | 2021 | Spiritual Jazz, Jazz Fusion, Indo Jazz |
| Jazz Messengers | The Jazz Messengers | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Jean-Luc Ponty | Cosmic Messenger | 1978 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock |
| Jelly-Roll Morton’s Red Hot Peppers | Black Bottom Stomp / The Chant | 1926 | Dixieland |
| Jimmy Lyons Quintet | Give It Up | 1985 | Free Jazz |
| Joe Henderson featuring Alice Coltrane | The Elements | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Joe Jackson | Jumpin’ Jive | 1981 | Jump Blues, Swing |
| John Abercrombie, Dave Holland & Jack DeJohnette | Gateway | 1975 | ECM Style Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Blue Train | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Soultrane | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Giant Steps | 1960 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | My Favorite Things | 1961 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane | Olé Coltrane | 1961 | Modal Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Lush Life | 1961 | Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane Jazz | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Settin’ the Pace | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane “Live” at the Village Vanguard | 1962 | Modal Jazz, Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane Plays the Blues | 1962 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Standard Coltrane | 1962 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Impressions | 1963 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Stardust | 1963 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Dakar | 1963 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane’s Sound | 1964 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Black Pearls | 1964 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | A Love Supreme | 1965 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Bahia | 1965 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | Ascension [Edition I] | 1966 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Meditations | 1966 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Ascension [Edition II] | 1966 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard Again! | 1966 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Kulu Sé Mama | 1967 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Expression | 1967 | Free Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Om | 1968 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Selflessness Featuring My Favorite Things | 1969 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Transition | 1970 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Sun Ship | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Sun Ship: The Complete Session | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Infinity | 1972 | Spiritual Jazz, Third Stream |
| John Coltrane | Concert in Japan | 1973 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Interstellar Space | 1974 | Free Jazz |
| John Coltrane | First Meditations (For Quartet) | 1977 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Newport ’63 | 1993 | Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane | Stellar Regions | 1995 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings | 1997 | Modal Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Ascension | 2000 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane | The Olatunji Concert: The Last Live Recording | 2001 | Free Jazz |
| John Coltrane | The Very Best of John Coltrane | 2001 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane | One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note | 2005 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Offering: Live at Temple University | 2014 | Free Jazz |
| John Coltrane | Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album | 2018 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane | Coltrane ’58: The Prestige Recordings | 2019 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane | A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle | 2021 | Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane / Alice ColtraneJohn ColtraneAlice Coltrane | Cosmic Music | 1968 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| John Coltrane / Archie Shepp | New Thing at Newport | 1966 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Coltrane & Don Cherry | The Avant-Garde | 1966 | Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane and Johnny HartmanJohn ColtraneJohnny Hartman | John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman | 1963 | Vocal Jazz |
| John Coltrane and Paul QuinichetteJohn ColtranePaul Quinichette | Cattin’ With Coltrane and Quinichette | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane featuring Pharoah Sanders | Live in Seattle | 1971 | Free Jazz |
| John Coltrane Quartet | Africa / Brass | 1961 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane Quartet | Ballads | 1963 | Cool Jazz |
| John Coltrane Quartet | Crescent | 1964 | Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane Quartet | The John Coltrane Quartet Plays | 1965 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| John Coltrane Quartette | Coltrane | 1962 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane with Eric DolphyJohn ColtraneEric Dolphy | Evenings at the Village Gate | 2023 | Post-Bop |
| John Coltrane With the Red Garland TrioJohn ColtraneRed Garland | Traneing In | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| John Coltrane, Frank Wess, Paul Quinichette, Mal Waldron, Doug Watkins & Art Taylor | Wheelin’ and Dealin’ | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| John Larkin | John Larkin | 1986 | Vocal Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John McLaughlin, Al Di Meola & Paco de Lucía | Passion Grace & Fire | 1983 | Flamenco Jazz |
| John Zorn | Spy vs. Spy | 1989 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| John Zorn | Naked City | 1990 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz-Rock |
| Johnny Clegg | Third World Child | 1985 | Mbaqanga |
| Johnny Dyani | Witchdoctor’s Son | 1978 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Cape Jazz |
| Johnny Griffin | A Blowin’ Session | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Kamasi Washington | The Epic | 2015 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Keith Jarrett | The Köln Concert | 1975 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Keith Jarrett | The Survivors’ Suite | 1977 | ECM Style Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Keith Jarrett | The Melody at Night, With You | 1999 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Keith Jarrett, Gary Peacock & Jack DeJohnette | Changes | 1984 | ECM Style Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Kenny Dorham | Afro-Cuban | 1955 | Hard Bop, Afro-Cuban Jazz |
| Kenny G | Miracles: The Holiday Album | 1994 | Christmas Music, Adult Contemporary, Smooth Jazz |
| Kenny Wheeler | Double, Double You | 1984 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Dave Holland & Bill Frisell | Angel Song | 1997 | ECM Style Jazz, Post-Bop |
| King Cole / The King Cole TrioNat “King” ColeThe King Cole Trio | Nature Boy / Lost April | 1948 | Vocal Jazz, Traditional Pop, Standards |
| King Oliver’s Jazz Band | Dipper Mouth Blues / Where Did You Stay Last Night? | 1923 | Dixieland |
| Komeda Quintet | Astigmatic | 1966 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Kronos Quartet | Monk Suite: Kronos Quartet Plays Music of Thelonious Monk | 1985 | Jazz, Modern Classical, Third Stream |
| LAM | LAM | 2016 | Post-Minimalism, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Larry Ochs, Nels Cline & Gerald Cleaver | What Is to Be Done | 2019 | Free Jazz |
| Lee Konitz | The New Sounds | 1951 | Cool Jazz |
| Leon Redbone | On the Track | 1975 | Dixieland, Ragtime |
| Leszek Możdżer | Komeda | 2011 | Jazz, ECM Style Jazz, Modern Classical, Post-Bop |
| Lieut. Jim Europe’s 369th U.S. Inf. (“Hell Fighters”) Band | That Moaning Trombone / Memphis Blues | 1919 | Ragtime, Dixieland |
| Louis Armstrong | Louis Armstrong Plays W. C. Handy | 1954 | Vocal Jazz, Dixieland |
| Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines | Louis Armstrong & Earl Hines | 1953 | Jazz, Dixieland |
| Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five | West End Blues / Fireworks | 1928 | Dixieland |
| Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra | St. Louis Blues / After You’ve Gone | 1930 | Dixieland, Vocal Jazz, Big Band |
| Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | Choo Choo Ch’Boogie / That’s Chick’s Too Young to Fry | 1946 | Jump Blues, Swing |
| Lounge Lizards | No Pain for Cakes | 1987 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra | Birds of Fire | 1973 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock |
| Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlinMahavishnu OrchestraJohn McLaughlin | The Inner Mounting Flame | 1971 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock |
| Mal Waldron & Marion Brown | Songs of Love and Regret | 1986 | Post-Bop |
| Manfred Schoof | European Echoes | 1969 | European Free Jazz |
| Mango Groove | Hometalk | 1990 | Kwela, Township Jive |
| Manu Katché | Neighbourhood | 2005 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Marion Brown | Afternoon of a Georgia Faun | 1971 | Free Jazz, Modern Creative, Free Improvisation |
| Mark Hollis | Mark Hollis | 1998 | Singer-Songwriter, Chamber Jazz |
| Mary Halvorson | Amaryllis | 2022 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Chamber Jazz |
| Mary Lou Williams | Signs of the Zodiac, Volume One | 1945 | Bebop |
| Mary Lou Williams | Signs of the Zodiac, Vol. II | 1946 | Bebop |
| Masayuki Takayanagi and New Direction Unit | Eclipse / 侵蝕 | 1975 | Free Improvisation, Free Jazz |
| Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens de couleur libres | 2011 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Matana Roberts | Coin Coin Chapter Four: Memphis | 2019 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Matthew Halsall | Fletcher Moss Park | 2012 | Modal Jazz |
| Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana OrchestraMatthew HalsallGondwana Orchestra | When the World Was One | 2014 | Spiritual Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| Max Roach | We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite | 1961 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Max Roach and His Chorus and Orchestra | It’s Time | 1962 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Nights of Ballads & Blues | 1963 | Hard Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Live at Newport | 1964 | Post-Bop, Hard Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Today and Tomorrow | 1964 | Post-Bop, Hard Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | The Real McCoy | 1967 | Post-Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Tender Moments | 1968 | Post-Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Time for Tyner | 1969 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Expansions | 1970 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Sahara | 1972 | Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Extensions | 1973 | Modal Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Song of the New World | 1973 | Spiritual Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Sama Layuca | 1974 | Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Asante | 1974 | Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Enlightenment | 1974 | Modal Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Echoes of a Friend | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz, Post-Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Atlantis | 1975 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner | Focal Point | 1976 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| McCoy Tyner | Plays John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard | 2001 | Modal Jazz |
| McCoy Tyner Trio | Inception | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Mélanie de Biasio | No Deal | 2013 | Vocal Jazz |
| Miles Davis | The New Sounds | 1951 | Cool Jazz, Bebop |
| Miles Davis | Blue Period | 1953 | Cool Jazz, Bebop |
| Miles Davis | Miles Davis Plays the Compositions of Al Cohn | 1953 | Cool Jazz, Bebop |
| Miles Davis | Young Man With a Horn | 1953 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | Miles Davis, Vol. 2 | 1953 | Bebop, Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | Miles Davis, Vol. 3 | 1954 | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Blue Moods | 1955 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Collectors’ Items | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | ’Round About Midnight | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | Birth of the Cool | 1957 | Cool Jazz, Bebop |
| Miles Davis | Milestones | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis | Ascenseur pour l’échafaud | 1958 | Film Score, Cool Jazz, Crime Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Kind of Blue | 1959 | Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Porgy and Bess | 1959 | Big Band, Progressive Big Band |
| Miles Davis | Sketches of Spain | 1960 | Third Stream, Modal Jazz, Spanish Classical Music |
| Miles Davis | E.S.P. | 1965 | Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis | My Funny Valentine: Miles Davis in Concert | 1965 | Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis | Miles in Berlin | 1965 | Hard Bop, Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis | Sorcerer | 1967 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis | Nefertiti | 1968 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Miles in the Sky | 1968 | Post-Bop, Modal Jazz |
| Miles Davis | In a Silent Way | 1969 | Jazz Fusion, Modal Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Filles de Kilimanjaro | 1969 | Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis | Bitches Brew | 1970 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Miles Davis | A Tribute to Jack Johnson | 1971 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Film Score |
| Miles Davis | On the Corner | 1972 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Miles Davis | Get Up With It | 1974 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Big Fun | 1974 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Agharta | 1975 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Miles Davis | Pangaea | 1975 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Miles Davis | Dark Magus | 1977 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Miles Davis | Decoy | 1984 | Jazz Fusion |
| Miles Davis | You’re Under Arrest | 1985 | Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz |
| Miles Davis | Tutu | 1986 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk |
| Miles Davis | Panthalassa: The Music of Miles Davis 1969-1974 | 1998 | Jazz Fusion |
| Miles Davis | Isle of Wight | 2009 | Jazz Fusion |
| Miles Davis | The Complete Prestige 10-Inch LP Collection | 2016 | Bebop, Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis & John Coltrane | The Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 | 2000 | Cool Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| Miles Davis + 19 | Miles Ahead | 1957 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis All Star Sextet | Miles Davis All Star Sextet | 1955 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis All Stars | Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 1 | 1955 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis All Stars | Miles Davis All Stars, Vol. 2 | 1955 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis and His Orchestra | Boplicity / Israel | 1949 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis and His Orchestra | Budo / Move | 1949 | Bebop, Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis and Milt JacksonMiles DavisMilt Jackson | Quintet / Sextet | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants | Bags Groove | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants | Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quartet | Miles Davis Quartet [Blue Haze] | 1954 | Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis Quartet | The Musings of Miles | 1955 | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Miles Davis Quintet | 1954 | Bebop, Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Miles Davis With Sonny Rollins | 1954 | Cool Jazz, Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Cookin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Relaxin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Workin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Steamin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| Miles Davis Quintet | Miles Smiles | 1967 | Modal Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Miles Davis Sextet / The Thelonious Monk Quartet and Pee Wee RussellMiles DavisThelonious Monk | Miles & Monk at Newport | 1964 | Hard Bop |
| Miłość | Miłość | 1993 | Yass |
| Milt Jackson | Wizard of the Vibes | 1952 | Bebop |
| Milt Jackson & John Coltrane | Bags & Trane | 1961 | Bebop, Cool Jazz |
| Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 1963 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream |
| Miriam Makeba | Miriam Makeba | 1961 | Marabi |
| Miroslav Vitous | First Meeting | 1980 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Moondog | Moondog | 1969 | Modern Classical, Third Stream |
| Mothers | The Grand Wazoo | 1972 | Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Muhal Richard Abrams | Rejoicing With the Light | 1983 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Mulatu Astatke featuring Fekade Amde Maskal | የካተት (Yèkatit: Ethio Jazz) | 1974 | Ethio-Jazz |
| Mulatu Astatqé | Éthiopiques (ኢትዮጲክስ) 4 : Ethio jazz & musique instrumentale 1969-1974 | 1998 | Ethio-Jazz |
| Muriel Grossmann | Golden Rule | 2018 | Spiritual Jazz, Modal Jazz |
| Naked City | Torture Garden | 1990 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Grindcore |
| Naked City | Heretic: Jeux des Dames Cruelles | 1992 | Free Improvisation, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Nate Morgan | Journey Into Nigritia | 1983 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Nduduzo Makhathini | In the Spirit of Ntu | 2022 | Afro-Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Necks | Mindset | 2011 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation |
| New Miles Davis Quintet | Miles | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin | Holon | 2008 | ECM Style Jazz, Post-Minimalism |
| Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin | Llyrìa | 2010 | ECM Style Jazz, Post-Minimalism |
| Nina Simone | Pastel Blues | 1965 | Vocal Jazz, Soul, Rhythm & Blues |
| Nina Simone | I Put a Spell on You | 1965 | Vocal Jazz, Soul |
| Nina Simone | Wild Is the Wind | 1966 | Vocal Jazz, Soul |
| Norah Jones | Come Away With Me | 2002 | Jazz Pop, Vocal Jazz |
| Norah Jones | Feels Like Home | 2004 | Jazz Pop, Vocal Jazz |
| Nubya Garcia | Source | 2020 | Spiritual Jazz, Afro-Jazz |
| Oded Tzur | Isabela | 2022 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Oliver Nelson | The Blues and the Abstract Truth | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| Orchestra Baobab | Specialist in All Styles | 2002 | Wolof Music, Afro-Cuban Jazz |
| Original Dixieland ‘Jass’ Band | Dixieland Jass Band One-Step / Livery Stable Blues | 1917 | Dixieland |
| Original Dixieland Jass Band | Darktown Strutters’ Ball / Indiana | 1917 | Dixieland |
| Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Skeleton Jangle / Tiger Rag | 1918 | Dixieland, Ragtime |
| Original Dixieland Jazz Band | At the Jazz Band Ball / Ostrich Walk | 1918 | Dixieland |
| Original Dixieland Jazz Band | Margie / Palesteena | 1921 | Dixieland |
| Ornette + Joachim KühnOrnette ColemanJoachim Kühn | Colors: Live From Leipzig | 1997 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Something Else! The Music of Ornette Coleman | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come | 1959 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Tomorrow Is the Question: The New Music of Ornette Coleman | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Ornette Coleman | Change of the Century | 1960 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Ornette on Tenor | 1962 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street | 1970 | Free Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Science Fiction | 1972 | Free Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Skies of America | 1972 | Third Stream, Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Classical |
| Ornette Coleman | Dancing in Your Head | 1977 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Body Meta | 1978 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | Of Human Feelings | 1982 | Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | The Best of Ornette Coleman (The Blue Note Years) | 1997 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman | The Complete Science Fiction Sessions | 2000 | Free Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman Double Quartet | Free Jazz | 1961 | Free Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman Quartet | This Is Our Music | 1961 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ornette Coleman Quartet | Ornette! | 1962 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Oscar Peterson | Plays Duke Ellington | 1953 | Stride |
| Oscar Peterson | Oscar Peterson Plays Count Basie | 1956 | Jazz, Bebop |
| Oscar Peterson | An Oscar Peterson Christmas | 1995 | Christmas Music, Cool Jazz, Jazz |
| Oscar Peterson Trio | Night Train | 1963 | Cool Jazz, Hard Bop |
| Osibisa | Osibisa | 1971 | Afro-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra | Out to Lunch | 2005 | Experimental Big Band |
| Paddy McAloon | I Trawl the MEGAHERTZ | 2003 | Modern Classical, Chamber Jazz |
| PainKiller | Guts of a Virgin | 1991 | Grindcore, Free Jazz |
| Pat Metheny | New Chautauqua | 1979 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Pat Metheny Group | Pat Metheny Group | 1978 | Jazz Fusion, ECM Style Jazz |
| Pat Metheny Group | Still Life (Talking) | 1987 | Jazz Fusion |
| Pat Metheny Group | Letter From Home | 1989 | Jazz Fusion |
| Paul Desmond | Take Ten | 1963 | Cool Jazz |
| Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra | Rhapsody in Blue | 1924 | Modern Classical, Big Band |
| Paul Whiteman and His Concert Orchestra | Rhapsody in Blue (Parts 1 & 2) | 1927 | Modern Classical, Big Band |
| Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra | Honey I’m in Love With You / Charleston | 1925 | Big Band, Ragtime |
| Penguin Cafe Orchestra | Penguin Cafe Orchestra | 1981 | Chamber Jazz |
| Peter Brötzmann & Sonny Sharrock | Whatthefuckdoyouwant | 2014 | Free Jazz |
| Peter Brötzmann Octet | Machine Gun | 1968 | European Free Jazz |
| Peter Brötzmann Sextet/Quartet | Nipples | 1969 | European Free Jazz |
| Pharaoh Sanders Quintet | Pharaoh Sanders Quintet | 1965 | Post-Bop, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Tauhid | 1967 | Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Karma | 1969 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun bukmun umyun) | 1970 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Jewels of Thought | 1970 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Thembi | 1971 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Black Unity | 1972 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Live at The East | 1972 | Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Izipho Zam (My Gifts) | 1973 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Village of the Pharoahs | 1973 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Wisdom Through Music | 1973 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Love in Us All | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz, Free Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Elevation | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Pharoah | 1977 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Moon Child | 1990 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders | Live in Paris (1975) | 2020 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Pharoah Sanders, John Hicks, Curtis Lundy & Idris Muhammed | Africa | 1988 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Plini | Other Things | 2013 | Progressive Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Portico Quartet | Knee-Deep in the North Sea | 2007 | Chamber Jazz, ECM Style Jazz |
| Portico Quartet | Isla | 2009 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Pyramids | King of Kings | 1974 | Spiritual Jazz, Afro-Jazz |
| Quintet | Jazz at Massey Hall: Volume One | 1953 | Bebop |
| Quintet | Jazz at Massey Hall: Volume Three | 1953 | Bebop |
| Rabih Abou-Khalil | Al-Jadida | 1991 | Arabic Jazz |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk | Prepare Thyself to Deal With a Miracle | 1973 | Spiritual Jazz, Third Stream |
| Rahsaan Roland Kirk & The Vibration Society | Rahsaan Rahsaan | 1970 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ralph Towner | Batik | 1978 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Ran Blake & Anthony Braxton | A Memory of Vienna | 1997 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Ray Barretto | Acid | 1968 | Boogaloo, Latin Jazz |
| Ray Noble and His Orchestra | Midnight, the Stars, and You / An Hour Ago This Minute | 1934 | British Dance Band |
| Ray Noble and His Orchestra | The Very Thought of You / I’ll Be Good Because of You | 1934 | British Dance Band |
| Red Garland Quintet With John ColtraneRed GarlandJohn Coltrane | Dig It! | 1962 | Bebop |
| Richard Abrams | Levels and Degrees of Light | 1968 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Roland Kirk | We Free Kings | 1962 | Hard Bop, Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | Domino | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | Kirk in Copenhagen | 1964 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | I Talk With the Spirits | 1965 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | Now Please Don’t You Cry, Beautiful Edith | 1967 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | The Inflated Tear | 1968 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk | Volunteered Slavery | 1969 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk Quartet | Rip, Rig and Panic | 1965 | Post-Bop |
| Roland Kirk With Jack McDuffRahsaan Roland KirkJack McDuff | Kirk’s Work | 1961 | Soul Jazz, Hard Bop |
| Roscoe Mitchell Sextet | Sound | 1967 | Free Jazz, Modern Creative |
| Sam Rivers | Crystals | 1974 | Free Jazz, Experimental Big Band |
| Santana | Borboletta | 1974 | Latin Rock, Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock, Latin Jazz |
| Sean Bergin and M.O.B. | Kids Mysteries | 1988 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Selvin’s Novelty Orchestra | Dardanella / My Isle of Golden Dreams | 1920 | Big Band, Waltz |
| Sex Mob | Din of Inequity | 1998 | Jazz-Funk |
| Shabaka and The Ancestors | Wisdom of Elders | 2016 | Spiritual Jazz |
| Shabaka and The Ancestors | We Are Sent Here by History | 2020 | Afro-Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Shakti With John McLaughlin | Natural Elements | 1977 | Jazz Fusion, Indo Jazz |
| Soft Machine | Third | 1970 | Canterbury Scene, Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
| Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet | Voodoo | 1986 | Post-Bop, Hard Bop |
| Sonny Criss Orchestra | Sonny’s Dream (Birth of the New Cool) | 1968 | Progressive Big Band, Post-Bop |
| Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Sonny Rollins Quartet | Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk | 1955 | Hard Bop |
| Sonny Sharrock | Black Woman | 1969 | Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Sonny Sharrock | Guitar | 1986 | Psychedelic Rock, Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Improvisation |
| Sonny Sharrock | Ask the Ages | 1991 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Sons of Kemet | Burn | 2013 | Afro-Jazz |
| Sons of Kemet | Your Queen Is a Reptile | 2018 | Afro-Jazz |
| Stan Getz & João Gilberto featuring Antônio Carlos Jobim | Getz / Gilberto | 1964 | Bossa nova, Samba-jazz |
| Stan Kenton | Volume One - “Innovations in Modern Music” | 1950 | Progressive Big Band |
| Stan Kenton | City of Glass | 1952 | Progressive Big Band, Experimental Big Band |
| Steve Lacy | Evidence | 1962 | Post-Bop |
| Steve Lacy | Morning Joy | 1986 | Post-Bop |
| Sun Ra | Jazz by Sun Ra, Vol. 1 | 1957 | Post-Bop, Big Band |
| Sun Ra | Jazz in Silhouette | 1959 | Post-Bop |
| Sun Ra | The Futuristic Sounds of Sun Ra | 1962 | Post-Bop, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Sun Ra | The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra | 1965 | Free Jazz |
| Sun Ra | Space Is the Place | 1973 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Sun Ra | Lanquidity | 1978 | Jazz Fusion |
| Sun Ra | Disco 3000 | 1978 | Free Jazz |
| Sun Ra | God Is More Than Love Can Ever Be | 1979 | Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Sun Ra | Strange Celestial Road | 1980 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz-Funk, Jazz Fusion |
| Sun Ra | Hendersonia: Sun Ra Performs Fletcher Henderson | 2023 | Big Band, Dixieland |
| Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra | Secrets of the Sun | 1965 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Sun Ra & His Solar Arkestra | The Magic City | 1966 | Free Jazz |
| Sun Ra & His Solar Myth Arkestra | Life Is Splendid | 1999 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| Sun Ra and His Arkestra | Sleeping Beauty | 1979 | Jazz Fusion, Spiritual Jazz |
| Sun Ra and His Intergalactic Research Arkestra | It’s After the End of the World: Live at the Donaueschingen and Berlin Festivals | 1970 | Free Jazz |
| Sun Ra and His Interplanetary Vocal Arkestra | The Space Age Is Here to Stay | 2016 | Vocal Jazz, Doo-Wop |
| Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra | Angels and Demons at Play | 1965 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream |
| Sun Ra and His Myth Science Arkestra | Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy | 1967 | Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Sun Ra and His Solar Arkestra | The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Volume 2 | 1966 | Free Jazz |
| Sun Ra Sextet | At the Village Vanguard | 1993 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Sun-Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra | Atlantis | 1969 | Free Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Tadd Dameron With John ColtraneTadd DameronJohn Coltrane | Mating Call | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Teddy Wilson | Columbia Presents Teddy Wilson and His Piano | 1942 | Swing, Jazz |
| Teddy Wilson and His Orchestra | What a Little Moonlight Can Do / A Sunbonnet Blue (And a Yellow Straw Hat) | 1935 | Swing, Vocal Jazz |
| Temperance Seven | You’re Driving Me Crazy / Charlie My Boy | 1961 | British Dance Band, Vocal Jazz |
| Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music | 1951 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 2 | 1952 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk | Piano Solo | 1954 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk Plays | 1955 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk Plays the Music of Duke Ellington | 1955 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk | The Unique | 1956 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music, Volume One | 1956 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk | Genius of Modern Music, Volume Two | 1956 | Bebop, Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Brilliant Corners | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Himself | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Alone in San Francisco | 1960 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Criss-Cross | 1963 | Post-Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | It’s Monk’s Time | 1964 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Solo Monk | 1965 | Stride |
| Thelonious Monk | Monk. | 1965 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Straight, No Chaser | 1967 | Post-Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Underground | 1968 | Post-Bop, Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Live at the It Club | 1982 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | The Best of Thelonious Monk: The Blue Note Years | 1991 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk | Monkism | 1998 | Bebop, Stride |
| Thelonious Monk | Monk Alone: The Complete Columbia Solo Studio Recordings 1962-68 | 1998 | Bebop, Post-Bop |
| Thelonious Monk | Palo Alto | 2020 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk / Sonny RollinsThelonious MonkSonny Rollins | Thelonious Monk / Sonny Rollins | 1957 | Hard Bop, Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk and Gerry MulliganThelonious MonkGerry Mulligan | Mulligan Meets Monk | 1957 | Cool Jazz, Post-Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Orchestra | The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall | 1959 | Big Band, Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Quartet | Thelonious in Action | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Quartet | Misterioso | 1958 | Post-Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Quartet | Monk’s Dream | 1963 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane | At Carnegie Hall | 2005 | Hard Bop, Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk Quintet | ’Round About Midnight / Well You Needn’t | 1948 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk Quintet | Thelonious Monk Quintet Blows for LP | 1954 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk Quintet | Thelonious Monk Quintet | 1954 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk Quintet | 5 by Monk by 5 | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Septet | Monk’s Music | 1957 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk Trio | Ruby My Dear / Evidence | 1948 | Bebop |
| Thelonious Monk Trio | Thelonious | 1953 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Monk With John ColtraneThelonious MonkJohn Coltrane | Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane | 1961 | Hard Bop |
| Thelonious Sphere Monk | Monk’s Blues | 1969 | Big Band, Post-Bop |
| Thomas Waller | Ain’t Misbehavin’ / Sweet Savannah Sue | 1929 | Stride |
| Thundercat | It Is What It Is | 2020 | Psychedelic Soul, Neo-Soul, Jazz-Funk |
| Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset & Jan Bang | Atmosphères | 2016 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Tom Waits | Small Change | 1976 | Singer-Songwriter, Piano Blues, Vocal Jazz |
| Tom Waits | Alice | 2002 | Singer-Songwriter, Dark Cabaret, Vocal Jazz |
| Tomasz Stanko Quintet | Dark Eyes | 2009 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Tomasz Stańko Quintet | Music for K | 1970 | Free Jazz |
| Tomasz Stanko Septet | Litania: Music of Krzysztof Komeda | 1997 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Tommy Flanagan, John Coltrane, Kenny Burrell, Idrees SuliemanTommy FlanaganJohn ColtraneKenny BurrellIdrees Sulieman | The Cats | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Toninho Horta e Orquestra Fantasma | Terra dos pássaros | 1980 | Jazz Fusion, MPB |
| Tord Gustavsen Trio | Being There | 2007 | ECM Style Jazz |
| Triosk Meets Jan JelinekTrioskJan Jelinek | 1+3+1 | 2003 | Nu Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Various Artists | A Symposium of Swing | 1937 | Swing |
| Vienna Art Orchestra | The Minimalism of Erik Satie | 1984 | Third Stream, Experimental Big Band, Progressive Big Band |
| Vijay Iyer Trio | Historicity | 2009 | Post-Bop |
| Vince Guaraldi | A Charlie Brown Christmas | 1965 | Christmas Music, Cool Jazz, Television Music |
| Walter Wanderley | Rain Forest | 1966 | Lounge, Bossa nova, Samba-jazz |
| Wayne Shorter | Juju | 1965 | Modal Jazz |
| Wayne Shorter | Speak No Evil | 1966 | Post-Bop |
| Wes Montgomery | The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery | 1960 | Hard Bop |
| Wilbur Harden | Jazz Way Out | 1959 | Hard Bop |
| Wilbur Harden, John Coltrane, Tommy Flanagan, Doug Watkins & Louis Hayes | Mainstream 1958: The East Coast Jazz Scene | 1958 | Hard Bop |
| Willem Breuker Kollektief | Bob’s Gallery | 1988 | Experimental Big Band |
| World Saxophone Quartet | W.S.Q. | 1981 | Avant-Garde Jazz |
| Wynton Marsalis | Marsalis Standard Time, Vol. 1 | 1987 | Post-Bop |
| Yazz Ahmed | La saboteuse | 2017 | Arabic Jazz |
| Yusef Lateef | Psychicemotus | 1966 | Post-Bop |
| Zakir Hussain | Making Music | 1987 | ECM Style Jazz, Indo Jazz |
| Гунеш [Gunesh] | Вижу Землю | 1984 | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock |
| موريس لوقا [Maurice Louca] | إلفنتين (Elephantine) | 2019 | Avant-Garde Jazz, Arabic Jazz |
| ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ [Mulatu Astatke] | Mulatu of Ethiopia | 1972 | Ethio-Jazz |
| ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ [Mulatu Astatke] | Mulatu Steps Ahead | 2010 | Afro-Jazz |
| ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ [Mulatu Astatke] | Sketches of Ethiopia | 2013 | Ethio-Jazz |
| ሙላቱ አስታጥቄ [Mulatu Astatke] & The Heliocentrics | Inspiration Information | 2009 | Jazz-Funk, Ethio-Jazz |
| 福居良 [Ryo Fukui] | Scenery | 1976 | Hard Bop |
| 福居良 [Ryo Fukui] | Mellow Dream (メロー・ドリーム) | 1977 | Hard Bop, Cool Jazz |