| Rank | All Time | Artist | Album | Buy at Amazon | Song Samples |
| 1 | 325 | Miles Davis | Jeru/Birth of the Cool |
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| 2 | 1036 | Louis Armstrong | Plays W.C. Handy |
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| 3 | 1229 | Clifford Brown & Max Roach | Daahoud/Clifford Brown & Max Roach | |
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| 4 | 1236 | Art Blakey Quintet | A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 | |
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| 5 | 1298 | Sarah Vaughan | Images/Swingin' Easy |
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| 6 | 1533 | Frank Sinatra | Songs for Young Lovers |
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| 7 | 1572 | Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge | Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge | |
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| 8 | 1606 | June Christy | Something Cool |
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| 9 | 1970 | Chet Baker | Chet Baker Sings |
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| 10 | 2217 | Frank Sinatra | Swing Easy! |
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| 11 | 2296 | Art Blakey Quintet | A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 | |
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| 12 | 2525 | Miles Davis | Miles Davis Sextet/Walkin' |
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| 13 | 2843 | Dave Brubeck | Jazz Goes to College |
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| 14 | 2911 |
Thelonious Monk | Thelonious Monk | | |
| Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | |||||
| Art Tatum | Group Masterpieces, Vol. 1 |
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| Gerry Mulligan | California Concerts, Vol. 1 | |
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| Gerry Mulligan | California Concerts, Vol. 2 | |
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