Jazzwise (UK): 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World

[Jeff]

Now that the EOY lists are finished, here is a list from Jazzwise Magazine that first appeared in print in 2006. It's a critics list from "The UK's Biggest Selling Jazz Magazine" so it's most likely eligible for inclusion. The list is described as being "a fully annotated look at the albums that actually changed jazz, changed lives and brought the music kicking and screaming into 2006."

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
3. Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz To Come
4. Bill Evans Trio - Sunday At The Village Vanguard
5. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
6. Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners
7. Charles Mingus - Mingus Ah Um
8. Charlie Parker - Bird: The Complete Original Master Takes. The Savoy Recordings
9. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
10. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
11. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
12. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
13. Louis Armstrong - Complete Hot Fives and Sevens
14. Duke Ellington - The Blanton-Webster Band
15. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
16. Albert Ayler - Spiritual Unity
17. Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters
18. Dave Brubeck - Time Out
19. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
20. Weather Report - Heavy Weather
21. Ahmad Jamal - But Not For Me
22. Jelly Roll Morton - Volume 1
23. Frank Sinatra - Songs For Swingin’ Lovers
24. Wes Montgomery - The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
25. Modern Jazz Quartet - Fontessa
26. Bud Powell - The Genius of Bud Powell
27. Cecil Taylor - At The Café Montmartre
28. Art Blakey - Moanin’
29. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
30. Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto
31. Pat Metheny - Bright Size Life
32. Jimmy Smith - A New Sound, A New Star
33. Jan Garbarek - Afric Pepperbird
34. Woody Herman - The Thundering Herds
35. Duke Ellington - Ellington At Newport
36. Ella Fitzgerald - Sings The Cole Porter Songbook
37. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady
38. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin’ Else
39. Tony Williams Lifetime - Emergency!
40. Billie Holiday - At JATP
41. Chick Corea - Return To Forever
42. Stan Getz - Focus
43. Miles Davis - Sketches Of Spain
44. George Russell - The Jazz Workshop
45. John Coltrane - Impressions
46. Andrew Hill - Point of Departure
47. Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
48. Sun Ra - The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1
49. Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw ’Nuff
50. Lennie Tristano - Tristano
51. John Zorn - Naked City
52. John McLaughlin - Extrapolation
53. Pharoah Sanders - Karma
54. Lester Young - Lester Young/Buddy Rich Trio
55. John Coltrane - Ascension
56. Art Ensemble of Chicago - A Jackson in Your House
57. Horace Silver - Song For My Father
58. Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet - Clifford Brown and Max Roach
59. Coleman Hawkins - Body And Soul
60. Peter Brötzmann Octet - Machine Gun
61. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
62. Count Basie - The Atomic Mr Basie
63. Archie Shepp - Four For Trane
64. Brad Mehldau - Art Of The Trio, Vol.3 [not a compilation]
65. Gerry Mulligan - Gerry Mulligan Quartet
66. Gil Evans - The Individualism of Gil Evans
67. John Handy - Live At Monterey Jazz Festival
68. Esbjörn Svensson Trio - From Gagarin’s Point Of View
69. Stan Tracey - Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood
70. Dollar Brand (aka Abdullah Ibrahim) - African Marketplace
71. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
72. Thelonious Monk - The Genius Of Modern Music , Vol 1
73. Roland Kirk - Rip, Rig & Panic
74. Herbie Hancock - The New Standard
75. Oscar Peterson - Night Train
76. Charles Lloyd - Dream Weaver
77. Art Tatum - The Genius of Art Tatum No.1
78. Betty Carter - The Audience With Betty Carter
79. Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth
80. John Surman - Tales Of The Algonquin
81. Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloë
82. Steve Coleman And Five Elements - The Tao Of Mad Phat: Fringe Zones
83. Diana Krall - Love Scenes
84. Anthony Braxton - For Alto
85. Krzysztof Komeda - Astigmatic
86. Steps Ahead - Steps Ahead
87. Django Reinhardt - Rétrospective 1934-53
88. Joe Harriott/John Mayer Double Quintet - Indo-Jazz Suite
89. Jackie McLean - Let Freedom Ring
90. Charlie Haden - Liberation Music Orchestra
91. Music Improvisation Company - Music Improvisation Company
92. Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan
93. Jan Johanssen - Jazz Pa Svenska
94. Cassandra Wilson - Blue Light ’Til Dawn
95. Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes From The Underground
96. Medeski, Martin and Wood - Combustication
97. Tomasz Stanko - Soul Of Things
98. Courtney Pine - Journey To The Urge Within
99. The Bad Plus - These Are The Vistas
100. Polar Bear - Held On The Tips of Fingers

link: http://www.jazzwisemagazine.com/reviews ... -the-world

[JimmyJazz]

Yet again, the high-ranking entries of Armstrong and Ellington will get ignored in the rankings, all because of the comp album rules. I understand why Henrik does this, but oftentimes the only way that certain major artists (Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams) can be represented on album lists is through these comprehensive compilation albums which consistitently appear on these lists.

[Bruce]

Yet again, the high-ranking entries of Armstrong and Ellington will get ignored in the rankings, all because of the comp album rules. I understand why Henrik does this, but oftentimes the only way that certain major artists (Armstrong, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams) can be represented on album lists is through these comprehensive compilation albums which consistitently appear on these lists.

Why do they need to be represented on albums?

In their day there were no albums. The answer is not to artificially list compilation albums that came out after their deaths. The answer is that song lists should carry much more weight here, especially in the pre-album era, which would be anything from before around 1965.

I'm also a little leary of classifying Robert Johnson as a major artist. He never had a real hit record, and was pretty much forgotten for over 20 years after his death until some musicians in another country became interested in his music in the 1960s.

Of course, Henrik could always start a separate list for compilation albums, like RYM does.

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