| Rank | All Time | Artist | Album | Subgenre(s) | Other Genre(s) | Year |
1 |
1322 |
Carla Bley & Paul Haines | Escalator Over the Hill | 1971 | ||
2 |
1455 |
Charlie Haden | Liberation Music Orchestra | 1970 | ||
3 |
2323 |
Charles Mingus | Let My Children Hear Music | Third Stream | 1972 | |
4 |
2972 |
Sun Ra and His Astro-Infinity Arkestra | Atlantis | Free Jazz | 1969 | |
Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000: | ||||||
| George Russell | Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved by Nature | 1969 | ||||
| Gil Evans | Plays the Music of Jimi Hendrix | Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock | 1974 | |||
| Don Ellis | Electric Bath | Third Stream | 1967 | |||
| Sam Rivers | Crystals | Free Jazz | 1974 | |||
| Fire! Orchestra | Exit! | 2013 | ||||
