The 10 Greatest Jazz Albums (of all time) 🤔 

Great, Peter!! You STILL da man!!! Incidentally, RB told me that Blanton was the reason he played bass. And it wasn't his solos that lured him as much as his big fat groove. I think he first heard it on a juke box somewhere (vaguely recall him saying that). I remember when he made the duo album with Duke. he came back to LA and told me what a dream it was to make that album. He was on cloud nine when he came home from Vegas. Excellent choice, my man. All great choices. Dianne is my fav, as you know!!!

Peter! I feel honoured to be part of your REAL 10 Greatest list! Recording that session in 2002 with Roy & touring in the RH Factor Band was a serious boundary breaking musical movement! It's funny. All we were doing was having some fun sharing the music to the World & giving it ALL for the music ... as Roy did his entire life on this Earth! May his music & legacy live forever! Holla... Rh Factor Family

Out of the 10 albums on this list, 7 were new to me and I cannot thank you enough. Discovering "new" music is a joy of life

Thanks for being bold enough to do this. A fine public service.

Some that come to mind in no particular order: Young Jazz Giants, Self Titled (2004) -Stephen Bruner/Thundercat on bass and his brother Ronald Bruner on drums. Kamari Washington on sax, Cameron Graves on keys. conceptual, almost giving you a tour of jazz on their version of Giants Steps following the poem YJG. Interesting foreshadowing of artists who would go on to really occupy the cutting edge Butcher Brown - All Purpose Music (2014) Devonne Harris- keyboards, guitar, percussion Corey Fonville- drums, percussion Andrew Randazzo- bass Keith Askey- guitar Marcus Tenney - trumpet/flugelhorn/sax These guys communicate on such a high level and have excellent compositions to showcase their love of music. Incredible drumming and tasteful fusion of influences. Lots of groove here. Endorsed by and featuring Nic Payton DOMi and JD BECK - NOT TiGHT (2022) They’ve got a fresh perspective, polished musicianship, a cohesive vision, and plenty of well deserved support and collaboration from artists like Herbie, Busta Rhymes, Mac Demarco Kiefer - Happysad 2018 Lofi hip hop or jazz? Stretching the expectations of what might be on a list of jazz albums with this one. Listening to piano playing on a track like FOMO might soothe any anxieties about categorization Anomalie - Métropole (2017) Electronic music? Jazz? Electronic jazz? Very interesting, beautiful music and beautiful piano playing. Highly structured and very composed, even when performed live. Backbeat. Robert Glasper - Black Radio (2012) When I play with young piano playing peers of mine, Robert Glasper is often more of an influence on them than Herbie. His influence has personally reached me. Thundercat - Golden Age of the Apocalypse (2011) As much a songwriter as he is a bass player. Another musician who has touched my friends and I. Them Changes is a modern jazz standard. Not on this album, I know. Joe Henderson - Power to the People (1969) Gotta have some older deep cuts. Underrated saxophone player. Rhythmically intriguing. This album is tied with his album In n Out. Afrocentric is an insane song, piano playing by Herbie on that track beyond my comprehension but not beyond my appreciation. Same with Jack Dejohnette’s drumming. So glad the performance was captured on this record. Mike Lawrence the trumpet player, sadly was later taken by cancer early in his life. Ron Carter with an appearance on electric bass. Sun Ra - Atlantis (1969) Swinging but in such an unexpected way. Otherworldly, almost too apt a description. Inspired me to take risks. Best served with THC. Larry Young - Unity (1966) Hard to pick only 10. Larry Young is underrated and it’s a shame there’s not more footage of him playing live. Joe Henderson again, but with Woody Shaw playing in his sophisticated style. Intervalic trumpet playing that makes me rethink what’s possible on that instrument. The moontrane is an amazing song. Called at a jazz jam I was at once and the whole band had already been working on it individually. Miraculous! There’s many more but the agreement was 10.

I kinda miss Chick Corea on this list cause I feel like out of all the greats he is the one getting the least attention or at least to little attention which is sad cause he was such a genius.

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady would def be on my top 10

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I'm a 58 year old Classic Rocker who still knows very little about jazz. That said, Roy Hargrove's "With the Tenors of Our Time" is the first jazz CD I ever bought. I subsequently bought two or three more of his CDs. For me he was the perfect bridge into jazz, as his music was more accessible to my untrained ear than so much other jazz I had heard.

I was skeptical during the introduction when you were dismissing the usual selections for top 10 jazz albums of all time, but I have to say you really knocked the ball out of the park with your selections! This is a great reminder that there is so much great music out there beyond the tried and true selections, and that it is worth venturing off the usual path to explore the roads less travelled in the world of jazz. Thank you.

A beautiful list. Could easily be replaced with 10 different albums. The great thing about it is that even that list could be replaced with another list with completely different artists and still we could not argue. I love this.

Man. I'm SO glad you put Coltrane's "Crescent" on this list.

I'm a musician, but not a jazzer (although with a huge admiration for jazz musicianship and improv). I'm just starting to try to get a feel for the "canon". Thank you SO MUCH for this list!! Every selection is fantastic and outside the 'usual suspects" friends and RU-vid have recommended for me. But a special thanks for "This One's for Blanton". It immediately goes on my favorite albums of all time! Gorgeous recording, juicy lucid playing, so melodic, playful and fun. Maybe hardcore guys might say it's too simple, but man it hits a certain spot for me! I would love to see you do an extended list. Your insight and taste provide invaluable guidance for relative noobs like me. Sincere thanks again.

I find the album Crescent and specifically the tune Lonnie's Lament so unbelievably beautiful and touching, thank you for mentioning it

So happy to see some love for Roy Hargrove; as you mentioned, 'Earfood' is probably one of my favorite jazz albums of the 21st century, and he is sorely missed

Thanks for talking about these less often mentioned jazz gems! Introduced me to some GREAT albums I'd never heard of! Love the videos!

The Ornette Coleman Trio, Live at The Golden Circle vol.1 Smack Up, Art Pepper Mingus at Antibes, Charles Mingus Thelonious Monk & John Coltrane at The Five Spot Decoy, Miles Davis Out to Lunch, Eric Dolphy Moanin', Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers Midnight Blue, Kenny Burrell The Bridge, Sonny Rollins Blues and the Abstract Truth, Oliver Nelson

I totally agree with you, Peter, about the Robert Flack album, especially Tryin' Times. Not only is it musically brilliant, but it is also an historical document that does capture the domestic strife of the 60's. When I was a science teacher at East Orange (NJ) high school during that period, I used this track at an after-school class to introduce kids to the blues, and to demonstrate how such a fundamental progression can be crafted into such sophisticated, soulful & meaningful art. So, thanks for highlighting it!

Oh man that Duke and Ray Brown record is absolutely killer. Thank you! I may have never otherwise found it. I adore this album.

Crescent and Hardgroove! Woo so glad they made the list. Stoked to check the rest of these records out. Thank you for your channel and all the work you do to educate and inspire!

So glad I have found this channel as it has introduced me to some great music,, It makes me excited to think about what else is yet to be discovered. Thanks for showcasing these lesser mentioned albums.

Great, diverse top 10 Peter. I think the Roberta Flack album is a great choice! Anyway - here's another 10 (in no particular order): Miles Davis - The '58 Sessions Aretha Franklin - Yeah!!! Jarrett Trio - Still Live Erroll Garner - Concert by the Sea Return to Forever - Light as a Feather Egberto Gismonti - Alma Michel Camilo - One More Once Getz/Gilberto Herbie Hancock - The New Standard Pat Metheny Group - Still Life (Talking)

Thank you, Peter! I always love and appreciate all the music content you share with us so generously!🎹🎶

Great post. Thank you for all the wonderful suggestions! Can't wait to listen.

Excited that Miles Davis' Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud gets some attention. Well deserved to be mentioned. I think, it is one of his masterpieces. Stunning record!

Glad to see Shirley Horn , she’s so underrated, I’ve been going through a rabbit hole of her live performances on RU-vid just brilliance.

Jimmy Giuffre deserves some recognition. His approach to jazz composition is quite unique. Western suite or The easy way are incredible albums that changed my way of understanding jazz. Another album that I really love is Paul Desmond - Glad tu be unhappy, with the unique Jim Hall at guitar.

One of my faves is Estate from that Shirley Horn album you noted before sharing your #10, so I decided to stick around and am glad I did. You just gained another subscriber who's eager to see what you generously share in '24. Thank you!

I wasn’t sure at first, but you stole my heart. Well done. It is always a beautiful thing to be taking on such a wonderful journey. Cheers Danny PS I’m a bari sax player…….may have to find one to add😂😂😂😂

Thanks for turning us on to such a great selection of albums and songs. I listen to a lot of jazz, but am really happy to have found such a great collection that I wasn‘t aware of. 😀🎹🎸🎷

Quick T10 hit 10. The Nurturer - G. Allen 9. Dances and Ballads - WSQ 8. Expansions - D. Holland 7. The Prisoner - H. Hancock 6. Intermodulation - Evans/Hall 5. Broken Shadows - T. Berne 4. Village Vanguard Again - Trane 3. At the 5 Spot - Dolphy/B. Little 2. Live @ the Lighthouse - E. Jones 1. While the Gate is Still Open - G. Thomas

Thanks for this fresh list. It’s only a wait for a colder day to dig into your list. I can’t wait for a rainy day to listen and relisten to this all. Roy is king!

This is what jazz is all about: listening to music with fresh ears. This list is true "tour de force". Thanks a lot!

I think Crescent always gets overlooked because A Love Supreme came out so soon after, but it's certainly no less an album. Thanks for highlighting it.

Hard Groove is utterly fantastic. I bought it not long after it was originally released. I was just thumbing through the CDs in my local music store and I saw the cover and thought: "Interesting". I'd never heard of Roy Hargrove at that point. When I got home and played it, it blew my socks off. A fantastic mix of soul/blues/rap/hip-hop inflected jazz. Simply superb.

Peter! Honored to be mentioned in this list, in Dianne's segment! I'll add ten that come to mind (in no particular order and admittedly piano heavy): Gnu High - Kenny Wheeler Mwandishi - Herbie Hancock Contours - Sam Rivers Thad Jones and Mel Lewis Live at the Vanguard Now He Sings, Now He Sobs - Chick Corea Data Lords - Maria Schneider Come to my Garden (not particularly a “jazz” album, but still extraordinary and with some jazz harmony in the general language) - Minnie Riperton (Charles Stepney, arr and prod) A World of Piano - Phineas Newborn Jr The Prisoner - Herbie Hancock My Song - Keith Jarrett

Very interesting list; I like where you go with it. I have to toss into the mix "The Music" by the Clayton Brothers: John Clayton (bass), Jeff Clayton (reeds), Jeff Hamilton (drums), and Bill Cunliffe (piano). The touch and emotion on that album from all four players is simply superb, and the programming of the record (a dying art) is masterful. If the album is unfamiliar, I would start with the song "I Concentrate on You".

Here's my "not that obvious" top ten jazz albums of all time: Duke Ellington and Johnny Hodges - Back to back Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan - Two of a mind Gerry Mulligan - What is there to say Chet Baker - Peace Charles Lloyd - Voice in the night Ginger Baker - Coward of the county Rabih Abou-Khalil - The sultan's picnic Jacinta - A tribute to Bessie Smith Keith Jarrett and Charlie Haden - Jasmine Bernardo Sassetti Trio - Motion

Thank you for continuing to help broadening my listening experience of this amazingly incredible music, known as JAZZ !🎵🎶😎❤🔥👌

A million thanks for posting this and making me discover these gems!

Spot on bullseye list indeed. Great calls. I’m always in tears with Lonnie’s Lament, over the past 52 years to first hearing Crescent when I was 16. And #1 is a blow your mind bringing us back to when we were young and loved this , and Chapter 2!

I love Duke Ellington's Afro-Eurasian Eclipse. It's totally underrated and needs to be heard more! What fantastic music.

The man may have a point! Peter, thanks for this list. The joy is in always getting new lists to listen to. I love the later albums by artists. It shows they have still grown. That is why Jazz is so great

shaking your head at Take Five should be criminal. I don’t care how many times you’ve heard it it’s crazy good.

Old guy here, stuck in the jazz classics. Love your list. Jazz needs to be fresh and new, and most of these are new to me. I used to have the Ellington/Brown album until somebody liked it more than I did. I remember trying to play the bass parts.

How about some Keith Jarrett? I know he’s generally considered a piano giant of sorts but in my experience with the musician community he is largely ignored and occasionally despised. I know his personality has a reputation for being dislikable but I have yet to meet anyone who really knows him personally. From my perspective his gifts, such as his ability to stir a wide range of emotions, the breadth of his aesthetic, his pianistic touch, his improvisational creativity (some of the solo concerts are not of this world) and his originality amongst other things are extraordinary. I’m often surprised that I don’t frequently encounter musicians who are genuinely excited about his contributions. I find myself wondering why this is so and question the objectivity and sincerity of this trend within the musical communities I have experienced because musically it simply doesn’t make any sense.

I was once walking through the city at night. It was drizzling, the lights in the apartment blocks along the harbor were providing some background lighting and Miles' Ascenseur pour L'échafaud was playing through my headphones. I couldn't have picked a better setting for this soundtrack. Goosebumps.

Dude! That top 10 list f*cks so hard, my head is still spinning. Thank you so much for your thoughtful curation. I was lucky enough to see Roy Hargrove and his big band live before his untimely passing. And what seems to be ironic to me only now, Roberta Flack opened that show! I listen to many of those recordings already but there is more than enough new-to-me material to keep me going for a long time. Instant subscribe! 😄

Peter! Thank you so much for your unique take on the old warhorse "top 10 best list." Refreshing and very insightful..... you've expanded my somewhat "limited" viewpoint. Your style and presentation is enjoyable and motivating for exploring beyond the backyards of old top ten yardbirds.

Etcetra by Wayne Shorter. What a masterpiece! Most would not put it onto Shorters top 5 or top 10 albums but believe me. If you havent listened to it yet - DO IT. You’re welcome! 😊

Love this. This One’s for Blanton, Crescent, Interplay, Ascenseur Pour L’echafaud, Alone in San Francisco, First Take, all amazing. I’ll have to check out the others (I love Shirley Horn) Would be great to see a series of lists like this. Here’s ten of my lesser-known favorites: 10. Larry Young - Of Love and Peace 9. Gil Mellé Quartet - Quadrama 8. Pete La Roca - Turkish Women at the Bath 7. Sam Rivers - Waves 6. Randy Weston Trio with Cecil Payne - Jazz à la Bohemia 5. Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Thesis 4. Carmen McRae - Bittersweet 3. John Coltrane - First Meditations (for quartet) 2. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Rahsaan Rahsaan 1. Art Farmer Quartet - Sing Me Softly of the Blues Honorable Mention - Cannonball Adderley Sextet in New York (with Nat Adderley and Yusef Lateef), Walt Dickerson Plays Unity, Herbie Mann & the Bill Evans Trio - Nirvana, Honi Gordon - Honi Gordon Sings, Ornette Coleman - Body Meta That order and list could change on a daily basis as I know I’m forgetting many more I’d like to include.

Wow..This One For Blanton is real eargasm..Mister your channel is a cut above the rest.. preview of a track each no matter how brief really drives the point home..and the omissions of great but overhyped album is a welcome relief. And your clear voice goes over with great conviction..takes me back when i am working at Tower Records Jazz department. 😊

Your list is AMAZING!! Love the "Jazz" concept applied here. You stepped somewhat away from the known, tried-n-true standards. The Miles selection was spot on. Discovered this album in a used record store a few years back and MAN, it's a stunner. Thanks for thinking outside the box (as a good jazz man should).

Thank you, brother! Great list and indeed, not all of them would have been on my list! Will give them a good listen-to. I am a big sucker for scandinavian jazz. LOVE Esbjörn Svensson Trio - and here perhaps the most "Good Morning Susie Soho". Feelings, man! As well, one of my most listened to albums is from a Swedish saxophone player, Per "Texas" Johansson and here perhaps the album "Alla Mina Kompisar" ("all my friends"). This is where I fell in love with pedal steel guitar in jazz. Listen to "miljarder stjärnor" ("millions of stars"). FEELINGS, man!!!

Loved the Shirley Horn and Bill Evans picks, but I would definitely have gone with the Roy Hargrove/Mulgrew Miller "In Harmony" recent release as my pick for any Hargrove related album. Those two create some magic that is rarely heard on any recording and as a duo they compliment each other perfectly.

Thanks so much for pulling this together!!!

Thank you for this list. I'm always open to new suggestions for music. I've got my 15 yr old daughter playing many of the jazz standards in addition to the classical music that's required for the RCM. She love Bach, Mozart, Monk, Davis, the old big band stuff. I've gotten her into opera and 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s pop, but let's face it, the best thing is to never be snobby about music. So much to love. Zydeco, ska, reggae... blues, jazz. If it has the feel, I love it.

I’m a metal head! Death metal, grindcore, dark hardcore and all things heavy dark and dirty; that’s my happy place. I have watched a million of these types of videos for those genres. But I saw this one pop up, gave it a watch and have a created a RU-vid playlist of all of these albums. Roberta Flack and Thelonius Monk have made their mark on me previously. I’m going to give the whole list a good crack!

Thanks for the reminders on these, Peter. Here's a Top 10 More: The Audience With Betty Carter (1980) The Hub of Hubbard (1969) In All Languages - Ornette Coleman (1987) Gettin' Together - Art Pepper (1960) Four For Trane - Archie Shepp (1964) The Peacocks - Stan Getz presents Jimmy Rowles (1975) Monk's Dream (1962) Alfie - Sonny Rollins (1966) Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Ellington (1957) Crescent - John Coltrane (1964) and one more for good measure - Eventuality:The Charlie Kohlhase Quintet Plays the Music of Roswell Rudd - Roswell Rudd/Charlie Kohlhase (2001)

Thank You. I love the path that you took here. These are very good selections and some new standards. Much appreciated. Subscribed.

Excited like many of your other commenters! A fresh and new list for me, a long listener. Your love of this music is lauded and appreciated.

This is great. I’d love to see more album recommendation videos like these. Edit: like more of these lesser know “inside picks”

I gotta say Sam Rivers' "Contours" is an absolute bomb of an album. I hardly ever see it listed, don't know why. It's personal, surprising and fresh still today, imo.

I love “open mind” experiences! That’s what happened when I clicked on this. At first I thought “Damn 10-Greatest click-bait BS!”, but I stuck with it and learned of some fabulous tracks - thanks Peter! Some alternatives - Abbey Lincoln w/ Cedar Walton - ‘The Maestro’ album (Castles) Carmen McRae - ‘Sings Monk’ album Duke w/ Mingus & Roach - African Flower Monk & Trane - At Carnegie Hall (Crespecule with Nellie!) Miles - anything with Charlie Parker to hear the budding young genius! Trane - Thanks for picking ‘Crescent’! Trane - ‘Bye Bye Blackbird’ live Bill Evans - ‘Affinity’ with Toots Theilemans and Larry Schneider (Sno’ Peas)

IMO...Dave Brubeck Take Five is absolutely the best and a must have...produced in 1959.

I am very happy that you featured Roy Hargrove & The RH Factor album "Hardgroove." I instinctively bought the album back in 2007 because I thought the cover art was so unique. I didn't even know RH back then, but I'm hooked on him ever since. There are other hits in that album: Poetry, The Joint, Liquid Streets, Juicy, and The Stroke. RIP the best melancholic trumpeter. Roy Hargrove, you'll be missed. ❤

Spot On - John Coltrane’s Crescent and Lonnie’s Lament 🙌. All of the Roy Hargrove’s RH Factor output is killin ! You also named some others that I need to definitely pickup…. My Top Ten Acoustic Jazz - No Particular Order - There are so many…. Miles Davis - My Funny Valentine John Coltrane - Crescent Herbie Hancock - The Prisoner Wayne Shorter - Adam’s Apple Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time Vol. 3 Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue Joshua Redman - Moodswing Carmen McRae - Sings Monk Lee Morgan - Search For Thé New Land Art Blakey - Indestructible

This is great - thank you! I love jazz but am only recently beginning to dig past the classics so this video is a Godsend - your picks are spot on. To think I might never have heard the RH Factor without your input. That is a beautiful record! I’ve already gone and purchased the Herbie Hancock too… thanks so much - this is a massively valuable video to the likes of me - hugely appreciated! 👍👍👍

Thank you! Just added them all to my playlist, and can’t wait to go exploring. Two new artists for me to dive into, and 9 new records. Very excited. Where to begin…

Yes -- Crescent! My favorite Coltrane album, and one of my very favorite jazz albums ever. And Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud is so great. But Roberta Flack's First Take is an inspired and unexpected choice.

A very creative and interesting list including some obscure pieces... Roberta is great. I saw her in DC in a Stanley Turrentine sit-in back in the day before she was even known, and she was fabulous then, even before the world heard of her.

Thanks for this list. I haven’t heard most of this list before. Loved it and loved your enthusiasm. Cheers!!

Boy, that Roberta Flack….the voice really is the ultimate instrument. Thank you for the list. I liked her album and the Bill Evan’s’ album best from that list.

I enjoyed that! I would kind of like a more track-focussed top 10, as album contents obviously vary widely in quality. I'm a dedicated bebopper, but nothing speaks to me more than that ephemeral explosion of art that started in a taxi cab and ended in a recording called 'The Minor Drag', For me, that recording stands as the preserved scintilla of a frantic, youthful, intoxicated and brilliant exposition of joyful young jazz!

So good to see Dianne Reeves appreciated (haven't seen anyone react to that selection as I scrolled thru comments). Got a chance to see her live early after her first LP and loved her ever since. I urge others to check out her catalog.

Being a new listener (Well not really new, just stuck in my ways) and starting to branch out from the "norm", this list is refreshing. Thank you so much. You've given me another rabbit hole to go down with some of these artist. Much Love!

Thanks for this "not the usual suspects" approach! I had thought about this for quite some time - you not only beat me to it, but did so in a clearly better-informed way.

Feel proud that two of these albums are on my “can’t live without” list. Crescent, and River: Joni Mitchell letters

I wanted to hate your list! But I love it! As a piano plodder (what I do could never be mistaken for playing) I am a huge Shirley Horn fan. The Miles & Bill Evans LPs you featured are simply brilliant. Great job!

Many thank. Listening to Jazz for ages but did not know most of your suggested albums. What a great experience!

Thank you for sharing this top 10, love it! I like the fact it was a bit outside the obvious ones, i love to discover new stuff. Here in Montreal, we're pleased to have the Jazz Festival: It's another chance to enjoy / discover music. I was lucky to get tickets in 2022 when the Brubeck Brothers came: It was in Gesù theater, inside a Church, great show! I'll try to get the albums of your top 10 i don't have (hope they are good recordings). As i am an audiophile too, i'm in heaven when i hear great jazz musicians on a well recorded / mixed / mastered all digital media! Great recording is a big plus. I'd say that in my record collection, Patricia Barber's albums are probably the best sounding ones i have. With my new DAC, it's simply MARVELOUS!

Wonderful list. My top LPs " Ahmad Jamal at the Pershing" .... June Christy "Something Cool". .....Miles Davis "Relaxing" .... Brubeck "Jazz Impressions of USA" ... Coltrane and Johnny Hartman ....Pat Metheny "Bright Size Life" ..... Bill Evans "I will say Goodbye" ... Stan Getz in Stockholm .... Sinatra "Only The Lonely" ...... Dakota Staton "The Late late Show " So many from which to choose.

There’s no doubt that these are 10 albums that should bring great pleasure to anyone who already appreciates jazz and could serve as an intro to jazz too. L’Ascenceur Pour L’Echafaud is a really good pick- going to have to listen to that again soon. My personal top 10 list would likely always include something by Tubby Hayes not because he’s necessarily one of the best purveyors of bebop but he’s the one who got me to appreciate it when I came to his music somewhat late in life.

Fantastic list! The Shirley Horn, and the Miles Davis picks are two of my favorite albums of all time! Well done!

Excellent compilation!! Really a curated list. I didn’t know a few of these artists - great that you expanded my jazz knowledge.

Well...that was excellent! Too many things to say, so I'll say this. I am always on the look out for new music. My tastes range wide and far, and yet I am also picky. There are at least five albums on this list that I'll now go and track down. Thank you so much!!

Happy to see in the list Ascenseur pour l'echefaud by Miles. A great album and a remarkable landmark in my life (I discovered it in 1990, when I was young and still free to discover things). Thanks for the list, I did one similar for a blog in Italy, but it was meant to consider the 11 album which cannot be missed, so it is more classical. Hugs

Wow! I'm so glad that I came upon your video. Thanks so much! ❤

I absolutely agree with your choice of the #1 jazz album of all time. Now seriously, thank you for making me discover artists and album that I barely knew.

Fun list! The one I'm especially on board with is that Monk album. It's always been an important & much loved album for me. The whole video reminds me of one of my favorite Norm McDonald jokes: I got stuck on a deserted island once, and I gotta say, those 10 CDs I brought with me didn't help a damn thing! XD

Great list Peter. I would add, if possible -- Anthony Braxton's Five Pieces 1975, Steve Swallow's Home, Ethnic Heritage Ensemble's Dance With the Ancestors, Larry Goldings' As One, and Lee Konitz/Albert Mangelsdorf's Art of the Duo.

Great list and great way to present it. I really enjoyed you starting with Shirley Horn and finishing it with Ron Carter and Roberta Flack and not forgetting Coltrane in the middle. We’ll done!

Wow, what a great list, thank you! I've got a few years of listening in front of me. Funny, I was closing up at work tonight and turning the sound up, playing some tunes from an album my brother gave me (the saxophonist who's turned me on to so much great music). This is a favorite album of mine and I was thinking, this has got to be one of the great all-time jazz records (even if not recognized by the mainstreamers): Oliver Nelson--The Blues and the Abstract Truth. Never grows old! Thank you again for opening our ears!

Interplay is actually one of my top five favorite jazz albums, glad to see it in number 2. Undercurrent is also a masterpiece.

Thanks for opening my eyes and ears to this selection. What a great selection of albums. A favorite of mine is Something Else by Cannonball Adderley. Miles' playing on this album is sublime

10 random personal faves - "Cats" - Tommy Flanagan "How Long Has This Been Going On" - Sarah Vaughan "Crazy People Music" Branford Marsalis "Filles De Kilimanjaro" - Miles Davis "United States of Mind" - Horace Silver "Quiet Nights" - Miles Davis "Les is More" - Les McCann "Inventions & Dimensions" Herbie Hancock "Sonny Rollins + 3" - Sonny Rollins "In a Silent Way" - Miles Davis

As a long standing jazz fan I have been "indoctrinated" to the endless, but narrow top ten, critics' lists. Thank you for this list!! It is all new to me, although certainly not the artists. I have a new set of music to discover and a reminder to dig deeper. Looking forward to more of your videos and ideas,

for me Black Radio (2012)by Robert Glasper is the album that changed the panorama and sound of current jazz worldwide, it’s the best of all time

Bill Evans We will meet again is the album that changed my life as a drummer. Not because of the drumming, but because loved it so much that I learned piano. It opened my ears and emotionally got me through many very difficult years.

Oh God I was just thinking about how that Dianne Reeves song sounded like Caldera's Ancient Source, and I was exactly right! She's the vocalist on that one, and her work with Caldera was one of her first ones too! That's so cool