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Mar 25, 2024 · Kind of Blue (1959) is the top jazz album on most ‘best-of’ lists and is cited as jazz’s biggest-seller. The Miles Davis classic has reached the kind of mainstream popularity that sees it included in the record collections of non-jazz fans as their token jazz record.
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- Kind Of Blue - Miles Davis. While it is one of the top-selling jazz albums of all time, many consider this to be THE best jazz album of all time. This may be because this unrehearsed recording session from 1959 marks a great turning point in jazz history as well as showcasing the top form of some legendary musicians.
- Time Out - Dave Brubeck. Dave Brubeck created a masterpiece that became the first instrumental jazz album to sell over a million copies. The single, "Take Five" was a #1 hit on music charts which is outstanding for a jazz song, especially a song with a 5/4 time signature.
- Ellington At Newport - Duke Ellington. This historic concert was a triumphant moment for Ellington's band... It was 1956 and many big bands were struggling due to the rise of bebop and modern small group format.
- Jazz At Massey Hall - The Quintet. This album appears reissued under the name "The Greatest Concert Ever". It is an all-star lineup of Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach; all whom were prominent in the development of bebop about 15 years beforehand (1953) and thus were all seasoned veterans by the time of the concert.
- Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue (Columbia) Topping our list of the 50 best jazz albums ever is this timeless, transcendent classic from the great Miles Davis.
- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!) Released in 1965, jazz mystic and saxophonist/composer John Coltrane’s four-part hymn to God remains deeply influential and is regarded as the album that birthed what became known as spiritual jazz.
- Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia) Released in 1959 – the year that Ornette Coleman produced his game-changing free jazz manifesto, The Shape Of Jazz To Come – California pianist Dave Brubeck proved that jazz didn’t have to be wild and way out to be revolutionary and innovative.
- Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Columbia) One of jazz’s most colorful characters, renowned for his volcanic temper, Charles Mingus – a bass player and composer originally from Arizona but raised in Los Angeles – created a unique style that melded driving hard bop with plaintive blues cries and sanctified gospel cadences.
Feb 23, 2024 · From Miles Davis' Kind Of Blue to Ella Fitzgerald's Cole Porter Songbook, these are the best jazz albums ever made.
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue. August 17, 1959. Modal Jazz, Cool Jazz. Critic Score. 100. 5 reviews. Spotify.
- Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain. July 18, 1960. Third Stream, Modal Jazz. Critic Score 96 5 reviews. Spotify.
- Anaïs Mitchell - Hadestown. March 9, 2010. Americana, Alt-Country, Chamber Folk, Chamber Jazz. Critic Score 94 6 reviews. Spotify.
- Cécile McLorin Salvant - Dreams and Daggers. September 29, 2017. Vocal Jazz. Critic Score 93 6 reviews. Spotify.
Jan 1, 2024 · ‘Chameleon’, the single taken from the album (also a biggie for Maynard Ferguson), sped up the Billboard chart to number 13 and made this one of the biggest selling jazz albums of all time. (SN) Review Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters. Buy album from Presto Music
Aug 1, 2001 · The best-selling jazz record of all time is a universally acknowledged masterpiece, revered as much by rock and classical music fans as by jazz lovers. The album is Miles Davis' Kind of...
