1960
8.5/10
- Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (1960)
- Max Roach: Freedom Now Suite (1960)
8/10
- Charles Mingus: Presents (1960)
- Gunther Schuller: Jazz Abstractions (1960)
- George Russell: Jazz in the Space Age (1960)
- Eric Dolphy Far Cry (1960)
7.5/10
- Joe Harriott: Free Form (1960)
- Tina Brooks: True Blue (1960)
7/10
- Don Ellis: How Time Passes (1960)
- Randy Weston: Uhuru Africa (1960)
- Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor (1960)
- Gil Evans: Out of the Cool (1960)
- Lennie Tristano: The New Tristano (1960)
- Clark Terry: Color Changes (1960)
- Jimmy Giuffre: Pieces for Clarinet and Strings (1960)
- Hank Mobley: Soul Station (1960)
- Horace Silver: Horace-Scope (1960)
- Art Blakey: The Big Beat (1960)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: The Comedy (1960)
- Betty Carter: The Modern Sound (1960)
- Oliver Nelson: Takin' Care of Business (1960)
- Wes Montgomery: The Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960)
- Sam Jones: Soul Society (1960)
- George Russell: Stratusphunk (1960)
- David Newman & James Clay: The Sound Of the Wide Open Spaces (1960)
- Duke Jordan: Flight To Jordan (1960)
- Herbie Mann: Flute Brass Vibes And Percussion (1960)
- Jazztet: Meet the Jazztet (1960)
- Phil Woods: Rights Of Swing (1960)
- Art Pepper: Gettin' Together (1960)
1961
8/10
- Ornette Coleman: Ornette (1961)
- John Coltrane Impressions (1961)
7.5/10
- John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard (1961)
- Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah (1961)
- Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds (1961)
- Bill Evans: Explorations (1961)
- George Russell: Ezz-thetic (1961)
- Ran Blake & Jeanne Lee: The Newest Sound Around (1961)
7/10
- Jimmy Giuffre: Thesis (1961)
- Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961)
- John Coltrane My Favorite Things (1961)
- Cecil Taylor: New York City R&B (1961)
- Hank Mobley: Workout (1961)
- Jackie McLean: Bluesnik (1961)
- Mal Waldron: The Quest (1961)
- Max Roach: Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)
- Don Ellis: New Ideas (1961)
- Stan Getz: Focus (1961)
- Benny Carter: Further Definitions (1961)
- Art Blakey: Mosaic (1961)
- Jimmy Giuffre: Fusion (1961)
- Oliver Nelson: Afro-American Sketches (1961)
- Wes Montgomery: So Much Guitar (1961)
- Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead (1961)
1962
8/10
- Charles Mingus: Epitaph (1962)
- Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti (1962)
7.5/10
- Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall (1962)
- Joe Harriott: Abstract (1962)
7/10
- Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring (1962)
- Sonny Rollins: Our Man in Jazz (1962)
- Dexter Gordon: Go (1962)
- Freddie Hubbard: Artistry (1962)
- Don Ellis: Essence (1962)
- Jimmy Woods: Awakening (1962)
- George Russell: Stratus Seekers (1962)
- Oscar Peterson: Night Train (1962)
- Prince Lasha: The Cry (1962)
- Sheila Jordan: Portrait (1962)
1963
9/10
- Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963)
8/10
- Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (1963)
- Joe Harriott: Movement (1963)
7.5/10
- Andrew Hill: Black Fire (1963)
- Bill Evans: Conversations with Myself (1963)
7/10
- Thelonious Monk: Criss Cross (1963)
- Grachan Moncur: Evolution (1963), 7/10
- Jackie McLean: Destination Out (1963)
- Stanley Turrentine: Soul Shoutin' (1963)
- Eric Dolphy Iron Man (1963)
- Jackie McLean: One Step Beyond (1963)
- Joe Henderson: Page One (1963)
- Kai Winding: Solo (1963)
- Art Blakey: Ugetsu (1963)
- Lee Morgan: Sidewinder (1963)
- Donald Byrd: A New Perspective (1963)
- Chico Hamilton: Man from Two Worlds (1963)
- Grant Green: Idle Moments (1963)
- Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue (1963)
1964
9/10
- John Coltrane A Love Supreme (1964)
- Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (1964)
8/10
- Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch (1964)
7.5/10
- Albert Ayler: Vibrations (1964)
- Albert Ayler: New York Eye And Ear Control (1964)
- Albert Ayler: Witches and Devils (1964)
- Andrew Hill: Point of Departure (1964)
- Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song (1964)
- Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (1964)
- Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (1964)
- Grachan Moncur: Some Other Stuff (1964), 7.5/10
7/10
- New York Art Quartet: New York Art Quartet (1964)
- Sun Ra: Other Planes of There (1964)
- Horace Silver: Song For My Father (1964)
- Andre Previn: My Fair Lady (1964)
- Denny Zeitlin: Carnival (1964)
- Kenny Burrell: Guitar Forms (1964)
- Ben Webster: See You At The Fair (1964)
- Oscar Peterson: Canadiana Suite (1964)
- Cal Tjader: Soul Sauce (1964)
- Denny Zeitlin: Cathexis (1964)
- Randy Weston: African Cookbook (1964)
- Duke Pearson: Wahoo (1964)
- Freddie Hubbard: Breaking Point (1964)
- Joe Henderson: In 'n Out (1964)
- Tony Scott: Music For Zen Meditation (1964)
- Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (1964)
- Larry Young: Into Somethin' (1964)
- Lee Morgan: Search For The new Land (1964)
- John Coltrane Crescent (1964)
- Oscar Peterson: Trio Plus One (1964)
- Shirley Scott: Blue Flames (1964)
- Wayne Shorter: Juju (1964)
- Tony Williams: Life Time (1964)
- Guenter Hampel: Heartplants (1964)
- Charles Lloyd: Discovery (1964)
1965
8.5/10
- John Coltrane Ascension (1965)
- Sun Ra: The Magic City (1965)
8/10
- Marion Brown: Quartet (1965)
- Don Cherry: Complete Communion (1965)
- Sam Rivers: Contours (1965)
7.5/10
- Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (1965)
- Roland Kirk: Rip Rig & Panic (1965)
- Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol 2 (1965)
- John Coltrane Meditations (1965)
- Milford Graves: Percussion Ensemble (1965)
- Patty Waters: Sings (1965)
- Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye (1965)
7/10
- Frank Wright: Trio (1965)
- Andrew Hill: Compulsion (1965)
- Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite (1965)
- Wayne Shorter: Soothsayer (1965)
- Jazz Composer's Orchestra: Communication (1965)
- Bobby Hutcherson: Components (1965)
- New York Art Quartet: Mohawk (1965)
- Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues (1965)
- Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue (1965)
- Ben Webster: Stormy Weather (1965)
- Lee Morgan: Cornbread (1965)
- Prince Lasha: Inside Story (1965)
- Lee Morgan: The Gigolo (1965)
- Archie Shepp: Fire Music (1965)
- Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd (1965)
- Eddie Palmieri: Mozambique (1965)
- Gabor Szabo: Gypsy (1965)
1966
9/10
- Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966)
8.5/10
- Roscoe Mitchell: Sound (1966)
- Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisers (1966)
8/10
- Cecil Taylor: Conquistador (1966)
- Alex Schlippenbach: Globe Unity (1966)
- Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight (1966)
7.5/10
- Steve Lacy: The Forest And The Zoo (1966)
- Joe Harriott: Indo-Jazz Suite (1966)
7/10
- Steve Lacy: Sortie (1966)
- Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (1966)
- Chick Corea: Tones For Joan's Bones (1966)
- Sun Ra: Strange Strings (1966)
- Patty Waters: College Tour (1966)
- Joseph Jarman: Song For (1966)
- Guenter Hampel: Assemblage (1966)
- Joe Harriott: Indo-Jazz Fusions (1966)
- Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings (1966)
- Wayne Shorter: Adams' Apple (1966)
- Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down (1966)
- Bobby Hutcherson: Stick-Up (1966)
- Charles Lloyd: Dream Weaver (1966)
- Charles Tyler: First Album (1966)
- Denny Zeitlin: Zeitgeist (1966)
- Jaki Byard: Sunshine Of My Soul (1966)
- Horace Silver: The Jody Grind (1966)
- Larry Young: Of Love And Peace (1966)
- Lee Morgan: Delightfulee (1966)
- Sonny Simmons: Music From The Spheres (1966)
- Dewey Redman: Look for the Black Star (1966)
- Sunny Murray: Sunny Murray Quintet (1966)
- Don Ellis: Live at Monterey (1966)
1967
9/10
- Sun Ra: Atlantis (1967)
8.5/10
- Gary Burton: A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
- Sam Rivers: Dimensions And Extensions (1967)
8/10
- Roscoe Mitchell: Old Quartet (1967)
- Bill Dixon: Intents And Purposes (1967)
7.5/10
- George Russell: Othello Ballet Suite (1967)
- Muhal Richard Abrams: Levels and Degrees of Light (1967)
- Archie Shepp: The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
7/10
- Jackie McLean: New and Old Gospel (1967)
- Roland Kirk: The Inflated Tear (1967)
- Don Ellis: Electric Bath (1967)
- John Coltrane Interstellar Space (1967)
- Frank Wright: Your Prayer (1967)
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Withdrawal (1967)
- Peter Broetzmann: For Adolph Sax (1967)
- Chick Corea: Now He Sings Now He Sobs (1967)
- Miles Davis: Nefertiti (1967)
- Don Ellis: Live in 32/3/4 Time (1967)
- Jackie McLean: Demon's Dance (1967)
- Miles Davis: Sorcerer (1967)
- Gary Burton: Duster (1967)
- John Coltrane: Expression (1967)
- McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (1967)
- Wayne Shorter: Schizophrenia (1967)
- Lee Konitz: Duets (1967)
- Paul Bley: Virtuosi (1967)
- Lester Bowie: Numbers 1 & 2 (1967)
- Paul Bley: Ballads (1967)
1968
8.5/10
- Michael Mantler: Jazz Composers' Orchestra (1968)
8/10
- Peter Broetzmann: Machine Gun (1968)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (1968)
- Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm (1968)
7.5/10
- Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)
- John Surman: John Surman (1968)
7/10
- Alan Silva: Luna Surface (1968)
- Don Ellis: Autumn (1968)
- Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin (1968)
- Kenny Wheeler: Windmill Tilter (1968)
- Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmine Tree (1968)
- Roland Kirk: Left And Right (1968)
- Sun Ra: Outer Spaceways Incorporated (1968)
- Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968)
- Paul Horn: Inside The Taj Mahal (1968)
- McCoy Tyner: Expansions (1968)
- Gary Bartz: Another Earth (1968)
- Pat Martino: Baiyina (1968)
- Charles Tolliver: Paper Man (1968)
- Herbie Hancock: Speak Like A Child (1968)
- Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky (1968)
- Dave Burrell: High Won High Two (1968)
- Graham Collier: Workpoints (1968)
- Lloyd Miller: Oriental Jazz (1968)
1969
9/10
- Anthony Braxton: For Alto (1969)
- Don Cherry: Mu (1969)
- Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969)
8/10
- Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969)
- Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (1969)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: People in Sorrow (1969)
- George Russell: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (1969)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones (1969)
- Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre: Humility In The Light Of Creator (1969)
- Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
7.5/10
- Dollar Brand: African Piano (1969)
- Grachan Moncur: New Africa (1969), 7.5/10
7/10
- Guenter Hampel: The 8th of July 1969 (1969)
- Roland Kirk: Rahsaan Rahsaan (1969)
- Pharoah Sanders: Jewels Of Thought (1969)
- Archie Shepp: Yasmina (1969)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: A Jackson In Your House (1969)
- Charles Tolliver: The Ringer (1969)
- Joe McPhee: Underground Railroad (1969)
- Jan Garbarek: Esoteric Circle (1969)
- Pharoah Sanders: Izipho Zam (1969)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Message to our Folks (1969)
- Sunny Murray: Homage to Africa (1969)
- Chick Corea: Is (1969)
- Dave Burrell: Echo (1969)
- Dewey Redman: Tarik (1969)
- Willem Breuker: Lunchconcert For Three Barrel-organs (1969)
- Joe Harriott: Hum-Dono (1969)
- Peter Broetzmann: Nipples (1969)
- Charles Earland: Black Talk (1969)
- Wolfgang Dauner: Fuer (1969)
- Eric Kloss: To Hear Is To See (1969)
- Leon Thomas: Spirits Known and Unknown (1969)
- Miroslav Vitous: Moutain in the Clouds (1969)
- Tony Williams: Emergency (1969)
- Archie Shepp: Blase' (1969)
- Dollar Brand: African Sketchbook (1969)
- John McLaughlin: Extrapolation (1969)
- Stanley Cowell: Blues for the Viet Cong (1969)
- Stanley Cowell: Brilliant Circles (1969)
- Wolfgang Dauner: The Oimels (1969)
- Horace Tapscott: West Coast Hot (1969)
- Liberation Music Orchestra: Song for Che (1969)
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The best of the decade
- Charles Mingus: The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady (1963)
- John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1964)
- Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966)
- John Coltrane: Ascension (1965)
- Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (1964)
- Michael Mantler: Jazz Composers' Orchestra (1968)
- Sun Ra: Atlantis (1967)
- Don Cherry: Mu (1969)
- Anthony Braxton: For Alto (1969)
- Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969)
- Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (1960)
- Charles Mingus: Epitaph (1962)
- Sun Ra: The Magic City (1965)
- Gary Burton: A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967)
- Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch (1964)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Sound (1966)
- Sam Rivers: Dimensions And Extensions (1967)
- Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969)
- Albert Ayler: New York Eye And Ear Control (1964)
- Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (1969)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Old Quartet (1967)
- Don Cherry: Symphony For Improvisers (1966)
- Max Roach: Freedom Now Suite (1960)
- Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: People in Sorrow (1969)
- Roscoe Mitchell: Congliptious (1968)
- Bill Dixon: Intents And Purposes (1967)
- Charles Mingus: Presents (1960)
- Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti (1962)
- Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones For Mental Therapy (1963)
- Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall (1962)
- Albert Ayler: Witches and Devils (1964)
- Marion Brown: Quartet (1965)
- Gunther Schuller: Jazz Abstractions (1960)
- Cecil Taylor: Conquistador (1966)
- Joe Harriott: Movement (1963)
- George Russell: Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature (1969)
- Joe Harriott: Free Form (1960)
- Eric Dolphy Far Cry (1960)
- Alex Schlippenbach: Globe Unity (1966)
- Art Ensemble Of Chicago: Reese and the Smooth Ones (1969)
- George Russell: Jazz in the Space Age (1960)
- Ornette Coleman: Ornette (1961)
- John Coltrane: Impressions (1961)
- Joe Harriott: Abstract (1962)
- Andrew Hill: Point of Departure (1964)
- Sam Rivers: Fuchsia Swing Song (1964)
- Tina Brooks: True Blue (1960)
- Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight (1966)
- Steve Lacy: The Forest And The Zoo (1966)
- Don Cherry: Complete Communion (1965)
- Sam Rivers: Contours (1965)
- George Russell: Othello Ballet Suite (1967)
- Muhal Richard Abrams: Levels and Degrees of Light (1967)
- Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah (1961)
- Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds (1961)
- Don Cherry: Eternal Rhythm (1968)
- Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968)
- Kalaparush Maurice McIntyre: Humility In The Light Of Creator (1969)
- Andrew Hill: Black Fire (1963)
- Archie Shepp: The Magic of Ju-Ju (1967)
- Bill Evans: Explorations (1961)
- Peter Broetzmann: Machine Gun (1968)
- George Russell: Ezz-thetic (1961)
- John Surman: John Surman (1968)
- Randy Weston: Uhuru Africa (1960)
- Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (1964)
- Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (1964)
- Jackie McLean: New and Old Gospel (1967)
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