The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World

Die Liste The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World (dt. Die 100 Jazz-Alben, die die Welt erschütterten) wurde 2006 anlässlich der hundertsten Ausgabe der britischen Musikzeitschrift Jazzwise veröffentlicht.[1] Sie enthält alle Alben, die von Jazzwise-Herausgeber Jon Newey und von Keith Shadwick ausgewählt wurden, beraten und kommentiert von den Autoren Stuart Nicholson, Brian Priestley, Duncan Heining, Kevin Le Gendre, Charles Alexander und Tom Barlow.[2] Der Titel der Liste spielt auf die vorangegangene Zusammenstellung 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening) des Musikmagazins The Wire aus dem Jahr 1998 an.[3]

№ Musiker/Band Titel des Albums Label Aufnahme
1 Miles Davis Kind of Blue Columbia 1959
2 John Coltrane A Love Supreme Impulse! 1964
3 Ornette Coleman The Shape of Jazz to Come Atlantic 1959
4 Bill Evans Trio Sunday at the Village Vanguard Riverside 1961
5 Sonny Rollins Saxophone Colossus Prestige 1956
6 Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Riverside 1956
7 Charles Mingus Mingus Ah Um Columbia 1959
8 Charlie Parker Bird: The Complete Original Master Takes.
The Savoy Recordings		 Savoy Jazz 1945–1948
9 Miles Davis Bitches Brew Columbia 1969
10 Keith Jarrett The Köln Concert ECM 1975
11 John Coltrane Giant Steps Atlantic 1959
12 Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch! Blue Note 1964
13 Louis Armstrong The Complete Hot Fives and Hot Seven Recordings Columbia 1925–1930
14 Duke Ellington The Blanton-Webster Band RCA Bluebird 1940–1942
15 Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame Columbia 1971
16 Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity ESP-Disk 1964
17 Herbie Hancock Head Hunters Columbia 1973
18 Dave Brubeck Time Out Columbia 1959
19 Ornette Coleman Free Jazz Atlantic 1960
20 Weather Report Heavy Weather Columbia 1976
21 Ahmad Jamal At the Pershing: But Not for Me Argo 1958
22 Jelly Roll Morton Volume 1 JSP 1926–1928
23 Frank Sinatra Songs for Swingin’ Lovers Capitol 1955–1956
24 Wes Montgomery The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery Riverside 1960
25 Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa Atlantic 1956
26 Bud Powell The Genius of Bud Powell Clef/Verve 1951/52
27 Cecil Taylor At the Café Montmartre Debut 1962
28 Art Blakey Moanin’ Blue Note 1958
29 Herbie Hancock Maiden Voyage Blue Note 1965
30 Stan Getz/João Gilberto Getz/Gilberto Verve 1965
31 Pat Metheny Bright Size Life ECM 1976
32 Jimmy Smith A New Sound... A New Star... Blue Note 1956
33 Jan Garbarek Afric Pepperbird ECM 1970
34 Woody Herman The Thundering Herds Columbia 1945–1947
35 Duke Ellington Ellington at Newport Columbia 1956
36 Ella Fitzgerald Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook Verve 1956
37 Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Impulse! 1963
38 Cannonball Adderley Somethin’ Else Blue Note 1959
39 Tony Williams Lifetime Emergency! Polydor 1969
40 Billie Holiday Billie Holiday at JATP Clef/Verve 1945–1946
41 Chick Corea Return to Forever ECM 1971
42 Stan Getz Focus Verve 1961
43 Miles Davis Sketches of Spain Columbia 1960
44 George Russell The Jazz Workshop RCA Victor 1956
45 John Coltrane Impressions Impulse! 1961–1963
46 Andrew Hill Point of Departure Blue Note 1964
47 Sonny Rollins The Bridge RCA Victor 1962
48 Sun Ra The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 ESP-Disk 1965
49 Dizzy Gillespie Shaw ’Nuff Musicraft 1945/46
50 Lennie Tristano Tristano Atlantic 1955
51 John Zorn Naked City Elektra/Nonesuch 1989
52 John McLaughlin Extrapolation Marmalade 1969
53 Pharoah Sanders Karma Impulse! 1969
54 Lester Young Lester Young/Buddy Rich Trio Verve 1946
55 John Coltrane Ascension Impulse! 1965
56 Art Ensemble of Chicago A Jackson in Your House BYG Actuel 1969
57 Horace Silver Song for My Father Blue Note 1963/64
58 Clifford Brown/
Max Roach Quintet		 Clifford Brown and Max Roach EmArcy 1954
59 Coleman Hawkins Body and Soul RCA Bluebird 1939–1956
60 Peter Brötzmann Octet Machine Gun FMP 1969
61 Miles Davis Birth of the Cool Capitol 1949/50
62 Count Basie The Atomic Mr. Basie Roulette 1957
63 Archie Shepp Four for Trane Impulse! 1964
64 Brad Mehldau Art of the Trio Vol. 3 Warner 1998
65 Gerry Mulligan Gerry Mulligan Quartet Pacific Jazz 1952
66 Gil Evans The Individualism of Gil Evans Verve 1963/64
67 John Handy Live at Monterey Jazz Festival Columbia 1965
68 Esbjörn Svensson Trio From Gagarin’s Point of View ACT 1999
69 Stan Tracey [[Jazz Suite Inspired by Dylan Thomas’
Under Milk Wood]]		 EMI/Columbia 1965
70 Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim) African Marketplace Elektra/Musician 1980
71 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil Blue Note 1964
72 Thelonious Monk Genius of Modern Music – Vol 1 Blue Note 1947
73 Roland Kirk Rip, Rig and Panic Limelight 1965
74 Herbie Hancock The New Standard Verve 1996
75 Oscar Peterson Night Train Verve 1962
76 Charles Lloyd Dream Weaver Atlantic 1965
77 Art Tatum The Genius of Art Tatum No. 1 Clef 1953
78 Betty Carter The Audience with Betty Carter Betcar 1979
79 Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth Impulse! 1961
80 John Surman Tales of the Algonquin Deram 1971
81 Eberhard Weber The Colours of Chloë ECM 1973
82 Steve Coleman and
the Five Elements		 The Tao of Mad Phat: Fringe Zones RCA/Novus 1993
83 Diana Krall Love Scenes Impulse! 1997
84 Anthony Braxton For Alto Delmark 1969
85 Krzysztof Komeda Astigmatic Nagrania Muza 1965
86 Steps Ahead Steps Ahead Elektra/Musician 1983
87 Django Reinhardt Rétrospective 1934–53 Saga 1934–1953
88 Joe Harriott-John Mayer
Double Quintet		 Indo-Jazz Suite EMI Columbia 1965
89 Jackie McLean Let Freedom Ring Blue Note 1962
90 Charlie Haden Liberation Music Orchestra Impulse! Records 1969
91 Music Improvisation Company Music Improvisation Company ECM 1970
92 Sarah Vaughan Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown EmArcy 1954
93 Jan Johansson Jazz på svenska Megafon 1962–1964
94 Cassandra Wilson Blue Light ’Til Dawn Blue Note 1993
95 Wynton Marsalis Black Codes from the Underground Columbia 1985
96 Medeski, Martin & Wood Combustication Blue Note 1998
97 Tomasz Stańko Soul of Things ECM 2001
98 Courtney Pine Journey to the Urge Within Antilles 1986
99 The Bad Plus These Are the Vistas Columbia 2005
100 Polar Bear Held On the Tips of Fingers Babel 2004–2005

Quellen

  1. ↑ The Generalist: CULT MUSIC DIGEST: Jazzwise et al. In: The Generalist. 12. August 2006, abgerufen am 13. Februar 2024.
  2. ↑ The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook The World. 26. März 2018, archiviert vom Original; abgerufen am 13. Februar 2024.
  3. ↑ 100 Records That Set The World On Fire (Memento vom 13. Juni 2007 im Internet Archive) The Wire 175 [September 1998] „100 Records That Set The World On Fire [When No One Was Listening]“