We get many calls from jazz listeners just like yourself asking us for recommendations on what recordings are good. Our catalog represents our top 100 historically important jazz recordings. Our new program lets you pick the recordings that you want and during the next year or so we will send them to you without having to place an order each time. It is an easy way to listen to some of the greatest jazz recordings of all time. There are no fees whatsoever. It is simply a list of what we consider to be the top 100 jazz recordings listed in order of significance.

Most of the recordings listed are from the 40's 50's & 60's Bebop era. This is due to the strong influence this particular period of music has had on our current "Modern Jazz" scene today. We have purposely left off early records due either to the tremendous amount of material recorded by the artist or the poor recording quality.

Enjoy! Jamey D. Aebersold

1. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
2. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
3. Clifford Brown - Study In Brown
4. John Coltrane - Blue Train
5. Cannonball Adderley - & Coltrane
6. Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
7. Horace Silver - Song For My Father
8. Dizzy Gillespie - Sonny Side Up
9. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue
10. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
11. J. J. Johnson - The Eminent Volume 1
12. Eric Dolphy - Out To Lunch
13. Oliver Nelson - Blues & The Abstract Truth
14. Lee Morgan - The Sidewinder
15. Hank Mobley - Soul Station
16. Miles Davis - Milestones
17. Wes Montgomery - Smokin At The Half Note
18. Lee Morgan - Cornbread
19. Larry Young - Unity
20. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Collossus
21. John Coltrane - Mainstream 1958
22. Mccoy Tyner - The Real Mccoy
23. John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
24. Johnny Smith - Moonlight In Vermont
25. Paul Chambers - Chambers Music
26. June Christy - Something Cool
27. Dizzy Gillespie - Jazz At Massey Hall
28. Art Blakey - A Night At Birdland Vol. 1
29. Dizzy Gillespie - Duets
30. Bill Evans - Undercurrent
31. Gene Ammons - Boss Tenors
32. Kenny Burrell - & John Coltrane
33. Miles Davis - 'Round About Midnight
34. Erroll Garner - Concert By The Sea
35. Miles Davis - Relaxin' With Miles
36. Wes Montgomery - Incredible Jazz Guitar
37. Joe Henderson - Page One
38. Frank Rosolino - Free For All
39. Wes Montgomery - Full House
40. Art Farmer - Modern Art
41. Carl Fontana - 5 Star Ed
42. Sonny Rollins - Tenor Madness
43. Art Blakey - Moanin'
44. Thelonious Monk - With John Coltrane
45. Chick Corea - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs
46. Freddie Hubbard - Open Sesame
47. Bill Evans - Sunday At Village Vanguard
48. Charlie Parker - Now's The Time
49. Stan Getz - For Musician's Only
50. Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High
51. Dexter Gordon - Ballads
52. Charlie Parker - Bird & Diz
53. Joe Henderson - Lush Life, Strayhorn Music
54. Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay
55. Bill Evans - Waltz For Debby
56. Kenny Dorham - Una Mas
57. Lester Young - The President Plays W/The Oscar Peterson Trio
58. Joe Henderson - In 'N Out
59. John Coltrane - & Johnny Hartman
60. Grant Green - Feelin' The Spirit
61. Nancy Wilson - With Cannonball Add.
62. Miles Davis - Cookin'
63. Red Garland - Groovy
64. Miles Davis - Steamin' With Miles Davis
65. Johnny Griffin - A Blowin' Session
66. Grant Green - Born To Be Blue
67. John Coltrane - Ballads
68. Johnny Hartman - I Just Dropped By To Say Hello
69. Carl Fontana - The Great Fontana
70. Grant Green - Idle Moments
71. Art Blakey - Ugetsu
72. Stanley Turrentine - Sugar
73. Bill Evans - Intermodulation
74. Art Blakey - A Night At Birdland Vol. 2
75. Freddie Hubbard - Hub Tones
76. Hank Mobley - The Turnaround!
77. Bud Powell - The Genius Of
78. Lee Konitz - Subconscious-Lee
79. Stan Getz - Stan Getz & Bill Evans
80. Milt Jackson - Bags Meets Wes
81. Jimmy Smith - Back At The Chicken Shack
82. Sonny Rollins - Plus Four
83. June Christy - The Misty Miss Christy
84. Joe Henderson - Inner Urge
85. Duke Ellington - Money Jungle
86. Woody Herman - Keeper Of The Flame
87. Chet Baker - Playboys
88. Bud Powell - The Amazing - Vol 1
89. Oscar Peterson - Plays Count Basie
90. Clifford Brown - Brown/Roach Inc.
91. Stan Kenton - Duet
92. Joe Henderson - Mode For Joe
93. Horace Silver - Blowin' The Blues Away
94. Clifford Brown - More Study In Brown
95. Sonny Clark - Leapin' And Lopin'
96. Blue Mitchell - The Thing To Do
97. Johnny Griffin - Introducing
98. Sonny Stitt - Constellation
99. Slide Hampton - World Of Trombones
100. Keith Jarrett - Standards Vol. 1