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Apr 1
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
100
critic score
(5)
90
user score
(1,904)
Jun 6
Soft Machine
Third
85
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(290)
Jul 6
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Stone Flower
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(167)
Jul
Alice Coltrane
Ptah, The El Daoud
88
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(121)
1970
Ahmad Jamal
The Awakening
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(115)
Oct
Pharoah Sanders
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun Bukmun Umyun)
79
critic score
(4)
84
user score
(98)
1970
Pharoah Sanders
Jewels of Thought
75
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(76)
May
Freddie Hubbard
Red Clay
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(43)
Jul
John Coltrane
Transition
75
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(42)
1970
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Les stances à Sophie
85
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(26)
Jul 1
Dorothy Ashby
The Rubaiyat of Dorothy Ashby
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(19)
Jun
Nucleus
Elastic Rock
77
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(16)
Apr 22
David Axelrod
Earth Rot
80
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(15)
Jun
McCoy Tyner
Expansions
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(13)
Mar 5
Web
I Spider
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(13)
1970
Don Cherry
"mu" Second Part
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(12)
Feb
Joe Henderson
Power to the People
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(11)
Nov 2
Ornette Coleman
The Art Of The Improvisers
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(11)
Oct
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Roots & Herbs
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(10)
Apr
Bill Evans
Alone
74
user score
(10)
1970
Minoru Muraoka
Bamboo
75
user score
(9)
May 13
Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite
60
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(8)
Oct
Donald Byrd
Electric Byrd
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(7)
Mar
Wayne Shorter
Super Nova
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(7)
1970
João Donato
A Bad Donato
70
user score
(7)
1970
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(6)
1970
Jacques Coursil
Black Suite
90
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(5)
Jan 15
Herbie Mann
Stone Flute
80
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(4)
Jan 7
Tony Bennett
Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today!
20
critic score
(1)
40
user score
(4)
Jun
Edgar Winter
Entrance
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(4)
Advertisement
1970
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
My Brother the Wind Vol. 1
68
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(3)
1970
Sonny Sharrock
Monkey-Pockie-Boo
50
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(3)
1970
Paul Bley & Gary Peacock
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
60
critic score
(1)
57
user score
(3)
Oct
Jackie McLean
Demon's Dance
90
critic score
(1)
58
user score
(2)
Aug
Jimmy McGriff
Electric Funk
60
critic score
(1)
59
user score
(2)
1970
Rhoda Scott
A L'Orgue Hammond Vol. 3 Come Bach To Me
50
user score
(2)
Feb
Hildegard Knef
Knef
72
user score
(2)
1970
Lalo Schifrin
Kelly's Heroes (Music From The Original Sound Track)
76
user score
(1)
1970
Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria's Greatest Hits
71
user score
(1)
1970
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Go Home
73
user score
(1)
1970
Stéphane Grappelli / Joe Venuti
Venupelli Blues
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(1)
1970
Leo Wright
Soul Talk
60
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(1)
1970
J. J. Johnson & Kai Winding
Stonebone
90
critic score
(1)
1970
Yusef Lateef / Doug Watkins
Imagination!
60
critic score
(1)
May
Ramsey Lewis
Them Changes
40
critic score
(1)
1970
Kohske Mine Quintet
First
1970
Stanley Turrentine
Another Story
80
critic score
(1)
1970
Nancy Wilson
Can't Take My Eyes Off You
Apr
Ray Charles
My Kind of Jazz
85
critic score
(2)
Feb 14
Milton Banana Trio
Milton Banana Trio
Feb 4
Gary Peacock Trio
Eastward
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