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Apr 1
Miles Davis
Bitches Brew
100
critic score
(4)
90
user score
(2,402)
Jun 6
Soft Machine
Third
85
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(352)
Jul 6
Antônio Carlos Jobim
Stone Flower
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(212)
1970
Ahmad Jamal
The Awakening
80
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(169)
Jul
Alice Coltrane
Ptah, The El Daoud
81
critic score
(4)
85
user score
(160)
Oct
Pharoah Sanders
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun bukmun umyun)
79
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(121)
1970
Pharoah Sanders
Jewels of Thought
75
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(86)
May
Freddie Hubbard
Red Clay
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(62)
Jul
John Coltrane
Transition
75
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(51)
Apr
Herbie Hancock
Fat Albert Rotunda
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(42)
1970
Frank Zappa
Peaches en Regalia
95
user score
(40)
Feb
Gil Scott-Heron
Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
65
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(36)
1970
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Les stances à Sophie
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(29)
Jun
Nucleus
Elastic Rock
77
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(27)
Jul
Dorothy Ashby
The Rubáiyát of Dorothy Ashby
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(27)
Apr
Bill Evans
Alone
74
user score
(18)
Jun
McCoy Tyner
Expansions
95
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(17)
Apr 22
David Axelrod
Earth Rot
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(17)
1970
Don Cherry
"mu" Second Part
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(17)
1970
Minoru Muraoka
Bamboo
76
user score
(15)
Nov 4
Tomasz Stańko Quintet
Music For K
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(15)
Mar 5
Web
I Spider
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(15)
Feb
Joe Henderson
Power to the People
91
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(14)
Nov 2
Ornette Coleman
The Art Of The Improvisers
90
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(14)
Oct
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Roots & Herbs
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(12)
Jan
Herbie Hancock
The Prisoner
60
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(12)
1970
Brötzmann / Van Hove / Bennink
Balls
80
user score
(11)
Mar
Gato Barbieri
The Third World
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(11)
May 13
Duke Ellington
New Orleans Suite
60
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(11)
Oct
Donald Byrd
Electric Byrd
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(9)
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Mar
Wayne Shorter
Super Nova
90
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(9)
1970
João Donato
A Bad Donato
68
user score
(8)
1970
Jan Garbarek Quartet
Afric Pepperbird
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(8)
1970
Jacques Coursil
Black Suite
90
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(8)
Jun
Bobby Hutcherson
Now!
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(7)
1970
Anthony Braxton
This Time...
90
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(7)
Jan 1
Woody Shaw
Blackstone Legacy
100
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(6)
Jun
Edgar Winter
Entrance
90
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(6)
1970
Freddie Hubbard
The Hub of Hubbard
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(6)
Oct
Jackie McLean
Demon's Dance
90
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(6)
Jan 7
Tony Bennett
Tony Sings The Great Hits Of Today!
20
critic score
(1)
34
user score
(5)
Jan 15
Herbie Mann
Stone Flute
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(5)
1970
Sonny Sharrock
Monkey-Pockie-Boo
50
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(5)
1970
Paul Bley & Gary Peacock
Paul Bley with Gary Peacock
60
critic score
(1)
55
user score
(4)
1970
Charles Tolliver
The Ringer
100
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(4)
1970
Sun Ra & His Arkestra
Sun-Ra and His Astro Infinity Arkestra
68
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(4)
Feb
Hildegard Knef
Knef
72
user score
(3)
Jun
Elvin Jones
Poly-Currents
90
critic score
(1)
61
user score
(3)
Aug
Jimmy McGriff
Electric Funk
60
critic score
(1)
62
user score
(3)
1970
Leon Thomas
Spirits Known and Unknown
80
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(3)
1970
Rail Band
Orchestre Rail-Band De Bamako
65
user score
(2)
1970
Leo Wright
Soul Talk
60
critic score
(1)
63
user score
(2)
1970
Rhoda Scott
A L'Orgue Hammond Vol. 3 Come Bach To Me
50
user score
(2)
1970
Stéphane Grappelli / Joe Venuti
Venupelli Blues
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(2)
1970
Kohske Mine Quintet
First
78
user score
(2)
1970
Art Ensemble of Chicago
Go Home
53
user score
(2)
1970
Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria's Greatest Hits
67
user score
(2)
1970
Oscar Peterson Trio
Tristeza on Piano
70
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(1)
1970
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra
The Cannonball Adderley Quintet & Orchestra
80
user score
(1)
1970
Archie Shepp / Chicago Beau
Black Gipsy
70
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(1)
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