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Jan 1
福居良 [Ryo Fukui]
Scenery
86
user score
(1,143)
Jul 1
高中正義 [Masayoshi Takanaka]
Seychelles
84
user score
(504)
Apr
Bernard Herrmann
Taxi Driver
90
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(171)
1976
Jaco Pastorius
Jaco Pastorius
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(146)
Sep 11
Return To Forever
Romantic Warrior
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(100)
May 12
Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Everybody Loves the Sunshine
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(79)
Mar 11
Weather Report
Black Market
90
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(61)
1976
George Benson
Breezin'
70
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(53)
1976
Miles Davis
Pangaea
95
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(52)
Feb 1
Pat Metheny
Bright Size Life
90
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(44)
1976
Ryo Kawasaki
Juice
76
user score
(41)
1976
Alice Coltrane
Eternity
80
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(37)
Jun 18
Brand X
Unorthodox Behaviour
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(35)
1976
Hiromasa Suzuki
High - Flying
78
user score
(35)
Nov 2
Miles Davis
Water Babies
70
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(27)
1976
September
Zadnja avantura
83
user score
(26)
1976
Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Vibrations
70
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(23)
1976
Spin
Spin
82
user score
(23)
1976
Heatwave
Too Hot to Handle
80
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(23)
1976
Charles Mingus
Mingus at Antibes
100
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(20)
1976
Area
Maledetti (Maudits)
50
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(19)
Feb
Michael Franks
The Art of Tea
68
user score
(17)
1976
Eberhard Weber
The Following Morning
60
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(16)
1976
Gong
Gazeuse!
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(15)
Jun 1
Soft Machine
Softs
70
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(15)
Jan 1
Neil Ardley
Kaleidoscope of Rainbows
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(14)
Jan
Eberhard Weber
Yellow Fields
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(14)
Nov 12
Bill Conti
Rocky
90
critic score
(1)
89
user score
(14)
Oct 8
Stanley Clarke
School Days
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(13)
Jan 1
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Inner Worlds
90
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(12)
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1976
Chick Corea
My Spanish Heart
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(11)
Apr 3
Cecil Taylor
The Cecil Taylor Unit
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(10)
1976
Dizzy Gillespie & Machito
Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(9)
1976
Yosuke Yamashita
Chiasma
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(8)
Nov
Gary Burton Quartet & Eberhard Weber
Passengers
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(7)
1976
Sun Ra
Featuring Pharoah Sanders & Black Harold
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(7)
1976
Tomasz Stańko
Balladyna
70
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(7)
1976
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
The Return of the 5000 Lb. Man
100
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(6)
1976
Lockwood
Jazz-Rock
67
user score
(4)
Oct 15
Grover Washington, Jr.
A Secret Place
80
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(4)
Sep 3
Bob James
Three
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(4)
1976
Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Other Folks' Music
60
critic score
(1)
58
user score
(4)
1976
Kenny Wheeler
Gnu High
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(4)
Nov
Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson
It's Your World
75
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(4)
Jan 1
Funk Factory
Funk Factory
68
critic score
(3)
66
user score
(3)
1976
Maynard Ferguson
Primal Scream
75
user score
(3)
1976
Yuji Ohno
犬神家の一族 (Inugamike No Ichizoku)
87
user score
(3)
1976
Billy Cobham
Life & Times
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(3)
1976
Sidney Bechet
Sidney Bechet
55
user score
(3)
1976
Kazumi Odagiri Trio
Kamikaze Squadron
78
user score
(2)
Oct
John Abercrombie / Ralph Towner
Sargasso Sea
60
critic score
(1)
53
user score
(2)
1976
The Pyramids
Birth / Speed / Merging
72
user score
(2)
1976
The New Tony Williams Lifetime
Million Dollar Legs
20
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(2)
1976
Pepe Sánchez Y Su Rock Band
Regresión
74
user score
(2)
1976
Joseph Bowie & Oliver Lake
Joseph Bowie & Oliver Lake
80
user score
(1)
1976
Opa
Goldenwings
89
user score
(1)
1976
Urbie Green
The Fox
30
critic score
(1)
45
user score
(1)
1976
Keith Jarrett
Arbour Zena
63
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(1)
1976
Andrew Hill
Divine Revelation
70
user score
(1)
May
Cannonball Adderley
Lovers...
30
user score
(1)
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