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The Best Jazz Albums of All Time

Decade
Source
Genre

1.

Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
April 1, 1970
Jazz Fusion, Avant-Garde Jazz
Critic Score
100
5 reviews
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2.

Buena Vista Social Club - At Carnegie Hall
October 14, 2008
Jazz, Afro-Cuban Jazz
Critic Score
93
9 reviews
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3.

Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
September 30, 2013
Avant-Garde Jazz, Spiritual Jazz
Critic Score
90
6 reviews
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4.

Miles Davis - Live-Evil
November 17, 1971
Jazz Fusion
Critic Score
90
5 reviews
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5.

Portishead - Dummy
August 22, 1994
Trip Hop, Dark Jazz, Acid Jazz
Critic Score
90
8 reviews
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6.

Miles Davis - A Tribute to Jack Johnson
February 24, 1971
Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Critic Score
89
5 reviews
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7.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
October 22, 2021
Spiritual Jazz
Critic Score
89
9 reviews
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8.

Wayne Shorter Quartet - Without a Net
February 5, 2013
Avant-Garde Jazz, Jazz, Post-Bop
Critic Score
89
7 reviews
Amazon

9.

Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra - Promises
March 26, 2021
Modern Classical, Post-Minimalism, Third Stream, Minimalism
Critic Score
88
25 reviews
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10.

Matana Roberts - COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
October 18, 2019
Avant-Garde Jazz, Free Jazz
Critic Score
88
5 reviews
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11.

Sons of Kemet - Black To The Future
May 14, 2021
Jazz, Afrobeat, Jazz Fusion
Critic Score
87
25 reviews
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12.

Jason Moran - All Rise: A Joyful Elegy for Fats Waller
September 16, 2014
Jazz
Critic Score
87
6 reviews
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13.

Moses Sumney - græ
May 15, 2020
Art Pop, Ambient Pop, Neo-Soul, Progressive Pop, Jazz
Critic Score
87
25 reviews
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14.

Kamasi Washington - The Epic
May 5, 2015
Jazz Fusion, Spiritual Jazz, Jazz
Critic Score
87
10 reviews
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15.

Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords
July 24, 2020
Jazz
Critic Score
86
5 reviews
Amazon

16.

Caetano Veloso - Livro
October 10, 1998
MPB, Latin Jazz
Critic Score
86
5 reviews
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17.

John Coltrane - Both Directions at Once: The Lost Album
June 29, 2018
Post-Bop, Modal Jazz
Critic Score
86
11 reviews
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18.

SAULT - Nine
June 25, 2021
Neo-Soul, Contemporary R&B, UK Hip Hop, R&B, Soul Jazz, Funk
Critic Score
86
13 reviews
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19.

Nala Sinephro - Space 1.8
September 3, 2021
Nu Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz, Ambient, Spiritual Jazz
Critic Score
86
6 reviews
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20.

Vijay Iyer Sextet - Far From Over
August 25, 2017
Jazz, Post-Bop
Critic Score
86
5 reviews
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21.

Binker and Moses - Feeding the Machine
February 25, 2022
Post-Bop, Spiritual Jazz, Avant-Garde Jazz
Critic Score
86
10 reviews
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22.

Flying Lotus - You're Dead!
October 7, 2014
Jazz Fusion, Wonky, Nu Jazz
Critic Score
85
41 reviews
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23.

Nils Frahm - Spaces
November 18, 2013
Ambient, Modern Classical, Minimalism, ECM Style Jazz
Critic Score
85
20 reviews
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24.

Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
May 4, 2010
IDM, Glitch Hop, Wonky, Nu Jazz
Critic Score
85
34 reviews
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25.

Sarathy Korwar - KALAK
November 11, 2022
Spiritual Jazz
Critic Score
84
5 reviews
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