Jazz (Free Jazz, Avant-Garde)
This is a list of my personal favorite jazz albums. I don't know, and probaly won't ever know as much about jazz, as I know about these other genres. These are just the albums that had a profound affect on me. My friends know much more about jazz than I do.
| # | Artist | Album | Year |
| 1. | Carla Bley & Paul Haines | Escalator over the Hill | 1971 |
| 2. | Charles Mingus | The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady | 1963 |
| 3. | Albert Ayler | Live in Greenwich Village | 1967 |
| 4. | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra | 1968 |
| 5. | Don Cherry | Eternal Rhythm | 1969 |
| 6. | Sun Ra | Lanquidity | 1978 |
| 7. | John Coltrane | Ascension | 1965 |
| 8. | Albert Ayler | Spiritual Unity | 1965 |
| 9. | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme | 1964 |
| 10. | Ornette Coleman | The Shape of Jazz to Come | 1959 |
| 11. | Cecil Taylor | Unit Structures | 1966 |
| 12. | Thelonious Monk | Brilliant Corners | 1957 |
| 13. | Don Cherry | Symphony for Improvisers | 1967 |
| 14. | Art Ensemble of Chicago | Les Stances a Sophie | 1970 |
| 15. | Pharoah Sanders | Karma | 1969 |
| 16. | Dave Holland Quartet | Conference of the Birds | 1973 |
| 17. | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | 1963 |
| 18. | The Peter Brötzmann Octet | Machine Gun | 1968 |
| 19. | Sun Ra | Atlantis | 1969 |
| 20. | Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers & Thelonious Monk | Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk | 1958 |
| 21. | Anthony Braxton | Saxophone Improvisations | 1972 |
| 22. | Miles Davis | Bitches Brew | 1970 |
| 23. | Eric Dolphy | Out to Lunch | 1964 |
| 24. | Charles Mingus | Pithecanthropus Erectus | 1956 |
| 25. | New York Eye and Ear Control | New York Eye and Ear Control | 1966 |
| 26. | Andrew Hill | Point of Departure | 1964 |
| 27. | Charlie Haden & Carla Bley | Ballad of the Fallen | 1981 |
| 28. | Borbetomagus | Barbed Wire Maggots | 1983 |
| 29. | Eric Dolphy | Conversations | 1963 |