Jazz (Free Jazz, Avant-Garde)

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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.	Andrew Hill	Compulsion!	1967
10.	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	1964
11.	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	1959
12.	Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures	1966
13.	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	1957
14.	Max Roach	We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite	1960
15.	Don Cherry	Symphony for Improvisers	1967
16.	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie	1970
17.	Pharoah Sanders	Karma	1969
18.	Dave Holland Quartet	Conference of the Birds	1973
19.	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane	1963
20.	The Peter Brötzmann Octet	Machine Gun	1968
21.	Sun Ra	Atlantis	1969
22.	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers & Thelonious Monk	Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk	1958
23.	Anthony Braxton	Saxophone Improvisations	1972
24.	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	1970
25.	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch	1964
26.	Charles Mingus	Pithecanthropus Erectus	1956
27.	New York Eye and Ear Control	New York Eye and Ear Control	1966
28.	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	1964
29.	Charlie Haden & Carla Bley	Ballad of the Fallen	1981
30.	Borbetomagus	Barbed Wire Maggots	1983
31.	Eric Dolphy	Conversations	1963