1950s and Earlier
5 albums
Kind of Blue
The best selling jazz album ever, cut in two New York sessions with a modal approach that traded dense chord changes for...
Time Out
Built on unusual meters: Take Five in 5/4 and Blue Rondo a la Turk in 9/8. It became one of the few jazz albums to sell ...
Mingus Ah Um
Mingus blended gospel, blues and avant garde fury into compositions like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, his elegy for Lester Youn...
Ella and Louis
The pairing of the greatest jazz voice and the greatest jazz trumpeter, produced by Norman Granz for his new Verve label...
The Shape of Jazz to Come
Ornette Coleman led a pianoless quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, letting melodies float free of...