Jazz

7 albums

Kind of Blue

Miles Davis · 1959 · USA

Jazz1950s and Earlier

The best selling jazz album ever, cut in two New York sessions with a modal approach that traded dense chord changes for...

A Love Supreme

John Coltrane · 1965 · USA

Jazz1960s

A four part spiritual suite recorded with his classic quartet, moving from the chant of Acknowledgement through Psalm. C...

Time Out

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · 1959 · USA

Jazz1950s and Earlier

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

Charles Mingus · 1959 · USA

Jazz1950s and Earlier

Mingus blended gospel, blues and avant garde fury into compositions like Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, his elegy for Lester Youn...

Ella and Louis

Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong · 1956 · USA

Jazz1950s and Earlier

The pairing of the greatest jazz voice and the greatest jazz trumpeter, produced by Norman Granz for his new Verve label...

Bitches Brew

Miles Davis · 1970 · USA

Jazz1970s

Miles plugged in and opened jazz to rock rhythms, editing long group improvisations into a dense double album with tape ...

The Shape of Jazz to Come

Ornette Coleman · 1959 · USA

Jazz1950s and Earlier

Ornette Coleman led a pianoless quartet with Don Cherry, Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins, letting melodies float free of...