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JMA TOP 5 Jazz ALBUMS

Rating by members, ranked by custom algorithm
Albums with 30 ratings and more

A Love Supreme Post Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

Kind of Blue Cool Jazz
MILES DAVIS

The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady Progressive Big Band
CHARLES MINGUS

Blue Train Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

My Favorite Things Hard Bop
JOHN COLTRANE

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New Jazz Artists

• RON BLAKE Hard Bop
• OLIVER LUTZ Fusion
• DAVE WILSON (US/NZ) 21st Century Modern
• CHARLIE PYNE Fusion
• MARTA WARELIS Avant-Garde Jazz
• THE CHAPPARRALS Funk
• ARGYLE Funk Jazz
• ANTTI LOUHIVAARA Jazz Related Rock
• ANTOINE DRYE Pop/Art Song/Folk
• NANCY ERICKSON LAMONT Vocal Jazz
• TWOSPEAK Nu Jazz
• SUNNY KIM Vocal Jazz
• JAKE GOTLIEB'S BANACH-TARSKI PARADOX Jazz Related Improv/Composition
• CHRISTIE DASHIELL Vocal Jazz
• THE PYRAMIDS African Fusion
• J@K@L / JAKAL (FREDRICK LONBERG-HOLM - JULIAN KIRSHNER - KEEFE JACKSON) Avant-Garde Jazz
• TIN MEN AND THE TELEPHONE 21st Century Modern
• DRIFT LAB Fusion
• HYEONSEON BAEK Vocal Jazz
• GABRIEL GUERRERO Post Bop

New Jazz Releases

Sanyas Hard Bop
STEVE TURRE

Pianohooligan : Critique of Swing in Two Parts, Pts. 1 & 2 Third Stream
PIOTR ORZECHOWSKI (PIANOHOOLIGAN)

Jason Stein, Marilyn Crispell, Damon Smith, Adam Shead : Spi​-​raling Horn Avant-Garde Jazz
JASON STEIN

Utopia Jazz Related Improv/Composition
OLIVER LUTZ

Charlie Pyne Quartet : Nature Is A Mother Vocal Jazz
CHARLIE PYNE

New Jazz Online Videos

Critique of Swing in Two Parts, Pt. 1
PIOTR ORZECHOWSKI (PIANOHOOLIGAN)
js· 10 hours ago

FULL ALBUM - Oliver Lutz - Utopia w/ Leif Berger, Constantin Krahmer
OLIVER LUTZ
js· 1 day ago

Lift
DAVE WILSON (US/NZ)
js· 3 days ago

Nature is a Mother
CHARLIE PYNE
js· 3 days ago

Marta Warelis solo @ FourOneOne 5-11-23
MARTA WARELIS
js· 3 days ago

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