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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

• GRZEGORZ TARWID 21st Century Modern
• ALEX MERCK Jazz Related Rock
• 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

New Jazz Releases

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LUCY YEGHIAZARYAN

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JIMI TENOR

Rewilder 21st Century Modern
BORDERLANDS TRIO

Tributes Post Bop
ANTONIO FARAÒ

A Study (In The Key Of Now) Post-Fusion Contemporary
ROBERT MITCHELL

New Jazz Online Videos

Miles Away
ALEX MERCK
js· 5 hours ago

Stablemates
RON BLAKE
js· 1 day ago

Critique of Swing in Two Parts, Pt. 1
PIOTR ORZECHOWSKI (PIANOHOOLIGAN)
js· 2 days ago

FULL ALBUM - Oliver Lutz - Utopia w/ Leif Berger, Constantin Krahmer
OLIVER LUTZ
js· 3 days ago

Lift
DAVE WILSON (US/NZ)
js· 5 days ago

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