The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World

Die Liste The 100 Jazz Albums That Shook the World wurde 2006 anlässlich der hundertsten Ausgabe der britischen Musikzeitschrift Jazzwise veröffentlicht. Sie enthält alle Alben, die von Jazzwise-Herausgeber Jon Newey und von Keith Shadwick ausgewählt wurden, beraten und kommentiert von den Autoren Stuart Nicholson, Brian Priestley, Duncan Heining, Kevin Le Gendre, Charles Alexander und Tom Barlow. Der Titel der Liste spielt auf die vorangegangene Zusammenstellung 100 Records That Set the World on Fire (While No One Was Listening) des Musikmagazins The Wire aus dem Jahr 1998 an.

Position	Musiker/Band	Titel des Albums	Label	Aufnahme
1	Miles Davis	Kind of Blue	Columbia	1959
2	John Coltrane	A Love Supreme	Impulse!	1964
3	Ornette Coleman	The Shape of Jazz to Come	Atlantic	1959
4	Bill Evans Trio	Sunday at the Village Vanguard	Riverside	1961
5	Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus	Prestige	1956
6	Thelonious Monk	Brilliant Corners	Riverside	1956
7	Charles Mingus	Mingus Ah Um	Columbia	1959
8	Charlie Parker	Bird: The Complete Original Master Takes. The Savoy Recordings	Savoy Jazz	1945–1948
9	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew	Columbia	1969
10	Keith Jarrett	The Köln Concert	ECM	1975
11	John Coltrane	Giant Steps	Atlantic	1959
12	Eric Dolphy	Out to Lunch	Blue Note	1964
13	Louis Armstrong	Complete Hot Fives and Sevens	Columbia	1925–1930
14	Duke Ellington	The Blanton-Webster Band	RCA Bluebird	1940–1942
15	Mahavishnu Orchestra	The Inner Mounting Flame	Columbia	1971
16	Albert Ayler	Spiritual Unity	ESP-Disk	1964
17	Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters	Columbia	1973
18	Dave Brubeck	Time Out	Columbia	1959
19	Ornette Coleman	Free Jazz	Atlantic	1960
20	Weather Report	Heavy Weather	Columbia	1976
21	Ahmad Jamal	But Not For Me – At The Pershing	Argo	1958
22	Jelly Roll Morton	Volume 1	JSP	1926–1928
23	Frank Sinatra	Songs for Swingin’ Lovers	Capitol	1955–1956
24	Wes Montgomery	The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery	Riverside	1960
25	Modern Jazz Quartet	Fontessa	Atlantic	1956
26	Bud Powell	The Genius of Bud Powell	Clef/Verve	1951/52
27	Cecil Taylor	At the Café Montmartre	Debut	1962
28	Art Blakey	Moanin’	Blue Note	1958
29	Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage	Blue Note	1965
30	Stan Getz/João Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto	Verve	1965
31	Pat Metheny	Bright Size Life	ECM	1975
32	Jimmy Smith	A New Sound, A New Star	Blue Note	1956
33	Jan Garbarek	Afric Pepperbird	ECM	1970
34	Woody Herman	The Thundering Herds	Columbia	1945–1947
35	Duke Ellington	Ellington at Newport	Columbia	1956
36	Ella Fitzgerald	Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook	Verve	1956
37	Charles Mingus	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady	Impulse!	1963
38	Cannonball Adderley	Somethin’ Else	Blue Note	1959
39	Tony Williams Lifetime	Emergency!	Polydor	1969
40	Billie Holiday	At JATP	Clef/Verve	1945–1947
41	Chick Corea	Return to Forever	ECM	1971
42	Stan Getz	Focus	Verve	1961
43	Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain	Columbia	1960
44	George Russell	The Jazz Workshop	RCA Victor	1956
45	John Coltrane	Impressions	Impulse!	1961–1963
46	Andrew Hill	Point of Departure	Blue Note	1964
47	Sonny Rollins	The Bridge	RCA Victor	1962
48	Sun Ra	The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra Volume 1	ESP-Disk	1965
49	Dizzy Gillespie	Shaw ’Nuff	Musicraft	1945/46
50	Lennie Tristano	Tristano	Atlantic	1955
51	John Zorn	Naked City	Elektra/Nonesuch	1989
52	John McLaughlin	Extrapolation	Marmalade	1969
53	Pharoah Sanders	Karma	Impulse!	1969
54	Lester Young	Lester Young/Buddy Rich Trio	Verve	1946
55	John Coltrane	Ascension	Impulse!	1965
56	Art Ensemble of Chicago	A Jackson in Your House	BYG/Actuel	1969
57	Horace Silver	Song for My Father	Blue Note	1963/64
58	Clifford Brown/Max Roach Quintet	Clifford Brown and Max Roach	EmArcy	1954
59	Coleman Hawkins	Body and Soul	RCA Bluebird	1939–1956
60	Peter Brötzmann Octet	Machine Gun	FMP	1969
61	Miles Davis	Birth of the Cool	Capitol	1949/50
62	Count Basie	The Atomic Mr Basie	Roulette	1957
63	Archie Shepp	Four for Trane	Impulse!	1964
64	Brad Mehldau	Art of the Trio Vol. 3	Warner	1998
65	Gerry Mulligan	Gerry Mulligan Quartet	Pacific Jazz	1952
66	Gil Evans	The Individualism of Gil Evans	Verve	1963/64
67	John Handy	Live at Monterey Jazz Festival	Columbia	1965
68	Esbjörn Svensson Trio	From Gagarin’s Point Of View	ACT	1999
69	Stan Tracey	Jazz Suite Inspired By Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood	EMI/Columbia	1965
70	Dollar Brand (Abdullah Ibrahim)	African Marketplace	Elektra/Musician	1980
71	Wayne Shorter	Speak No Evil	Blue Note	1964
72	Thelonious Monk	Genius of Modern Music – Vol 1	Blue Note	1947
73	Roland Kirk	Rip, Rig and Panic	Limelight	1965
74	Herbie Hancock	The New Standard	Verve	1996
75	Oscar Peterson	Night Train	Verve	1962
76	Charles Lloyd	Dream Weaver	Atlantic	1965
77	Art Tatum	The Genius of Art Tatum No. 1	Clef	1953
78	Betty Carter	The Audience with Betty Carter	Betcar	1979
79	Oliver Nelson	The Blues and the Abstract Truth	Impulse!	1961
80	John Surman	Tales of the Algonquin	Deram	1971
81	Eberhard Weber	The Colours of Chloë	ECM	1973
82	Steve Coleman and the Five Elements	The Tao of Mad Phat: Fringe Zones	RCA/Novus	1993
83	Diana Krall	Love Scenes	Impulse!	1997
84	Anthony Braxton	For Alto	Delmark	1969
85	Krzysztof Komeda	Astigmatic	Nagrania Muza	1965
86	Steps Ahead	Steps Ahead	Elektra/Musician	1983
87	Django Reinhardt	Rétrospective 1934–53	Saga	1934–1953
88	Joe Harriott-John Mayer Double Quintet	Indo-Jazz Suite	EMI Columbia	1965
89	Jackie McLean	Let Freedom Ring	Blue Note	1962
90	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra	Impulse! Records	1969
91	Music Improvisation Company	Music Improvisation Company	ECM	1970
92	Sarah Vaughan	Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown	EmArcy	1954
93	Jan Johansson	Jazz på svenska	Megafon	1962–1964
94	Cassandra Wilson	Blue Light ’Til Dawn	Blue Note	1993
95	Wynton Marsalis	Black Codes from the Underground	Columbia	1985
96	Medeski, Martin & Wood	Combustication	Blue Note	1998
97	Tomasz Stańko	Soul of Things	ECM	2001
98	Courtney Pine	Journey to the Urge Within	Antilles	1986
99	The Bad Plus	These Are the Vistas	Columbia	2005
100	Polar Bear	Held On the Tips of Fingers	Babel	2004–2005