The TEN Greatest JAZZ ALBUMS | Ranked

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Andy is a drummer, producer and educator. He has toured the world with rock legend Robert Plant and played on classic prog albums by Frost and IQ.
As a drum clinician he has played with Terry Bozzio, Kenny Aronoff, Thomas Lang, Marco Minneman and Mike Portnoy.
He also teaches drums privately and at Kidderminster College

[@GaryBook]

10. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane 1957 9. Time Out The David Brubeck Qt 1959 8. Piano Starts Here Art Tatum 1968 (1933) 7. Giant Steps John Coltrane 1959 6. The Shape of Jazz to Come Garnett Coleman 1959 5. Ellington at Newport 1956 4. The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes Charlie Parker 3. The Best of Lou Armstrong 2. A Love Supreme John Coltrane 1964 1. Kind of Blue Miles Davis 1959

[@alexv850]

It is Ornette Coleman

[@Paul47Tat]

You must know that there's entire Carnegie Hall album from Monk and Coltrane, don't you??

[@walterhoenig6569]

Keith Jarrett’s Koln Concert should be in the top 5.

[@choward5430]

The Sidewinder Lee Morgan 1964 Song ForMy Father Horace Silver 1965 Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil 1966

[@jira69]

@@choward5430thank you for including Lee Morgan people overlook him a lot he’s TOP 10 best jazz artist in my book

[@xrrsss]

I'm only 19 years old and i would love to hear more about jazz I'm falling in love with this genre and you are one the reasons why such a thing is happening, you talk with so much love that yours words cativate me to start this journey, yes i would love to have more jazz videos!!

[@mattf9076]

Allan Holdsworth said transcribing Charlie Christian didn't get him anywhere. When Allan wondered what Charlie Christian was thinking when he solo'd, then he got somewhere. I love that quote. Too bad that we live in a musical world where everyone thinks success is defined by copying what others have done. This mindset of Allan must be preserved and preached about.

[@NeilRaouf]

Quote from the 🐐

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Yes I agree but it’s important to learn transcriptions and theory etc when you’re learning but ultimately you have to forget all that and relax into the feeling and melody and trust your muscle memory to execute what you’re thinking, like talking.

[@ISuperTed]

As Bird was quoted saying - You've got to learn your instrument. Then, you practice, practice, practice. And then, when you finally get up there on the bandstand, forget all that and just wail. His point was you have to get good enough on your instrument that you can forget mechanics and use your emotions.

[@nomnomnommy2955]

How do you learn how he’s thinking without transcribing or doing the theory work in your mind

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@nomnomnommy2955 you can do a lot of that from just listening. But point taken

[@dilbertpugh8517]

Thanks Andy, Don't know how I came upon this anthology and therefore your channel but you've filled a giant hole in my musical knowledge and I'm very grateful for that. Took a few sessions to get up the mountain but the view is fabulous, I'll listen to it all. I think the greatest gift is that, thanks to the path to the summit you've illuminated, I'll run each album complete and stay the course rather than dip and dive, skipping over the difficult bits. Liked and subscribed - 'cause I want more Jazz content please!

[@bastianflimm825]

found it catching the way you connected those 10 pieces with stories around them, the background and the influences which went so far, there is a few people know their way around jazz, and even more who know a lot about rock or prog-rock, etc, but your combined knowledge and the way you tie those fields together has impressed me so much, great enjoyment, THANKS!

[@nathanandbirgithekunkel3487]

I loved this topic and how you connect the dots. Bravo, and thank you. I also really, really enjoyed your discussion on modern jazz musicians sounding the same and the roots of that and how, again, you connect the dots. Rampant food for thought, my man. I’m digging it, and working through it to find my own voice on the matter. You ignited that. More jazz 🎉 Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@Nephilim-81]

So fantastic, Andy. This is also such a help to someone like myself who is getting into and exploring Jazz on a far more appreciative level. ❤ Thank you.

[@dtltmtgt]

Bill Evans' contributions to jazz is definitely something worth spending time on I think. Another jazz giant.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Bill evans yes.

[@kzustang]

Of course Bill Evans was great. But when doing videos like that, the idea is to imagine the world without this artist. Can you imagine the music world without Loius? Duke?Parker? Coltrane? Miles? Tatum? Monk? Brubeck? Coleman? I also think This list should have included Mingus, Django, Blakey, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Dexter Gordon, Gillespie, Wes Montgomery and Jobim which had top notch albums and could have gone as the next best top 10 albums. Then there are the amazing musicians who were just as great but made slightly less impact like Evans, Getz, Chet Baker, Peterson, Dolphy, Les Paul, Adderley, Morgan and god, there are so many great ones.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@kzustang those are all great and yes I agree with you but personally I would have learned more into the thirties and less fifties.

[@wernerpfau8567]

Bill Evans actually is represented as a musician - he played the piano on ‚Kind of Blue‘ which is on the list.

[@FunkadelicPancho]

Bill is probably my favorite musician of all time

[@vincemccord8093]

Far and away, the best of these 'Top Ten Jazz' videos I've seen. This guy really knows what he's talking about. This is a great starting place for anyone new to jazz and a very succinct education on its key artists and contributors. I have a hard time quibbling with any of his selections. You would not be wrong in going out and buying all of these.

[@dwade1958]

Andy - Thank you so much for this video! I thought I knew a lot about jazz but you taught me SO MUCH! You brought us right inside each album and what went into your thinking about why it was on your list. And I really like how you present this sometimes complex information. I'm going over to your Patreon page now to add my support. Thank you again!!

[@enriquevela9717]

Great show Andy. Keep Jazz shows coming. Cheers

[@keironfarrow2438]

Loved this video. Your passion and enthusiasm and how you justified your choices was great✌️

[@markholter5687]

I discovered you via your jazz discussions so I raise my hand for more jazz videos. I don't always agree with you but you are a very engaging speaker and you are so clearly immersed in this world. I always learn a lot from and enjoy your clips.

[@syn707]

Loved this video. A great collection of ten works of art. Love your ‘riffing’ Andy.

[@timfreundmusic1546]

Just great. I shared because you have fresh enthusiasm and great in depth discussion about what makes an album so revolutionary. Well done. Loved it.

[@AntarblueGarneau]

Yes, please I would encourage you to make lots of jazz videos! Your enthusiasm in infectious and inspiring !

[@Brown_Sound]

I really enjoyed this Top Ten list, sir. I've been into Jazz since the mid-70's. My Dad liked to play Herb Alpert & The TJB on the weekends. I started playing trumpet in Jr. High, so of course I was a fan of Chuck Mangione and Maynard Ferguson in that time frame. Got the Jazz bug big time in High school. So you keep right on making these Jazz videos, sir!

[@davidhudak4180]

Yes, I’m still listening and I’d love to hear MORE about jazz. This was excellent, i didn’t think I’d still be watching - thank you!

[@gustafcederborg9744]

Thanks Andy Love your channel Love your charsmatic voice and music taste Such a gem of a channel

[@drbailey7904]

Here's a vote for more jazz Andy! So much more to cover and your informed analysis is "music" to my ear.

[@co4sb]

Great video. I will watch everything you post about jazz. Especially the secondary stories that are not often told.

[@craigbarcal4893]

Just discovered your channel. Love your joyful , knowledgeable , compassionate approach to music ( especially jazz) and human dialogue. Thank you.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Thank you kindly!

[@steverogers2635]

I really enjoyed this video Andy and would love to see more jazz videos. I'm 67 years old and have only been listening seriously to jazz for about the last five years. I've learned a lot about the genre watching your videos and I really appreciate your channel.

[@Emlizardo]

Thanks for this great list, and count me amongst your viewers who would welcome more jazz posts! Although prog is a genre I enjoy very much, and there's certainly great diversity amongst its practitioners, it's a pretty limited area of music when compared to jazz. I suspect it might not be long before you run up against difficulty coming up with new things to discuss in the progosphere. On the other hand, the world of jazz, from Armstrong to Braxton, is so vast, and filled with just as much impassioned debate as to what does or does not merit inclusion under its banner, that it could keep anybody going for a lifetime.

[@TheHarmonicaBarge]

Enjoying your vids Andy. I saw you in a clinic at Drum Tech years ago and enjoyed your down to earth approach. I'm finding a lot of your comments on Jazz very relevant to blues too ( I'm more of a Blues Player). all the best. Ed

[@petermotta3975]

Awesome list!!! Thanks for sharing!❤

[@cjsevalez]

I was so glad that right at the end Charlie Christian got a little look in. Jazz guitar gets such short shrift in Jazz analysis. Definitely more jazz content please. Just found your channel and it is great to have commentary that is so knowledgeable and enthusiastic, yet also open and exploratory. I absolutely loved your video on "What most people get wrong about jazz" which expressed so well my own feelings about the music. Great work.

[@stevelewis9317]

Your enthusiasm makes me want to listen to all these albums again. Thanks!

[@StratsRUs]

I love the way you outlined each album.Excellent

[@kzustang]

A very challenging goal ranking by innovation like that. A very well done video, Andy! Brilliant as always. I love it that no matter how many albums I get, I always end up hearing something new after every video. Thanks you! Love each and every album on this list and I think I even agree with the ranking.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Many thanks!

[@themetallian2112]

Love the Jazz videos, keep them coming!

[@vinylrulesok8470]

Really interesting video, thanks. I learned alot. I've been collecting jazz records since 2010 and this has really opened my eyes to some recordings I haven't heard. Thanks again

[@peterdavis9696]

This is absolutely brilliant. Your knowledge and enthusiasm make the presentation an archival lecture for any learned institution.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Wow, thank you!

[@abittikofer]

Thank you for this excellent rundown of these albums. I'm a jazz musician. And, I still learned more about my heroes from you. So, Thank you! And, yes please, produce videos on Bill Evans and Scott LaFaro!

[@scottweaver4059]

Just a great countdown. Full of insights and examples of the very history, innovation and spirituality of jazz. Good stuff!

[@stromzufuhr]

Really enjoyed this! Just to let you know - I found this channel while searching for Jazz content. Not as interested in Prog, but will stay for more Jazz stuff. Hope to see more of it.

[@tubelab194]

A Brilliant episode, it was good to get the dates right, but when you just started rapping things go really interesting. Thanks much!

[@happybolton455]

Amazing video. Thanks Andy. I find you knowledge on music captivating.

[@frankreynolds4547]

Really nice to hear your opinions, so indepth discussion that wants me to listen to the ones I have again and play on Spotify the ones I haven't. I don't play but I do listen and your commentary puts so much in perspective.

[@nickpilgrim1966]

Mate what a great bit of educated chat on jazz history. Loved it.

[@LR-oo8hq]

Hey Andy thanks for this mate, that was very nice thank you for your effort, it was a great video and very coherent, and yes please do more jazz 👍☺️🙏❤️

[@kathleenbergeron1292]

Wonderful selections! I particularly appreciate your description of A Love Supreme and placing it where you did. It’s such a personal album for me, and your thoughts were quite moving.

[@rossminet]

A Love Supreme and Crescent: hypnotic music. You hear the echos when turning the music off. Giant Steps is more on the "athletic jazz" file.

[@kathleenbergeron1292]

You say on Giant Steps that three of the tracks are named for people. Actually, it’s four, the fourth being, of course, Cousin Mary.

[@frankd4875]

Thanks so much for these recommendations. I'm not a musician, just a casual jazz listener, and I've struggled to find the "great" jazz recordings over the years ever since being exposed to Kind of Blue long ago. I will definitely be giving your recommendations a taste in the coming weeks. Thanks again! Just sub'd to your channel.

[@Vinyl-Movement]

Thank you so much. Great list with some albums I haven‘t heard.

[@mikeestermann2980]

Brilliant video! I was interrupted and had to pause after album 5, which irked me because I couldn’t wait to find out what the top 4 were. You managed to make the history of jazz gripping in the form f a top 10 listi. More jazz videos please.

[@marcpatrickbehar5098]

Thank you so very much for this jazz albums review Yes you should make many more I do share a lot of choices with you Keep it coming

[@jeancharles788]

Great take. Love the insights and your opinions.

[@duanemiddleton9162]

Incredible information! Much appreciated!

[@tomjunowak]

You did a video series about the history/impact of jazz and that’s how I got into your channel. Please do more.

[@davidcarr2216]

Sunday at the Village Vanguard needs to be on the list - in your own words, the greatest jazz piano trio and their greatest album , along with Waltz for Debby. But great choices and really great descriptions and explanations/justifications. Love it 😊

[@user-wp3ux3in6v]

Your videos about jazz priceless. For now your channel is my door to jazz & fusion. Please do more! Thank you.

[@nkhmd]

So much information!! Wow...I've been listening to Jazz since the late 70's, familiar with every song you mentioned, but didn't know most of the information you shared.....WHAT A GIFT, tyvm!!!!

[@donaldfedosiuk1638]

Yes! More jazz, please! And more again! I don't often listen to/watch hour-long videos, but about five minutes in, I knew I was here for the duration.

[@alanjerram9258]

I came to this video by some kind of chance and thought to myself the very last thing the world needs is someone's top ten of all the thousands of jazz recordings. But this lecture was brilliant. Taken as a whole, the selection was very well considered and ties together logically many of the important sub genres of jazz, and how they interweave historically and stylistically. Thank you for educating and sharing this great effort.

[@cowbellsuperstar1948]

I’m just getting into Jazz and I love hearing you talk about it. I feel your passion. I’m a rocker at heart but I’m finding jazz be quite interesting

[@continentalgin]

Superb selections and comments, Andy.

[@continentalgin]

I agree with everything you say, but I must mention my 'guilty pleasure' in jazz, it's Coltrane's My Favorite Things on his album of the same title, the transcendent soprano sax art, because it is art, then especially the McCoy Tyner solo that is such breathtaking genius, it is my vote for the best solo of all time, yeah McCoy Tyner on that track sends me, really sends me. How's that for a stringy sentence?

[@Hydrocorax]

I love your videos about jazz and agree that your Louis Armstrong video is one of your best (after watching it, I sent links to several friends, something I rarely do)--only surpassed by your series on the history of jazz. For my money, you're at your best when you talk about the history of music; the dynamics of how popular music changes over time. But then, nobody's ever accused me of having my finger on the pulse of the general taste of the public at large.

[@CVGuitar]

Awesome video Andy -- makes me want to go get a bunch of albums out that I haven't listened to in a while

[@chriswann2650]

Keep the Jazz videos coming Andy. More Jazz more Zappa. Rinse repeat. Top shelf viewing mate, keep up the great work 👍👊

[@petewhy]

Great video. More jazz content would be a great idea. As well as delving in to the great acts and musicians who laid the foundations of jazz it would be interesting to hear your views on newer acts - I've recently gained a lot of enjoyment from discovering acts like Nik Bartsch's Ronin, The Necks, Mammal Hands etc.

[@moogoomoogoo5990]

I loved your discussion. Gave me ideas for albums to explore.

[@tonyharrison2542]

OMG! Easily the best video I've watched this year. What an experience Andy. I just discovered you today and I'm thrilled to and have immediately Subscribed to your channel. Please, please dive deeper into this wonderful music called jazz and all of the topics you mentioned towards the end of this segment. The hour seemed more like 15 minutes, as it passed so quickly. Thank you so much.

[@HP_____]

Even though it's a personal list, all the albums are selected for cultural and historical significance and their influences and you are very articulate in explaining your selections. Some of it seem like textbook classics to the more experienced jazz listeners but they're unavoidably essential. If you renamed it as the 10 most influential jazz albums, no one would blink an eye. I often struggle with the conflicting ideas of should I pick the "greatest" or simply my favorites as they don't always converged. My baker's dozen in no particular order: The Willisau Concert - Cecil Taylor A Love Supreme - Coltrane The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy Black Saint & Sinner Lady - Charlie Mingus Machine Gun - Peter Brotzmann Pakistani Pomade - Schlippenbach Trio Lennie Tristano - Lennie Tristano The Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Jimmy Giuffre Complete Savoy/Dial Recordings - Charlie Parker Complete Hot 5/Hot 7 - Louis Armstrong Complete Candid Recordings - Cecil Taylor Complete Miles & Coltrane Columbia Recordings - Miles Davis Your channel is way better than Rick Beato!

[@oolongoolong789]

Some excellent choices there, HP. Jimmy Giuffre's 'Thesis', 'Fusion' and 'Free Fall' are among my jazz favourites.

[@Saxoskop]

Wow! The Jimmy Giuffre 3 are so extremely underrated, glad to see them mentioned in your list, would be in mine, too.

[@apocketfulofheep]

I have never listened to jazz before but after watching your videos about jazz it has me genuinly currious to check it out.

[@raymurtaugh4101]

Always educational, thank you Andy! I have 5 of these albums in my collection. Just ordered Monk/Coltrane, Ellington at Newport, Art Tatum, Time Out (damn, can’t find my copy!), and also Charlie Christian at Mintons.

[@terrypennell5398]

Thank you so much, Andy. It takes a brave soul to attempt a ranking of this sort. I am sure there are strong disagreements between aficionados, but you've made a slice at the impossible here, and I have some good listening ahead. My dad was a big band enthusiast who would spend hours talking about Benny Goodman, Arte Shaw, Bix Biederbecke, Billie Holiday, Helen Forrest.... In some ways, I think that generation of listeners felt abandoned by jazz as it developed in the 1950s. In every style, there was more left to explore while jazz moved on. And although you measure the interest in and the impact of your videos by how many likes you receive, please know that even the least popular of your videos is very much appreciated.

[@johnscarratt7783]

Just watched this video Andy. I'd love to see you do more Jazz content. I'm originally from Walsall but I've been living in Australia for the past 42 years. I visited my Mom in Aldridge, West Midlands for her 100th Birthday in February. I'm a massive Jazz Rock & Prog Rock fan and also Heavy Rock. But I grew up in the 60's listening to my Dad's Jazz & Classical records and my older sisters Motown & Beatles 45's. Because I was a teenager in the 70's I had the great fortune to see many of the great Jazz Rock, Prog Rock and Heavy Rock bands play live. Unfortunately, I missed out on seeing Hendrix and Cream play live because I was a bit too young (born in 1958). Anyway, I love your videos and yes, please cover more Jazz, I have an extensive collection of Jazz music. PS The Clee Hills and Ludlow were brilliant in the snow on my recent trip back home. And the drive back through Cleobury Mortimer to Bridgenorth from a trip to Wales brought back a lot of memories of my youth. All the best and keep up the good work. Regards, John Scarratt

[@smterrillion]

Loved this video. Keep the jazz videos coming! Couldn’t agree more about Thelonious Monk - listening to him (like Louis Armstrong) is a jaw-dropping experience. Art Tatum’s Solo Masterpieces is an album I have listened to over and over again and really cemented my love of the genre. The list is superb … I have listened to all these albums many times (except the Parker collection … need that!) and to me the intangible that sets them apart is the pure emotion that bleeds from these works. Joy … melancholy …. when you get goosebumps, you know something good is going on.

[@happyhippythevinylguy]

Really enjoyed the video. I can't argue about anything you picked

[@charlesbowman105]

Definitely do more jazz videos. I'll watch!

[@ninasweet8440]

I love your riffs on the evolution of jazz which brought back memories of my introduction in the early 1950s via hearing Stan Kenton's City of Glass in person at Syracuse University. Also hearing Strayhorn's Lush Life sung by the incredible Sarah Vaughn.

[@MrSargasmic]

I really enjoy your commentary and I feel like I learn from it

[@tenorref]

Love these jazz presentations!

[@davidbennett2339]

I would have a different list, but it doesn't matter. I would never be able to give such wonderful explanations. Great video.

[@wagstaff6135]

Great job, Andy, at the impossible (keeping it to 10!) I love getting your insights into what's special about these records. I vote more jazz, yes, but I understand the need to capture views, if you don't do it much!

[@turntabillist]

One of the many beautiful things about the classic Coltrane quartet is its undeniable appeal to the average rock music fan. Coltrane, Tyner, Jones and Garrison were an indestructible force much in the same way that Page, Plant, Bonham and Jones were or even Ozzy, Iommi, Geezer, and Ward! (as you alluded to, haha!). There is a fundamental unifying quality amongst these individuals that enabled them to create some of the greatest music ever. Replace one person and the results are dramatically changed. Perfect chemistry. Beauty is a rare thing, indeed. Hope your video gets a billion views.

[@blackthornstick]

Just do it man, jazz is where everyone who loves music ends up. I loved this video on jazz and your favourite 10 albums. There’s great depth there and I will be up for more, for sure l!!! Thanks man.

[@johnt.9910]

I just watched and subscribed. I love your depth of knowledge how you share your love and understanding of music. I also would encourage you to do more on jazz. There are two on this list that I don’t have, but will shortly. I am going to watch all of your jazz videos now. And maybe a few rock as well. Thank you. 🎉

[@johnmarchington3146]

Many thanks for a great video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm a real fan of Chick Armando Antonio Corea so I was hoping one of his albums would be on your list. I have three albums on your list and love them.

[@langstonify]

So glad you included Ellington. I saw him and the orchestra in the early 70s, shortly before he died. Blessed.

[@benedict7229]

Thank you, Andy for a very interesting and informative hour about Jazz Albums. I have most ot the ones that you mention but despite that I now feel I should listen to them all again with your comments in mind. Personally, I have difficulty with Tatum. To my ear, it sounds as if he may be trying too hard or something. Nonetheless, I very much appreciated your analysis of the influences that the albums have had on music .. and, who knows, on culture as a whole. Paradoxically, I can't say that I greatly admire all of the music that Jazz has given life to. Mercifully, bands and musicians continue to arrive on the scene who have clearly spent time -many hundreds of joyful hours - in the practice room.

[@joannerichards1750]

Some other mentions: "The Blues and the Abstract Truth" Oliver Nelson, Bill Evans, Freddie Hubbard, Roy Haynes, Eric Dolphy, Paul Chambers. "Time Further Out" Dave Brubeck Quartet - Dave, Paul Desmond, Joe Morello, Eugene Wright. "Jazz Impressions of Japan" Dave Brubeck Quartet. "Land of Make Believe" Chuck Mangione Concert - Chuck Mangione Quartet with Esther Satterfield.

[@Ultrabanal]

I normally run from “best ten lists” but this is a great personal list and I thoroughly enjoyed your comments. 🙏

[@outonthetiles]

Great episode! 👍

[@rmoriart7655]

Wonderful video - and please, more jazz!

[@ralphredmond6572]

Andy, I am so impressed with your passion and scholarship.Thanks from a jazz buff wannabe..

[@tomgardner8825]

i fot i terested un jazz music when rock bands started losing their originality, early 70's. traded in hundreds of albums and started buying jazz records. the jazz radio station in Los Angeles was a great help. after college i tended bar at Carmelos Jazz Club in LA and met many jazz musicians. i took a class in colkege on Jazz History, the teacher said that I should teach the class. this is a rhrough and comprehensive look at the very best in jazz history.

[@kzustang]

It's also hard to rank Jazz albums before the LP era. Still, an interesting video, I'm sure. Andy's videos are always filled with really great insights and insightful anekdotes.

[@davidbennett2339]

Yes. I actually don't like it when people put things like The Complete Charlie Parker On Dial, or whatever, on lists like this. That's not an album, to me. Albums start with 10-inch 33s, and quickly get into proper albums with 12-inch LPs, and they don't include compilations. But I'm sure Andy will work it all out to everyone's satisfaction. And I'm sure he'll have Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk at the top, obviously, because who wouldn't, it's the greatest.

[@davidbennett2339]

However, including Art Tatum is absolutely excellent, which goes against my little rule. Trying to embrace all of jazz history necessarily means including compilations, even posthumous ones. If it means including Art Tatum where a lot of people would miss him, hard to argue.

[@dtltmtgt]

Love this list Andy! Well prepared and definitely some great analysis. Makes sense Coltrane dominates. These albums really are THE place to start on a jazz journey for a newbie.

[@phillipnarte2553]

Monk was playing Bebop in the early 40's. Everyone thought he was nuts. Wasnt until over a decade later that others caught on. He took in Coltrane in 56 and in 57 they put the 5 Spot on the map. So, Monk with Trane is just as important as Kind of Blue.

[@brucescott4261]

Phillip Narte ...'Trane joined Monk in 1957, after he kicked his habit with heroin. 'Trane was in Miles' group in 1956.

[@cavaleer]

I would argue Tatum created all of it in the early 30s. You can hear Monk, Parker, Miles even Coltrane in Tatum's solos. But the reason Andy put Kind of Blue at the top is as much because of what it does musically as its popularity, which is an undeniable part of "greatest" or "influential".

[@thegreatoutsiders]

Brilliant stuff. Loved it

[@ernestcrane6227]

Yes, please, more jazz! I'm learning so much from you.

[@thepuma2012]

i am exploring jazz indeed, starting listening to this music not so long ago. Which is not easy, sometimes you find music you really not like but other times I discover music in jazz that i really really like. Thanks for this list, I knew a little bit of it, but it helps me discovering Jazz. Thanks also for the info around these albums.

[@user-qr5sp9zd1i]

First time viewer. WOW! great stuff. great presentation. Your love and knowledge of music comes through loud and clear. Yes, more Jazz.

[@jimbrunsman1011]

Great job sharing your appreciation for this underrated genre...

[@cazgerald9471]

It's amazing that forty percent of your list (plus one honorable mention) were released within six months of each other.

[@simonossitt2541]

Great list Andy. I'd go along with you on most of it. I'd probably put Monk a bit higher in the list, although which ones you would have to bump, I don't know. Yes, more Jazz please, way more. I'd love to hear you going off on the importance of Art Blakey. from his early days as a side man to Dexter Gordon, Dizzy, Monk etc, to the proving ground of so many A list musicians with the Jazz Messengers. There has to be an hours worth there. I know you don't really worry about the view count for the occasional video, I mean you did rank biscuits at one point 🙂

[@sjbang5764]

I love this video, I love jazz/creative music. My father introduced me to John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and many others early in my life, so I am familiar with many of the classics you have featured here. Today, I listen to John Zorn, Anthony Braxton, Tim Berne, Mary Halvorson, Henry Threadgill, and many others. I guess what I'm getting at is, do you have an opinion on these or any contemporary musicians playing jazz music today? I'd love to hear your take on modern music. Keep on keeping on Andy, your efforts are greatly appreciated!

[@paulryan9670]

Happy to learn more about jazz. Cool!

[@davewaterford281]

More Jazz please. Jazz rock or classic quintets, trios etc. Your knowledge is wonderful - this is a great compilation of the greatest and important music recorded.