The Avant-Garde
by John Coltrane & Don Cherry

The Avant-Garde by John Coltrane & Don Cherry
Year: 1966
Overall rank: 17,558th   Overall chart history
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75/100 (from 18 votes)
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Award Top albums of 1966 (123rd)
Award Top albums of the 1960s (1,168th)
Award Best albums of all time (17,558th)

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Overall rank: 17,558th | 1960s rank: 1,168th | 1966 rank: 123rd

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75/100 (from 18 votes)
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03/04/2026 12:28 Gammarus1979  Ratings distribution  55781/100
 
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12/04/2025 12:58 DommeDamian  Ratings distribution  7,33449/100
 
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01/17/2024 15:20 Norman Bates  Ratings distribution  10,07875/100
 
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This album is rated in the top 8% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.1/100, a mean average of 76.7/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 76.7/100. The standard deviation for this album is 13.0.

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From 01/10/2023 12:04 | #292686
Late Coltrane, very easy to your ears, intelligent and cool
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From 04/01/2022 10:55 | #283682
Not actually very avant-garde. Not very free jazz. Not very good.
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