Top 100 Greatest Jazz Albums
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Arthurknight 
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- Chart updated: 07/21/2022 04:15
- (Created: 08/31/2016 14:51).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Year of Release:
1963
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12,996
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Year of Release:
1965
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15,748
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1971
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1,723
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Year of Release:
1965
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Rank Score:
1,243
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Year of Release:
1959
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22,209
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Year of Release:
1959
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3,858
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1978
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884
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Year of Release:
1975
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1,981
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Top 100 Greatest Jazz Albums composition
| Decade | Albums | % | |
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| 1930s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1940s | 0 | 0% | |
| 1950s | 11 | 11% | |
| 1960s | 40 | 40% | |
| 1970s | 37 | 37% | |
| 1980s | 6 | 6% | |
| 1990s | 2 | 2% | |
| 2000s | 0 | 0% | |
| 2010s | 4 | 4% | |
| 2020s | 0 | 0% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Miles Davis | 5 | 5% | |
| John Coltrane | 4 | 4% | |
| Herbie Hancock | 3 | 3% | |
| Charles Mingus | 3 | 3% | |
| Grant Green | 2 | 2% | |
| Lee Morgan | 2 | 2% | |
| Don Cherry | 2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Greatest Jazz Albums chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 64 from 97th to 33rd Jazz Samba by Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd |
| Up 31 from 99th to 68th Page One by Joe Henderson |
| Up 26 from 98th to 72nd Standards, Vol. 2 by Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 38 from 54th to 92nd Black Radio by Robert Glasper Experiment |
| Down 29 from 33rd to 62nd Desert Lady / Fantasy by Toshiko Akiyoshi Jazz Orchestra |
| Down 25 from 34th to 59th Time Further Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet |
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From Johnnyo 06/03/2019 06:10 | #237047
There's a lot that I need to learn about jazz but to my novice eye, this looks like a really good chart. Going to take some inspiration from this.
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