Amazon has just published their take on the 100 greatest jazz albums of all time. I had a great time going through this list, remembering music that I have not heard in a long, long time and I also discovered a few albums and musicians that I have not previously been turned on to.

Here is the list below – check it out, and leave your comments on whether or not you think any album was missed but don’t forget, this is albums, not musicians. If there is anything in the list that you don’t agree with, let us know.

Personally, I think the Jaco Pastorius album should have been higher on the list, but hey, I’m a bass player!

You can click on any of the links to hear previews of the songs on the album.

100 Greatest Jazz Albums

1. Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz to Come

2. John Coltrane – A Love Supreme

3. Charlie Parker / Dizzie Gillespie – Bird & Diz

4. Miles Davis – Kind of Blue

5. Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong – Ella and Louis

6. Getz/Gilberto – Getz/Gilberto

7. Erroll Garner – Concert by the Sea

8. Charles Mingus – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady

9. Wayne Shorter – Speak No Evil

10. Thelonious Monk – Straight, No Chaser

11. Keith Jarrett – The Köln Concert

12. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – Moanin’

13. Chet Baker – Chet Baker Sings

14. John Coltrane – Blue Train

15. Eric Dolphy – Out to Lunch

16. Art Tatum – Piano Starts Here

17. Dexter Gordon – Go!

18. Count Basie – Count Basie at Newport

19. Alice Coltrane – Journey In Satchidananda

20. Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out

21. Bill Evans – Everybody Digs Bill Evans

22. Duke Ellington – Duke Ellington & John Coltrane

23. Naked City – Naked City

24. Louis Armstrong – Louis Armstrong Plays W.C. Handy

25. Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane – At Carnegie Hall

26. Clifford Brown & Max Roach – Clifford Brown & Max Roach

27. Dizzy Gillespie – Afro

28. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain

29. Pharoah Sanders – Karma

30. Abbey Lincoln – Staright Ahead

31. Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker With Strings

32. Cannonball Adderley Quintet – Somethin’ Else

33. Billie Holiday – Lady in Satin

34. Coleman Hawkins – Body & Soul

35. Art Blakey – A Night in Tunisia

36. Stephane Grappelli – Afternoon in Paris

37. Andrew Hill – Compulsion

38. Thelonius Monk – Monk’s Dream

39. The Bad Plus – Suspicious Activity?

40. Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

41. Herbie Hancock – Takin’ Off

42. Benny Goodman – The Famous Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert 1938

43. Oscar Peterson – The Oscar Peterson Trio at the Stratford Shakespearean Festival

44. Lee Morgan – The Sidewinder

45. Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington – The Great Summit

46. George Gershwin – Gershwin Plays Rhapsody in Blue

47. Grant Green – Idle Moments

48. Sun Ra – Secrets of the Sun

49. Patricia Barber – Mythologies

50. Charles Mingus – Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus

51. Duke Ellington – Such Sweet Thunder

52. Carmen McRae – The Great American Songbook

53. Blossom Dearie – Once Upon a Summertime

54. Cecil Taylor – Unit Structures

55. Lionel Hampton & Stan Getz – Hamp & Getz

56. Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley – Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley

57. David Axelrod – Song Of Innocence

58. Weather Report – Heavy Weather

59. Albert Ayler – Slugs’ Saloon

60. Branford Marsalis – Trio Jeepy

61. Roland Kirk – We Free Kings

62. Shirley Horn – Travelin’ Light

63. Sonny Rollins – A Night at the Village Vanguard

64. Diana Krall – Live In Paris

65. Clifford Brown – Clifford Brown with Strings

66. Milt Jackson – Bags & Trane

67. Kenny Burrell – Midnight Blue

68. Etta Jones – Don’t Go To Strangers

69. Herb Ellis – Ellis in Wonderland

70. Vince Guaraldi Trio – Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus

71. Rosemary Clooney – Blue Rose

72. Art Pepper – Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

73. Helen Merrill – Helen Merrill

74. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth

75. Stanley Clarke – School Days

76. Brad Mehldau – Elegiac Cycle

77. Joshua Redman – Wish

78. Jason Moran – Artist in Residence

79. Ahmad Jamal – Ahmad’s Blues

80. Moondog – Sax Pax for a Sax

81. Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes (From The Underground)

82. Duke Pearson – The Right Touch

83. Astrud Gilberto – The Astrud Gilberto Album

84. Chick Corea – Return To Forever

85. Bill Frisell – Blues Dream

86. Sarah Vaughn / Lester Young – One Night Stand – The Town Hall Concert 1947

87. Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass – Whipped Cream & Other Delights

88. Art Ensemble of Chicago – Full Force

89. Bela Fleck & The Flecktones – Bela Fleck & The Flecktones

90. Jimmy Scott – Mood Indigo

91. Elis Regina – Elis & Tom

92. Pat Metheny Group – Offramp

93. Stan Getz – Stan Getz and the Oscar Peterson Trio

94. Skerik’s Syncopated Taint Septet – Husky

95. Cuong Vu – Come Play with Me

96. Anthony Braxton – Five Compositions (quartet)

97. Madeline Peyroux – Careless Love

98. Jaco Pastorius – Jaco Pastorius

99. Max Roach – M’Boom

100. Robert Glasper – In My Element