The Sputnik Guide to Jazz (1960-1969)
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| 1 |  | Betty Carter The Modern Sound of Betty Carter
"What a Little Moonlight Can Do" (1960)
Vocal Jazz, Big Band, Standards |
| 2 |  | Freddie Hubbard Open Sesame
"Open Sesame" (1960)
Hard Bop |
| 3 |  | The Modern Jazz Quartet Pyramid
"Django" (1960)
Cool Jazz |
| 4 |  | Eric Dolphy Out There
"Sketch of Melba" (1961)
Post-Bop |
| 5 |  | Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
"Nutty" (1961)
Hard Bop |
| 6 |  | Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard
"Gloria's Step - Live at the Village Vanguard" (1961)
Cool Jazz |
| 7 |  | John Coltrane The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings
"Greensleeves" (1961)
Modal Jazz, Hard Bop |
| 8 |  | Jackie McLean A Fickle Sonance
"A Fickle Sonance" (1962)
Hard Bop |
| 9 |  | Nina Simone Anthology
"I Want a Little Sugar in My Bowl" (1962)
Vocal Jazz |
| 10 |  | Max Roach, Charles Mingus, and Duke Ellington Money Jungle
"Money Jungle" (1963)
Hard Bop |
| 11 |  | Dexter Gordon Our Man in Paris
"Stairway to the Stars" (1963)
Hard Bop |
| 12 |  | Jimmy Smith Back At The Chicken Shack
"Back at the Chicken Shack" (1963)
Soul Jazz |
| 13 |  | Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins Sonny Meets Hawk!
"All the Things You Are" (1963)
Hard Bop |
| 14 |  | Charles Mingus The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
"Track A- Solo Dancer" (1963)
Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream |
| 15 |  | Lee Morgan The Sidewinder
"The Sidewinder" (1964)
Hard Bop |
| 16 |  | Archie Shepp Four For Trane
"Rufus" (1964)
Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 17 |  | Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto Getz/Gilberto
"The Girl from Ipanema" (1964)
Bossa nova, Samba-jazz |
| 18 |  | Eric Dolphy Out to Lunch!
"Hat and Beard" (1964)
Avant-Garde Jazz |
| 19 |  | Thelonious Monk Live at the It Club
"Blue Monk - Live [It Club]" (1964)
Hard Bop |
| 20 |  | Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity
"Ghosts: First Variation" (1964)
Free Jazz |
| 21 |  | Horace Silver Song For My Father
"Song for My Father" (1965)
Hard Bop |
| 22 |  | Wes Montgomery Smokin' at the Half Note
"Four on Six" (1965)
Hard Bop |
| 23 |  | John Coltrane A Love Supreme
"A Love Supreme, Pt. III - Pursuance" (1965)
Spiritual Jazz |
| 24 |  | Frank Sinatra Sinatra at the Sands
"Come Fly with Me - Live at the Sands Hotel and Casino/1966" (1966)
Vocal Jazz |
| 25 |  | Andrew Hill Smokestack
"Wailing Wall" (1966)
Post-Bop |
| 26 |  | John Coltrane Ascension
"Ascension - Edition I / Pt. 1" (1966)
Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| 27 |  | Wayne Shorter Speak No Evil
"Infant Eyes" (1966)
Post-Bop |
| 28 |  | Peter Brotzmann Machine Gun
"Machine Gun" (1968)
European Free Jazz |
| 29 |  | The Jazz Composer's Orchestra The Jazz Composer's Orchestra
"Preview" (1968)
Experimental Big Band, Free Jazz |
| 30 |  | Pharoah Sanders Karma
"The Creator Has a Master Plan" (1969)
Spiritual Jazz |
| 31 |  | Dave Burrell Echo
"Echo" (1969)
European Free Jazz, Free Jazz |
| 32 |  | Don Cherry Eternal Rhythm
"Eternal Rhythm, Pt. 1" (1969)
Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| 33 |  | Sonny Sharrock Black Woman
"Black Woman" (1969)
Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz |
| 34 |  | Manfred Schoof European Echoes
"European Echoes - Part 1" (1969)
European Free Jazz |
| 35 |  | Frank Zappa Hot Rats
"Peaches en Regalia" (1969)
Jazz-Rock, Jazz Fusion |
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