10 Best Jazz Albums

by Alex

Kind of blue

Davis, Miles.

COMPACT DISC JA Davis Kind

Giant steps

Coltrane, John, 1926-1967

COMPACT DISC JA Coltrane Giant

Head hunters

Hancock, Herbie, 1940-

COMPACT DISC JA Hancock Head

The definitive collection

Simone, Nina, 1933-2003.

COMPACT DISC JA Simone Definitive

The essential Billie Holiday : the Columbia years

Holiday, Billie, 1915-1959.

COMPACT DISC JA Holiday Essential

Heaven and earth

Washington, Kamasi, 1981- composer, performer.

COMPACT DISC JA Washington Heaven

Kamasi Washington's sophomore album not only fulfills its overarching ambition, but illustrates the dialectic between seen and unseen, real and imagined, citizen and culture, self and self, as well as self and other, and does so through the lens of a mature but never jaded revolutionary consciousness.

Forever young, gifted & black : songs of freedom and spirit

Simone, Nina, 1933-2003.

COMPACT DISC JA Simone Forever

Dinah jams

Washington, Dinah, 1924-1963.

COMPACT DISC JA Dinah Dinah

Monk's music

Monk, Thelonious.

COMPACT DISC JA Monk Monk's

Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus, Mingus

Mingus, Charles, 1922-1979.

COMPACT DISC JA Mingus Mingus

Considered as a greatest hits revisited release, Mingus tinkers with some of his best-known works including their titles yet this time around, he has an 11-piece band ensemble creating significant differences.