Avant-garde Jazz
4,122works
15,634pressings
1947first year
Works per year
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Format by decade
| Format | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | 75% | 89% | 96% | 95% | 67% | 9% | 7% | 28% | 44% |
| CD | · | · | · | · | 20% | 80% | 77% | 35% | 27% |
| File | · | · | · | · | · | · | 5% | 25% | 21% |
| Cassette | · | · | · | 3% | 12% | 8% | 1% | 4% | 3% |
| CDr | · | · | · | · | · | · | 6% | 5% | 3% |
Sounds like
Free JazzFree ImprovisationContemporary JazzSpiritual JazzPost BopModalFusionSpace-AgeExperimentalJazz-RockJazz-FunkDark JazzSoul-JazzHard Bop
Most-pressed works
| Title | Artist | Year | Pressings |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Love Supreme | John Coltrane | 1965 | 340 |
| Out To Lunch! | Eric Dolphy | 1964 | 127 |
| The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady | Charles Mingus | 1963 | 121 |
| "Live" At The Village Vanguard | John Coltrane | 1962 | 120 |
| Olé Coltrane | John Coltrane | 1961 | 119 |
| The Avant-Garde | John Coltrane | 1966 | 72 |
| Karma | Pharoah Sanders | 1969 | 72 |
| Liberation Music Orchestra | Charlie Haden | 1970 | 63 |
| Town Hall • 1962 | Ornette Coleman | 1965 | 62 |
| New Thing At Newport | John Coltrane | 1966 | 61 |
| Point Of Departure | Andrew Hill | 1965 | 59 |
| Sun Ship | John Coltrane | 1971 | 59 |
| The Song Of Singing | Chick Corea | 1971 | 54 |
| Four For Trane | Archie Shepp | 1965 | 52 |
| Dreams | Gabor Szabo | 1968 | 51 |
| Fourth | Soft Machine | 1971 | 49 |
| At The Five Spot Volume 2 | Eric Dolphy | 1963 | 48 |
| Journey In Satchidananda | Alice Coltrane | 1971 | 46 |
| Looking Ahead! | The Cecil Taylor Quartet | 1959 | 45 |
| Lennie Tristano | Lennie Tristano | 1956 | 44 |
| Lost In The Stars - The Music Of Kurt Weill | Various | 1985 | 43 |
| Into The Hot | Gil Evans And His Orchestra | 1962 | 42 |
| Treasure Island | Keith Jarrett | 1974 | 42 |
| Unity | Larry Young | 1966 | 41 |
| Let My Children Hear Music | Charles Mingus | 1972 | 41 |
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Built from the Discogs monthly data dumps (CC0), snapshot 2026-09-01. Counts are of catalogued works and pressings, not of listening.