1960s Jazz Albums

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Instrumental (Mostly)

  • Muhal Richard Abrams: Levels and Degrees of Light (1967, Delmark) [B-]
  • Cannonball Adderley: In New York (1962, Riverside) [B]
  • Cannonball Adderley: Cannonball in Japan (1966, Capitol) [B+]
  • Nat Adderley: Work Song (1960, Riverside) [A-]
  • Nat Adderley: That's Right! (1960, Riverside) [B]
  • Nat Adderley: Little Big Horn! (1963, Riverside) [A-]
  • Toshiko Akiyoshi: Toshiko-Mariano Quartet (1960, Candid) [B+]
  • Jan Allan: Jan Allan: 70 (1968-69, Phono Suecia) [B+]
  • Herb Alpert: The Lonely Bull (1962, Shout! Factory) [C+]
  • Herb Alpert: South of the Border (1964, Shout! Factory) [B-]
  • Herb Alpert: Whipped Cream and Other Delights (1965, Shout! Factory) [B]
  • Herb Alpert: Sounds Like (1967, Shout! Factory) [B-]
  • Herb Alpert: Herb Alpert's Ninth (1967, Shout! Factory) [C+]
  • Herb Alpert: The Beat of the Brass (1968, Shout! Factory) [C-]
  • Amalgam: Prayer for Peace (1969, FMR) [A]
  • AMM: AMMusic 1966 (1966, Matchless) [B]
  • AMM: The Crypt: 12th June 1968 (1968, Matchless) [B]
  • Gene Ammons: Boss Tenor (1960, Prestige) [A]
  • Gene Ammons: Jug (1961, Prestige) [B]
  • Gene Ammons: The Gene Ammons Story: Organ Combos (1960-61, Prestige) [A-]
  • Gene Ammons: Bad! Bossa Nova (1962, Prestige) [B]
  • Curtis Amy/Dupree Bolton: Katanga! (1962-63, Pacific Jazz) [A-]
  • Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington: The Complete Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington Sessions (1961, Roulette) [A]
  • Louis Armstrong: Hello, Dolly! (1964, MCA) [B+]
  • Art Ensemble of Chicago: Art Ensemble 1967-68 (1967-68, Nessa, 5CD) [B]
  • Albert Ayler: Goin' Home (1964, Black Lion) [B]
  • Albert Ayler: Witches and Devils (1964, Freedom) [B+]
  • Albert Ayler: Spiritual Unity (1964, ESP-Disk) [A]
  • Albert Ayler/Don Cherry/John Tchicai/Roswell Rudd/Gary Peacock/Sunny Murray: New York Eye and Ear Control (1964, ESP-Disk) [B+(*)]
  • Albert Ayler/Don Cherry: Vibrations (1964, Freedom) [B]
  • Albert Ayler: The Hilversum Session (1964, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Albert Ayler: Bells/Prophecy (1964-65, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Albert Ayler: Spirits Rejoice (1965, ESP-Disk) [B+]
  • Albert Ayler: Slugs' Saloon (1966, ESP-Disk) [B+(*)]
  • Albert Ayler: Live in Greenwich Village [The Complete Impulse Recordings] (1967, Impulse, 2CD) [B]
  • Albert Ayler: Love Cry (1967-68, Impulse) [B]
  • Albert Ayler: New Grass (1968, Impulse) [B+]
  • Albert Ayler: Music Is the Healing Force of the Universe (1969, Impulse) [B+]
  • Albert Ayler: The Last Album (1969, Impulse) [B]
  • Chet Baker: The Italian Sessions (1962, RCA) [B+]
  • Chet Baker: Chet Is Back (1962, RCA) [B]
  • Chris Barber/Ottilie Patterson: Chris Barber's Blues Book, Vol. 1/Good Mornin' Blues (1961-65, BGO) [B]
  • Gato Barbieri: Last Tango in Paris (1969, Varese Sarabande) [B]
  • Count Basie: Basie at Birdland (1961, Roulette Jazz) [A-]
  • Count Basie: On My Way and Shoutin' Again (1962, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • Count Basie: Basie Land (1963, Verve) [A-]
  • Gordon Beck: Experiments With Pops (1967, Art of Life) [A-]
  • George Benson: It's Uptown (1966, Columbia) [B+(***)]
  • George Benson: Shape of Things to Come (1968, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • George Benson: Tell It Like It Is (1969, Verve) [B]
  • George Benson: I Got a Woman and Some Blues (1969, Verve) [C]
  • Acker Bilk: In Concert 1968 (1968, Lake) [B+]
  • Lou Blackburn: The Complete Imperial Sessions (1963, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Art Blakey: A Night in Tunisia (1960, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Art Blakey: Roots and Herbs (1961, Blue Note) [A]
  • Art Blakey: The Freedom Rider (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: The Witch Doctor (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: Mosaic (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: Buhaina's Delight (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: Jazz Messengers!!!!! (1961, Impulse) [B+(***)]
  • Art Blakey: The African Beat (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Art Blakey: Caravan (1962, Riverside) [B]
  • Art Blakey: A Jazz Message (1963, Impulse) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: Free for All (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Art Blakey: Indestructible! (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Art Blakey: 'S Make It (1964, Verve) [B]
  • Art Blakey: Soul Finger (1965, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Paul Bley: Closer (1965, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Paul Bley: Touching (1965, Black Lion) [B+]
  • Willie Bobo: Bobo Motion (1967, Verve) [B-]
  • Phil Bodner: The Clarinet Virtuosity of Phil Bodner: Once More With Feeling (1960, Arbors) [B+(***)]
  • Anthony Braxton: Three Compositions of New Jazz (1968, Delmark) [B]
  • Anthony Braxton: For Alto (1968, Delmark) [D]
  • Lenny Breau/Don Francks/Eon Henstridge: At the Purple Lounge (1962, Art of Life) [C+]
  • Bob Brookmeyer: Bob Brookmeyer and Friends (1964, Columbia) [B+]
  • Tina Brooks: True Blue (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Tina Brooks: Back to the Tracks (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Peter Brötzmann: Machine Gun (1968, FMP) [B+]
  • Peter Brötzmann: The Complete Machine Gun Sessions (1968, Atavistic) [B+(**)]
  • Marion Brown: Marion Brown (1965, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Marion Brown: Three for Shepp (1966, Impulse) [B]
  • Marion Brown: Why Not? (1966, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Dave Brubeck/Jimmy Rushing: Brubeck and Rushing (1960, Columbia) [A-]
  • Dave Brubeck: Countdown: Time in Outer Space (1961-62, Columbia) [A-]
  • Dave Brubeck: Time Further Out (1961-63, Columbia) [A-]
  • Dave Brubeck: Time Changes (1963-64, Columbia) [B]
  • Dave Brubeck: Time In (1965, Columbia) [B+]
  • Dave Burrell: High Won -- High Two (1968, Black Lion) [A-]
  • Kenny Burrell/Coleman Hawkins: Bluesy Burrell (1962-63, OJC) [B+]
  • Kenny Burrell: Guitar Forms (1964-65, Verve) [A-]
  • Gary Burton: A Genuine Tong Funeral (1967, RCA [France]) [B+]
  • Billy Butterfield/Andy Bartha: Take Me to the Land of Jazz (1969, Delmark) [B]
  • Jaki Byard: Out Front! (1961, OJC) [A-]
  • Jaki Byard/Joe Farrell: The Last From Lennie's (1965, Prestige) [A-]
  • Jaki Byard: Freedom Together! (1966, Prestige OJC) [B]
  • Donald Byrd: The Cat Walk (1961, Blue Note) [B]
  • Benny Carter: Sax a la Carter (1960, Capitol) [A-]
  • Benny Carter: Further Definitions (1961, Impulse) [A]
  • Benny Carter: Further Definitions: The Complete Further Definitions Sessions (1961-66, Impulse) [A]
  • Ron Carter/Eric Dolphy/Mal Waldron: Where? (1961, New Jazz) [B+]
  • Don Cherry: Live at the Montmartre: Volume 1 (1965, Magnetic) [B]
  • Don Cherry: Complete Communion (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Don Cherry: Symphony for Improvisers (1966, Blue Note) [B]
  • Don Cherry: Where Is Brooklyn (1966, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Don Cherry: Live at Café Montmartre 1966 (1966, ESP-Disk) [B+(*)]
  • Don Cherry: Live at Café Montmartre 1966: Volume Two (1966, ESP-Disk) [B]
  • Don Cherry: "Mu" First Part/"Mu" Second Part (1969, Fuel 2000) [A-]
  • Sonny Clark: Leapin' and Lopin' (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck and Buddy (1960, Prestige) [A-]
  • Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck and Buddy Blow the Blues (1961, Prestige) [A]
  • Arnett Cobb: More Party Time (1960, Prestige) [A-]
  • Ornette Coleman: Free Jazz (1960, Atlantic) [A-]
  • Ornette Coleman: Ornette! (1961, Atlantic) [A-]
  • Ornette Coleman: Town Hall, 1962 (1962, ESP-Disk) [B+(***)]
  • Ornette Coleman: Chappaqua Suite (1965, Columbia [France]) [B+]
  • Ornette Coleman: At the Golden Circle, Stockholm: Volume 1 (1965, Blue Note) [A]
  • Ornette Coleman: At the Golden Circle, Stockholm: Volume 2 (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Ornette Coleman: New York Is Now (1968, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Johnny Coles: Little Johnny C (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • John Coltrane/Don Cherry: The Avant Garde (1960, Atlantic) [B]
  • John Coltrane: My Favorite Things (1960, Atlantic) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Coltrane's Sound (1960, Atlantic) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Coltrane Plays the Blues (1960, Atlantic) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: Olé Coltrane (1961, Atlantic) [A]
  • John Coltrane: Africa/Brass (1961, Impulse) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Africa/Brass Sessions, Vol. 1 & 2 (1961, Impulse) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: The Complete Africa/Brass Sessions (1961, Impulse, 2CD) [A]
  • John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard (1961, Impulse) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings (1961, Impulse, 4CD) [A]
  • John Coltrane: Coltrane (1962, Impulse) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Ballads (1962, Impulse) [A]
  • John Coltrane: Impressions (1961-63, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • John Coltrane: John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (1963, Impulse) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: Coltrane Live at Birdland (1963, Impulse) [A]
  • John Coltrane: Afro Blue Impressions (1963, Pablo, 2CD) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Crescent (1964, Impulse) [A]
  • John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (1964, Impulse) [A+]
  • John Coltrane: A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] (1964-65, Impulse, 2CD) [A]
  • John Coltrane: The John Coltrane Quartet Plays (1965, Impulse) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note (1965, Impulse) [B+]
  • John Coltrane/Archie Shepp: New Thing at Newport (1965, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • John Coltrane: Ascension (1965, Impulse) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: The Major Works of John Coltrane (1965, Impulse, 2CD) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: Sun Ship (1965, Impulse) [C+]
  • John Coltrane: Kulu Sé Mama (1965, Impulse) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: First Meditations (1965, Impulse) [B]
  • John Coltrane: Meditations (1965, Impulse) [B]
  • John Coltrane: Live at the Village Vanguard Again (1966, Impulse) [B+]
  • John Coltrane: The Classic Quartet: Complete Impulse! Studio Recordings (1961, Impulse, 8CD) [A-]
  • John Coltrane: Stellar Regions (1967, Impulse) [B]
  • John Coltrane: A John Coltrane Retrospective: The Impulse! Years (1961-67, Impulse, 3CD) [Impulse]
  • John Coltrane: The Impulse Story (1961-67, Impulse) [A-]
  • The Contemporary Jazz Quintet: Actions (1966-67, Atavistic) [B+]
  • Chick Corea: Tones for Joan's Bones (1966, Atlantic) [B+(**)]
  • Chick Corea: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968, Blue Note) [B]
  • Larry Coryell: Lady Coryell (1969, Vanguard) [B+]
  • Kenny Cox: Introducing Kenny Cox and the Contemporary Jazz Quintet (1968, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Sonny Criss: Portrait of Sonny Criss (1967, Prestige) [B+]
  • Ted Curson: The New Thing and the Blue Thing (1965, Koch) [B+]
  • King Curtis: The New Scene of King Curtis (1960, New Jazz) [B+]
  • Tadd Dameron: The Magic Touch (1962, OJC) [B-]
  • Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis/Johnny Griffin: The Tenor Scene (1961, Prestige) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Some Day My Prince Will Come (1961, Columbia) [B]
  • Miles Davis: Miles Davis at Carnegie Hall: Complete (1961, Columbia, 2CD) [B]
  • Miles Davis: Seven Steps to Heaven (1963, Columbia) [B]
  • Miles Davis: Live at the 1963 Monterey Jazz Festival (1963, Monterey Jazz Festival) [B+(**)]
  • Miles Davis: Miles Davis in Europe (1963, Columbia) [B+]
  • Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: "Four" and More (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: The Complete Concert 1964: My Funny Valentine + Four More (1964, Columbia, 2CD) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Miles in Tokyo (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Miles in Berlin (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (1963-64, Columbia/Legacy, 7CD) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: The Best of Seven Steps: The Complete Columbia Recordings of Miles Davis 1963-1964 (1963-64, Columbia/Legacy) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: E.S.P. (1965, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Cookin' at the Plugged Nickel (1965, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel (1965, Columbia, 7CD) [A]
  • Miles Davis: Highlights From the Plugged Nickel (1965, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Miles Smiles (1966, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Sorcerer (1967, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Nefertiti (1967, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Live Europe 1967: Bootleg Vol. 1 (1967, Columbia/Legacy, 3CD) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: Miles in the Sky (1968, Columbia) [B+]
  • Miles Davis: Filles de Kilimanjaro (1968, Columbia) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: The Miles Davis Quintet, 1965-68: The Complete Columbia Studio Recordings (1965-68, Columbia/Legacy, 6CD) [A-]
  • Miles Davis: In a Silent Way (1969, Columbia) [A]
  • Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (1969, Columbia, 2CD) [A-]
  • Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan: Two of a Mind (1962, RCA) [A]
  • Paul Desmond: Easy Living (1964, RCA) [B+]
  • Paul Desmond: Bossa Antigua (1964, RCA) [B]
  • Paul Desmond: Bridge Over Troubled Water (1969, Verve) [C-]
  • Eric Dolphy/Booker Little: Far Cry (1960, Prestige) [B+]
  • Eric Dolphy: At the Five Spot: Volume 1 (1961, Prestige) [A-]
  • Eric Dolphy: The Best of Eric Dolphy (1960-61, Prestige) [A-]
  • Eric Dolphy: Prestige Profiles (1960-61, Prestige) [A-]
  • Eric Dolphy: Softly as in a Morning Sunrise (1961, Natasha) [B]
  • Eric Dolphy: The Illinois Concert (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Eric Dolphy: Out to Lunch! (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Eric Dolphy: Last Date (1964, Emarcy) [B+]
  • Lou Donaldson: Here 'Tis (1961, Blue Note) [B+(*)]
  • Lou Donaldson: Gravy Train (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Lou Donaldson: Good Gracious (1963, Blue Note) [B-]
  • Lou Donaldson: Midnight Creeper (1968, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Kenny Dorham: Matador/Inta Somethin' (1961-62, Blue Note) [B]
  • Kenny Dorham: Una Mas (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Kenny Dorham: The Flamboyan, Queens, New York, 1963 (1963, Uptown) [B+(***)]
  • Kenny Dorham: Trompeta Toccata (1964, Blue Note) [B+(*)]
  • Charles Earland: Black Talk! (1969, Prestige) [B+]
  • Teddy Edwards: Teddy's Ready (1960, Contemporary) [B+]
  • Teddy Edwards/Howard McGhee: Together Again! (1961, Contemporary) [A-]
  • Roy Eldridge: Swingin' on the Town (1960, Verve) [A-]
  • Duke Ellington: Three Suites (1960, Columbia) [B+]
  • Duke Ellington: Unknown Session (1960, Columbia) [B]
  • Duke Ellington: Piano in the Background (1960-61, Columbia) [B+]
  • Duke Ellington/Count Basie: First Time! The Count Meets the Duke (1961, Columbia) [B+(***)]
  • Duke Ellington/Charles Mingus/Max Roach: Money Jungle (1962, Blue Note) [A]
  • Duke Ellington/Coleman Hawkins: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (1962, Impulse) [A+]
  • Duke Ellington/John Coltrane: Duke Ellington and John Coltrane (1962, Impulse) [A-]
  • Duke Ellington: Recollections of the Big Band Era (1962-63, Atlantic) [A-]
  • Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite: Special Mix (1966, RCA) [A+]
  • Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington's Far East Suite (1966, Bluebird) [A+]
  • Duke Ellington: And His Mother Called Him Bill (1967, RCA) [A]
  • Duke Ellington: The Jaywalker (1966-67, Storyville) [B+]
  • Duke Ellington: The Private Collection Vol. 3: Studio Sessions in New York (1962, SAJA) [B+]
  • Duke Ellington: The Private Collection Vol. 4: Studio Sessions New York 1963 (1963, SAJA) [B+]
  • Duke Ellington: The Private Collection Vol. 9: Studio Sessions New York 1968 (1968, SAJA) [B+]
  • Don Ellis: Electric Bath (1967, Columbia) [A-]
  • Booker Ervin: That's It (1961, Candid) [B+]
  • Booker Ervin: The Song Book (1964, Prestige) [A-]
  • Booker Ervin: The Blues Book (1964, Prestige) [B+]
  • Booker Ervin: The Freedom Book (1963, Prestige) [A-]
  • Booker Ervin: The Space Book (1964, Prestige) [A-]
  • Booker Ervin: Setting the Pace (1965, Prestige) [A-]
  • Booker Ervin: Booker 'n' Brass (1967, Pacific Jazz) [B]
  • Booker Ervin: Tex Book Tenor (1968, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Bill Evans: Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961, Riverside) [A]
  • Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby (1961, Riverside) [A-]
  • Bill Evans: The Complete Live at the Village Vanguard 1961 (1961, Riverside) [A-]
  • Bill Evans: Moonbeams (1962, Riverside) [B+]
  • Bill Evans/Jim Hall: Undercurrent (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Bill Evans: Interplay (1962, Riverside) [A-]
  • Bill Evans: At Shelly's Manne Hole (1963, Riverside) [B+]
  • Bill Evans: The V.I.P.s Theme (1963, Verve) [B]
  • Bill Evans: At the Montreux Jazz Festival (1968, Verve) [A-]
  • Gil Evans: Out of the Cool (1960, Impulse) [A-]
  • Gil Evans: The Individualism of Gil Evans (1964, Verve) [A-]
  • Tal Farlow: The Return of Tal Farlow (1969, Prestige) [B+]
  • Art Farmer/Benny Golson: Here and Now (1962, Verve) [B+]
  • Art Farmer: Interaction/Sing Me Softly the Blues (1963-65) [Collectables]
  • Jimmy Forrest: Most Much! (1961, Prestige) [B+]
  • Frank Foster: Manhattan Fever (1968-69, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Don Friedman/Attila Zoller: Dreams and Explorations (1964, Riverside) [B+]
  • Curtis Fuller: Soul Trombone (1961, Impulse) [B]
  • Curtis Fuller: Cabin in the Sky (1962, Impulse) [B-]
  • Eddie Gale: Eddie Gale's Ghetto Music (1968, Water) [A]
  • Eddie Gale: Black Rhythm Happening (1969, Water) [A-]
  • Jan Garbarek: Esoteric Circle (1969, Arista Freedom) [B+]
  • Erroll Garner: The Erroll Garner Collection Vol. 1: Easy to Love (1961-65, Emarcy) [B+]
  • Stan Getz: Big Band Bossa Nova (1962, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Stan Getz/Luiz Bonfa: Jazz Samba Encore! (1963, Verve) [A-]
  • Stan Getz/Laurindo Almeida: Stan Getz With Guest Artist Laurindo Almeida (1963, Verve) [A-]
  • Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto (1964, Verve) [A-]
  • Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto #2 (1964, Verve) [B]
  • Stan Getz: Nobody Else But Me (1964, Verve) [B+]
  • Stan Getz/Astrud Gilberto: Getz au Go Go (1964, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • Stan Getz: The Girl from Ipanema: The Bossa Nova Years (1962-64, Verve, 4CD) [A-]
  • Stan Getz: Focus (1965, Verve) [A-]
  • Stan Getz: Mickey One (1965, Verve) [B]
  • Stan Getz: Sweet Rain (1967, Verve) [A-]
  • Terry Gibbs: Swing Is Here!! (1960, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Gillespiana/Carnegie Hall Concert (1960-61, Verve) [A-]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Something Old, Something New (1963, Verve) [B+]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1963, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: The Cool World (1964, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival (1965, Monterey Jazz Festival) [B+(*)]
  • Dizzy Gillespie: Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967, Impulse) [B]
  • Jimmy Giuffre: 1961 (1961, ECM, 2CD) [B]
  • Jimmy Giuffre: Free Fall (1962, Columbia) [B+]
  • Benny Golson: Groovin' With Golson (1962, Prestige) [A-]
  • Benny Golson: Free (1960-62, Chess) [B+]
  • Paul Gonsalves: Ellingtonia Moods and Blues (1960, RCA) [B+(*)]
  • Paul Gonsalves: Gettin' Together (1960, Jazzland) [B+]
  • Paul Gonsalves: Tell It the Way It Is! (1963, Impulse) [B+]
  • Benny Goodman/Lionel Hampton/Teddy Wilson/Gene Krupa: Together Again! (1963, RCA) [B+(**)]
  • Dexter Gordon: Doin' Alright (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Dexter Gordon: Dexter Calling . . . (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Dexter Gordon: Go! (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Dexter Gordon: A Swingin' Affair (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Dexter Gordon: Our Man in Paris (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Dexter Gordon: One Flight Up (1964, Blue Note) [B]
  • Dexter Gordon: Gettin' Around (1965, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Dexter Gordon: Clubhouse (1965, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Dexter Gordon: The Classic Blue Note Recordings (1961-65, Blue Note, 2CD) [A-]
  • Grant Green: The Latin Bit (1961, Blue Note) [B]
  • Grant Green/Sonny Clark: The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark (1961-62, Blue Note, 2CD) [B+]
  • Grant Green: Born to Be Blue (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Grant Green: Feelin' the Spirit (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Grant Green: Goin' West (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Grant Green: Idle Moments (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Grant Green: Matador (1964, Blue Note) [B]
  • Grant Green: Solid (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Grant Green: Street of Dreams (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Bob Greene: St. Peter Street Strutters (1964, Delmark) [B+(***)]
  • Burton Greene: Burton Greene Quartet (1965, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Al Grey/Billy Mitchell: Snap Your Fingers (1962, Verve) [B]
  • Johnny Griffin/Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Tough Tenors (1960, Jazzland) [B+]
  • Johnny Griffin: You Leave Me Breathless (1967, Black Lion) [B+(*)]
  • Gigi Gryce: The Rat Race Blues (1960, Prestige OJC) [B]
  • Vince Guaraldi: The Charlie Brown Suite and Other Favorites (1968, Bluebird) [B-]
  • Charlie Haden: Liberation Music Orchestra (1969, Impulse) [B+]
  • Edmond Hall: In Copenhagen (1966, Storyville) [A-]
  • Herbie Hancock: Takin' Off (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Herbie Hancock: My Point of View (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Herbie Hancock: Empyrean Isles (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Herbie Hancock: Maiden Voyage (1964, Blue Note) [A]
  • Herbie Hancock: Jazz to Funk (1966-69, Aim) [B+(**)]
  • John Handy: Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (1965, Koch) [B]
  • Joe Harriott: Free Form (1960, Redial) [A-]
  • Coleman Hawkins: At Ease With Coleman Hawkins (1960, Prestige) [A-]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Night Hawk (1960, Prestige) [B]
  • Coleman Hawkins: The Hawk Relaxes (1961, Prestige) [A-]
  • Coleman Hawkins/Pee Wee Russell: Jam Session in Swingville (1961, Prestige) [B+]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Hawkins! Eldridge! Hodges! Live at the Village Gate (1962, Verve) [B]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Today and Now (1963, Impulse) [A]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Desafinado (1963, Impulse) [B+(*)]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Wrapped Tight (1965, Impulse) [A-]
  • Coleman Hawkins: Supreme (1966, Enja) [A-]
  • Tubby Hayes/Clark Terry: New York Sessions (1961, Columbia) [A-]
  • Tubby Hayes: Late Spot at Scott's (1962, Redial) [B+(**)]
  • Roy Haynes: Out of the Afternoon (1962, Impulse) [A-]
  • Jimmy Heath: Really Big! (1960, Riverside) [A-]
  • Joe Henderson: Page One (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Joe Henderson: In 'n Out (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Joe Henderson: Inner Urge (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Joe Henderson: Mode for Joe (1966, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Woody Herman: Jazz Hoot/Woody's Winners (1965, Collectables) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Black Fire (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Smoke Stack (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Judgment! (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Andrew Hill: Point of Departure (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Andrew!!! (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Pax (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Compulsion (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Change (1966, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Dance With Death (1968, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Andrew Hill: Passing Ships (1969, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Earl Hines: Up to Date (1964, RCA Bluebird) [A]
  • Earl Hines: Live at the Village Vanguard (1965, Columbia) [A]
  • Earl Hines: Grand Reunion (1965, Verve) [A-]
  • Earl Hines: Live! Aalborg, Denmark, 1965 (1965, Storyville) [B-]
  • Earl Hines: Once Upon a Time (1966, Impulse) [A-]
  • Earl Hines/Jimmy Rushing: Blues and Things (1967, New World) [B]
  • Al Hirt: At the Mardi Gras (1962, BMG Classics) [B]
  • Al Hirt: Greatest Hits (1962-64, RCA) [B+]
  • Johnny Hodges: Johnny Hodges at Sportpalast, Berlin (1961, Pablo) [B+]
  • Johnny Hodges: Johnny Hodges With Billy Strayhorn and the Orchestra (1961, Verve) [B+]
  • Johnny Hodges: Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (1964, Impulse) [A+]
  • Johnny Hodges/Wild Bill Davis: In a Mellotone (1966, RCA Bluebird) [B-]
  • Johnny Hodges: Triple Play (1967, RCA) [A]
  • Red Holloway: Legends of Acid Jazz (1963-65, Prestige) [B]
  • Richard "Groove" Holmes/Ben Webster: Groove (1961, Pacific Jazz) [A-]
  • Richard "Groove" Holmes/Gene Ammons: Groovin With Jug (1961, Pacific Jazz) [B+]
  • Richard "Groove" Holmes: Blue Groove (1966, Prestige) [A-]
  • Noah Howard: Noah Howard Quartet (1966, ESP-Disk) [B+(*)]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Open Sesame (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Ready for Freddie (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Hub-Tones (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Freddie Hubbard: The Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (1962, Impulse) [B]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Here to Stay (1962, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Breaking Point (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Blue Spirits (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Freddie Hubbard: The Night of the Cookers (1965, Blue Note) [B]
  • Freddie Hubbard: Without a Song: Live in Europe 1969 (1969, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Daniel Humair/Eddy Louiss/Jean-Luc Ponty: Trio HLP (1968, Dreyfus) [B]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Dialogue (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings (1966, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Stick-Up! (1966, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Oblique (1967, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Bobby Hutcherson: Now! (1969, Blue Note) [B-]
  • Abdullah Ibrahim [Dollar Brand]: Cape Town Fringe (1965, Chiaroscuro) [B]
  • ICP Orchestra [IP-Tentet]: In Berlin (1969, FMP) [B+(**)]
  • Fred Jackson: Hootin' 'n' Tootin' (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Milt Jackson/Wes Montgomery: Bags Meets Wes! (1961, Riverside) [B+(**)]
  • Milt Jackson: Statements (1961, Impulse) [B+(***)]
  • Milt Jackson: Jazz 'n' Samba (1964, Impulse) [B+(*)]
  • Milt Jackson: At the Museum of Modern Art (1965, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • Illinois Jacquet: Banned in Boston (1962, Portrait) [B]
  • Illinois Jacquet: Desert Winds (1964, Verve) [B+]
  • Illinois Jacquet: The Blues, That's Me (1969, Prestige) [A-]
  • Ahmad Jamal: At the Top: Poinciana Revisited (1969, Impulse) [A-]
  • Bob James: Explosions (1965, ESP-Disk) [B+(***)]
  • Joseph Jarman: As If It Were the Seasons (1968, Delmark) [B+(**)]
  • Keith Jarrett: Life Between the Exit Signs (1967, Vortex) [A-]
  • The Jazz Crusaders: At the Lighthouse/Pacific Jazz Records (1962, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Budd Johnson/Nat Adderley/Harry Edison/Ray Nance/Clark Terry: Budd Johnson and the Four Brass Giants (1960, Riverside) [A-]
  • Budd Johnson: Let's Swing (1960, Prestige) [A]
  • J.J. Johnson: J.J. Inc. (1960, Columbia) [B+]
  • J.J. Johnson: The Great Kai and J.J. (1960, Impulse) [B+]
  • J.J. Johnson: J.J.'s Broadway (1963, Verve) [B-]
  • Elvin Jones: Illumination! (1963, Impulse) [B+(*)]
  • Elvin Jones: Dear John C. (1965, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • Quincy Jones: The Quintessence (1961, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • Quincy Jones: Explores the Music of Henry Mancini (1964, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Thad Jones/Mel Lewis: Live at the Village Vanguard (1967, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Clifford Jordan: These Are My Roots: Clifford Jordan Plays Leadbelly (1965, Koch) [B+]
  • Duke Jordan: Flight to Jordan (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Roger Kellaway: A Portrait of Roger Kellaway (1963, Fresh Sound) [B+]
  • Wynton Kelly: Takin' Charge (1960-61, Charly) [B+]
  • Wynton Kelly: Someday My Prince Will Come (1961, Collectables) [B+]
  • Wynton Kelly: It's All Right (1964, Verve) [B+]
  • Wynton Kelly/Wes Montgomery: Smokin' at the Half Note (1965, Verve) [A-]
  • Wynton Kelly: Full View (1966, OJC) [A-]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk/Jack McDuff: Kirk's Work (1961, Prestige) [B+(***)]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: We Free Kings (1961, Mercury) [A]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Verve Jazz Masters 27 (1961-64, Verve) [A-]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic/Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (1965-67, Emarcy) [A]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: The Inflated Tear (1968, Atlantic) [B+]
  • Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Volunteered Slavery (1969, Rhino) [B]
  • Eric Kloss: First Class! (1966-67, Prestige) [B+]
  • Krzysztof Komeda: Astigmatic (1965, Power Bros) [A]
  • Lee Konitz: Motion (1961, Verve) [A]
  • Lee Konitz: Motion (1961, Verve, 3CD) [A-]
  • Lee Konitz: The Lee Konitz Duets (1967, Milestone) [B]
  • Steve Lacy/Roswell Rudd: School Days (1963, Hat Art) [A-]
  • Steve Lacy: The Forest and the Zoo (1966, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • Byard Lancaster: It's Not Up to Us (1966, Water) [B+(**)]
  • Prince Lasha/Sonny Simmons: Firebirds (1967, Contemporary) [B+(**)]
  • Yusef Lateef: The Centaur and the Phoenix (1960-61, Riverside) [B+]
  • Yusef Lateef: Eastern Sounds (1961, Riverside) [B]
  • Yusef Lateef: Live at Pep's (1964, Impulse) [B]
  • Yusef Lateef: Psychicemotus (1965, Impulse) [B]
  • John Lewis: The Wonderful World of Jazz (1960, Atlantic) [B]
  • John Lewis/Svend Asmussen: European Encounter (1962, Atlantic) [B+]
  • Ramsey Lewis: Sound of Christmas (1961, Verve) [D+]
  • Ramsey Lewis: At the Bohemian Caverns (1964, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • Ramsey Lewis: The In Crowd (1965, Argo) [B+(**)]
  • Ramsey Lewis: Goin' Latin (1966, Verve) [B+(*)]
  • Booker Little/Max Roach: Out Front (1961, Candid) [B]
  • Charles Lloyd: Of Course, Of Course (1964-65, Mosaic) [A-]
  • Charles Lloyd: Just Before Sunrise (1966-67, 32 Jazz) [B]
  • Charles Lloyd: Journey Within/In Europe (1966-67, Collectables) [B+]
  • Giuseppi Logan: Giuseppi Logan Quartet (1964, ESP-Disk) [B+]
  • Joe Maneri/Peter Dolger: Peace Concert (1964, Atavistic) [B]
  • Shelly Manne: 2-3-4 (1962, Impulse) [A-]
  • Shelly Manne: Steps to the Desert (1962, Contemporary) [B-]
  • Shelly Manne: Perk Up (1967, Concord) [B+]
  • Warne Marsh: Ne Plus Ultra (1969, Hat Art) [B]
  • Hugh Masekela: The Lasting Impressions of Ooga Booga (1965, Verve) [B+]
  • Hugh Masekela: Grrr (1966, Verve) [B+]
  • Les McCann/Eddie Harris: Swiss Movement (1969, Rhino) [A-]
  • Jack McDuff: The Honeydripper (1961, Prestige) [B+]
  • Jack McDuff: The Prestige Years (1960-65, Prestige) [B+]
  • Ken McIntyre: The Complete United Artists Sessions (1962-63, Blue Note) [B]
  • John McLaughlin: Extrapolation (1969, Polydor) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: Capuchin Swing (1960, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Jackie McLean: Bluesnik (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Jackie McLean: Let Freedom Ring (1962, Blue Note) [A]
  • Jackie McLean: Tippin' the Scales (1962, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: One Step Beyond (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: Destination . . . Out! (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: It's Time! (1964, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Jackie McLean: Action (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: Right Now! (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: Jacknife (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Jackie McLean: Consequence (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Jackie McLean: Dr Jackle (1966, Steeplechase) [B+]
  • Jackie McLean/Ornette Coleman: New and Old Gospel (1967, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jackie McLean: 'Bout Soul (1967, Blue Note) [B]
  • Jackie McLean: Demon's Dance (1967, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Joe McPhee: Underground Railroad/Live at Holy Cross (1968-69, Atavistic) [A-]
  • Charles McPherson: Be-Bop Revisited (1964, OJC) [B]
  • Lloyd Miller: A Lifetime in Oriental Jazz (1960, Jazzman) [B+(**)]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus at Antibes (1960, Atlantic) [A]
  • Charles Mingus: Charles Mingus Presents Charles Mingus (1960, Candid) [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: Pre-Bird (1960, Verve) [B-]
  • Charles Mingus: Mysterious Blues (1960, Candid) [B+]
  • Charles Mingus: Oh Yeah (1961, Atlantic) [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (1963, Impulse) [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus (1963, Impulse) [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: The Impulse Story (1963, Impulse) [B-]
  • Charles Mingus/Eric Dolphy: Cornell 1964 (1964, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Charles Mingus: Town Hall Concert (1964, Jazz Workshop) [A-]
  • Charles Mingus: Revenge! The Legendary Paris Concerts (1964, Revenge) [B+]
  • Charles Mingus: At UCLA 1965 (1965, Sunnyside) [B+(*)]
  • Blue Mitchell: Blue's Moods (1960, Riverside) [B+]
  • Blue Mitchell: The Thing to Do (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Blue Mitchell: Down With It! (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Roscoe Mitchell: Sound (1966, Delmark) [B]
  • Hank Mobley: Soul Station (1960, Blue Note) [A]
  • Hank Mobley: Roll Call (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Hank Mobley: Workout (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Hank Mobley: Another Workout (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Hank Mobley: No Room for Squares (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Hank Mobley: Straight No Filter (1963-66, Blue Note) [B]
  • Hank Mobley: A Slice of the Top (1966, Blue Note) [B]
  • Hank Mobley: High Voltage (1967, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Hank Mobley: Reach Out! (1968, Blue Note) [B]
  • Hank Mobley: The Flip (1969, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Modern Jazz Quartet: Dedicated to Connie (1960, Atlantic, 2CD) [A-]
  • Modern Jazz Quartet/Laurindo Almeida: Collaboration (1964, Label M) [B-]
  • Modern Jazz Quartet: Under the Jasmin Tree/Space (1967-69, Capitol) [B]
  • Grachan Moncur III: Evolution (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Grachan Moncur III: Some Other Stuff (1964, Blue Note) [B]
  • Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream (1962, Columbia) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Criss-Cross (1962-63, Columbia) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Big Band and Quartet in Concert (1963, Columbia) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: It's Monk's Time (1964, Columbia) [A]
  • Thelonious Monk: Live at the It Club: Complete (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Solo Monk (1964, Columbia) [B+]
  • Thelonious Monk: Live at the 1964 Monterey Jazz Festival (1964, Monterey Jazz Festival) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: At Newport 1963 and 1965 (1963-65, Columbia) [B+]
  • Thelonious Monk: Monk (1964, Columbia) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Monk in Paris: Live at the Olympia (1965, Thelonious/Hyena) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: Monk 'Round the World (1961-65, Thelonious/Hyena) [B+]
  • Thelonious Monk: Standards (1964-67, Columbia) [B]
  • Thelonious Monk: Underground (1967, Columbia) [B]
  • Thelonious Monk: The Composer (1962-68, Columbia) [B+]
  • Thelonious Monk: The Essential Thelonious Monk (1962-68, Columbia/Legacy) [A-]
  • Thelonious Monk: The Columbia Years '62-'68 (1962-68, Columbia/Legacy, 3CD) [A-]
  • Wes Montgomery: Incredible Jazz Guitar (1960, Riverside) [A-]
  • Wes Montgomery: Full House (1962, OJC) [B+]
  • Wes Montgomery/Wynton Kelly: Smokin' at the Half Note (1965, Verve) [A-]
  • Wes Montgomery: Goin' Out of My Head (1965, Verve) [B]
  • Wes Montgomery: Impressions: The Verve Jazz Sides (1964-66, Verve, 2CD) [A]
  • Wes Montgomery: Down Here on the Ground (1967-68, Verve) [B-]
  • Brew Moore: Svinget 14 (1962, Black Lion) [B+]
  • Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Lee Morgan: Search for the New Land (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Lee Morgan: Tom Cat (1964, Blue Note) [B]
  • Lee Morgan: The Gigolo (1965, Blue Note) [B+(*)]
  • Lee Morgan: Cornbread (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Lee Morgan: Infinity (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Lee Morgan: Delightfulee (1966, Blue Note) [B]
  • Lee Morgan: Charisma (1966, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Lee Morgan: The Sixth Sense (1967-68, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Lee Morgan: Sonic Boom (1967-69, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Gerry Mulligan: Jeru (1962, Columbia) [A]
  • Sunny Murray: Sunny Murray (1966, ESP-Disk) [B]
  • Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961, Impulse) [A]
  • Oliver Nelson: More Blues and the Abstract Truth (1964, Impulse) [B+]
  • Oliver Nelson: "Fantabulous" (1964, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Oliver Nelson: The Kennedy Dream (1967, Verve) [B]
  • Oliver Nelson: Live From Los Angeles (1967, Impulse) [B+]
  • New York Art Quartet: New York Art Quartet (1964, ESP-Disk) [A-]
  • New York Art Quartet: Old Stuff (1965, Cuneiform) [A-]
  • Phineas Newborn Jr.: Harlem Blues (1969, Contemporary) [B+]
  • Joe Newman: Jive at Five (1960, Prestige) [B]
  • Tony Oxley: The Baptised Traveler (1969, Columbia) [B+]
  • Leo Parker: Let Me Tell You 'Bout It (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Horace Parlan: On the Spur of the Moment (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Horace Parlan: Happy Frame of Mind (1963, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Big John Patton: Along Came John (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Big John Patton: Blue John (1963, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Big John Patton: Let 'Em Roll (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Duke Pearson: Sweet Honey Bee (1966, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Art Pepper: Smack Up (1960, Contemporary) [A-]
  • Art Pepper: Intensity (1960, Contemporary) [A-]
  • Oscar Peterson/Milt Jackson: Very Tall (1961, Verve) [B]
  • Oscar Peterson: Night Train (1962, Verve) [A-]
  • Oscar Peterson/Nelson Riddle: Oscar Peterson and Nelson Riddle (1963, Verve) [C+]
  • Oscar Peterson: With Respect to Nat (1965, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Oscar Peterson: Exclusively for My Friends (1963-68, Verve/MPS, 4CD) [B+]
  • Oscar Peterson/Clark Terry: Oscar Peterson Trio + One: Clark Terry (1964, Emarcy) [A]
  • Oscar Peterson: Compact Jazz: Oscar Peterson (1964-66, Verve) [A-]
  • Dave Pike: Manhattan Latin (1964, Verve) [B-]
  • Jean-Luc Ponty: King Kong (1969, Blue Note) [B]
  • Bud Powell: Life at the Blue Note Café, Paris 1961 (1961, ESP-Disk) [B+(**)]
  • Bud Powell: A Portrait of Thelonious (1961, Columbia) [A-]
  • Bud Powell/Don Byas: A Tribute to Cannonball (1961, Columbia) [B+]
  • Julian Priester: Keep Swingin' (1960, OJC) [B+]
  • Tito Puente: Dance Mania Vol. 2 (1960, RCA) [B+(***)]
  • Ike Quebec: It Might as Well Be Spring (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Ike Quebec: Blue and Sentimental (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Ike Quebec: Heavy Soul (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Ike Quebec: Easy Living (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Ike Quebec: Bossa Nova Soul Samba (1962, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Ike Quebec: Ballads (1960-62, Blue Note) [B]
  • Freddie Redd/Jackie McLean: Music from "The Connection" (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Freddie Redd: Shades of Redd (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Dizzy Reece: Comin' On! (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Howard Riley: Angle (1968, Columbia) [A-]
  • Sam Rivers: Fuschia Swing Song (1964, Blue Note) [A]
  • Sam Rivers: Contours (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Sam Rivers: Dimensions and Extensions (1966, Blue Note) [B]
  • Max Roach: Quiet as It's Kept (1960, Verve) [B]
  • Max Roach: We Insist! Freedom Now Suite (1960, Candid) [A-]
  • Perry Robinson: Funk Dumpling (1962, Savoy) [A-]
  • Sonny Rollins: The Bridge (1962, RCA) [B+]
  • Sonny Rollins: Alternatives (1962-64, RCA) [A-]
  • Sonny Rollins/Coleman Hawkins: Sonny Meets Hawk (1963, RCA) [A-]
  • Sonny Rollins: The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1962-64, RCA, 6CD) [B+]
  • Sonny Rollins: The Essential Sonny Rollins: The RCA Years (1962-64, RCA/Legacy, 2CD) [A]
  • Sonny Rollins: On Impulse! (1965, Impulse) [A]
  • Sonny Rollins: There Will Never Be Another You (1965, Impulse) [A-]
  • Sonny Rollins: East Broadway Run Down (1966, Impulse) [B]
  • Sonny Rollins: Alfie (1966, Impulse) [A]
  • Sonny Rollins: The Impulse Story (1965-66, Impulse) [A-]
  • Charlie Rouse: Takin' Care of Business (1960, OJC) [B+]
  • Charlie Rouse: Unsung Hero (1960-61, Columbia) [B+]
  • Charlie Rouse: Bossa Nova Bacchanal (1962-65, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Roswell Rudd: Roswell Rudd (1965, Free America) [B+]
  • George Russell: Jazz in the Space Age (1960, Decca) [B+]
  • George Russell: At the Five Spot (1960, Verve) [A-]
  • George Russell: Stratusphunk (1960, Riverside) [B+]
  • George Russell: Ezz-Thetics (1961, Riverside) [A-]
  • George Russell: Electronic Sonata for Souls Loved By Nature (1969, Flying Dutchman) [B+]
  • Pee Wee Russell/Coleman Hawkins: Jazz Reunion (1961, Candid) [B+]
  • Pee Wee Russell: Ask Me Now! (1965, Impulse) [A-]
  • Pharoah Sanders: Pharoah's First (1964, ESP-Disk) [B+(***)]
  • Pharoah Sanders: Karma (1969, Impulse) [B]
  • Alexander von Schlippenbach: The Living Music (1969, Atavistic) [B+(**)]
  • Manfred Schoof: European Echoes (1969, Atavistic) [B+(***)]
  • Ronnie Scott: When I Want Your Opinion, I'll Give It to You (1963-65, Jazz House) [B+]
  • Ronnie Scott: The Night Is Scott and You're So Swingable (1964-65, Redial) [B+]
  • Shirley Scott: For Members Only (1963, Impulse) [B]
  • Shirley Scott: Great Scott!! (1964, Impulse) [B]
  • Shirley Scott: Queen of the Organ (1964, Impulse) [A-]
  • Shirley Scott: Blue Flames (1965, OJC) [A-]
  • Tony Scott: Tony Scott (1967, Verve) [A-]
  • Al Sears: Swing's the Thing (1960, Prestige) [B]
  • Sextet of Orchestra USA: The Theatre Music of Kurt Weill (1964, RCA) [B+]
  • Sonny Sharrock/Wayne Henderson: Black Woman/People Get Ready (1967-69, Collectables) [B+]
  • Sonny Sharrock: Black Woman (1969, Water) [A-]
  • Archie Shepp: The New York Contemporary Five (1963, Delmark) [B+(***)]
  • Archie Shepp: Four for Trane (1964, Impulse) [A-]
  • Archie Shepp: Fire Music (1965, Impulse) [A-]
  • Archie Shepp: On This Night (1965, Impulse) [B+]
  • Archie Shepp: Live in San Francisco (1966, Impulse) [B]
  • Archie Shepp: Mama Too Tight (1966, Impulse) [B]
  • Archie Shepp: The Way Ahead (1968, Impulse) [B+]
  • Archie Shepp: Three for a Quarter/One for a Dime (1969, Impulse) [B]
  • Archie Shepp: Black Gipsy (1968-69, Free America) [B]
  • Archie Shepp: For Losers (1968-69, Impulse) [B+(***)]
  • Archie Shepp: Kwanza (1969, Impulse) [A-]
  • Alan Shorter: Orgasm (1968, Verve) [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: Wayning Moments (1962, Vee Jay) [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: Night Dreamer (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Wayne Shorter: Juju (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: Speak No Evil (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: The Soothsayer (1965, Blue Note) [B+(*)]
  • Wayne Shorter: The All Seeing Eye (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Wayne Shorter: Adam's Apple (1966, Blue Note) [B]
  • Horace Silver: Doin' the Thing (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Horace Silver: Silver's Serenade (1963, Blue Note) [B]
  • Horace Silver: Song for My Father (1963-64, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Horace Silver: The Cape Verdean Blues (1965, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Horace Silver: The Jody Grind (1966, Blue Note) [A]
  • Horace Silver: Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Sonny Simmons: The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings (1966, ESP-Disk, 2CD) [A-]
  • Jimmy Smith: Crazy Baby (1960, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Jimmy Smith: Open House/Plain Talk (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jimmy Smith: Midnight Special (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack (1960, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Jimmy Smith: Straight Life (1961, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Jimmy Smith: Plays Fats Waller (1962, Blue Note) [B]
  • Jimmy Smith/Stanley Turrentine: Prayer Meetin' (1960-63, Blue Note) [A]
  • Jimmy Smith: Hobo Flats (1963, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Jimmy Smith: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Verve) [B-]
  • Jimmy Smith: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1964, Verve) [B+(***)]
  • Jimmy Smith: Organ Grinder Swing (1965, Verve) [B]
  • Willie "The Lion" Smith/Don Ewell: Stride Piano Duets: Live in Toronto, 1966 (1966, Delmark) [B+(**)]
  • Spontaneous Music Ensemble: Karyobin (1968, Chronoscope) [B+]
  • Sonny Stitt: Stitt Plays Bird (1963, Atlantic) [B]
  • Sonny Stitt/Paul Gonsalves: Salt and Pepper (1963, Impulse) [A-]
  • Sonny Stitt: It's Magic (1969, Delmark) [A-]
  • Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life (1964-65, Red Baron) [A-]
  • Frank Strozier: Cool, Calm and Collected (1960, Vee Jay) [B+]
  • Sun Ra: Secrets of the Sun (1962, Atavistic) [B+(**)]
  • Sun Ra: Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms for Dimensions Tomorrow (1961-63, Evidence) [A-]
  • Sun Ra: Other Planes of There (1964, Evidence) [B+]
  • Sun Ra: The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra, Vol. 1 (1965, ESP-Disk) [B-]
  • Sun Ra: Heliocentric Worlds Vol. 3: The Lost Tapes (1965, ESP-Disk) [B]
  • Sun Ra: Monorails and Satellites (1966, Evidence) [B-]
  • Sun Ra: Nothing Is . . . (1966, ESP-Disk) [B+(**)]
  • Sun Ra: Strange Strings (1966-67, Atavistic) [B+(***)]
  • Sun Ra: Atlantis (1967-69, Evidence) [B]
  • Sun Ra: Holiday for Soul Dance (1968-69, Evidence) [B]
  • Sun Ra: Out There a Minute (1968, Restless/Blast First) [B-]
  • John Surman: Way Back When (1969, Cuneiform) [A-]
  • Ralph Sutton: Rendezvous at Sunnie's 1969 (1969, Arbors) [A-]
  • Gabor Szabo: Gypsy '66 (1965, Impulse) [B-]
  • Gabor Szabo: Spellbinder (1966, Impulse) [B+]
  • Gabor Szabo: Jazz Raga (1966, Light in the Attic) [B+(**)]
  • Gabor Szabo: The Sorcerer (1967, Impulse) [B+(***)]
  • Gabor Szabo: More Sorcery (1967, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • Art Taylor: A.T.'s Delight (1960, Blue Note) [B+(**)]
  • Cecil Taylor: The World of Cecil Taylor (1960, Candid) [A]
  • Cecil Taylor: Jumpin' Punkins (1961, Candid) [B+]
  • Cecil Taylor: Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come (1962, Revenant) [A-]
  • Cecil Taylor/Roswell Rudd: Mixed (1961-66, Impulse) [B+]
  • Cecil Taylor: Unit Structures (1966, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Cecil Taylor: Conquistador! (1966, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Cecil Taylor: Student Studies (1966, Fuel 2000) [B+]
  • Cecil Taylor: Fondation Maeght Nights (Vol. 1) (1969, Jazz View) [B]
  • Jack Teagarden: Mis'ry and the Blues (1961, Verve) [B+]
  • Clark Terry: Color Changes (1960, Candid) [B+]
  • Clark Terry: The Happy Horns of Clark Terry (1964, Impulse) [B]
  • René Thomas: Guitar Groove (1960, Jazzland) [A-]
  • Lucky Thompson: Lord, Lord, Am I Ever Gonna Know (1961, Candid) [A-]
  • Lucky Thompson: New York City, 1964-65 (1964-65, Uptown Jazz) [B+(**)]
  • Lucky Thompson: Lucky Strikes (1965, Prestige) [A-]
  • Bobby Timmons: This Here Is Bobby Timmons (1960, Riverside) [A-]
  • Bobby Timmons: In Person (1961, Riverside) [B+]
  • Bobby Timmons: The Best of Bobby Timmons (1960-64, Riverside) [B+]
  • Cal Tjader: Cal Tjader Plays the Contemporary Music of Mexico and Brazil (1962, Verve) [C+]
  • Charles Tolliver: The Ringer (1969, Black Lion) [A-]
  • Stanley Turrentine/The 3 Sounds: Blue Hour (1960, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Stanley Turrentine: Up at Minton's (1961, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Stanley Turrentine: Z.T.'s Blues (1961, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Stanley Turrentine: That's Where It's At (1962, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Stanley Turrentine: Joyride (1965, Blue Note) [B]
  • Stanley Turrentine: A Bluish Bag (1967, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Stanley Turrentine: Return of the Prodigal Son (1967, Blue Note) [B+(*)]
  • McCoy Tyner: Inception (1962, Impulse) [B+(***)]
  • McCoy Tyner: Reaching Fourth (1962, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • McCoy Tyner: Today and Tomorrow (1963-64, Impulse) [B+(**)]
  • McCoy Tyner: The Impulse Story (1962-64, Impulse) [B+(*)]
  • McCoy Tyner: The Real McCoy (1967, Blue Note) [A-]
  • McCoy Tyner: Tender Moments (1967, Blue Note) [B]
  • Kid Thomas Valentine: Kid Thomas-George Lewis Ragtime Stompers (1961, GHB) [A]
  • Mal Waldron/Eric Dolphy/Booker Ervin: The Quest (1961, Prestige) [B]
  • Cedar Walton: Cedar Walton Plays Cedar Walton (1967-69, Riverside) [B+]
  • Sadao Watanabe: Dedicated to Charlie Parker (1969, Denon) [B]
  • Ben Webster: The Warm Moods (1960, Reprise) [B]
  • Ben Webster/Harry Eddison: Ben and Sweets (1962, Columbia) [A]
  • Ben Webster/Joe Zawinul: Soul Mates (1963, Riverside) [B]
  • Ben Webster: See You at the Fair (1964, Impulse) [A-]
  • Ben Webster/Buck Clayton: Ben and Buck (1967, Sackville) [A-]
  • Ben Webster: For the Guv'nor (1969, Charly) [B-]
  • Randy Weston: Uhuru/Highlife (1960-63, Roulette) [B-]
  • Randy Weston: Monterey '66 (1966, Verve) [B]
  • Baby Face Willette: Face to Face (1961, Blue Note) [B+(***)]
  • Tony Williams: Life Time (1964, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Tony Williams: Spring (1965, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Gerald Wilson: Portraits (1963, Pacific Jazz) [B+]
  • Jack Wilson: Easterly Winds (1967, Blue Note) [B]
  • Larry Young: Young Blues (1960, Prestige/New Jazz) [B+]
  • Larry Young: Into Something (1964, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Larry Young: Unity (1965, Blue Note) [A]
  • Larry Young: Of Love and Peace (1966, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Larry Young: Mother Ship (1969, Blue Note) [B+]
  • Larry Young: The Art of Larry Young (1964-69, Blue Note) [B]
  • James Zitro: Zitro (1967, ESP-Disk) [B]

Vocals

  • Mose Allison: I Don't Worry About a Thing (1962, Atlantic) [B]
  • Mose Allison: The Sage of Tippo (1962, Atlantic) [B+]
  • Sathima Bea Benjamin: A Morning in Paris (1963, Ekapa) [B+(*)]
  • Tony Bennett: Tony Bennett's Greatest Hits of the '60s (1960-69, RPM/Columbia/Legacy) [B+(**)]
  • Andy Bey/The Bey Sisters: 'Round Midnight (1965, Prestige) [B]
  • Oscar Brown Jr.: Sin and Soul . . . And Then Some (1960, Columbia) [A-]
  • Rosemary Clooney: Love (1961, Reprise) [B+]
  • Bing Crosby/Louis Armstrong: Bing and Satchmo (1960, Capitol) [B+(**)]
  • Billy Eckstine: No Cover No Minimum (1960, Roulette) [B+]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife (1960, Verve) [B+]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Hollywood (1961, Verve) [A-]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Twelve Nights in Hollywood (1961-62, Hip-O Select/Verve, 4CD) [A-]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook (1963, Verve) [B+]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella at Juan-Les-Pins (1964, Verve) [A-]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella in Hamburg (1965, Verve) [B+(**)]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Ella and Duke at the Côte D'Azur (1966, Verve, 2CD) [A-]
  • Ella Fitzgerald: Whisper Not (1966, Verve) [B+]
  • Johnny Hartman: I Just Dropped By to Say Hello (1963, Impulse) [B]
  • Helen Humes: Songs I Like to Sing (1960, Contemporary) [A-]
  • Sheila Jordan: Portrait of Sheila (1962, Blue Note) [A-]
  • Abbey Lincoln: Straight Ahead (1960, Candid) [B-]
  • Carmen McRae: Live at the Flamingo Jazz Club London May 1961 (1961, Acrobat) [B+(*)]
  • Helen Merrill: Parole e Musica (1960, RCA) [B+(**)]
  • Anita O'Day/Billy May: Swing Rodgers and Hart (1960, Verve) [B]
  • Ruth Olay: Olay! O.K.! (1963, Essential Media Group) [B+(*)]
  • Jimmy Rushing: Five Feet of Soul (1963, Collectables) [A-]
  • Jimmy Rushing: The Scene: Live in New York (1965, High Note) [A-]
  • Jimmy Rushing: Every Day I Have the Blues (1967, Impulse) [A-]
  • Jimmy Rushing: Gee, Baby, Ain't I Good to You (1967, New World) [B+]
  • Nina Simone: Pastel Blues/Let It All Out (1964-65, Mercury) [B+]
  • Nina Simone: Ultimate Nina Simone (1964-66, Verve) [B]
  • Nina Simone: Nina Simone's Finest Hour (1964-66, Verve) [B-]
  • Nina Simone: Sings the Blues (1966-69, RCA/Legacy) [B]
  • Nina Simone: Silk and Soul (1967-69, RCA/Legacy) [C]
  • Nina Simone: Forever Young, Gifted and Black: Songs of Freedom and Spirit (1967-69, RCA/Legacy) [B]
  • Frank Sinatra: Come Swing With Me! (1961, Capitol) [A-]
  • Frank Sinatra: Strangers in the Night (1966, Reprise) [A-]
  • Frank Sinatra/Antonio Carlos Jobim: Sinatra/Jobim: The Complete Reprise Recordings (1967, Concord) [B-]
  • Frank Sinatra: Frank Sinatra's Greatest Hits! (1964-67, Reprise) [B+]
  • Maxine Sullivan/Bob Wilber: Close as Pages in a Book (1969, Audiophile) [B+]
  • Yma Sumac: Recital (1961, ESP-Disk) [B-]
  • Mel Tormé: Mel Torme Swings Shubert Alley (1960, Verve) [B+]
  • Sarah Vaughan: The Benny Carter Sessions: The Explosive Side of Sarah Vaughan/The Lonely Hours (1962-63, Roulette) [B]
  • Sarah Vaughan: ¡Viva! Vaughan (1964, Verve) [B+]
  • Dinah Washington: The Complete Roulette Dinah Washington Sessions (1962-63, Mosaic, 5CD) [B+]
  • Patty Waters: The Complete ESP-Disk' Recordings (1965-66, ESP-Disk) [B]
  • Joe Williams: At Newport '63 (1963, Bluebird) [B+]
  • Joe Williams: Havin' a Good Time (1964, Hyena) [B+]
  • Nancy Wilson: Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley (1961, Capitol) [B-]
  • Nancy Wilson: Live From Las Vegas (1968, Capitol) [B-]

Total count: 794.