Penguin Guide to Jazz:
4-Star Records in 8th Edition


Note: These lists are [not] believed to be complete. The sort order has changed slightly between editions, so we use the more recent (8th Edition). Whole artist diffs are noted in red for drops, blue for adds.

Artist Title 7th Ed. 8th Ed.
Ahmed Abdullah Tara's Song [04, TUM]   ****
Julian 'Cannonball' Adderley At the Lighthouse [60, Capitol]   ****
Geri Allen The Life of a Song [04, Telarc]   ****
Ben Allison Buzz [03, Palmetto]   ****
AMM Apogee [04, Matchless, 2CD]   ****
Louis Armstrong Satchel Mouth Swing [36-38, Naxos]   ****
Harry Arnold Big Band 1964/65 Vol. 2 [Dragon]   ****
Lynne Arriale Come Together [04, In & Out/Motema]   ****
Atomic Boom Boom [02, Jazzland]   ****
  The Bikini Tapes [04, Jazzland, 3CD]   ****
Albert Ayler Holy Ghost [62-70, Revenant, 9CD]   ****
Chris Barber Chris Barber International [58-61, Lake]   ****
Gordon Beck Not the Last Waltz [03, Art of Life]   ****
Tim Berne Souls Saved Hear [03, Thirsty Ear]   ****
  Hard Cell Live [03-04, Screwgun]   ****
Ran Blake All That Is Tied [05, Tompkins Square]   ****
Carla Bley The Lost Chords [ECM/Watt]   ****
Paul Bley Nothing to Declare [03, Justin Time]   ****
Ruby Braff The Complete Duets [55, Definitive, 2CD]   ****
  You Brought a New Kind of Love [01, Arbors]   ****
Peter Brötzmann No One Ever Works Alone [03, Okkadisk]   ****
Clifford Brown Joy Spring [52-56, Properbox]   ****
Marion Brown Why Not? [68, ESP Disk]   ****
Betty Carter The Audience With Betty Carter [79, Verve, 2CD]   ****
Serge Chaloff Blue Serge/Boston Blow Up [55-56, Definitive]   ****
  The Baritone Sax Master [46-50, Proper]   ****
Day & Taxi Material [01, Percaso]   ****
Tobias Delius The Heron [97, ICP]   ****
  Pelikanismus [01, ICP]   ****
Pierre Favre Saxophones [03, Intakt]   ****
Wolfgang Fuchs Six [03, Rastascan]   ****
Satoko Fujii Jo [98, Buzz]   ****
  Kitsune-Bi [98, Tzadik]   ****
  Blueprint [01-03, Natsat]   ****
  Livein Japan 2004 [04, Natsat]   ****
Lars Gullin Modern Sounds 1953 [Dragon]   ****
  Danny's Dream [53-55, Dragon]   ****
Barry Guy Oort-Entropy [04, Intakt]   ****
Joe Harriott Abstract [Redial]   ****
Steve Harris & Zaum Above Our Heads the Sky Splits Open [04, Slam]   ****
  The Little Flash of Letting Go [05, Spitz]   ****
Coleman Hawkins The Stanley Dance Sessions [55-58, Lonehill Jazz]   ****
Ingrid Jensen At Sea [05, Artist Share]   ****
Thad Jones Consummation [70, Blue Note]   ****
Pandelis Karayorgis Seventeen Pieces [04, Leo]   ****
Jan Kaspersen Memo to the Moon [01, Olufsen]   ****
Achim Kaufmann Double Exposure [98, Leo]   ****
Franz Koglmann Let's Make Love [05, Between the Lines]   ****
Hakon Kornstad Eight Tunes We Like [03, Moserobie]   ****
Frank London Scientist at Work [97-02, Tzadik]   ****
Ramon Lopez Songs of the Spanish Civil War [00, Leo]   ****
Misha Mengelberg Solo [99, Buzz]   ****
  Four in One [00, Songlines]   ****
Helen Merrill Brownie [94, Emarcy]   ****
Pat Metheny Song X: Twentieth Anniversary [85, Geffen]   ****
Gaël Mevel La Promesse du Chant [02, Leo]   ****
Charles Mingus The Great Concert of Charles Mingus [64, Verve]   ****
Phil Minton AMMO [84, Leo]   ****
Bill Mobley Mean What You Say [99, Space Time]   ****
Louis Moholo(-Moholo) Spirits Rejoice/Bra Louis - Bra Tebs [78-95, Ogun, 2CD]   ****
Grachan Moncur III Evolution [63, Blue Note]   ****
Ben Monder Excavation [99, Arabesque]   ****
Thelonious Monk With John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall [57, Blue Note]   ****
Charlie Parker At Café Society Downtown & Birdland [50-52, Ember]   ****
Evan Parker Collective Calls (Urban) [72, Psi]   ****
  Naan Tso [04, Psi]   ****
  Two Chapters & an Epilogue [99, Matchless]   ****
  The Bishop's Move [03, Victo]   ****
  America 2003 [03, Psi]   ****
William Parker Vision: Volume 3 [03, AUM Fidelity]   ****
Partisans Max [05, Babel]   ****
Ronnie Rae Sr From the Cradle to the Groove [05, Ten to Ten]   ****
Enrico Rava Full of Life [02, Camjazz]   ****
Herlin Riley Cream of the Crescent [04, Criss Cross]   ****
Howard Riley Duality [81, Jazzprint]   ****
  At Lincoln Cathedral [01, Heliopause]   ****
  Consequences [03, 33 Jazz]   ****
ROVA Electric Ascension [03, Atavistic]   ****
Jimmy Rushing Complete Goin' to Chicago and Listen to the Blues [54-57, Lonehill Jazz]   ****
George Russell The 80th Birthday Concert [03, Concept Publishing, 2CD]   ****
John Russell From Next to Last [01-02, Emanem]   ****
Paul Rutherford Gheim [83, Emanem]   ****
  Iskra [04, Psi]   ****
  Hoxha [04, Spool]   ****
Jenny Scheinman 12 Songs [04, Cryptogramophone]   ****
Alexander von Schlippenbach Pakistani Pomade [72, Atavistic]   ****
  Monk's Casino [03-04, Intakt]   ****
Maria Schneider Concert in the Garden [04, ArtistShare]   ****
David Schnitter Sketch [01, Sunnyside]   ****
George Schuller The Jigsaw [00, 482 Music]   ****
Irčne Schweizer Live at Taktlos [84, Intakt]   ****
Louis Sclavis Roman [03, FMP]   ****
Matthew Shipp One [05, Thirsty Ear]   ****
Alan Shorter Tes Esat [70, America]   ****
Wayne Shorter Great Sessions [64-66, Blue Note]   ****
Tommy Smith Forbidden Fruit [05, Spartacus]   ****
Wadada Leo Smith The Kabell Years [71-79, Tzadik, 4CD]   ****
  Lake Biwa [02-04, Tzadik]   ****
Nils Solberg Back to Back [99, Wave]   ****
Spontaneous Music Ensemble A New Distance [94, Emanem]   ****
Tomasz Stanko Suspended Night [03, ECM]   ****
Bobo Stenson Goodbye [04, ECM]   ****
John Setch Green Grove [98, Justin Time]   ****
  Heavens of a Hundred Days [00, Justin Time]   ****
  Ukrainianism [01, Justin Time]   ****
  Exponentially Monk [03, Justin Time]   ****
John Stevens Fast Colour - Antwerp [88, Loose Torque]   ****
Billy Strayhorn The Stanley Dance Sessions [59-61, Lonehill Jazz]   ****
Richard Sussman Free Fall [78, Double Time]   ****
Craig Taborn Junk Magic [04, Thirsty Ear]   ****
Aki Takase St. Louis Blues [01, Enja]   ****
  Lok 3 [04, Leo]   ****
Cecil Taylor 2 Ts for a Lovely T [95, Codanza, 10CD]   ****
John Taylor Angel of the Presence [04, Cam Jazz]   ****
McCoy Tyner Time for Tyner [68, Blue Note]   ****
Gebhard Ullmann Ballads and Related Objects [03, Leo]   ****
Ken Vandermark Elements of Style [03, Atavistic]   ****
  The Color of Memory [04, Atavistic]   ****
Fred Van Hove Facetten [04, a/l/l]   ****
Jasper Van't Hof Second Communion [Omnitone]   ****
Roseanna Vitro Passion Dance [94-95, Telarc]   ****
  Conviction: Thoughts of Bill Evans [00, Telarc]   ****
Mal Waldron Soul Eyes: The Memorial Album [55-62, Prestige]   ****
David S. Ware Live in the World [98-03, Thirsty Ear, 3CD]   ****
Engelbert Wröbel Sophisticated Swing [99, Arbors]   ****
Savime S Xaoh Oh, You Rascal You! [04, Gumbo]   ****
Attila Zoller Zoller Koller Solal [66, MPS]   ****
  Gypsy Cry [70, Collectables]   ****
  When It's True [94, Enja]   ****
  The Last Recordings [97-98, Enja]   ****


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