Best Avant-Garde Jazz Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
8	A Love Supreme - John Coltrane	1965	91	86	100	89.9	88.7	94	87	91.6
12	The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Mingus	1963	90.7	86.6	96	91.4	89.3	93.8	86	91.8
19	In a Silent Way - Miles Davis	1969	90	84.6	100	88.9	88.2	93.8	86	88.6
35	Bitches Brew - Miles Davis	1970	89.3	83.6	100	89.4	86.6	92.4	84	89.4
108	Karma - Pharoah Sanders	1969	87.5	83.6	93	89.1	86.2	92.8	82	85.8
128	Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) - Miles Davis	1971	87.2	80.8	98	84.3	85.6	92.8	82	86.6
245	Live-Evil - Miles Davis	1971	85.9	81.6	90	86	84.5	91	80	88
250	Journey in Satchidananda - Alice Coltrane Featuring Pharoah Sanders	1971	85.8	82	90	86.4	83.4	94	81	84
280	The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman	1959	85.6	79.2	100	81.4	79.2	92.4	81	86
285	Agharta - Miles Davis	1975	85.6	82	90	86.6	84.9	91.6	80	84
341	Get Up With It - Miles Davis	1974	85.1	81.8	89	87	86.7	91.2	80	80
372	Naked City - John Zorn	1990	84.9	76.8	95	84.1	85.2	90.6	77	85.6
395	Out to Lunch! - Eric Dolphy	1964	84.8	78.8	100	79.9	79	91.2	79	85.6
455	Blues & Roots - Charlie Mingus	1960	84.5	80.6	90	84	81.5	91.8	80	83.4
466	Sleeping Beauty - Sun Ra and His Arkestra	1979	84.4	79.6	90	84.9	82.9	94.6	77	82
538	Empyrean Isles - Herbie Hancock	1964	84	78	93	81.3	80.6	92.8	79	83.4
628	Nefertiti - Miles Davis	1968	83.7	76.6	100	80.4	79.8	91	80	78
643	Point of Departure - Andrew Hill	1965	83.6	77	100	78.4	76.9	92	78	83.2
646	Arbeit Macht Frei - Area	1973	83.6	75.8	90	81.7	86.2	91.2	75	85.4
685	Pithecanthropus erectus - The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop	1956	83.5	76.4	100	79.4	79.6	90.8	80	78
774	On the Corner - Miles Davis	1972	83	79.6	85	83.8	82.1	90.8	80	80
794	Black Unity - Pharoah Sanders	1972	83	80	84	84.6	83.5	91.8	79	78
806	Money Jungle - Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus & Max Roach	1963	83	77.6	90	79.7	83.2	90.4	78	81.8
842	Lanquidity - Sun Ra	1978	82.9	79.8	75	83.3	82.7	93.2	82	84
850	Out There - Eric Dolphy	1961	82.8	76	100	78.7	77.8	93.4	74	80
873	Sextant - Herbie Hancock	1973	82.8	78.6	90	82.4	78.5	89.8	80	80
916	We Insist! Max Roach's Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach	1960	82.6	77.6	93	81.1	80.6	92.2	76	78
1164	Change of the Century - Ornette Coleman	1960	82	75.2	100	77.3	77.7	92.6	73	78
1171	Filles de Kilimanjaro - Miles Davis	1969	81.9	75.8	93	77.4	79	90.4	80	78
1192	Mwandishi - Herbie Hancock	1971	81.9	76.4	90	80.1	76.3	90.4	78	82
1356	Starsailor - Tim Buckley	1970	81.5	76.2	93	79.4	77.3	86.8	76	82
1385	Disco Volante - Mr. Bungle	1995	81.5	73.4	90	80.2	80	88.2	77	81.6
1445	Third - Soft Machine	1970	81.3	77.8	85	80.1	77	88.4	79	82
1587	Coin Coin Chapter One: Gens De Couleur Libre - Matana Roberts	2011	81	77.6	83	81.8	80.6	90.8	74	79.4
1715	Olé Coltrane - John Coltrane	1961	80.8	79.8	70	81.1	81.2	92.6	79	81.8
1719	Space 1.8 - Nala Sinephro	2021	80.8	73.4	89	79.9	82.2	94	73	74
1820	Sun Ship - John Coltrane	1971	80.6	78.8	80	81.5	81.8	89	77	76
1833	The Clown - The Charles Mingus Jazz Workshop	1957	80.6	75.6	80	82.4	79.8	89.2	79	78
1886	Jazz in Silhouette - Sun Ra and His Arkestra	1959	80.5	74.2	80	78.6	82.7	90.8	79	78
1952	BBNG2 - BADBADNOTGOOD	2012	80.3	70	85	83.1	80.6	88.6	77	78
1991	You're Dead! - Flying Lotus	2014	80.3	73	85	81.9	77.5	86.2	79	79.2
2052	Space Is the Place - Sun Ra	1973	80.1	74.8	80	79.4	80.2	89.6	77	80
2182	Sorcerer - Miles Davis	1967	79.9	73.2	90	76.3	77.8	90	76	76
2272	Thembi - Pharoah Sanders	1971	79.7	76.6	75	79.4	80.9	92.2	76	78
2317	Alphaville - Imperial Triumphant	2020	79.7	72	87	77.8	79.6	91.6	71	78.6
2599	Torture Garden - Naked City	1990	79.1	74.4	80	77.7	81.2	91.4	73	76
2643	Not Available - The Residents	1978	79	75.8	70	78.9	79.2	91.2	76	82
2695	The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards	1981	78.9	74.4	75	78.2	81.8	87.2	76	80
2905	Meet the Residents - The Residents	1974	78.6	72.8	80	75.2	74.8	90.2	77	80
3246	Weasels Ripped My Flesh - The Mothers of Invention	1970	77.8	72.2	85	76.8	70.7	85.2	77	78
3360	Big Fun - Miles Davis	1974	77.6	77.2	67	80.6	78.3	90	76	74
3422	Miles in the Sky - Miles Davis	1968	77.4	73.8	75	75.4	75.8	90	78	74
5024	Lumpy Gravy - Frank Zappa & The Abnuceals Emuukha Electric Symphony Orchestra & Chorus	1968	71.4	65.2	70	68.6	69.8	84.2	72	70

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