The Best Albums of 1961
1. Robert Johnson – King of the Delta Blues Singers
2. Bill Evans – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
3. Bill Evans – Waltz for Debby
4. Oliver Nelson – The Blues and the Abstract Truth
5. John Coltrane – Olé Coltrane
6. Max Roach – We Insist! Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite
7. Patsy Cline – Showcase
8. Ornette Coleman – Free Jazz
9. Stan Getz – Focus
10. Bobby Bland – Two Steps From the Blues
11. John Coltrane – Africa/Brass
12. João Gilberto – João Gilberto
13. Eric Dolphy – At the Five Spot
14. Nina Simone – Nina Simone at Newport
15. George Russell – Ezz-thetics
16. Grant Green – Grantstand
17. Hank Mobley – Roll Call
18. Cecil Taylor – The World of Cecil Taylor
19. Lee Konitz – Motion
20. Charles Mingus – Presents Charles Mingus
21. Milt Jackson & John Coltrane – Bags & Trane
22. Ella Fitzgerald – Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie!
23. Miles Davis – Steamin’ With the Miles Davis Quintet
24. Ray Charles – The Genius Sings the Blues
25. Freddie Hubbard – Ready for Freddie
The Best Albums of 1960
1. Charles Mingus – Blues & Roots
2. Eric Dolphy – Out There
3. John Coltrane – Giant Steps
4. Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters at Newport 1960
5. Bill Evans – Portrait in Jazz
6. Karlheinz Stockhausen – Kontakte
7. Thelonious Monk – Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
8. Lonnie Johnson & Elmer Snowden – Blues & Ballads
9. Tina Brooks – True Blue
10. Bobby Timmons – This Here is Bobby Timmons
11. Ornette Coleman – Change of the Century
12. Hank Mobley – Soul Station
13. Ella Fitzgerald – Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
14. Yusef Lateef – The Centaur and the Phoenix
15. Art Blakey – The Big Beat
16. Miles Davis – Sketches of Spain
17. Duke Ellington – Blues in Orbit
18. Ella Fitzgerald – Let No Man Write My Epitaph
19. Etta James – At Last!
20. Wes Montgomery – The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery
21. Joan Baez – Joan Baez
22. Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley is a Gunslinger
23. Lightnin’ Hopkins – Lightnin’ and the Blues
24. Duke Jordan – Flight to Jordan
25. Stanley Turrentine – Look Out!
Guest List: The Best Albums of 2010 – John Macintosh
1. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
2. Beach House – Teen Dream
3. Twin Shadow – Forget
4. The National – High Violet
5. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
6. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz / All Delighted People EP
7. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
8. LCD Soundsystem – This Is Happening
9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
10. Girls – Broken Dreams Club
11. How To Dress Well – Love Remains
12. Matthew Dear – Black City
13. The Walkmen – Lisbon
14. No Age – Everything in Between
15. Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles (II)
16. Caribou – Swim
17. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
18. The Morning Benders – Big Echo
19. Pantha du Prince – Black Noise
20. Four Tet – There Is Love in You
21. Spoon – Transference
22. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
23. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah, Part 2
24. Magic Man – Real Live Color
25. Liars – Sisterworld
The Best Albums of 2010
1. Kvelertak – Kvelertak
2. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today
3. Carbon Based Lifeforms – Interloper
4. Enslaved – Axioma Ethica Odini
5. The Black Crowes – Croweology
6. Arcade Fire – The Suburbs
7. Joanna Newsom – Have One on Me
8. Scissor Sisters – Night Work
9. Alcest – Écailles de lune
10. Flying Lotus – Cosmogramma
11. Kanye West – My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
12. The Tallest Man on Earth – The Wild Hunt
13. Misery Index – Heirs to Thievery
14. Blind Guardian – At the Edge of Time
15. Grinderman – Grinderman 2
16. The National – High Violet
17. Sufjan Stevens – The Age of Adz
18. Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
19. Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh
20. Gil Scott-Heron – I’m New Here
21. Laura Marling – I Speak Because I Can
22. Agalloch – Marrow of the Spirit
23. Janelle Monáe – The ArchAndroid
24. Swans – My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky
25. Oceansize – Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up
The Best Albums of 2009
1. Mastodon – Crack the Skye
2. Amorphis – Skyforger
3. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
4. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
5. Group Bombino – Guitars From Agadez
6. Megadeth – Endgame
7. Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom
8. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
9. Raekwon – Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt II
10. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
11. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
12. The Antlers – Hospice
13. Antony & The Johnsons – The Crying Light
14. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
15. Kylesa – Static Tensions
16. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
17. Gui Boratto – Take My Breath Away
18. David Sylvian – Manafon
19. Atlas Sound – Logos
20. The Black Crowes – Before the Frost…
21. Mos Def – The Ecstatic
22. Cobalt – Gin
23. Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
24. Ancestors – Of Sound Mind
25. Charlotte Gainsbourg – IRM