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!