The Greatest Jazz Record Labels/Companies
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1. Columbia (Miles Davis)
1. Kind of Blue - Miles Davis
2. Ellington At Newport 1956 - Duke Ellington
3. Lady in Satin - Billie Holliday
4. Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus
5. Time Out - Dave Brubeck
6. Heavy Weather - Weather Report
7. Headhunters - Herbie Hancock
8. Straight, No Chaser - Thelonious Monk
9. Satch Plays Fats - Louis Armstrong
10. Black Codes (From the Underground) - Wynton Marsalis
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2. Blue Note (Lee Morgan)
1. Song For My Father - Horace Silver
2. Out To Lunch - Eric Dolphy
3. Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley
4. Idle Moments - Grant Green
5. Speak No Evil - Wayne Shorter
6. The Sidewinder - Lee Morgan
7. Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis
8. Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
9. Go! - Dexter Gordon
10. Moanin' - Art Blakey
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3. Prestige (Thelonious Monk)
1. Brilliant Corners - Thelonious Monk
2. Incredible Jazz Guitar - Wes Montgomery
3. Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins
4. The Miles Davis Quintet Series - Miles Davis
5. Django - Modern Jazz Quartet
6. Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane - Thelonious Monk/John Coltrane
7. Dizzy Atmosphere - Lee Morgan/Wynton Kelly
8. African Waltz - Cannonball Adderley
9. Harlem - Duke Ellington
10. Caravan - Art Blakey
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4. Impulse! (John Coltrane)
1. A Love Supreme - John Coltrane
2. Sarah Vaughan with Clifford Brown - Sarah Vaughan/Clifford Brown
3. Ella and Louis - Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong
4. Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto
5. The Composer of Desafinado Plays - Antonio Carlos Jobim
6. John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane/Johnny Hartman
7. Death and the Flower - Keith Jarrett
8. The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
9. Ascension - John Coltrane
10. The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson
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5. Verve (Herbie Hancock)
1. Directions in Music - Herbie Hancock/Micheal Brecker/Roy Hargrove
2. Snap Your Fingers - Al Grey
3. Blues: The Common Ground - Kenny Burrell
4. Giblet Gravy - George Benson
5. What the World Needs Now - Stan Getz
6. Roy and Diz - Roy Eldridge/Dizzy Gillespie
7. Lovesome Things - Joe Henderson
8. 1+1 - Herbie Hancock/Wayne Shorter
9. California Dreaming - Wes Montgomery
10. Parallel Realities - Jack DeJohnette
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6. Atlantic (Charles Mingus)
1. The Shape of Jazz to Come - Ornette Coleman
2. Giant Steps - John Coltrane
3. Reunion at Budokan - The Modern Jazz Quartet
4. Blues & Roots - Charles Mingus
5. Art Blakey and Thelonious Monk - Art Blakey/Thelonious Monk
6. Free Jazz - Ornette Coleman
7. My Favorite Things - John Coltrane
8. The Clown - Charles Mingus
9. For Love or Country - Arturo Sandoval
10. Mingus at Antibes - Charles Mingus
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7. Mercury/EmArcy (Clifford Brown/Max Roach)
1. Dinah Jams - Dinah Washington
2. Rip, Rig, and Panic - Rahsaan Roland Kirk
3. At the Piano - Errol Garner
4. The Bean - Coleman Hawkins
5. The Big Tenor - Ben Webster
6. With Strings - Clifford Brown
7. I Surrender, Dear - Billy Eckstine
8. For Those in Love - Dinah Washington
9. Clark Terry - Clark Terry
10. And His Octet - Maynard Ferguson
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8. Riverside (Thelonious Monk)
1. Plays Duke Ellington - Thelonious Monk
2. Zoot! - Zoot Sims
3. Creole Reeds - Sidney Bichet
4. Monk's Music - Thelonious Monk
5. Big 6! - Blue Mitchell
6. Branching Out - Nat Adderley
7. It's Magic - Abbey Lincoln
8. Chet - Chet Baker
9. Spellbound - Clifford Jordan
10. Misterioso - Thelonious Monk
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9. Pacific (Chet Baker)
1. Quartet - Gerry Mulligan
2. Chet Baker Sings! - Chet Baker
3. Sweets At The Hait - Harry "Sweets" Edison
4. Flute 'N Oboe - Bud Shanks/Bob Cooper
5. Sings a Song With Mulligan - Annie Ross/Gerry Mulligan
6. Ritual - Art Blakey
7. New Bottle, Old Wine - Cannonball Adderley/Gil Evans
8. Critic's Choice - Pepper Adams
9. Jazz Immortal - Clifford Brown
10. It's About Time - Teddy Edwards
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10. Savoy (Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie)
1. Penthouse Serenade - Errol Garner
2. Jay and Kai - J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding
3. Bohemia After Dark - Kenny Clarke
4. Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie
5. With Milt Jackson - Howard McGhee/Milt Jackson
6. Borderline - Ray McKinley
7. That's Nat - Nat Adderley
8. The Champ - Dizzy Gillespie
9. The Immortal - Charlie Parker
10. Jackson's Ville - Milt Jackson
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