Our top 100 out of our total 500+ 1. “So What” – Miles Davis 2. “My Favorite Things” – John Coltrane 3. “Take Five” – Dave Brubeck 4. “Acknowledgement” – John Coltrane 5. “Birdland” – Weather Report 6. “Freddie Freeloader” – Miles Davis 7. “Psalm” – John Coltrane 8. “Strange Fruit” – Billie Holiday 9. “Salt Peanuts” – Dizzy Gillespie 10. “Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” – Cannonball Adderley 11. “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” – Charles Mingus 12. “Chameleon” – Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters 13. “Straight Life” – Freddy Hubbard 14. “The Creator has a Master Plan” – Pharaoh Sanders 15. “Blue in Green” – Miles Davis 16. “One O’Clock Jump” – Count Basie 17. “Bumpin’ on Sunset” – Wes Montgomery 18. Naima” – John Coltrane 19. “Back at the Chicken Shack” – Jimmy Smith 20. “Mister Magic” – Grover Washington, Jr. 21. “Giant Steps” – John Coltrane 22. “In a Silent Way” – Miles Davis 23. “Dolphin Dance” – Herbie Hancock 24. “In N’ Out” – Joe Henderson 25. “Resolution” – John Coltrane 26. “Alone Together” – Grant Green 27. “St. Louis Blues” – W.C. Handy 28. “Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra 29. “Tipitina” – Professor Longhair 30. “Breakfast Feud” – Charlie Christian 31. “Naguine” – Django Reinhardt 32. “It Might as Well be Spring” – Sarah Vaughan 33. “Captain Fingers” – Lee Ritenour 34. “Science Funktion” – Donald Byrd 35. “Blue Rondo A La Turk” – Dave Brubeck 36. “A Remark You Made” – Weather Report 37. “Black Satin” – Miles Davis 38. “Just the Two of Us” – Grover Washington, Jr. 39. “Minnie the Moocher” – Cab Calloway 40. “Aerial Boundaries” – Michael Hedges 41. “Red Clay” – Freddie Hubbard 42. “Round Midnight” – Thelonious Monk 43. “Bright Size Life” – Pat Metheny 44. “Maiden Voyage” – Herbie Hancock 45. “Portrait of Tracy” – Jaco Pastorious 46. “Mood Indigo” – Duke Ellington 47. “Body & Soul” – Coleman Hawkins 48. “Moanin’” – Art Blakey 49. “Straight, No Chaser” – Thelonious Monk 50. “Right Off” – Miles Davis 51. “Jelly Roll Blues” – Jelly Roll Morton 52. “Stratus” – Billy Cobham 53. “(They call me) Dr. Professor Longhair” – Professor Longhair 54. “Sun Goddess” – Ramsey Lewis 55. “Miles Beyond” – Mahavishnu Orchestra 56. “Fables of Faubus” – Charles Mingus 57. “Room 335” – Larry Carlton 58. “Epistrophy” – Thelonious Monk 59. “The Girl From Ipanema” – Getz/Gilberto 60. “Lonely Woman” – Ornette Coleman 61. “The Perfect Man” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra 62. “Hello, Dolly” – Louis Armstrong 63. “Chasin’ the Bird” – Charlie Parker 64. “Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy” – Return to Forever 65. “God Bless the Child” – Billie Holiday 66. “Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” – Jeff Beck 67. “Tea for Two” – Art Tatum 68. “Volunteered Slavery” – Rahsaan Roland Kirk 69. “Pharoah’s Dance” – Miles Davis 70. “A Night in Tunisia” – Sonny Rollins 71. “Pursuance” – John Coltrane 72. “Satin Doll” – Duke Ellington 73. “Speak no Evil” – Wayne Shorter 74. “Chitlins Con Carne” – Kenny Burrell 75. “Potato Head Blues” – Louis Armstrong 76. “My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now” – Dirty Dozen Brass Band 77. “Cover Girl” – Larry Coryell 78. “Willow Weep for Me” – Wes Montgomery 79. “A Long Drink of the Blues” – Jackie McLean 80. “Three Views of a Secret” – Jaco Pastorious 81. “Places and Spaces” – Donald Byrd 82. “When you’re in Love” – Horace Silver 83. “Lazy River” – Pete Fountain 84. “Tones for Elvin Jones” – John McLaughlin 85. “Icarus” – Winter Consort 86. “Bemsha Swing” – Thelonious Monk 87. “Moon Tune” – Bob James/David Sanborn 88. “Eternal Child” – Chick Corea’s Elektric Band 89. “Out of the Night” – Brian Melvin Trio 90. “School Days” – Stanley Clarke 91. “Five Hundred Miles High” – Stan Getz 92. “Hog Callin’ Blues” – Charles Mingus 93. “My Funny Valentine” – Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker 94. “Race with Devil on Spanish Highway” – Al DiMeola 95. “Moritat” – Sonny Rollins 96. “Son of Mr. Green Genes” – Frank Zappa 97. “Big Chief” – Professor Longhair 98. “Anonymous Skulls” – Medeski, Martin & Wood 99. “The Hong Kong Incident” – Jing Chi 100. “Hamp’s Hump” - Galactic