My Favorite Jazz/Jazz-Rock Fusion Albums of the 1960s

1960

BILL EVANS TRIO Portrait in Jazz

WES MONTGOMERY The Incredible Jazz Guitar/ 

ART BLAKEY & THE JAZZ MESSENGERS A Night in Tunisia

JOHN COLTRANE Giant Steps

MILES DAVIS Sketches of Spain

ERIC DOLPHY QUINTET Featuring Freddie Hubbard Outward Bound

GIL EVANS Out of the Cool

WES MONTGOMERY Movin' Along

RANDY WESTON Uhuru Africa

JIMMY SMITH Back at the Chicken Shack

GEORGE RUSSELL and His Orchestra featuring Bill Evans Jazz in the Space Age



1961

BILL EVANS Explorations (1961)

BILL EVANS Sunday at the Village Vanguard (1961)

BILL EVANS Waltz for Debbie (1961)

JOHN COLTRANE My Favorite Things (1961)

OLIVER NELSON The Blues and the Abstract Truth (1961)




1962

BILL EVANS Moonbeams (1962)

HERBIE HANCOCK Takin' Off (1962) - 90.28

STAN GETZ & CHARLIE BYRD Jazz Samba (1962)

VINCE GUARALDI Cast Your Fate to the Wind: Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (1962)

DEXTER GORDON Go! (1962)




1963

HERBIE HANCOCK My Point of View (1963) - 91.8333

BILL EVANS Conversations with Myself (1963)

MILES DAVIS Seven Steps to Heaven (1963) - 90.26

DEXTER GORDON Our Man in Paris (1963)

KENNY DORHAM Una Mas (One More Time) (1963)

JACKIE MacLEAN One Step Beyond (1963)

STAN GETZ & LUIZ BONFÁ Jazz Samba Encore! (1963)



1964

ANDREW HILL Point of Departure (1964)

STAN GETZ & João GILBERTO Getz/Gilberto (1964) - 92.34

ANTHONY WILLIAMS Life Time (1964) - 91.07

ERIC DOLPHY Out to Lunch (1964)

HERBIE HANCOCK Empyrean Isles (1964) - 90.0

WAYNE SHORTER Night Dreamer (1964)

GRACHAN MANCOUR III Evolution (1964)

DONALD BYRD A New Perspective (1964)



1965

VINCE GUARALDI TRIO A Charlie Brown Christmas: Original Soundtrack (1965)

HERBIE HANCOCK Maiden Voyage (1965) - 94.02

JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme (1965)

MILES DAVIS E.S.P. (1965) - 93.58

ASTRUD GILBERTO The Astrud Gilberto Album (1965)

ART BLAKEY'S JAZZ MESSENGERS Indestructible (1965)

ASTRUD GILBERTO The Shadow of Your Smile (1965)




1966

SERGIO MENDES & BRASIL '66 Herb Alpert Presents Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66 (1966) 

ANTHONY WILLIAMS Spring (1966) - 92.1875

JOHN COLTRANE Ascension (1966)

JOHN COLTRANE Impressions (1966)

THE DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA 'Live' at Monterey (1966)

LARRY YOUNG Unity (1966)

THE GEORGE BENSON QUARTET It's Uptown (1966)


1967

MILES DAVIS Sorcerer (1967) - 95.10

MILES DAVIS Miles Smiles (1967) - 93.28

WAYNE SHORTER Adam's Apple (1967) - 92.86

ROY AYERS Virgo Vibes (1967) - 90.52

JOHN COLTRANE Expression (1967)

JOHN COLTRANE Kulu Sé Mama (1967)

ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM Wave (1967)

FRANK SINATRA & ANTÔNIO CARLOS JOBIM Francis Albert Sinatra & Antônio Carlos Jobim (1967)

DON ELLIS OCTET Pieces of Eight (Live at UCLA) (Recorded in 1967; released in 2006) - 90.66

ASTRUD GILBERTO & Walter Wanderly A Certain Smile (1967)

ASTRUD GILBERTO Beach Samba (1967)

THE DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA Electric Bath (1967) - 89.167

The GARY BURTON QUARTET Duster (1967) - 89.167

THE JAZZ CRUSADERS Uh Huh (1967)



1968

DAVID AXELROD Song of Innocence (1968) - 91.96

TERJE RYPDAL Bleak House (1968) - 94.29

HERBIE HANCOCK Speak Like a Child (1968) - 93.87

JOE HENDERSON Power to the People (1968) - 93.01

JEREMY STEIG Jeremy & The Satyrs (1968) - 92.98

STEVE MARCUS Tomorrow Never Knows (1968) - 92.667

THE DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA Autumn (1968) - 91.81

MILES DAVIS Miles in the Sky (1968) - 91.125

THE DON ELLIS ORCHESTRA Shock Treatment (1968) - 89.58

THE MICHAEL MANIERI QUARTET Insight (1968) - 89.26

MIKE MAINIERI Journey Thru an Electric Tube (1968) - 89.26

MILES DAVIS Nefertiti (1968) - 88.44

KLAUS DOLDINGER Goes On (1968)

LARRY CORYELL Lady Coryell (1968/69) - 89.12

HORACE SILVERS Serenade to a Soul Sister (1968)




1969

DAVID AXELROD Songs of Experience (1969) - 90.26

'IGGINBOTTOM 'Igginbottom's Wrench (1969) - 90.67

HERBIE HANCOCK Fat Albert Rotunda (1969) - 93.33

JACK DE JOHNETTE The De Johnette Complex (1969) - 91.20

CHICAGO Chicago Transit Authority (1969) - 89.45

FRANK ZAPPA Hot Rats (1969) - 90.79

SANTANA Santana (1969)

BRIAN AUGER, JULIE DRISCOLL & THE TRINITY Street Noise (1969) - 90.78

TONY WILLIAMS LIFETIME Emergency! (1969) - 90.69

HERBIE MANN Stone Flute (1969) - 90.47

COLOSSEUM Valentyne Suite (1969) - 90.33

NAT "Cannonball" ADDERLY Calling Out Loud (1969) - 89.84

LARRY CORYELL Lady Coryell - 89.12

MILES DAVIS Filles de Kilamanjaro (1969) - 88.48

BRIAN AUGER & THE TRINITY Befour (1969) - 88.75

DONALD BYRD Fancy Free (1969) - 86.875

LARRY CORYELL Coryell (1969) - 88.23

WAYNE SHORTER Super Nova (1969) - 87.50
 
MILES DAVIS In a Silent Way (1969) - 87.1875










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