
Classic Soul Radio 100 Must Have Jazz Recordings

100 Jazz Recordings You Should Have In Your Collection
Here is our compilation of the top 100 jazz songs of all time. This list is in no particular order. Which ones do you have? Which have we missed or left out? Hope you like and enjoy! Comment below. Click on the iTunes icon
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“So What” – Miles Davis

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“My Favorite Things” – John Coltrane

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“Take Five” – Dave Brubeck

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“Acknowledgement” – John Coltrane

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“Birdland” – Weather Report

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“Freddie Freeloader” – Miles Davis

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“Psalm” – John Coltrane

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“Strange Fruit” – Billie Holiday

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“Salt Peanuts” – Dizzy Gillespie

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“Mercy, Mercy, Mercy” – Cannonball Adderley

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“Goodbye Pork Pie Hat” – Charles Mingus

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“Chameleon” – Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters

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“Straight Life” – Freddy Hubbard

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“The Creator has a Master Plan” – Pharaoh Sanders

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“Blue in Green” – Miles Davis

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“One O’Clock Jump” – Count Basie

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“Bumpin’ on Sunset” – Wes Montgomery

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Naima” – John Coltrane

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“Back at the Chicken Shack” – Jimmy Smith

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“Mister Magic” – Grover Washington, Jr.

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“Giant Steps” – John Coltrane

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“In a Silent Way” – Miles Davis

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“Dolphin Dance” – Herbie Hancock

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“In N’ Out” – Joe Henderson

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“Resolution” – John Coltrane

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“Alone Together” – Grant Green

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“St. Louis Blues” – W.C. Handy

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“Rocket Number Nine Take off for the Planet Venus” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra

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“Tipitina” – Professor Longhair

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“Breakfast Feud” – Charlie Christian

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“Naguine” – Django Reinhardt

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“It Might as Well be Spring” – Sarah Vaughan

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“Captain Fingers” – Lee Ritenour

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“Science Funktion” – Donald Byrd

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“Blue Rondo A La Turk” – Dave Brubeck

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“A Remark You Made” – Weather Report

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“Black Satin” – Miles Davis

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“Just the Two of Us” – Grover Washington, Jr.

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“Minnie the Moocher” – Cab Calloway

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“Aerial Boundaries” – Michael Hedges

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“Red Clay” – Freddie Hubbard

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“Round Midnight” – Thelonious Monk

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“Bright Size Life” – Pat Metheny

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“Maiden Voyage” – Herbie Hancock

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“Portrait of Tracy” – Jaco Pastorious

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“Mood Indigo” – Duke Ellington

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“Body & Soul” – Coleman Hawkins

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“Moanin’” – Art Blakey

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“Straight, No Chaser” – Thelonious Monk

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“Right Off” – Miles Davis

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“Bird Land” Weather Report

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“Jelly Roll Blues” – Jelly Roll Morton

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“Stratus” – Billy Cobham

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“(They call me) Dr. Professor Longhair” – Professor Longhair

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“Sun Goddess” – Ramsey Lewis

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“Miles Beyond” – Mahavishnu Orchestra

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“Fables of Faubus” – Charles Mingus

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“Room 335” – Larry Carlton

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“Epistrophy” – Thelonious Monk

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“The Girl From Ipanema” – Getz/Gilberto

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“Lonely Woman” – Ornette Coleman

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“The Perfect Man” – Sun Ra and his Arkestra

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“Hello, Dolly” – Louis Armstrong

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“Chasin’ the Bird” – Charlie Parker

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“Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy” – Return to Forever

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“God Bless the Child” – Billie Holiday

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“Cause We’ve Ended as Lovers” – Jeff Beck

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“Tea for Two” – Art Tatum

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“Volunteered Slavery” – Rahsaan Roland Kirk

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“Pharoah’s Dance” – Miles Davis

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“A Night in Tunisia” – Sonny Rollins

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“Pursuance” – John Coltrane

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“Satin Doll” – Duke Ellington

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“Speak no Evil” – Wayne Shorter

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“Chitlins Con Carne” – Kenny Burrell

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“Potato Head Blues” – Louis Armstrong

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“Giant Steps” John Coltrane Amazing….

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“My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now” – Dirty Dozen Brass Band

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“Cover Girl” – Larry Coryell

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“Willow Weep for Me” – Wes Montgomery

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“A Long Drink of the Blues” – Jackie McLean

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“Three Views of a Secret” – Jaco Pastorious

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“Places and Spaces” – Donald Byrd

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“When you’re in Love” – Horace Silver

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“Lazy River” – Pete Fountain

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“Tones for Elvin Jones” – John McLaughlin

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“Icarus” – Winter Consort

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“Bemsha Swing” – Thelonious Monk

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“Moon Tune” – Bob James/David Sanborn

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“Eternal Child” – Chick Corea’s Elektric Band

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“Out of the Night” – Brian Melvin Trio

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“School Days” – Stanley Clarke

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“Five Hundred Miles High” – Stan Getz

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“Hog Callin’ Blues” – Charles Mingus

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“My Funny Valentine” – Gerry Mulligan/Chet Baker

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“Race with Devil on Spanish Highway” – Al DiMeola

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“Moritat” – Sonny Rollins

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“Son of Mr. Green Genes” – Frank Zappa
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“Big Chief” – Professor Longhair

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“Anonymous Skulls” – Medeski, Martin & Wood

