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Consumer Guides by Set: Jazz (B)

Jazz, including fusion, excluding vocals.

Artists

  • Chet Baker:
    • Love Songs [2004, Columbia/Legacy] Dud
    • The Best of Chet Baker [2004, Riverside] A
  • Gato Barbieri:
    • Bolivia [1973, Flying Dutchman] A-
  • Count Basie:
    • The Best of Early Basie [1996, Decca] A
    • America's #1 Band: The Columbia Years [2003, Columbia/Legacy]  
  • Art Blakey:
    • Ken Burns Jazz [2000, Verve] A+
  • Art Blakey & Thelonious Monk:
    • Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers With Thelonious Monk [1999, Rhino/Atlantic] Choice Cuts
  • Carla Bley:
    • Dinner Music [1977, Watt] B+
    • European Tour 1977 [1978, Watt] A-
    • Musique Mecanique [1979, Watt] B
  • Paul Bley:
    • Live at the Hillcrest Club 1958 [1976, Inner City] A
  • Hamiet Bluiett/D.D. Jackson/Mor Thiam:
    • Join Us [1999, Justin Time] Choice Cuts
  • Arthur Blythe:
    • Lenox Avenue Breakdown [1979, Columbia] A
    • Da-Da [1986, Columbia] B
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly:
    • Jungle Cowboy [1987, JMT] B+
    • Tribute to Jimi [1998, Koch] ***
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly & the BluWave Bandits:
    • Fade to Cacophony Live! [1996, Evidence] *
    • Rock the Cathartic Spirits: Vibe Music and the Blues! [1997, Koch] Neither
  • Joanne Brackeen:
    • Special Identity [1982, Antilles] B+
  • Ruby Braff:
    • Very Sinatra [1982, Finesse] A-
  • Ruby Braff and Ellis Larkins:
    • Calling Berlin Vol. 1 [1995, Arbors] A-
  • Dollar Brand:
    • Cape Town Fringe [1977, Chiaroscuro] B+
    • African Marketplace [1980, Elektra] A-
  • Anthony Braxton:
    • New York, Fall 1974 [1975, Arista] B+
  • Burnt Sugar:
    • That Depends on What You Know: Fubractive: Since Antiquity Suite [2002, Trugroid] A-
    • That Depends on What You Know: The Crepescularium [2002, Trugroid] Choice Cuts
    • That Depends on What You Know: The Sirens Return: Keep It Real 'Til It Flatlines [2002, Trugroid] ***
    • All You Zombies Dig the Luminosity [2017, AvantGroidd] ***
  • Burnt Sugar/The Arkestra Chamber:
    • Blood on the Leaf: Opus No. 1 [2001, Trugroid] A-
    • Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets [2004, Trugroid] ***
    • Angels Over Oakanda [2021, CDBaby] A
  • Don Byron:
    • Nu Blaxploitation [1998, Blue Note] Dud
    • Do the Boomerang: The Music of Junior Walker [2006, Blue Note] B+

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