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Consumer Guides by Set: Jazz (C)

Jazz, including fusion, excluding vocals.

Artists

  • Brun Campbell:
    • Joplin's Disciple [2001, Delmark] A-
  • James Carter:
    • The Real Quietstorm [1995, Atlantic] A
    • Conversin' With the Elders [1996, Atlantic] A
    • In Carterian Fashion [1998, Atlantic] A-
    • Layin' in the Cut [2000, Atlantic] A
    • Chasin' the Gypsy [2000, Atlantic] A
  • John Carter:
    • Castles of Ghana [1986, Gramavision] B-
  • Doc Cheatham:
    • The Eighty-Seven Years of Doc Cheatham [1993, Columbia] **
  • Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton:
    • Doc Cheatham & Nicholas Payton [1997, Verve] A
  • Don Cherry:
    • Don Cherry [1976, Horizon] B+
  • Arnett Cobb:
    • Arnett Blows for 1300 [1994, Delmark] **
  • Billy Cobham:
    • Spectrum [1973, Atlantic] C+
  • Ornette Coleman:
    • Dancing in Your Head [1977, Horizon] A
    • Body Meta [1978, Artists House] A-
    • Of Human Feelings [1982, Antilles] A+
    • In All Languages [1987, Caravan of Dreams] A
    • Tone Dialing [1995, Harmolodic/Verve] A-
    • Sound Museum: Three Women [1996, Harmolodic/Verve] **
    • Sound Museum: Hidden Man [1996, Harmolodic/Verve] **
    • Sound Grammar [2006, Sound Grammar] A
    • Friends and Neighbors: Ornette Live at Prince Street [2013, BGP/Flying Dutchman] A
    • Ornette at 12/Crisis [2017, Real Gone Music] B+
  • Ornette Coleman/Joachim Kühn:
    • Colors [1997, Harmolodic/Verve] A-
  • Ornette Coleman and Prime Time:
    • Opening the Caravan of Dreams [1986, Caravan of Dreams] A-
    • Virgin Beauty [1988, Portrait] A
  • Steve Coleman and Five Elements:
    • Sine Die [1988, Pangaea] B
    • Rhythm People (The Resurrection of Creative Black Civilization) [1990, Novus] A-
    • Curves of Life [1995, RCA Victor] Neither
  • John Coltrane:
    • A Love Supreme [1964, Impulse] A-
    • The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2 [1974, Impulse] A
    • Africa Brass, Vol. II [1974, Impulse] A
    • Interstellar Space [1974, Impulse] A-
    • Ken Burns Jazz [2000, Verve] ***
    • The Best of John Coltrane [2004, Prestige] A-
    • One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note [2005, Impulse] A-
    • "Live" at the Village Vanguard [2014, Hallmark] A
  • Chick Corea:
    • My Spanish Heart [1977, Polydor] B+
  • Larry Coryell:
    • Lady Coryell [1969, Vanguard Apostolic] B+
    • Coryell [1970, Vanguard Apostolic] B+
    • Spaces [1970, Vanguard Apostolic] B
    • Barefoot Boy [1971, Flying Dutchman] B+
    • Larry Coryell at the Village Gate [1971, Vanguard] B+
    • Offering [1972, Vanguard] C+
    • The Real Great Escape [1973, Vanguard] B-
    • The 11th House [1974, Vanguard] B+
    • Return [1979, Vanguard] C+
  • Stanley Cowell:
    • Waiting for the Moment [1978, Galaxy] B+
  • Ted Curson:
    • Tears for Dolphy [1976, Arista/Freedom] B+

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