Today I revealed the results of the Expert Witness community’s first-ever jazz album poll over at Robert Christgau’s MSN.com music blog. For this poll I asked voters to choose their ten favorite jazz albums recorded in the 1960s. Voters could define “favorite” and “jazz” however they wished, and were asked to allocate points to each of their ten albums as per the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop poll’s points system. A full list of the EW Jazz Poll’s rules is available here. I wrote some pre-game commentary here, and some post-game commentary and individual ballots are available in the comments section of Christgau’s MSN blog. Below are the results, compiled from 29 ballots. Please note that Robert Christgau did not vote in this poll.
1. Miles Davis, In a Silent Way 238 (19)
2. John Coltrane, A Love Supreme 233 (17)
3. Charles Mingus, The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady 136 (9)
4. Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 92 (7)
5. Albert Ayler, Spiritual Unity 80 (7)
6. Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch 79 (8)
7. Duke Ellington, Meets Coleman Hawkins 61 (6)
8. John Coltrane, Live at the Village Vanguard 60 (5)
9. Duke Ellington, Money Jungle 58 (6)
10. John Coltrane, My Favorite Things 57 (6)
11. Duke Ellington, Far East Suite 43 (5)
12. Johnny Hodges, Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges 40 (4)
13. Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard 40 (3)
14. Thelonious Monk, Criss-Cross 39 (3)
15. Oliver Nelson, Blues and the Abstract Truth 38 (5)
16. John Coltrane, The Complete 1961 Village Vanguard Recordings 36 (4)
17. Ornette Coleman, Ornette! 35 (3)
Roland Kirk, Rip, Rig and Panic 35 (3)
Charles Mingus, Mingus at Antibes 35 (3)
20. Gene Ammons, Boss Tenor 34 (3)
21. Miles Davis, Nefertiti 33 (4)
22. Jackie McLean, Let Freedom Ring 31 (4)
23. Duke Ellington, …And His Mother Called Him Bill 30 (4)
Thelonious Monk, Monk’s Dream 30 (4)
25. Pharoah Sanders, Karma 30 (2)
26. Dexter Gordon, Our Man in Paris 29 (3)
27. Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage 28 (3)
Thelonious Monk, Monk. 28 (3)
Sam Rivers, Fuchsia Swing Song 28 (3)
30. Booker Ervin, The Freedom Book 27 (3)
Cecil Taylor, Nefertiti, The Beautiful One Has Come 27 (3)
32. Horace Silver, Song for My Father 26 (3)
33. Andrew Hill, Point of Departure 24 (4)
34. Dexter Gordon, Go! 24 (2)
35. Paul Desmond & Gerry Mulligan, Two of a Mind 23 (2)
Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder 23 (2)
37. Sonny Rollins, The Bridge 22 (3)
38. Amalgam, Prayer for Peace 21 (2)
39. Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz 20 (3)
40. Jaki Byard, The Jaki Byard Experience 20 (2)
Benny Carter, Further Definitions 20 (2)
Ornette Coleman, At the Golden Circle Vol. 1 20 (2)
Sonny Rollins, Our Man in Jazz 20 (2)
44. Duke Ellington, The Popular Duke Ellington 19 (2)
Charles Mingus, Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus 19 (2)
Thelonious Monk, Live at the “It” Club 19 (2)
47. Wayne Shorter, Juju 18 (2)
48. Ornette Coleman, This Is Our Music 17 (2)
Miles Davis, Live in Europe 1967 (The Bootleg Series, Vol. 1) 17 (2)
50. Horace Silver, The Jody Grind 16 (2)
51. Sonny Clark, Leapin’ and Lopin’ 15 (2)
Gil Evans, Out of the Cool 15 (2)
Sonny Rollins, There Will Never Be Another You 15 (2)
54. Miles Davis, Filles de Kilimanjaro 14 (2)
55. Peter Brötzmann, Machine Gun 10 (2)
John Coltrane, Crescent 10 (2)
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