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1	A Love Supreme (1964) more music like this by John Coltrane Easily one of the most important records ever made, John Coltrane's A Love Supreme was his pinnacle studio outing that at once compiled all of his innovations from his past, spoke of his current deep spirituality, and also gave a glimpse into the next two and a half years (sadly, those would be his last). Recorded at the end of 1964, Trane's ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.29!
2	Bitches Brew (1969) more music like this by Miles Davis Thought by many to be the most revolutionary album in jazz history, having virtually created the genre known as jazz-rock fusion (for better or worse) and being the jazz album to most influence rock and funk musicians, Bitches Brew is, by its very nature, mercurial. The original double LP included only six cuts and featured up to 12 musicians at ... see all copies from $13.83! new only from $16.43!
3	Freak Out! (1966) more music like this by The Mothers of Invention One of the most ambitious debuts in rock history, Freak Out! was a seminal concept album that somehow foreshadowed both art rock and punk at the same time. Its four LP sides deconstruct rock conventions right and left, eventually pushing into territory inspired by avant-garde classical composers. Yet the album is sequenced in an accessibly logical ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $11.00!
4	Mingus Ah Um [Remastered] (1999) more music like this by Charles Mingus Charles Mingus' debut for Columbia, Mingus Ah Um is a stunning summation of the bassist's talents and probably the best reference point for beginners. While there's also a strong case for The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady as his best work overall, it lacks Ah Um's immediate acccessibility and brilliantly sculpted individual tunes. Mingus' ... see all copies from $11.06! new only from $11.06!
5	Journey in Satchidananda (1970) more music like this by Alice Coltrane The CD reissue of Alice Coltrane's landmark Journey to Satchidananda reveals just how far the pianist and widow of John Coltrane had come in the three years after his death. The compositions here are wildly open and droning figures built on whole tones and minor modes. And while it's true that one can definitely hear her late husband's influence ... see all copies from $13.71! new only from $13.71!
6	Pithecanthropus Erectus (1956) more music like this by Charles Mingus Pithecanthropus Erectus was Charles Mingus' breakthrough as a leader, the album where he established himself as a composer of boundless imagination and a fresh new voice that, despite his ambitiously modern concepts, was firmly grounded in jazz tradition. Mingus truly discovered himself after mastering the vocabularies of bop and swing, and with ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50!
7	Blues and Roots (1959) more music like this by Charles Mingus In response to critical carping that his ambitious, evocative music somehow didn't swing enough, Charles Mingus returned to the earthiest and earliest sources of black musical expression, namely the blues, gospel, and old-time New Orleans jazz. The resulting LP, Blues and Roots, isn't quite as wildly eclectic as usual, but it ranks as arguably ... see all copies from $10.50! new only from $10.50!
8	Naked City (1989) more music like this by John Zorn The violent cover photo (which shows a man after he was shot dead) sets the stage for the rather passionate music on this John Zorn set. With guitarist Bill Frisell, keyboardist Wayne Horvitz, bassist Fred Frith, drummer Joey Baron, and guest vocalist Yamatsuka Eye making intense contributions, altoist Zorn performs his unpredictable originals, ... see all copies from $7.97! new only from $16.85!
9	The Hours [Original Soundtrack] (2002) more music like this by Philip Glass The score for the movie adaptation of Michael Cunningham's The Hours, composed by Philip Glass. The music is somewhat continuous, all built upon the same basic motives. The repetition of a three-note phrase is key to the course of the whole, emerging time and time again as the framework for variations around which the rest of the music is arranged ... see all copies from $16.85! new only from $16.85!
10	Solo Piano (1989) more music like this by Philip Glass see all copies from $8.00! new only from $11.06!
11 view cover	Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 2) [EMI] (2004) more music like this by Gong The successor to The Flying Teapot and precursor to You, Angel's Egg is not your usual progressive rock album. Very quirky, with many, mostly brief compositions, the album is a tad less spacy than Teapot, with just a few psychedelic-inspired lyrics, and it's very technically adept. Angel's Egg opens with a true space rock cut (one of the few on ... see all copies from $11.38! new only from $11.38!
12 view cover	Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (1993) more music like this by William S. Burroughs A collaboration between Burroughs, producer Hal Willner and politico-rappers Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. It features Burroughs reading excerpts from seven of his books set to music by the Heroes, mostly a slow, lazy funk that sounds like it was lifted from a '70s blaxploitation soundtrack. Highlights include the 16-minute, decidedly ... see all copies from $7.00! new only from $13.34!
13 view cover	Traveling Miles (1999) more music like this by Cassandra Wilson Cassandra Wilson has made another album that will stun and surprise listeners. Traveling Miles takes its cue from the wealth of music from the late Miles Davis. Wilson has taken liberties to do whatever she pleases with Davis' music -- her added lyrics and vocal touches to some of Davis' more famous tunes, interspersed with Wilson's own ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $7.77!
14 view cover	The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible, Pt. 1) (1973) more music like this by Gong Produced by Giorgio Gomelsky, notable for his work with the Yardbirds, Brian Auger, and Magma, this relatively early Gong project is a great representation of the Daevid Allen-era Gong. Though not as intricate as its follow-up companion piece, Angel's Egg, The Flying Teapot is more of a true prog/space rock outing, where hippie-trippy lyrics and ... see all copies from $11.02! new only from $12.66!
15 view cover	Oh Yeah (1961) more music like this by Charles Mingus After several sessions with Columbia and Candid, Charles Mingus briefly returned to Atlantic and cut the freewheeling Oh Yeah, which has to rank as the wildest of all his classic albums. Mingus plays no bass whatsoever, hiring Doug Watkins to fill in while he accompanies the group on piano and contributes bluesy vocals to several tracks (while ... see all copies from $6.44! new only from $9.60!
16 view cover	Mingus Ah Um (1959) more music like this by Charles Mingus Charles Mingus' debut for Columbia, Mingus Ah Um is a stunning summation of the bassist's talents and probably the best reference point for beginners. While there's also a strong case for The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady as his best work overall, it lacks Ah Um's immediate acccessibility and brilliantly sculpted individual tunes. Mingus' ... see all copies from $3.95!
17 view cover	Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror (1980) more music like this by Harold Budd & Brian Eno The second in Brian Eno's ambient series, The Plateaux of Mirrors fuses the fragile piano melodies of Harold Budd and the atmospheric electronics of Eno to create a lovely, evocative work. In sharp contrast to the exaggerated pieces found on his debut, The Pavilion of Dreams, this record finds Budd delivering sharp shards of piano notes pregnant ... see all copies from $9.26! new only from $15.11!
18 view cover	Dark Wood (1993) more music like this by David Darling It's hard to know just what to call this music. Is it classical? Pop? Some extremely pleasant strain of the avant-garde? David Darling is a cellist, and on Dark Wood he plays all the parts, multitracking himself playing in various registers and alternating between bowing and pizzicato techniques. The program consists of four suites, titled ... see all copies from $11.49! new only from $15.98!
19 view cover	A Storm of Drones (1996) more music like this by Various Artists A Storm of Drones is a three-disc set of dense, free-form space music more than befitting the title. Space pioneers Steve Roach, Michael Stearns, Robert Rich, Jeff Greinke and Vidna Obmana appear beside more recent experimentalists like DJ Spooky and Elliot Sharp. Keith Farley, All Music Guide see all copies from $9.59!
20 view cover	The Drift (2006) more music like this by Scott Walker There were intermittent soundtrack and score contributions of varying magnitudes, as well as a couple other low-key projects, but The Drift is Scott Walker's proper follow-up to 1995's Tilt, an album that also happened to trail its predecessor by 11 years. If 1984's Climate of Hunter put the MOR in morose, Tilt avoided the road completely and went ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $2.00!
21 view cover	The Best of Both Worlds: The Second Audion Sampler (1994) more music like this by Various Artists see all copies from $1.99!
22 view cover	Endless Summer (2001) more music like this by Fennesz With a title and cover artwork so obviously referring to the Beach Boys, one had to anticipate that this 2001 full-length CD by Fennesz would be more melodious than usual. It is, but you'll only get as close to surf music as the imagination of an experimental electronica artist from Vienna, Austria, will allow you to -- and that's still quite far. ... see all copies from $18.99! new only from $35.87!
23 view cover	Lumpy Gravy (1967) more music like this by Frank Zappa Lumpy Gravy, Frank Zappa's first solo album, was released months before the Mothers of Invention's third LP (even though its back cover asked the question: "Is this phase two of We're Only in It for the Money?") and both were conceptualized and recorded at the same time. We're Only in It for the Money became a song-oriented anti-flower power album ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $11.05!
24 view cover	Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70) (2004) more music like this by Albert Ayler After listening to Revenant's massive Albert Ayler box set, Holy Ghost: Rare & Unissued Recordings (1962-70), a pair of questions assert themselves in the uneasily settling silence that follows: who was Albert Ayler, and how did he come to be? At the time of this box set's release 26 years after the Cleveland native's mysterious death -- his ... see all copies from $81.52! new only from $81.52!
25 view cover	Spiritual Unity (1964) more music like this by Albert Ayler Spiritual Unity was the album that pushed Albert Ayler to the forefront of jazz's avant-garde, and the first jazz album ever released by Bernard Stollman's seminal ESP label. It was really the first available document of Ayler's music that matched him with a group of truly sympathetic musicians, and the results are a magnificently pure ... see all copies from $13.71! new only from $13.71!

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