Jazz and Popular Recordings

Recordings and songs from jazz and popular music of the twentieth century, such as landmark jazz albums and a hit song. A work belongs here when the cited article calls it a jazz or popular recording, album or song. It excludes concert music written for the orchestra or the opera house. The works include an album built on modal improvisation, a spiritual suite recorded in one session and a ballad that topped the charts, and each reached far beyond the jazz audience. It excludes classical works for orchestra, chorus or stage, and music of other popular traditions.