# Reverse Jazz Experience

A curated list by [lungtanner](https://waxlog.com/user/lungtanner) on Waxlog.

> Recommended jazz listens from each year in reverse chronological order. Explore modern jazz and work your way back to the roots. List in progress.

45 releases · last updated 2026-08-30

## Releases

1. **Amaro Freitas** — Y'Y
2. **Fire\! Orchestra** — Echoes
3. **Hermeto Pascoal E Grupo** — Planetário Da Gávea
4. **Floating Points & Pharoah Sanders & The London Symphony Orchestra** — Promises
5. **Shabaka And The Ancestors** — We Are Sent Here By History
6. **Jaimie Branch** — Fly Or Die II: Bird Dogs Of Paradise
7. **Sons Of Kemet** — Your Queen Is A Reptile
8. **Nicole Mitchell** — Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
9. **Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids** — We Be All Africans
10. **Kamasi Washington** — The Epic
11. **Collocutor** — Instead
12. **Ross McHenry** — Distant Oceans
13. **Mary Halvorson Quintet** — Bending Bridges
14. **Kammerflimmer Kollektief** — Teufelskamin
15. **Getachew Mekuria & The Ex & Guests** — Moa Anbessa
16. **Umo Jazz Orchestra** — Transit People
17. **Gil Scott\-Heron** — Spirits
18. **Byard Lancaster** — My Pure Joy
19. **John Zorn** — Naked City
20. **Tim Berne** — Sanctified Dreams
21. **Jim Pepper** — Dakota Song
22. **Amina Claudine Myers Sextet** — Country Girl
23. **Randy Bernsen** — Music For Planets, People & Washing Machines
24. **Ronald Shannon Jackson And The Decoding Society** — Barbeque Dog
25. **James Blood Ulmer** — Black Rock
26. **Eddie Harris Quartet** — Steps Up
27. **Arthur Blythe** — Illusions
28. **Gary Peacock** — December Poems
29. **Ricky Ford** — Manhattan Plaza
30. **Pharoah Sanders** — Pharoah
31. **Kenny Wheeler** — Gnu High
32. **Anthony Braxton** — Five Pieces 1975
33. **Sonny Stitt** — Satan
34. **David Holland Quartet** — Conference Of The Birds
35. **McCoy Tyner** — Sahara
36. **Alice Coltrane & Pharoah Sanders** — Journey In Satchidananda
37. **Gato Barbieri** — The Third World
38. **Pharoah Sanders** — Karma
39. **Gil Mellé** — Tome VI
40. **Archie Shepp** — The Magic Of Ju\-Ju
41. **Lee Morgan** — Search For The New Land
42. **John Coltrane** — A Love Supreme
43. **Stan Getz & João Gilberto** — Getz / Gilberto
44. **The Thelonious Monk Quartet** — Monk’s Dream
45. **Roland Kirk** — We Free Kings

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