WNUR Jazz: September 1996 Top 50

1. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
2. What We Live: Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
3. Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
4. William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
5. Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
6. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Round Midnight (2 CD's) (hat ART)
7. Samana: Samana (Storywiz)
8. Rammel/Corbett/Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
9. John Russell & Roger Turner: Birthdays (Emanem)
10. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
11. Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey,, Man! (Evidence)
12. Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
13. Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
14. Ken Field: Subterranea (OO Discs)
15. Joe Morris Ensemble: Elsewhere (Homestead)
16. Matt Wilson: As Wave Follows Wave (Palmetto)
17. Jean Derome et les dangereux Zhoms: Navre (DAME)
18. Ray Drummond: Vignettes (Arabesque)
19. Roscoe Mitchell*: Sound (Delmark)
20. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
21. Andrea Parkins: Cast Iron Fact (Knitting Factory)
22. Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
23. Crispell/Jormin/Strid@: Spring Tour (Alice)
24. Philippe Micol: New York Interviews (Unit)
25. Rova: Ptow!! (Victo)
26. Gerry Wiggins Trio: Soulidarity (Concord)
27. Evan Parker & Paul Lytton: Two Octobers (1972-1975) (Emanem)
28. Howard Riley@: Flight (FMR)
29. George Van Eps & Howard Alden: Keepin' Time (Concord)
30. Eddie Jefferson: Things are Getting Better (Muse)
31. Hotel X: Uncommon Grounds (SST)
32. Jimmy Giuffre*: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
33. Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
34. Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
35. Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
36. Don Byron Quintet: No-Vibe Zone (Knitting Factory)
37. Wolfgang Fuchs: Bits & Pieces (FMP)
38. John Hicks: Piece For My Peace (Landmark)
39. Marcus Printup: UnVeiled (Blue Note)
40. Steve Beresford: Fish of the Week (Scatter)
41. Chris Potter : Moving In (Concord)
42. Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extrapolate)
43. Charles Sullivan: Kamau (Arabesque)
44. Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
45. Horace Silver: The Hardbop Grandpop (Impulse!)
46. Michael Carvin: Drum Concerto at Dawn (Mapleshade)
47. Muhal Richard Abrams*: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
48. Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
49. Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
50. Joshua Redman: Freedom in the Groove (Warner Bros.)