WNUR Jazz: October 1996 Top 50

1. Sun Ra*: The Singles (2 CD's) (Evidence)
2. Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
3. Steve Lacy & Mal Waldron: Round Midnight (2 CD's) (hat ART)
4. Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers: Lausanne 1960, 2nd Set (TCB)
5. Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
6. What We Live: Fo(u)r (Black Saint)
7. Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
8. Marty Ehrlich: New York Child (Enja)
9. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
10. Ellery Eskelin: The Sun Died (Soul Note)
11. Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
12. Coleman Hawkins Quartet*: Today and Now (Impulse!)
13. various: Sounds Like 1996: Music by Asian American Artists (2 CD's) (IEL)
14. Chet Baker: In Tokyo (2 CD's) (Evidence)
15. Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
16. Ornette Coleman: Sound Museum (2 CD's) (Harmolodic)
17. Philip Johnson's Big Trouble: Flood at the Ant Farm (Black Saint)
18. Jimmy Giuffre*: Free Fall (Columbia (France))
19. Sweet Basil Trio (Walton/Carter/Higgins): St. Thomas (Evidence)
20. Alice Coltrane*: Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
21. Rammel/Corbett/Kapsalis: Van's Peppy Syncopators (Penumbra)
22. John Carter & Bobby Bradford: Tandem 1 (Emanem)
23. Jack Walrath & Hard Corps: Journey,, Man! (Evidence)
24. Cyrus Chestnut Trio: Nut (Evidence)
25. Roscoe Mitchell*: Sound (Delmark)
26. Lee Konitz: Rhapsody II (Evidence)
27. Benny Carter & Phil Woods: Another Time, Another Place (2 CD's) (Evening Star)
28. Matthew Shipp Duo: With Roscoe Mitchell (2.13.61)
29. Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
30. various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
31. William Parker/In Order to Survive: Compassion Seizes Bed-Stuy (Homestead)
32. Joseph Jarman*: As If It Were the Seasons (Delmark)
33. Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre*: Forces and Feelings (Delmark)
34. Kenny Burrell: Then Along Came Kenny (Evidence)
35. Oscar Peterson: Meets Roy Hargrove and Ralph Moore (Telarc)
36. Available Jelly: Monuments (Ramboy)
37. Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
38. Sonny Stitt: In Style (Muse)
39. Muhal Richard Abrams*: Young at Heart/Wise in Time (Delmark)
40. Ernie Watts: The Long Road Home (JVC)
41. Gerry Gibbs Sextet: The Thrasher (Qwest)
42. Derek Bailey@: Drop Me Off at 96th (Scatter)
43. Phil Minton Quartet: Mouthfull of Ecstasy (Victo)
44. McPhee/Parker/Lazro: (untitled) (Vandoeuvre)
45. Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
46. Famoudou Don Moye & Enoch Williams: Afrikan Song (AECO)
47. Eddie Jefferson: Things are Getting Better (Muse)
48. Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extrapolate)
49. Anthony Wonsey Trio: Anthonyology (Evidence)
50. Bosse Broberg: Regni (Phono Suecia)