WNUR Jazz: November 1996 Top 50

1. Myra Melford: The Same River, Twice (Gramavision)
2. Willem Breuker Kollektief*: The Parrot (BVHaast)
3. Eugene Chadbourne: Boogie With the Hook (Leo)
4. Anthony Braxton & the Fred Simmons Trio: 9 Standards (Quartet) 1993 (2 CD's) (Leo)
5. Jodie Christian: Front Line (Delmark)
6. Don Byron: Bug Music (Nonesuch)
7. Cinghiale: Hoofbeats of the Snorting Swine (Eighth Day)
8. Tony Oxley Celebration Orchestra: The Enchanted Messenger (Soul Note)
9. Ivo Perelman: Sad Life (Leo)
10. various: CIMPosium (CIMP)
11. Sonny Rollins*: Silver City (2 CD's) (Milestone)
12. various: October Meeting 87 (Bimhuis)
13. Steve Beresford: Cue Sheets (Tzadik)
14. Jimmy Smith: Angel Eyes (Verve)
15. McPhee/Parker/Lazro: (untitled) (Vandoeuvre)
16. Jon Jang Sextet: Two Flowers on a Stem (Soul Note)
17. Sun Ra*: The Singles (2 CD's) (Evidence)
18. Ornette Coleman*: Body Meta (Harmolodic)
19. John Lindberg: Resurrection of a Dormant Soul (Black Saint)
20. Lennie Tristano & Warne Marsh*: Intuition (Capitol)
21. AMM*: Combine + Laminates (Matchless)
22. Evan Parker: Synergetics-Phonomanie III (2 CD's) (Leo)
23. Matthew Shipp Trio: Prism (Brinkman)
24. Rich Corpolongo: Just Found Joy (Delmark)
25. Gustafsson/Jormin/Jormin: Opus Apus (LJ)
26. Billy Strayhorn*: The Peaceful Side (Capitol)
27. ICP Orchestra: Bospaadje Konijnehol II (ICP)
28. Gerry Gibbs Sextet: The Thrasher (Qwest)
29. various*: The Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia)
30. Gustafsson/Guy/Lovens: Mouth Eating Trees and Related Activities (OkkaDisk)
31. Debris: Rapture in the Church of Disreputable Daydreams (Music & Arts)
32. Chet Baker: In Bologna (Dreyfus)
33. Bobby Previte: Too Close to the Pole (Enja)
34. Count Basie*: Count Basie & the Kansas City 7 (Impulse!)
35. Charlie Parker: Legendary Rockland Palace Concert 1952 (Jazz Classics)
36. Derek Bailey@: Drop Me Off at 96th (Scatter)
37. Benny Carter & Phil Woods: Another Time, Another Place (2 CD's) (Evening Star)
38. Kenny Burrell: Then Along Came Kenny (Evidence)
39. Alice Coltrane*: Ptah the El Daoud (Impulse!)
40. Chris Cutler & Zeena Parkins: Shark! (ReR)
41. Ernie Watts: The Long Road Home (JVC)
42. Marty Ehrlich: New York Child (Enja)
43. Bill Evans: Turn Out the Stars (highlights disc) (Warner Bros.)
44. Wes Montgomery: Encores Vol. 2: Blue'n'Boogie (Milestone)
45. Joe Henderson: Big Band (Verve)
46. Fredrick Lonberg-Holm: Personal Scratch (Eighth Day)
47. Loschel/Skrepek/Zrost: While You Wait (Extraplatte)
48. Mark Helias@: Loopin' the Cool (Enja)
49. Guy/Gustafsson/Strid: You Forget to Answer (Maya)
50. Bosse Broberg: Regni (Phono Suecia)