*Free jazz:
Cecil Taylor with Buell Neidlinger and Denis Charles: Bemsha Swing
(proto-free...you can hear fj sprouts emerging in this Thelonious Monk tribute, on Taylor's first album from 1955)
Cecil Taylor and the Art Ensemble of Chicago:
Air: Weeping Willow Rag
Jeanne Lee band: Sundance
Oregon: Beneath an Evening Sky
Anthony Braxton (with Buell Neidlinger, Mal Waldron and Bill Osborne): Brilliant Corners
(back to Monk; recorded 1987)
*Fusion
The Sun Ra Arkestra and the Blues Project: Batman
WFMU's Beware the Blog post on the 1966 album this is from
Gary Burton Quartet: Ballet
The Byrds: Eight Miles High
Gil Evans Orchestra: Crosstown Traffic
Gil Scott-Heron: Lady Day and John Coltrane
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Resolution
*Acid jazz, Go-go, Ska and such
The Skatalites: Skalloween
Miriam Makeba: Mas Que Nada
the original recording, before Brasil '66, by Jorge Ben Jor
The Brand New Heavies: What Do You Take Me For?
Incognito: Always There; Nights Over Egypt
Monday Michiru: Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
Chuck Brown and the Soul Searchers: Moody's Mood for Love
Of possible related interest:
Saturday Music Club: Early/Mid '80s Jazz-Pop Resurgence
McCoy Tyner and others
Some (latter-day, mostly) jazz big bands
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