Jazz90.1 Top 100 for 2003 as selected by the staff of Jazz90.1

1) Jaco Pastorius Big Band Word of Mouth Revisited 2) Lizz Wright Salt 3) The Respect Sextet The Full Respect 4) Happy Apple Youth Oriented 5) Gerald Wilson New York, New Sound 6) McCoy Tyner Land of Giants 7) The Bad Plus These Are The Vistas 8) Dave Douglas Freak In 9) Kurt Elling Man In The Air 10) Cyrus Chestnut You Are My Sunshine 11) Dr. Lonnie Smith Boogaloo To Beck 12) Malachi Thompson Blue Jazz 13) Dave Brubeck Park Avenue South 14) Jessica Williams All Alone 15) Stefon Harris Grand Unification Theory 16) David "Fathead" Newman The Gift 17) John Hicks Fatha's Day 18) Carla Bley Big Band Looking For America 19) Curtis Stigers You Inspire Me 20) Roswell Rudd Malicool 21) Lorraine Feather Café Society 22) Pat Metheny One Quiet Night 23) Diane Reeves A Little Moonlight 24) Avishai Cohen Lyla 25) Wayne Shorter Alegria 26) Tony Monaco Intimately Live at the 501 27) John Pizzarelli Trio Live At Birdland 28) Michel Camilo Live at the Blue Note 29) Ron Carter Golden Striker 30) Suzy Boggus Swing 31) Branford Marsalis Quartet Romare Bearden Revealed 32) Jacky Terrasson Smile 33) Poncho Sanchez Out Of Sight 34) Duke Robillard/Herb Ellis More Coversations In Swing Guitar 35) Art Ensemble of Chicago The Meeting 36) Robert Jospe Time To Play 37) Javon Jackson Easy Does It 38) Brian Bromberg Jaco 39) D.D. Jackson Suite For New York 40) Taylor Eigsti Trio Resonance 41) Regina Carter Paganini: After A Dream 42) Rene Marie Live At Jazz Standard 43) Irene Reid Movin' Out 44) Dave Frishberg Do You Miss New York? 45) Jeff Campbell West End Avenue 46) Jarrett/Peacock/DeJohnette Always Let Me Go 47) Benny Green/Russell Malone Jazz at the Bistro 48) Geoff Muldaur Private Astronomy 49) Scolohofo Oh! 50) Dennis Chambers Outbreak 51) Roy Hargrove Hard Groove 52) Los Hombres Calientes Voudou Dance 53) Yellowjackets Time Squared 54) Kenny Burrell Blue Muse 55) Joe Romano This Is The Moment 56) Matt Wilson Humidity 57) Houston Person Social Call 58) Stan Getz Bossas And Ballads 59) Jeremy Pelt Close To My Heart 60) Bill Frisell The Intercontinentals 61) Jimmy Cobb's Mob Cobb's Groove 62) Kenny Garrett Standard of Language 63) David Murray Latin Big Band Now Is Another Time 64) Christian McBride Vertical Vision 65) Lyambiko Shades of Delight 66) Ry Cooder/Manuel Galban Mambo Sinuendo 67) Paul Smoker Duocity In Brass & Wood 68) David Guidice Time To Start 69) Matthew Shipp Equilibrium 70) Larry Coryell Cedars of Avalon 71) Charlie Hunter Quintet Right Now Move 72) Brad Shepik Drip 73) Oliver Lake Big Band Cloth 74) Sheila Jordan Little Song 75) Steve Lacy The Beat Suite 76) Weather Report Live and Unreleased 77) Ravi Coltrane Mad 6 78) Ray Brown Walk On 79) George Cables Looking For The Light 80) Ramsey Lewis/Nancy Wilson Simple Pleasures 81) Fred Hersch Trio Live at the Village Vanguard 82) Jason Moran The Bandwagon 83) Art Ensemble of Chicago Tribute To Lester 84) Eliane Elias Kissed By Nature 85) Jazz Orchestra of the Delta Reflections of Cole Porter 86) Maria Muldaur A Woman Alone With The Blues 87) Birelli Lagrene Gypsy Project And Friends 88) Fred Hess Quartet Extended Family 89) Philippe Saisse Trio My Favorite Songs 90) John Scofield Up All Night 91) Soulive Soulive 92) Bruce Barth Live at the Village Vanguard 93) Tony Monaco/Joey Defrancesco New Generation 94) Ron Levy Finding My Way 95) Connie Evingson Let It Be Jazz 96) Eric Reed e-bop 97) Jovino Santos Neto Canto do Rio 98) William Parker Violin Trio Scrapbook 99) Jay Leonhart Rodgers and Leonhart 100) David Sanborn timeagain