The Top Avant-Garde Jazz Songs on iTunes This Week
The iTunes Top 40 Avant-Garde Jazz Songs Chart is your weekly window into the world of avant-garde jazz — jazz at its most experimental — free improvisation, unconventional structures, and fearless sonic exploration. Updated every week, this chart ranks the top 40 avant-garde jazz singles on iTunes, giving you a real-time snapshot of what’s resonating most with fans of the genre right now.
The genre has been shaped by visionaries like John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, and contemporary explorers like Henry Threadgill and Mary Halvorson, whose work defines what avant-garde jazz can sound and feel like. Whether the genre has centuries of tradition behind it or only emerged in recent decades, the artists on this chart are its current standard-bearers.
Discover what avant-garde jazz sounds like today by exploring the full iTunes Top 40 Avant-Garde Jazz Songs Chart, updated fresh this week, in the chart below.
Chart updated this week on: 2026-03-14
1.
Hey Kids (Slowed)
slowed dreamcore
February 17, 2025
2.
Danger Cruising
Pyrolator
January 1, 1979
3.
Minimal Tape 1/8
Pyrolator
January 1, 1979
4.
Flea Flop
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
5.
This Word Love
Peter Brötzmann & Heather Leigh
October 26, 2018
6.
Seven Secrets
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
7.
Yokada Yokada
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
8.
Drumtion
Harriet Tubman
November 23, 2018
9.
Oceanic
Larry Grenadier
January 18, 2019
10.
Some Funky Stuff
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
11.
Buster Rides Again
Medeski, Martin & Wood
January 1, 2000
12.
Siete Ocho
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
13.
Thandiwa
Grachan Moncur
July 6, 1964
14.
Moon Dance
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
15.
Mikuro's Blues
David S. Ware
September 15, 1998
16.
No Pain For Cakes
The Lounge Lizards
October 1, 1991
17.
Alabama Rhap Corollary
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
18.
Beatrice (Rivers)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
19.
Blue In Green (Evans)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
20.
Pavane
Thijs Van Leer
November 1, 1973
21.
Mudhen Blues
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
22.
Dark Alliance (feat. Dave Pietro & Ryan Keberle)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
September 30, 2016
23.
Pleasure Palace (feat. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed)
Artifacts
October 29, 2021
24.
The Death Adder
Rod Poole
March 10, 1999
25.
Desafinado (Jobim)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
26.
A Little Cosmos
Chuck Hammer, Billy Martin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Jamie Saft
February 19, 2016
27.
Blacktal Fractal
Harriet Tubman
February 24, 2017
28.
Twilight (Bonus Track)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
29.
Adventure Equation
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
30.
Only the Lonely (Cahn & Van Heusen)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
31.
Sky (feat. Eric Miyashiro)
Akio Suzuki
July 17, 2013
32.
Nomadic
Grachan Moncur
July 6, 1964
33.
Introduction By Lee Morgan
Lee Morgan
January 1, 1970
34.
Flying Basket
Akira Sakata, Jim O'Rourke, Chikamorachi & Merzbow
