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: 2026-08-04
1.
In My City
Nu Jazz
July 10, 2026
2.
When Water Learns the Shape of Stone
SILEO
July 28, 2026
3.
Warm Stone Theory
SILEO
July 28, 2026
4.
Hey Kids (Slowed)
slowed dreamcore
February 17, 2025
5.
Métamorphose
PAON
April 19, 2026
6.
Le Paon - Cœur À Psyché -
PAON
April 19, 2026
7.
369
Nu Jazz
June 10, 2026
8.
Civil War
Nu Jazz
July 10, 2026
9.
Some Funky Stuff
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
10.
Sisyphos (Cms) [feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe]
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
11.
Toro Koma (feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe)
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
12.
Titan (feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe)
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
13.
Triangular (feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe)
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
14.
Aorta (feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe)
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
15.
Thür (feat. Kaja Draksler, Antonis Anissegos, Elias Stemeseder, Lucy Railton, Petter Eldh, Robert Landfermann, Christopher Dell & Roland Neffe)
Christian Lillinger
April 5, 2019
16.
Buster Rides Again
Medeski, Martin & Wood
January 1, 2000
17.
Siete Ocho
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
18.
Seven Secrets
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
19.
Thandiwa
Grachan Moncur
July 6, 1964
20.
Moon Dance
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
21.
Mikuro's Blues
David S. Ware
September 15, 1998
22.
No Pain For Cakes
The Lounge Lizards
October 1, 1991
23.
Alabama Rhap Corollary
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
24.
Jiti
Monoswezi
August 25, 2010
25.
Beatrice (Rivers)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
26.
Pavane
Thijs Van Leer
November 1, 1973
27.
Blue In Green (Evans)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
28.
Mudhen Blues
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
29.
Dark Alliance (feat. Dave Pietro & Ryan Keberle)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
September 30, 2016
30.
Pleasure Palace (feat. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed)
Artifacts
October 29, 2021
31.
The Death Adder
Rod Poole
March 10, 1999
32.
Desafinado (Jobim)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
33.
A Little Cosmos
Chuck Hammer, Billy Martin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Jamie Saft
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