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: 2026-06-22
1.
Life Concert: The Multani, Baby
Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht
February 14, 2016
2.
The Lady
Frank Wright Quintet
May 1, 1967
3.
No End
Frank Wright Quintet
May 1, 1967
4.
Train Stop
Frank Wright Quintet
May 1, 1967
5.
Logistic
David S. Ware
September 15, 1998
6.
369
Nu Jazz
June 10, 2026
7.
Saturn
Rachel Eckroth & John Hadfield
October 29, 2024
8.
No Pain For Cakes
The Lounge Lizards
October 1, 1991
9.
Hey Kids (Slowed)
slowed dreamcore
February 17, 2025
10.
Angels
Ergodos Musicians
June 30, 2014
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.
Alabama Rhap Corollary
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
17.
Beatrice (Rivers)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
18.
Pavane
Thijs Van Leer
November 1, 1973
19.
Blue In Green (Evans)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
20.
Mudhen Blues
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
21.
Dark Alliance (feat. Dave Pietro & Ryan Keberle)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
September 30, 2016
22.
Pleasure Palace (feat. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed)
Artifacts
October 29, 2021
23.
The Death Adder
Rod Poole
March 10, 1999
24.
Desafinado (Jobim)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
25.
A Little Cosmos
Chuck Hammer, Billy Martin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Jamie Saft
February 19, 2016
26.
Blacktal Fractal
Harriet Tubman
February 24, 2017
27.
Twilight (Bonus Track)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
28.
Flea Flop
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
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
