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: 2026-05-14
1.
Cradle Song
Jason Moran
January 1, 2006
2.
Equally Naked Heart
Chuck Hammer, Billy Martin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Jamie Saft
February 19, 2016
3.
Métamorphose
PAON
April 19, 2026
4.
There is Peace in the Trees
Thor Harris & Shahzad Ismaily
November 24, 2020
5.
Hey Kids (Slowed)
slowed dreamcore
February 17, 2025
6.
Some Funky Stuff
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
7.
Buster Rides Again
Medeski, Martin & Wood
January 1, 2000
8.
Siete Ocho
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
9.
Seven Secrets
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
10.
Thandiwa
Grachan Moncur
July 6, 1964
11.
Moon Dance
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
12.
Mikuro's Blues
David S. Ware
September 15, 1998
13.
No Pain For Cakes
The Lounge Lizards
October 1, 1991
14.
Alabama Rhap Corollary
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
15.
Beatrice (Rivers)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
16.
Pavane
Thijs Van Leer
November 1, 1973
17.
Blue In Green (Evans)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
18.
Mudhen Blues
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
19.
Dark Alliance (feat. Dave Pietro & Ryan Keberle)
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society
September 30, 2016
20.
Pleasure Palace (feat. Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid & Mike Reed)
Artifacts
October 29, 2021
21.
The Death Adder
Rod Poole
March 10, 1999
22.
Desafinado (Jobim)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
23.
A Little Cosmos
Chuck Hammer, Billy Martin, Jamaaladeen Tacuma & Jamie Saft
February 19, 2016
24.
Dragon's Way
Larry Coryell
January 1, 2017
25.
Blacktal Fractal
Harriet Tubman
February 24, 2017
26.
Twilight (Bonus Track)
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
27.
Flea Flop
Andrew Hill
January 1, 1964
28.
Adventure Equation
Sun Ra & His Myth Science Arkestra
March 12, 1967
29.
Only the Lonely (Cahn & Van Heusen)
Anthony Braxton
May 1, 2004
30.
Nomadic
Grachan Moncur
July 6, 1964
31.
Sky (feat. Eric Miyashiro)
Akio Suzuki
July 17, 2013
32.
Flying Basket
Akira Sakata, Jim O'Rourke, Chikamorachi & Merzbow
