List of Rara Avis (Reissues/Archival)

This page offers an alphabetically sorted list of albums that have received one or more votes in a given category. The categories are:

• New Jazz Albums
• Rara Avis (Reissues/Archival)

• Louis Armstrong, Reference: Hot Five & Hot Seven at 100 (1925-28, AlAy/Thingamajig)
• Art Ensemble of Chicago, People in Sorrow (1969, Play Loud!)
• Albert Ayler Quintet, Reference: Copenhagen, Bordeaux 1966 & Newport 1967 Live First Release (AlAy/Thingamajig '25)
• Derek Bailey - Evan Parker - Han Bennink, Topographie Parisienne (1981, Fou '25)
• Derek Bailey & Tony Bevan, River Monsters (1999, Scatter Archive '25)
• Chet Baker, Five From '65: The Quintet Summer Sessions (New Land '25)
• Kenny Barron - Ray Drummond - Ben Riley, So Many Lovely Things: Live in Brecon (1995, Elemental Music)
• Johannes Bauer - Michael Griener - Olaf Rupp, Aufsturz (2007, Scatter Archive)
• Lou Bennett & Rupert Clemendore, Live at the Golden Circle 1963 - Day 1 (Country & Eastern)
• Art Blakey, Kongsberg, 1976 (Elemental Music)
• Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers, Jazz Messengers '70 (Good Time)
• Art Blakey & the New Jazz Messengers, Buttercorn Lady (1966, Elemental Music)
• Carla Bley, Joyful Noise (Live in Hamburg 1984) (Moosicus)
• The Bottle Tapes (1996-2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey '25)
• Dollar Brand - Don Cherry - Carlos Ward, The Third World-Underground (1972, Wewantsounds)
• Anthony Braxton, Six Monk's Compositions (1987) (Black Saint)
• Roland Brival, Créole Gypso (1980, Soundway)
• Marion Brown, Live in Europe 1968 & 1972 (NoBusiness)
• Marion Brown, Awofofora (1976, Aguirre)
• Donald Byrd, The Cat Walk (1961, Blue Note)
• Daniel Carter - Sabir Mateen - William Parker - Lou Grassi, Keeping It in Context (1996, NoBusiness)
• Joe Chambers, Double Exposure (1977, Muse/Time Traveler)
• Cheer Accident, CheerAx Basement, Chicago 4/2/22 // Reggie's Chicago 9/26/23 (Cuneiform)
• Classic V-Disc Big Band Jazz Sessions (1943-48, Mosaic)
• Nels Cline & Elliott Sharp, Open the Door (1999-2007, Zoar)
• Kelan Phil Cohran & Legacy, African Skies (1993, Listening Position '25)
• John Coltrane, A Love Supreme [60th Anniversary Edition] (1964, Impulse! '25)
• John Coltrane, Ascension (Edition I & I) (1965, Impulse!)
• Bill Connors, Of Mist and Melting (1977, ECM)
• Chick Corea, Piano Improvisations Vol. 1 (1971, ECM '25)
• Jacques Coursil, Black Suite (1971, BYG/Charly)
• Stanley Cowell, Musa: Ancestral Streams (1974, Strata-East '25)
• Miles Davis, Ancenseur Pour L'Échafaud (1957, Decca France)
• Miles Davis, The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 (Columbia/Legacy)
• Miles Davis, Reference: Miles Davis' 3rd Quintet Bitches Brew Live 1969 in Europe (AlAy)
• Miles Davis, Miles '56: The Prestige Recordings (Craft)
• Zeno De Rossi Trio + 1, Human Prints (2013-17, self-released)
• Kenny Dorham, The Complete Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia (1956, Blue Note)
• Marty Ehrlich & Julius Hemphill, Circle the Heart (1982, Relative Pitch)
• Either/Orchestra, Nalbandian L'Ethiopien [Éthiopiques 32] (2011, Buda Musique '25)
• Duke Ellington, Copenhagen 1964 (Storyville)
• James Emery & Anthony Braxton, Articulations, Florence, 1992 (self-released)
• Ellery Eskelin, Setting the Standard (1988, Prime Source)
• Bill Evans, Haunted Heart: The Legendary Riverside Studio Recordings (1959-61, Craft '25)
• Bill Evans, At the BBC (1965, Elemental Music)
• Pierre Favre & Andrea Centazzo, Endless Dialogues 1977 & 2024: The Complete Sessions (Ictus)
• Pierre Favre Trio, Bird Food (1968, Songs)
• Ella Fitzgerald, Live at the Falkoner Theatre Copenhagen 6th February 1966 (Gearbox)
• Satoko Fujii's Bunker Ulmenwall Orchestra (2014, Libra)
• Red Garland Quintet, Soul Junction (1957, Craft)
• Herb Geller Quartet, Barcelona Session (1990, Fresh Sound '25)
• Mick Goodrick, In Pas(s)ing (1978, ECM)
• Mick Goodrick & Fred Hersch, Feebles, Fables and Ferns (1988, ECM)
• Muriel Grossmann, Quartet (2008, Modernistas)
• Grupo Um, Nineteen Seventy Seven (1977, Far Out)
• Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete, From All Sides (1965, Craft)
• Roy Hargrove, Bern (2000, Time Traveler)
• Julius Hemphill, Dogon A.D. (1972, New World)
• Joe Henderson Quartets, Tetragon (1967-68, Craft)
• Joe Henderson, Consonance: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1978, Resonance)
• Noah Howard, The Black Ark (1969, Superior Viaduct)
• I Compani, Basta! The Last Concerts 2025 (I Compani)
• Intercommunal Free Dance Music Orchestra, Vol. 1: Concert À Prades-Le-Lez (1974, Souffle Continu)
• Michael Gregory Jackson, Clarity [50th Anniversary Edition] (1976, Moved-By-Sound)
• Ahmad Jamal, At the Jazz Showcase: Live in Chicago (1976, Resonance)
• Joseph Jarman - Famoudou Don Moye - Johnny Dyani, Black Paladins (1979, Dead Currencies)
• J Jazz Volume 5: Deep Modern Jazz From Japan 1970-1988 (BBE)
• Frank Kimbrough, The Call (2010, Sunnyside '25)
• Freddie King, Feeling Alright: The Complete 1975 Nancy Pulsations Concert (Elemental Music)
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Seek & Listen: Live at the Penthouse (1967, Resonance '25)
• Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Vibrations in the Village: Live at the Village Gate (1963, Resonance '25)
• Steve Lacy Three, Live Lugano 1984 First Visit (Ezz-Thetics '25)
• Byard Lancaster & Keno Speller, Exactement (1974, Souffle Continu)
• Yusef Lateef, Lost in Sound (1962, Good Time/Charlie Parker)
• Yusef Lateef, Alight Upon the Lake: Live at the Jazz Showcase (1975, Resonance)
• Daunik Lazro - Joëlle Léandre - Paul Lovens, For Baritone Sax, Double Bass & Drumset (2013, Relative Pitch)
• Peggy Lee, Too Marvelous for Words (1955, Peggy Lee Associates)
• James Brandon Lewis & Lutosławski Quartet, These Are Soulful Days (2021, TAO Forms)
• Charles Lloyd, Sangam & Friends (2009, Blue Note)
• The Lawrence Marable Quartet, Tenorman (1956, Jazz West/Blue Note)
• Charlie Mariano & Sal Nistico, Barcelona Meeting (1989, Fresh Sound)
• Lee Mason, Music by Lee Mason (1971, Wewantsounds)
• Bennie Maupin, The Jewel in the Lotus (1974, ECM '25)
• Paul McCandless, Live at Kimball's East 1992 (Moosicus)
• Medeski Martin & Wood, Tonic (1999, Blue Note)
• Charles Mingus, Mingus in Argentina: The Buenos Aires Concerts (1977, Resonance '25)
• Thelonious Monk, Live in Paris, 1967: Volume One (Rhythm-a-Ning)
• Thelonious Monk, Alone in San Francisco (1959, Craft)
• Sunny Murray & Sabu Toyozumi, Sun's Blessings (1999, NoBusiness)
• Red Norvo, The Secret Session (1942, Dot Time)
• Evan Parker - Paul Rogers - Louis Moholo, Tebugo (1992, Jazz in Britain '25)
• Art Pepper, Everything Happens to Me: 1959 Live at the Cellar (Omnivore)
• Oscar Peterson, Around the World (1969-81, Mack Avenue/Two Lions '25)
• Oscar Peterson, The Classic Oscar Peterson Trio Sessions With Ray Brown & Ed Thigpen (1959-65, Mosaic)
• The Oscar Peterson Trio, At Baker's Keyboard Lounge: The Complete Recordings (1960, Verve)
• Michel Petrucciani, Kuumbwa (1987, Elemental Music)
• Barre Phillips & György Kurtág Jr., Togetherness (2014, BMC)
• Phonographic Yearbook 1924: Open Up Your Golden Gate (Archeophone)
• Poing, Giants of Jazz (2001, Royal)
• Tom Raworth & Peter Brötzmann, No Hard Feelings: For Steve Lacy (2005, Corbett vs. Dempsey)
• Hans Reichel, Dalbergia Retusa (1973-88, Black Truffle)
• The Charlie Rouse Band, Cinnamon Flower: The Expanded Edition (1977, Resonance '25)
• Schlippenbach Trio, Elf Bagatellen (1990, Cien Fuegos)
• Jimmy Scott, Falling in Love Is Wonderful (1963, Tangerine)
• Woody Shaw, Love Dance (1976, Time Traveler)
• Alan Silva Celestrial Communication Ensemble, 2000-06-24 Amherst (Eremite)
• Shudan Sokai, Alive at Alone (1977, Aguirre)
• Tomasz Stanko, Balladyna (1976, ECM)
• Louis Stewart, Joyce Notes (1982, Livia)
• Sun Ra, Do the Impossible [Original Soundtrack to the Documentary] (1957-82, Modern Harmonic)
• Sun Ra, Hidden Fire (1988, Strut '25)
• Sun Ra, East Two + 7 (1972-73, Cosmic Myth)
• Cecil Taylor New Unit, Words & Music: The Last Bandstand (2016, Fundacja Słuchaj)
• Cecil Taylor Orchestra Humane, At Iridium 2004 (Burning Ambulance)
• Cecil Taylor Unit, Fragments: The Complete 1969 Salle Pleyel Concerts (Elemental Music)
• John Taylor With Stan Sulzmann, Quintessence (1987, Jazz in Britain)
• Keith Tippett - Claudio Gabbiani - Roberto Musci, Music for Labyrinths (2000, Dark Companion)
• Keith Tippett, At the BBC 1969-70 (Rhythm and Blues)
• Charles Tolliver - Stanley Cowell - Cecil McBee - Jimmy Hopps, Music Inc. (1970, Strata-East '25)
• Charles Tolliver All Stars, Right Now . . . and Then (1968, Strata-East)
• Allen Toussaint, Songbook [Deluxe Edition] (2009, Craft)
• Ralph Towner & Gary Peacock, Oracle (1993, ECM)
• Traditional Jazz From New Orleans (1960s-80s, Mardi Gras)
• Charles Tyler Ensemble, Voyage From Jericho (1974, Frederiksberg)
• McCoy Tyner, The Seeker (1993, Red)
• McCoy Tyner, Extensions (1970, Blue Note)
• Miroslav Vitous, Mountain Call (2003-10, ECM)
• Mal Waldron & Steve Lacy, Play Monk, Ellington & Strayhorn: Live at Yoshi's 1994 (Elemental Music)
• Mal Waldron & Sam Rivers, Live in Mestre Venezia 1984 (Caligola '25)
• Randy Weston, The Music of Randy Weston (1985-88, Groovin' High/In + Out)
• Kenny Wheeler Sextet, What Was (1995, False Walls)
• Buster Williams, Pinnacle (1975, Muse/Time Traveler)
• Otomo Yoshihide's New Jazz Orchestra, Out to Lunch (2005, Aguirre)
• Lester Young, Lester Leaps In: Live at Birdland 1951-1952 (Liberation Hall '25)
• Keith Tippett, Mujician: Music to Accompany the Authorised Biography by Martin Phillips (1976-84, Jazz in Britain)
• Mal Waldron, Stardust & Starlight: At the Jazz Showcase (1979, Resonance)
• The Visitors [Earl & Carl Grubbs], Motherland (1975, Craft)

Album count: 137.