What is the most overrated jazz album of all time?

Canon status invites backlash, and these records have collected plenty of both. Say which one the critics oversold.

1. 1
   Kind of Blue

   Miles Davis's 1959 modal landmark and the best-selling jazz album ever, which is exactly why it draws the backlash.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Getz/Gilberto

   The 1964 bossa nova summit that produced 'The Girl from Ipanema' and a thousand elevator playlists.
   710pts
3. 3
   A Love Supreme

   John Coltrane's 1964 four-part spiritual suite, canonised so thoroughly that dissent has become its own genre.
   560pts
4. 4
   The Shape of Jazz to Come

   Ornette Coleman's 1959 free-jazz manifesto, a landmark to some and an emperor's-new-clothes joke to others.
   560pts
5. 5
   Ascension

   Coltrane's 1965 forty-minute collective improvisation, praised as a breakthrough and heard by many as noise.
   560pts
6. 6
   Time Out

   The Dave Brubeck Quartet's 1959 odd-meter experiment, beloved by newcomers and dismissed by purists as cocktail jazz.
   485pts
7. 7
   Free Jazz

   Ornette Coleman's 1961 double-quartet recording that gave the movement its name and split listeners on contact.
   485pts
8. 8
   Blue Train

   Coltrane's only Blue Note album as a leader, a hard bop staple some call his most conventional record.
   397pts
9. 9
   Sketches of Spain

   The 1960 Davis and Gil Evans orchestral collaboration, adored as tone poetry and dismissed as jazz-adjacent mood music.
   397pts
10. 10
    Charlie Parker with Strings

    Parker's 1950 sessions backed by a string section, his own favourite and a lush disappointment to bebop devotees.
    397pts
11. 11
    Head Hunters

    Herbie Hancock's 1973 funk crossover, the best-selling jazz record of its decade and a sellout to its critics.
    291pts
12. 12
    Bitches Brew

    Miles Davis's 1970 electric double album, hailed as the birth of fusion and derided as formless studio collage.
    291pts
13. 13
    Mingus Ah Um

    Charles Mingus's 1959 album, routinely placed in all-time top tens ahead of the records Mingus fans actually argue for.
    291pts
14. 14
    The Köln Concert

    Keith Jarrett's 1975 improvised solo piano recital, the best-selling piano album ever and a favourite target of snobs.
    162pts
15. 15
    In a Silent Way

    Davis's 1969 ambient bridge into fusion, assembled from tape edits by producer Teo Macero.
    162pts