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Many critics will tell you some of these artists' best work was recorded for Black Lion. The All Music Guide, perhaps the most respected of all the reference books, ranks pianist Thelonious Monk's recordings for Black Lion a five (out of five stars). Sax players Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon's Black Lion recordings are given four stars. Try finding consistently better Stephane Grappelli recordings than those the violinist made for Black Lion. Click below to listen for yourself!

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 Alan Elsdon Band Jazz Journeyman |
 Albert Ayler Goin' Home |
 Albert Ayler My Name Is Albert Ayler |
 Albert Ayler Witches And Devils |
 Albert Ayler/Don Cherry Vibrations |
 Alex Welsh Classic Concert |
 Alex Welsh Doggin' Around |
 Alex Welsh If I Had A Talking Picture |
 Alex Welsh Louis Armstrong Memorial Concert |
 Andre Previn Previn At Sunset |
 Andrew Hill Live At Montreux |
 Andrew Hill Spiral |
 Anthony Braxton Silence/Time Zones |
 Archie Shepp Montreux One |
 Archie Shepp There's A Trumpet In My Soul |
 Art Ensemble Of Chicago The Spiritual |
 Art Ensemble Of Chicago Tutankhamun |
 Art Tatum Standards |
 Art Tatum Tea For Two |
 Art Tatum The V Discs |
 Barney Kessel Aquarius |
 Barney Kessel Autumn Leaves |
 Barney Kessel Yesterday |
 Ben Webster Gone With The Wind |
 Ben Webster Meets Bill Coleman |
 Ben Webster Stormy Weather |
 Ben Webster The Jeep Is Jumping |
 Ben Webster There Is No Greater Love |
 Bill Coleman Meets Guy Lafitte |
 Billie Holiday At Storyville |
 Brew Moore Svinget 14 |
 Buck Clayton Meets Joe Turner |
 Bud Freeman Something To Remember You By |
 Bud Powell Blues For Bouffemont |
 Bud Powell Salt Peanuts |
 Bud Powell Strictly Confidential |
 Bud Powell The Complete Essen Jazz Festival Concert |
 Buddy Childers, Howard McGhee, Andre Previn Sunset Swing |
 Buddy Tate With Humphrey Lyttelton Swinging Scorpio |
 Cecil Taylor Indent |
 Cecil Taylor Silent Tongues |
 Cecil Taylor The Great Paris Concert |
 Cecil Taylor Trance |
 Charles Tolliver Grand Max |
 Charlie Mariano & Chris Hinze Blue Stone |
 Chris Barber In the Beginning |
 Chris Barber Live in East Berlin |
 Chris Barber Swing is Here! |
 Chris Barber & Dr. John Brass Band With Freddie Coleman |
 Cliff Jackson Carolina Shout |
 Count Basie Class Of '54 |
 Dave Burrell High Won-High Two |
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 Dave Shepherd Good Enough to Keep
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 Dexter Gordon Body And Soul |
 Dexter Gordon Both Sides Of Midnight |
 Dexter Gordon Take The 'A' Train |
 Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray Citizens Bop |
 Digby Fairweather A Portrait of Digby Fairweather |
 Dollar Brand Anatomy Of A South African Village |
 Dollar Brand Reflections |
 Dollar Brand Round Midnight At The Montmartre |
 Don Byas A Night In Tunisia |
 Don Byas Walkin' |
 Donald Byrd Groovin' For Nat |
 Duke Ellington The Feeling Of Jazz |
 Duke Pearson Bags Groove |
 Earl Hines Blues In Thirds |
 Earl Hines One For My Baby |
 Earl Hines Swingin' Away |
 Earl Hines Tour De Force |
 Earl Hines Tour De Force |
 Earl Hines West Side Story |
 Five a Slide Strike Up the Band |
 Frank Lowe Fresh |
 Freddie Hubbard Minor Mishap |
 Grant Green Reaching Out |
 Hampton Hawes Blues For Bud |
 Hampton Hawes Live At The Monmatre |
 Helen Humes On The Sunny Side Of The Street |
 Howard McGhee Sharp Edge |
Humphrey Lyttelton Movin' and Groovin' |
 Humphrey Lyttelton Take it From the Top |
 Illinois Jacquet The Comeback |
 Jackie & Roy Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most |
 Jan Garbarek Esoteric Circle |
 Jay McShann Vine Street Boogie |
 Joanne Brackeen Invitation |
 Joe Newman I Feel Like A Newman |
 Johnny Griffin The Man I Love |
 Julius Hemphill Reflections |
 Ken Colyer Darkness on The Delta |
 Ken Colyer Painting The Clouds With Sunshine |
 Kenny Dorham Osmosis |
 Kenny Dorham West 42Nd St |
 Lee Konitz In Harvard Square |
 Lee Konitz Jazz At Storyville |
 Lee Konitz Konitz |
 Lee Wiley-Ellis Larkins Duologue |
 Louis Armstrong Basin Street Blues |
 Louis Jordan & Chris Barber Louis Jordan & Chris Barber |
 Marion Brown Porto Novo |
 Max Collie World Champions of Jazz |
 Memphis Slim Blue This Evening |
 Miles Davis Bopping The Blues |
 Miroslav Vitous Miroslav |
 Monty Sunshine In London |
 Nat King Cole & Buddy Rich Anatomy Of A Jam Session |
 Oliver Lake Heavy Spirits |
 Oscar Pettiford Vienna Blues: The Complete Session |
 Ottilie Paterson/ Chris Barber Madame Blues&Doctor Jazz |
 Paul Bley Touching |
 Paul Gonsalves Meets Earl Hines |
 Paul Gonsalves/Ray Nance Just A-Sittin' And A-Rockin' |
 Pee Wee Russell We're In The Money |
 Philly Joe Jones Mo' Joe |
 Randy Weston Blues To Africa |
 Randy Weston Carnival |
 Rod Mason Struttin' with Some Barbecue |
 Roland Hanna Perugia |
 Roswell Rudd Flexible Flyer |
 Roy Williams-John Barnes Gruesome Twosome |
 Ruby Braff Hear Me Talkin' |
 Ruby Braff Hustlin' And Bustlin' |
 Ruby Braff & Buddy Tate With The Newport All Stars |
 Sahib Shihab Conversations |
 Sammy Price Barrelhouse And Blues |
 Serge Chaloff The Fable Of Mabel |
 Sidney Bechet Sidney Bechet At Storyville |
 Slide Hampton World Of Trombones |
 Sonny Stitt Autumn In New York |
 Stanley Cowell Brilliant Circles |
 Stanley Cowell Travellin' Man |
 Stephane Grappelli Just One Of Those Things |
 Stephane Grappelli Meets Earl Hines |
 Stephane Grappelli Parisian Thoroughfare |
 Stephanie Grappelli Live In London |
 Stephanie Grappelli Meets Barney Kessel |
 Stephanie Grappelli Stardust |
 Stephanie Grappelli/ Barney Kessel Limehouse Blues |
 Sun Ra Outer Spaceways Incorporated |
 Sun Ra Box Set Vol.1 Calling Planet Earth |
 Sun Ra Box Set Vol.2 Outer Spaceways Incorporated |
 Ted Curson Tears For Dolphy |
 Teddy Wilson Air Mail Special |
 Teddy Wilson Blues For Thomas Waller |
 Teddy Wilson Cole Porter Classics |
 Teddy Wilson Runnin' Wild |
 Teddy Wilson Stomping At The Savoy |
 Terry Lightfoot Live in Leipzig |
 Tete Montoliu Body And Soul |
 Thelonius Monk The London Collection, Vol. 1 |
 Thelonious Monk The London Collection, Vol. 2 |
 Thelonious Monk The London Collection: Vol 3 |
 Various Artistry In Jazz |
 Various Tribute To Duke Ellington Live At The Montreux Jazz Festival, 1974 |
 Walter Bishop Jr. Milestones |
 Wardell Gray One For Prez |
 Willie 'The Lion' Smith Pork And Beans |
Zoot Sims/Bob Brookmeyer Morning Fun |
 Zoot Sims/Bob Brookmeyer Tonite's Music Today |
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