 | Jazz at the Pawnshop by Arne Domnérus
Buy new: $68.49 / Used from: $34.99 Some awesome European players. There is really great musicianship by all, but especially awesome Jazz Clarinet and Sax. Also there is a really awesome version of "Take Five"
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 | Moanin' by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $6.16 This is a Jazz Essential. A ground breaking album by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers with all star trumpeter Lee Morgan. This is on eo fmy Top 10 Jazz Albums.
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 | Art Pepper + Eleven by Art Pepper
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.48 Not your standard Big Band Album, this has all the elements of Bop. Featuring some of jazz's most famous tune (Donna Lee, Groovin High) played in Big Band Arrangments
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 | Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.20 If not just for Autumn Leaves, this album is amazing. Some great playing by Miles Davis and blues don't get any better than with Cannonball
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 | Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.93 No other Mingus album compares. Also, Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is one of the most amazing ballads to come out of Jazz
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 | Now's the Time by Charlie Parker
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $9.99 Any Charlie Parker is a must. I prefer the Complete Savoy & Dial Sessions, but I couldn't find the set on Amazon.
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 | Diz 'N Bird at Carnegie Hall by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $9.93 / Used from: $1.75 The best duo ever, and two creators of Bop. Bird is in his prime, and Dizzy is always amazing. This is one of the better recording qualities of Bird.
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 | Study in Brown by Clifford Brown
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.83 You can never go wrong with Clifford Brown, but this is my personal favorite Brown/Roach album
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 | Birk's Works: Verve Big Band Sessions by Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $14.00 One of the greatest Big Bands of all times, why not get it all at one time?
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 | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane by Duke Ellington w
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.74 One of the most amazing album ever! This is a must have for any collection. Both musicians are amazing, and the songs are just beautiful
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 | The Great Summit: The Master Takes by Louis Armstrong & Duke Ellington
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.67 Duke and Louie in their prime together. All amazing players. This is an essential.
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 | The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong by Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Buy new: $48.99 / Used from: $27.54 The best in Jazz singing! Louie and Ella foil eachother some perfectly. This collection is flawless
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 | Sinatra at the Sands by Frank Sinatra with Count Basie & the Orchestra
Buy used from: $21.99 An absolutely amazing orchestra, fronted by Frank Sinatra. One of his best live recordings.
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 | Ready for Freddie by Freddie Hubbard
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.34 One of the best Freddie Hubbard albums, plus Wayne Shorter on Tenor Sax. Awesome.
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 | Blue Train by John Coltrane
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.98 My personal favorite train album, with an all star horn line of Trane on T. Sax, Lee Morgan on Trumpet, and Curtis Fuller on Trombone
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 | Giant Steps by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.99 Just plain awesome. Essential Coltrane
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 | Search for the New Land by Lee Morgan
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $7.19 The deepest and most intellectual of Morgan's work. Yet we see Morgan in his best playing
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 | The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.79 One of the ost grooving first songs ever, this is essential Lee Morgan and a great start to Jazz.
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 | The Cooker by Lee Morgan
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $6.98 Lee Morgan sounds great with Pepper Adams on Bari Sax, and their version of A Night in Tunisia never gets dull. My favorite Lee Morgn
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 | Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.47 Miles + Gil Evans never goes wrong, and the arranging here is excellent
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.00 One of the most popular Jazz Albums of all time, with an amazing band. The music is flawless
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 | Nefertiti by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.98 My favorite Milse Davis Band, with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock. The music is great.
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 | Oscar Peterson Trio Plus One by Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.38 This is a top 10. The music is just amazing and bluesy and Clark Terry is in his prime.
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 | Way Out West by Sonny Rollins
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $7.98 My favorite Sonny Rollins album. You get so much out him with no piano, only an amazing rhythm section with Shelly Manne and Ray Brown
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 | Straight, No Chaser by Thelonious Monk
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.00 Thelonious Monk has a style completely of his own and this is just an amazing album of blues.
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 | Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.36 One of the ost amazing albums for Tenor Sax and Jazz in general. All great musicians. The composing is brilliant
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