 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.99 The greatest recording ever!
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 | Study in Brown by Clifford Brown
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.98 Why did this man have to leave this planet so early!
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 | A Love Supreme by John Coltrane
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.50 If God played the sax, this is what he would sound like!
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 | Mingus Ah Um by Charles Mingus
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $4.74 The man was simply a genius!
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 | Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
Buy used from: $3.79 Brilliant!
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 | Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $3.11 Doesn't get better than this!
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 | Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $7.19 This album is definitely something special! What a line-up!
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 | Idle Moments by Grant Green
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.05 Never an idle moment in this classic!
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 | Song for My Father by Horace Silver
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.99 One of the albums that began my personal love affair with Jazz!
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 | Smokin' at the Half Note by Wes Montgomery
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $9.75 Some of the most amazing guitar playing that you will ever hear! Great performance by Wynton Kelly as well.
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 | Ellington At Newport 1956 by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $9.78 An absolute must own!
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 | Out to Lunch by Eric Dolphy
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.99 'Out to Lunch' is out of sight baby!
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 | Moanin' by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers
Buy used from: $6.23 This guy was the leader of so many great recordings, start with this one.
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 | The Sidewinder by Lee Morgan
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.69 Couldn't live without this one! Lee is the man!
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 | Saxophone Colossus by Sonny Rollins
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.49 Get ready to be BLOWN away!
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 | Speak No Evil by Wayne Shorter
Buy used from: $1.78 Nothing evil about this recording. Simply spectacular!
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 | Django by The Modern Jazz Quartet
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.77 As Jackie Gleason used to say, "How sweet it is!"
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 | Go! by Dexter Gordon
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.64 Can't GO wrong with this one!
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 | The Blues and the Abstract Truth by Oliver Nelson
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $5.42 Simply one of the greatest recordings ever, on everyone's list.
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 | Sunday at the Village Vanguard by Bill Evans Trio
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.09 Hard to pick out Bill's best, but I recommend starting here. Also, Scott La Faro on bass (his last performance) is something legendary!
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 | Diz 'N Bird at Carnegie Hall by Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.36 Two legends at their very best!
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 | Percussion Bitter Sweet by Max Roach
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $4.99 Nothing bitter about this one!
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 | The Hot Fives & Sevens by Louis Armstrong
Buy new: $25.99 / Used from: $20.50 The man who started it all!
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 | Maiden Voyage by Herbie Hancock
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.82 And what a wonderful voyage it is!
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 | Night Train by Oscar Peterson Trio
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $8.35 My wife's personal favorite!
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 | Chet by Chet Baker
Buy used from: $5.48 James Dean on trumpet never sounded so good!
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 | Cool Struttin' by Sonny Clark
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.88 An album that redefines the word COOL!
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 | Soul Station by Hank Mobley
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $6.49 My personal favorite of all Mobley's great recordings.
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 | The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner
Buy used from: $1.08 Arguably his best recording as a leader! My personal favorite.
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 | Byrd in Flight by Donald Byrd
Buy used from: $11.98 This is 'the Donald' that everyone should be listening to and revering! This guy simply was great.
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 | Quiet Kenny by Kenny Dorham
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $9.98 The man was simply a poet with his horn. The only album of his sans a sax, however he proves he can more than handle it. Like Donald Byrd, very, very underrated!
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 | Open Sesame by Freddie Hubbard
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $6.96 One of the greatest recordings by one of the greatest trumpet players in jazz history.
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 | Midnight Blue by Kenny Burrell
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $4.99 Hard to find any fan of jazz that doesn't love this one!
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 | Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $6.99 The best of Bossa Nova jazz! Lots and lots of fun.
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 | A Blowin' Session by Johnny Griffin
Buy used from: $6.98 Lee Morgan, Johnny Griffin, Hank Mobley, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, and Art Blakey - enough said!
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 | Inner Urge by Joe Henderson
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $6.11 My favorite of all Joe's great stuff! Essential jazz recording.
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 | Night Hawk by Coleman Hawkins with Eddie Davis
Buy used from: $7.11 This is just one of many classic, legendary recordings by one of the most important and influential sax players of all-time.
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 | Life Time by Tony Williams' Lifetime
Buy new: $8.94 / Used from: $5.50 It's easy to see why Miles Davis loved this guy so much! This one is something special.
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 | Back at the Chicken Shack by Jimmy Smith
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.01 Organ? What's an organ? For those of you who think that organ's can never sound cool (like I once did), listen to this album and then tell me what you think.
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 | Blue and Sentimental by Ike Quebec
Buy used from: $4.84 Beautiful in every way! All-star line-up give A+ performances!
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