 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.36 If you only buy one jazz CD in your lifetime, this is the one to have.
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 | Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.92 It's hard to imagine what music if this album had never been recorded.
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 | Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $4.04 The birth of cool jazz: includes the standards "The Girl from Ipanema," "Desafinado (Off Key)," and "Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)"
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 | Head Hunters by Herbie Hancock
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.30 Quintessential fusion funk.
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 | The Very Best of Benny Goodman by Benny Goodman
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.58 All of Goodman's trademark songs, including the bench mark of upbeat swing, "Sing, Sing, Sing," and exercise in reckless abandon, courtesy of Gene Krupa's frenzied toms.
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 | Louis Armstrong - All-Time Greatest Hits by Louis Armstrong
Buy used from: $3.37 The best of the Louie Armstrong "Greatest Hits" CDs. You know all these songs, beginning with "What a Wonderful World," and "Hello Dolly."
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 | Heavy Weather by Weather Report
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.74 Fusion supergroup, Weather Report's, masterpiece, featuring the hit "Birdland." Pastorius introduced the fretless bass to the public.
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 | Glenn Miller - Greatest Hits by Glenn Miller
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.37 Essential swing from Miller. There's not a song on here you haven't heard a thousand times.
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 | The Very Best of Fats Waller by Fats Waller
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.25 Stride piano at its best, masterful songwriting, and a cast of jazz legends.
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 | The Original Misty by Erroll Garner
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.52 Play "Misty" for me. Erroll Garner. What else is there to say?
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 | The Essential Duke Ellington by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $15.98 / Used from: $8.47 Covers the most of the length and breadth of Ellington's monumental career. It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing.
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 | Birds of Fire by Mahavishnu Orchestra With John McLaughlin
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $3.78 Nothing else like it in recorded history. Except it's near twin album, "Inner Mounting Flame." If it's not the best jazz-fusion ever recorded, it is certainly the fiercest.
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