 | Music Is Healing Force of Universe (Dig) by Albert Ayler
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.49 Yeah, I know... How about Louis Armstrong? Well, Ayler is more fun.
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 | The Best of Chet Baker by Chet Baker
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.99 |
 | Jazz Icons: Chet Baker Live in '64 and '79
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $15.23 Bonus DVD - Chet Baker transcends his obvious physical fragility. If anyone ever had an immortal soul showing through the sorry flesh, it was Chet. The last take, Love for Sale, is overwhelming.
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 | Change of the Century by Ornette Coleman
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.26 |
 | Eric Dolphy at the Five Spot, Vol. 1 by Eric Dolphy Quintet with Booker Little
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.98 How could you omit Miles Davis? I hear someone shout. I said there were choices to be made.
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 | Duke Ellington & John Coltrane by Duke Ellington
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $5.50 |
 | A Duke Named Ellington
Buy new: $29.95 Bonus DVD: I've just discovered the pleasure of jazz DVDs, which preclude the temptation to disrespect the music by multi-tasking to a CD.
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 | On a High Note: Best of the Concord Jazz Recordings by Maynard Ferguson
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $4.00 |
 | Wardell Gray and Dexter Gordon by Wardell Gray
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.31 Two Gs! The greatest duo session in jazz history.
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 | Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster by Coleman Hawkins w
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $5.58 Another great two-sax session.
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 | Pure Mark Isham by Mark Isham
Buy new: $12.58 / Used from: $8.22 Not many choices for I; this may get replaced as soon as "I" think of a better choice.
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 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Antonio Carlos Jobim by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $5.25 |
 | The Best of Stan Kenton by Stan Kenton
Buy new: $9.97 / Used from: $4.55 I loved Kenton when I was 13. He was still performing, so you can guess my age.
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 | Jumping the Creek by Charles Lloyd
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.99 |
 | The Classic Quartet by Thelonius Monk
Buy new: $12.99 / Used from: $6.94 |
 | Live in Olympia (Vivo a Olympia) by Jovino Santos Neto Quinteto
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $7.49 Santos Neto usually goes by the name Jovino. He's the most exciting young jazz pianist I've heard in a long time.
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 | King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set by King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band
Buy new: $22.98 / Used from: $15.88 If you begin to suspect that I play the trumpet, you know your jazz artists.
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 | 20th Century Masters - The Millennium Collection: The Best of Charlie Parker by Charlie Parker
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $6.98 |
 | Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker
Buy used from: $23.37 Bonus DVD. I might also recommend the movie "Round About Midnight", in which Dexter Gordon plays a drug-addicted saxophonist who resembles Parker in several ways.
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 | Copacabana by Sarah Vaughan
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $1.98 Q is for MJQ. I loved the MJQ when I was 13 and first discovered jazz. I loved e.e. cummings then too; don't reject your memories!
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 | African Venus by Dewey Redman
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.15 Two Redmans in one, Dewey and Joshua, father and son!
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 | Tauhid by Pharoah Sanders
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $9.33 |
 | Conquistador by Cecil Taylor
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.90 |
 | Tierra Lejana by Super Uba
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.99 Okay, is Super Uba really jazz? It's a hot album; you decide.
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 | The Best of Caetano Veloso by Caetano Veloso
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $14.10 |
 | Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson (20-Bit Master) by Ben Webster With Oscar Peterson
Buy new: $14.98 / Used from: $7.99 |
 | Explorations by Bill Evans Trio
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.00 X is the unknown, n'est pas? Xplorations? Anyway, Bill Evans belongs on this list as the X factor in the performances of many better known jazz greats.
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 | The Complete Aladdin Recordings by Lester Young
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $12.94 Lester gets three pages of the kid's alphabet! Front and back covers, plus the Y page.
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 | Complete Savoy Recordings by Lester Young
Buy new: $31.98 / Used from: $12.99 |
 | Complete Recordings by Billie Holiday & Lester Young
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $16.60 |
 | Hot Rats by Frank Zappa
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.40 Z? jaZZ! but Zappa? Got any other Zs? But this is the moment to point out that the borders of jazz have expanded.
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