Coltrane's A Love Supreme and Davis's Kind of Blue

All of the above postings were great and no one has mentioned Charles Mingus... It sounds like you like "cool" or "smooth" jazz. Can you elaborate about what you like to listen to...
To end I'll mention Oliver Nelson's Blues in the Abstract Truth... A must..

Coltrane - Blue Train
Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby
Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie - On the Sunny Side of the Street
Ella Fitzgerald - The 40th Birthday Concert
Wynton Marsalis - Standard Time
Oscar Peterson Trio - We Take Requests

Rileyphile:
"It sounds like you like "cool" or "smooth" jazz"

I very much dislike anything that begins to sound like phoned in "elevator" jazz. If Kind of Blue by Davis is cool than that is what I like. But I also listen to everything from Anthony Braxton to Roscoe Mitchell To Masubumi Kikuchi, so it doesn't have to be simple or smooth. I want to thank everyone for their suggestions. I have most of the Coltrane stuff...and about 30 Miles Davis cd's. I guess another way to ask what I am looking for is: If you had to pick one or two masterpiece, must have albums by a jazz icon, which would it be? In other words, which Adderly album, which Hancock, which Monk, Silver, Mingus, Rollins, ad infinitum. Mostly from the 60's and 70's as that is an era that I don't know much about with jazz (Too busy listening to Steppenwolf and Jefferson Airplane!). I want to thank everyone for their suggestions so far...I am making a list! Thanks, Jim

Miles Davis- Sketches of Spain
John Coltrane- Blue Trane
Duke Ellington/ Loius Armstrong- Together for the First Time
Sonny Rollins- Way Out West
Art Pepper- Meets The Rythm Section
Sonny Rollins- Tenor Madness
John Coltrane- Lush Life

I second Bill Evans "Waltz for Debby" and would add "Live at the Village Vanguard," part of the same series of concerts.