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Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album?

Just got back into analog after not having a turntable for 38 years. That was a Thorens TD 320. Now I have a VPI. Building a jazz album collection now since jazz seems to be what I enjoy now. I have barely 12 albums from Miles Davis, Art Blakey, King Curtis, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Ike Quebec and Illinios Jacquet. Can you suggest a must have album? I generally like great sax, and percussion and sometimes a good vocalist, but I am open to anything that sounds GREAT. Also, if there is a particular label, issue or type of album. Thanks in advance.

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drmuso
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I would also add Smokin' at the Half Note by the Wynton Kelly Trio with Wes Montgomery, as my favorite Wes album.  Give the guitarists some.

fpomposo
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Just buy every Bill Evans album and buy everything Oscar Peterson ... 

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dekay
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Not all jazz, but "Mose Alive" (Mose Allison) is good.

Look for an original Atlantic pressing.

 

DeKay

vetsc5
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Dave Brubeck's-"Time Out" Columbia 45 rpm pressing CS 8192

Art Blakey's- "Just Coolin"-Blue Note pressing ST-64201

Paul Chambers-"Bass on Top"-Blue Note pressing BST 81569

Ella Fitzgerald & Billie Holiday at Newport-(side A is Ella recorded  July4th,1957)

(side B is Billie recorded July 6th-1957) Both pressing originals by Verve Records

pressing MG V-82341-1958-

Current re-release by Not Now Music (visit--

https://www.notnowmusic.com

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong-Verve pressing-MG V 4003

Enjoy the music.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

vetsc5
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PS: The Ella and Billie recording from Not Now is mono.  Also there were some sound quality "challenges" back in day of live recording.  But it is Ella and Billie albeit toward the end of Billie's career when her voice had developed a "patina".

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