Kind of Blue

I can't pick a #1 because for me the jazz i like at any particular moment depends on my mood and jazz covers every mood you can have

But i will mention one artist i haven't seen listed--apologies if someone did and i missed it, but i can listen to just about anything by

Art Tatum

@viridian Kind of Blue or “free jazz” is the cliche you’d be happy to never hear again?

A great acoustics/musical understanding revolution is in the making!

It seems that the separations between genre as classical music for example and jazz on the other side , or any other classification by genres is less truthfull to music than the distinctions born from the way each instrumentist use his instruments in his own traditions ...

Here from the mouth of the beast :

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/pythagoras-was-wrong-there-are-no-universal-musical-harmonies-study-finds

What complement this amazing findings is this one about the universal way we can map music perception on the body sensations nevermind the difference between cultures :

https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2308859121

No culture win over the others, any great musician is a world in itself and all musical sensations are mapped on the human body in the same way irrespective of the genre , style or specific cultures...

Musician and their  instrument rules music because they rules our body trough the way they rules their own body when playing , not genres or specific cultural styles... Classical is not superior or inferior to jazz or ragas or tar Persian artistry ...