If you could only own 7 Jazz/blues albums. What would they be?


Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 
Duke Pearson - Right Touch
Lightnin Hopkins - Blues Hoot
Dave Holland and Pepe Habichuela -Hands
Allen Toussaint - The Bright Mississippi 
Cecile Mclorin Salvant - Woman Child
Robert Glasper - In My Element

calvinj
All first pressings: Jazz
Mile Davis - Kind of Blue
John Coltrane - Saxophone Colossus
Dave Brubeck - Take Five
Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
Charles Mingus - Ah um
Art Blakey - Moanin'
Thelonious Monk - any riverside recording 

Blues:
Willie Dixon - I am the Blues
John Lee Hooker - It Serves You to Suffer
Taj Mahal - Giant Step/ Ole Folks at Home
King Biscuit Boy - S/T
Lightnin Hopkins - Strikes
John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers - "beano"
Alex Korner's R&B from the Marquee - Ace of clubs label - beg, borrow or steal a copy of this album! 

Paul


Marsalis & Clapton ---  Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton Play The Blues  CD/DVD

Les McCann & Eddie Harris  --  Swiss Movement

Howlin Wolf  -- The Chess Box

Various Artists  --  Jazz in a R&B Groove  Vol 1

Mingus -- Oh Yeah

Various Artists  --  The 100 Best Jazz Tunes of The 1950's    Box set

Aretha Franklin  --  Aretha's Blues: The Delta meets Detroit




Not that I know much about jazz ...... and got enough blues of my own.

Stan Kenton- Machito
Horace Silver-Song For My Father
Hank Mobley- Soul Station
Eric Dolphy- Out to Lunch
Sarah Vaughn + Clifford Brown
Brad Mehldau Trio-Art of the Trio
Lee Morgan- The Sidewinder
Schubert

Song For My Father was my last title out before the cut.  It's a great record IMO (better, in a vacuum, than Lost Paramount Tapes), but wasn't quite the stylistic fit for my collection.  Cool choice, tho.
Well, martykl, Rollins -Sax Colossus was my 8th, but I wanted to be honest and Mobley is my man .
And Sarah Vaughn beat out Kurt Elhling-Man In The Air because she is better looking .