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
Combining both jazz and blues in a single list?   I can't do it; thus, here is a list of 7 of each.  While this bears some relation to lists previously posted, in my view, classic blues albums have been conspicuously underrepresented in favor of jazz:

Jazz:

(1) Bill Evans: Waltz for Debby
(2) Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
(3) Dave Brubeck: Take Five
(4) Getz / Gilberto
(5) Buena Vista Social Club
(6) Cannonball Adderley: Something Else
(7) John Coltrane: A Love Supreme

Blues:

(1) Blind Lemon Jefferson: The Complete Recordings
(2) Charley Patton: The Definitive Charley Patton
(3) Muddy Waters: Folk Singer
(4) Buddy Guy: I Was Walking Through the Woods
(5) Son House: Father of the Delta Blues
(6) Elmore James: The Sky is Crying
(7) Leadbelly: King of the 12 String Guitar


the OP stated-

"Hey, great responses guys. For those who like 50's and 60's Jazz. The Duke Pearson "Right Touch" album is a must. The guys playing on it alone tell you how good it is."

it it is a great album- 

Tough challenge. Ten would have been much easier. 

Tomas Stanko: Suspended Night
The Bad Plus: These are the Vistas
Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um
Bobby Hutcherson: Happenings
Weather Report: Heavy Weather
Chico Hamilton: A Different Journey
Clifford Jordan: Live at Ethel's

If we're including fusion then scratch Jim Hall live and add Mahavishnu Orchestra, The Inner Mounting Flame.  No contest there.  Sorry, Jim!
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Collosus
Jeff Hamilton Trio: Symbiosis
Stanley Clarke: The Stanley Clarke Band
Diana Krall: Live from Paris
Norah Jones: Come Away with Me
Mahavishnu Orchestra: Inner Mounting Flame
Pat Metheny: Beyond the Missouri Sky