Jazz Recommendations


I am just starting to get into Jazz. I recently bought Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live at Monterey" and was blown away. Could you recommend other mainstream Jazz recordings that I should have in a basic collection to help me get started.
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"Something Else", led by Cannonball Adderly with Miles Davis, Sam Jones, Hank Jones and Art Blakey; is the greatest jazz album of all time. Bird With Strings would come in number 2.
We Get Requests -Oscar Peterson with Ray Brown on bass.
Picked up the K2HD cd a few months back and it's a marvel both sonically and more important musically.
Freddie Hubbard "First Light" No more war in this world if everyone listened to this....I can dream

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Bought a new Christmas CD today, and gave it a whirl tonight. There's some really good jazz arrangements on it. Very entertaining hour spent listening.

The biggest joy though was how GREAT the recording was. Wow, was I pleasantly surprised. This is the best sounding CD I have purchased in quite a long time.

If you are in the mood for Christmas music with a jazz twist, give Brian Culberson's "Soulful Christmas" album a spin. It's not sleepy elevator jazz at all. Great stuff. Superb musicians, great arrangments, and hats off to the audio engineer.