Help me select few vinyl LPs

Gift Certificate is your best bet.  For example, to spend on Music Direct.  Since he is in Europe, there may be a mail order seller with a base in the EU that would be more appropriate, but I can't name such a business.  I do know that Sam's Records, based in Paris, has some fantastic reissues of vintage jazz by performers, like Dexter Gordon, Lester Young, and etc.  These are so quiet re surface noise, and so well done that you don't sit there wishing you were listening in stereo.

Search Amazon for any of the Blue Note “Tone Poet” series Jazz reissues.  Have not been disappointed in any selection from this series and you could receive them quickly. 

Kind of Blue, Miles Davis…

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/95055?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7-ZiBEDhUE0avP6izluOnIVrF_BDlvTljTW6J0I3n2Iq1l6MoqH3gaAk84EALw_wcB

This audiophile pressing.

Take Five, Brubeck

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/105103?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx7Tv1pB-BxqHrEEF8dF2GPAH_VzF6pGd4ky95_f3hr5uPK1p3qFGAcaAp7REALw_wcB

Out of the Cool, Gil Evans

https://store.acousticsounds.com/d/161653?gad=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3JanBhCPARIsAJpXTx5ydvDQG_d1rwVOdFqSivIsc3z_P0G3284n3fx9gkz_3j1Aaffm9OoaAlaMEALw_wcB

You get him these and he will be blown away by your sophistication and thoughtfulness.

There are many lists online.  This is a short list

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/best-jazz-albums

and this is a long list

https://jazzfuel.com/best-jazz-albums/

Both lists are annotated.  My collection (in CD not LP) overlaps both lists and I can attest that the albums I own are terrific.

@drrsutliff I found so far in Tone Poet series "Here it is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen" - seems like safe choice.

@ghdprentice  Amazon (quick delivery) sells also 180g Kind of Blue but not a Mono recording.  Perhaps not the same sound quality, but fast delivery.  I got "Out of Cool"  on Amazon remastered 180g.  Also got Time Out/Time Further Out 180g.

In addition I got Ike Quebec "Heavy Soul" (180g) and  "Tales of Time" Bonamassy (3 LP, weight unknown) and Nina Simone "The Hits" (180g)

As for "sophistication and thoughtfulness" - nobody would ever suspect me of that.

I'm grateful for suggestions and am placing order now, but any further tips will be good for next year trip.  I assume that 180g vinyl is better than plain one (whatever weight it is).