Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album?


Just got back into analog after not having a turntable for 38 years. That was a Thorens TD 320. Now I have a VPI. Building a jazz album collection now since jazz seems to be what I enjoy now. I have barely 12 albums from Miles Davis, Art Blakey, King Curtis, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Ike Quebec and Illinios Jacquet. Can you suggest a must have album? I generally like great sax, and percussion and sometimes a good vocalist, but I am open to anything that sounds GREAT. Also, if there is a particular label, issue or type of album. Thanks in advance.

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Dave Brubeck - Time Out 

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue; Birth of the Cool

Stan Getz - Getz/Gilberto

Pat Metheny - Still Life Talking 

Horace Silver - Song for My Father 

Thelonius Monk:  Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1

 

 

Dave Brubeck, Time Out, and Gone With The Wind

Listened enjoyably for decades, I just learned a bit about them just now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(album)

Note: The more Jazz you collect, the more Mono LP’s you will come across by artists in their ’rise to fame’ 40’s, 50’s. The recording techniques were already excellent, and a true mono cartridge is a little/lot/whole lot better at producing less noise and more distinction of individual instruments and voices.

Hopefully you have a tonearm with a removable headshell that allows you to change to a true Mono cartridge, even better is two tonearms with a mono cartridge ready to go, mix and match during a listening session.