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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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viridian
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If I could have but one, Oliver Nelson "The Blues and the Abstract Truth." If I could add a second, Ornette Coleman, "The Shape of Jazz to Come."

jwei
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Another Bill Evans LP.  Great performance and great sound.

Bill Evans at the Montreux Jazz Festival

lewm
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I've got about 2500 jazz albums. I would wager that more than 2000 of them could be classified as "great".

pwoodard922
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Zlone +1
also John Coltrane Ballads

miles Davis Kind of Blue and Bitches Brew

Jazz at the Pawnshop

Many of the ECM albums

aewarren
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Check out YouTube. There are many outstanding videos that cover your inquiry of essential jazz records. Listen to the suggestions and then purchase what you like.

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