I guess a good way to start your journey wold be to buy some very thick book of jazz,and than when you got the time browse threw recomended albums in some good cd store.
Personally,its something that gives me great pleasure,specially when I travel,to search and discover shops and editions in them.But,just to name few most popular or ones that you will probaably like at first listening:on guitar,Kenny Burell,Grant Green,on sax,Coleman Hawkins,Ben Webster,Ike Quebec,Stan Getz,Paul Desmond,on trumpet,Dizzy Gillespie,Clark Terry,Miles Davis,Chet Baker,Blue Mitchell,F.Hubbard,on piano,Oscar Peterson,Duke Ellington,Count Basie,Art Tatum,on organ J.Smith,L.Smith,Ruben Wilson,on vocal Johnny Hartman,Lou Rawls,Ella Fitzgerald,Sarah Vaughn...etc.The list is long,or the book is thick,and hope that quality of music will come before of the qulity of recording.
Personally,its something that gives me great pleasure,specially when I travel,to search and discover shops and editions in them.But,just to name few most popular or ones that you will probaably like at first listening:on guitar,Kenny Burell,Grant Green,on sax,Coleman Hawkins,Ben Webster,Ike Quebec,Stan Getz,Paul Desmond,on trumpet,Dizzy Gillespie,Clark Terry,Miles Davis,Chet Baker,Blue Mitchell,F.Hubbard,on piano,Oscar Peterson,Duke Ellington,Count Basie,Art Tatum,on organ J.Smith,L.Smith,Ruben Wilson,on vocal Johnny Hartman,Lou Rawls,Ella Fitzgerald,Sarah Vaughn...etc.The list is long,or the book is thick,and hope that quality of music will come before of the qulity of recording.