Essential Jazz Music

As of last post 11-17-2005 on SDMB
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Al DiMeola	Elegant Gypsy
Andreas Vollenweilder	Dancing With The Lion
Art Blakey	A Night at Birdland
Art Blakey	Moanin'
Benny Goodman
Bill Evans	Explorations
Billie Holliday	Billie's Blues
Carl Stalling	The Carl Stalling Project
Cecil Taylor	Unit Structures
Charles Mingues	Ah Um
Charlie Parker	Yardbird Suite
Count Basie
Dave Brubeck	At Carnegie Hall
Dave Brubeck	Jazz at Oberlin
Dave Brubeck	Jazz Goes to College
Dave Brubeck	The Last Set at Newport
Dave Brubeck	Time Out
Dexter Gordon	Dexter Calling
Dexter Gordon	Go!
Dexter Gordon	Our Man in Paris
Duke Ellington	Ellington Indigos
Duke Ellington	Jazz Party
Duke Ellington	Live at Newport
Duke Ellington	The Blanton/Webster Band
Ella Fitzgerald	Songbooks
Gato Barbieri	Chapter One Latin America
Glen Miller
Herbie Hancock	Headhunters
Herbie Hancock	Emperyan Isles
Herbie Hancock	Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock	Maiden Voyage
Horace Silver	Blowin the Blues Away
Jaco Pastorius	s/t
Jazz Messengers	Live at the Café Bohemia
Jean-Luc Ponty	Imaginary Voyage
Jelly Roll Morton	The Complete Library of Congress Recordings
John Coltrane	A Love Supreme
John Coltrane	Giant Steps
John Coltrane	Live at Birdland
John Coltrane	Live at the Village Vanguard
Juan Garcia Esquivel	Space Age Bachelor Pad Music
Keith Jarrett	The Koln Concert
King Oliver	King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band: The Complete Set
Larry Coryell	Spaces
Louis Armstrong	The Complete Hot 5's and 7's
Mahavishnu Orchestra	Apocalypse
McCoy Tyner	The Real McCoy
Miles Davis	Complete Birth of the Cool
Miles Davis	Kind of Blue
Miles Davis	Someday My Prince Will Come
Miles Davis	7 Steps to Heaven
Miles Davis	Sketches of Spain
Ornette Coleman	Shape of Jazz to Come
Oscar Peterson	Night Train
Return To Forever	Romantic Warrior
Sonny Rollins	Saxophone Colossus
Squirrel Nut Zippers	Hot
Stan Getz & Kenny Barron	People Time
Stan Getz and Charlie Byrd	Jazz Samba
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto	Getz/Gilberto
Stanley Clarke	School Days
The (Jazz) Crusaders	Southern Comfort
Thelonius Monk	Monk's Dream
Thelonius Monk	Underground
Thelonius Monk & John Coltran	Live at the Five Spot
Weather Report	Heavy Weather