My top 50 Jazz Albums for the newbie to Jazz.
Early Jazz, Dixieland, Swing, Bebop, Bop, Jazz Fusion, Latin Jazz, East Coast Jazz, West Coast Jazz, Vocal Jazz and Avant-Garde.
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- King Oliver – Plays The Blues
- Sidney Bechet – Best Of
- Bix Beiderbecke – Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- Louis Armstrong – Satchmo Plays King Oliver
- Big Bands of Count Basie
- Duke Ellington
- The Dorsey Brothers
- Harry James
- Gene Krupa
- Benny Goodman
- Artie Shaw
- Buddy Rich
- Ella Fitzgerald – The Complete Collection
- Carmen McRae – Hear to Stay
- Sarah Vaughan – The Best Of
- Charlie Parker – Bird – The Complete Charley Parker on Verve
- Nat King Cole – After Midnight
- Oscar Peterson – Night Train
- Sonny Rollins – Saxophone Colossus
- Modern Jazz Quartet – Concorde
- Nina Simone – High Priestess of Soul
- Ornette Coleman – The Shape of Jazz To Come
- Miles Davis – Kind of Blue
- Freddy Hubbard – Blue Spirits
- Bill Evans Trio – Sunday at the Village Vanguard
- John Coltrane Quartet – A Love Supreme
- Billy Holliday – The Best Of – 20th Century Masters
- Dave Brubeck Quartet – Time Out
- Dizzy Gillespie at Newport
- The Quintet – Jazz at Massey Hall 1953 Concert
- The Tony Bennett, Bill Evans Album
- Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers – A Night At Birdland
- Chet Baker – The Best of Chet Baker Plays
- Arturo Sandoval – Just Music
- Eric Dolphy – Out There
- Thelonius Monk – Monks Music
- Charles Mingus – Fables of Faubus
- Mark Murphy – Bop for Miles
- Roy Ayers – Lifeline
- Mahavishnu Jazz Orchestra – Innerworlds
- Billy Cobham – Spectrum
- Chick Corea – Return To Forever
- Weather Report – Heavy Weather
- Paquito D’Rivera – Havana Cafe
- Wynton Marsalis – Wynton Marsalis 1981
- Branford Marsalis – Requiem
- Herbie Hancock – Headhunters
- Jim Hall – Concierto
- Paul Desmond – Pure Desmond
- Dianne Reeves – In The Moment
- Branford Marsalis Quartet – Mo’ Better Blues