1) John Coltrane --- Transition
2) John Coltrane --- Sun Ship
3) John Coltrane --- Afro Blue Impressions
4) John Coltrane --- The Best of John Coltrane (Impulse)
5) Charles Mingus --- Mingus at Carnegie Hall
6) Charles Mingus --- Mingus Ah Um
7) Charles Mingus --- The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady
9) Charles Mingus --- Town Hall Concert
10) Charles Mingus --- Cumbia-Jazz Fussion
11) Charles Mingus --- Mingus, Mingus, Mingus
12) Duke Ellington --- Ellington Uptown
13) Duke Ellington --- The Queens Suite
14) Duke Ellington --- Ellinton at Newport (1956)
15) Duke Ellington --- Afro-Bossa
16) Duke Ellington --- Duke Ellington meets Coltrane
17) Thelonious Monk --- Greatest Hits (Columbia)
18) Dave Brubeck --- Greatest Hits
19) Miles Davis --- Kind of Blue
20) Jimmy Smith --- Organ Grinder Swing
21) Oscar Peterson --- We get request
22) Larry Young --- Unity
23) Wes Montgomery- Verve Jazz Sides (Verve)
24) Freddie Hubbard --- Artistry of Freddie Hubbard (Impulse)
25) Keith Jarrett --- Koln Concert
26) Wynton Marsalis --- In This House In This Morning
27) Michel Camilo --- Fire
28) Louis Armstrong --- Hot Fives and Hot Sevens
29) Oliver Nelson --- The Blues and the Abstract Truth
30) Cannonball Adderley --- Mercy Mercy Mercy
I'll stop here - I would need 200 to not bypass a lot of gems of jazz.
Micky