| Essential Listening: Jazz* |
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| ARTIST | ALBUM | YEAR |
| Cannonball Adderly (alto sax) |
Somethin' Else | 1958 |
| Cannonball and Coltrane | 1959 | |
| Know What I Mean? | 1961 | |
| Chet Baker (trumpet) |
Chet Baker and Crew | 1956 |
| Somewhere Over the Rainbow | 1962 | |
| Art Blakey (drums) |
Night at Birdland, Vols. 1 and 2 | 1954 |
| Mosaic | 1961 | |
| Free for All | 1964 | |
| Clifford Brown (trumpet) |
Clifford Brown and Max Roach | 1954 |
| Study in Brown | 1955 | |
| At Basin Street | 1956 | |
| John Coltrane (tenor sax) |
Blue Train | 1957 |
| Giant Steps | 1959 | |
| A Love Supreme | 1964 | |
| Miles Davis (trumpet) |
Birth of the Cool | 1949 |
| Milestones | 1958 | |
| Kind of Blue | 1959 | |
| Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) |
Diz and Getz | 1953 |
| Roy and Diz | 1954 | |
| Birks Works | 1956 | |
| Freddie Hubbard (trumpet) |
Goin' Up | 1960 |
| Ready for Freddie | 1961 | |
| Hub-Tones | 1962 | |
| Thelonious Monk (piano) |
Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane | 1957 |
| Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk | 1957 | |
| Monk's Dream | 1962 | |
| Lee Morgan (trumpet) |
The Sidewinder | 1963 |
| Here's Lee Morgan | 1960 | |
| Tom Cat | 1961 | |
| Charlie Parker (alto sax) |
Bird, Diz, Bud, and Max | 1945 |
| Bird and Diz | 1950 | |
| Jazz at Massey Hall | 1953 | |
| Max Roach (drums) |
Max Roach Plus Four | 1956 |
| Deeds, Not Words | 1958 | |
| Wayne Shorter (tenor sax) |
JuJu | 1964 |
| Night Dreamer | 1964 | |
| Speak No Evil | 1964 | |
| Horace Silver (piano) |
Horace Silver and the Jazz Messengers | 1954 |
| Blowin' the Blues Away | 1959 | |
| Horace-scope | 1960 |
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