Here's some of mine, in roughly alphabetical order:
Louis Armstrong - Hot Five, Hot Seven
John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert, also all the songbooks
Wynton Marsalis - Majesty of the Blues, also the Standard Time series
Oscar Peterson - Peterson 6 at Montreux, We Take Requests
The 40th birthday concert of Ellas's in Rome is one of her lesser known albums, but if you don't know it, I urge you to find it. She is absolutely fantastic on it, and Oscar Peterson sits in near the end as well. I list the Peterson 6 at Montreux album for the incredible miking on it. If your system images well and has a good soundstage, this album will really show that off. It was a Pablo release. Another group I would suggest for those who like fusion music would be Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck of course is the master of the banjo, and his bass player, Victor Wooten, is out of this world. Their debut album, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, is probably still my favorite.
Louis Armstrong - Hot Five, Hot Seven
John Coltrane - Giant Steps, Blue Train
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue, Birth of the Cool
Bill Evans - Waltz for Debby, Sunday at the Village Vanguard
Ella Fitzgerald - Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert, also all the songbooks
Wynton Marsalis - Majesty of the Blues, also the Standard Time series
Oscar Peterson - Peterson 6 at Montreux, We Take Requests
The 40th birthday concert of Ellas's in Rome is one of her lesser known albums, but if you don't know it, I urge you to find it. She is absolutely fantastic on it, and Oscar Peterson sits in near the end as well. I list the Peterson 6 at Montreux album for the incredible miking on it. If your system images well and has a good soundstage, this album will really show that off. It was a Pablo release. Another group I would suggest for those who like fusion music would be Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Fleck of course is the master of the banjo, and his bass player, Victor Wooten, is out of this world. Their debut album, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, is probably still my favorite.