Jazz music recommended

a tall order. its like opening pandora's box...start with the 'standard stash',including, but not limited to...dave bruebeck quartet(time out), bill evans trio(verve years), cannonball adderly quintet(capitol), stan getz(the bossa nova stuff)....get ready for a flood of recommendations

Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Also go to allaboutjazz.com and look for lists of all-time best records.

Charlie Parker and John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman are obvious choices if you like sax

This has been covered many times before, but I'll bite.

What Jaybo said plus John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Burrell, Ben Webster, Charles Mingus, Roland Kirk.

Basically look at the Miles Davis Quintets from the late 50s into early 60s, and follow all their members careers. It's the family tree! (An oversimplification, I know )Cheers,
Spencer

Thelonious Monk, Albert Ayler, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Sun Ra, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, Jackie Mclean, Eric Dolphy, Charles Mingus, Cecil Taylor, Pharoah Sanders, Lester Young, Archie Shepp, Mal Waldron, Marion Brown, McCoy Tyner, Louis Armstrong (duh), MIles Davis, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Charles Tolliver, Randy Weston, Sonny Sharrock, Anthony Braxton, Bill Dixon....how many more might you want? I might have to go look at my collection!