Here are some of my favorite jazz CD's I would recommend to someone who is new to jazz or just likes the easy-to-listen-to jazz I do. The starred the titles are the ones I particularly like. I have these CD's plus a few others in a 300 disc changer on shuffle. I hope this isn't too much information. If someone wants to know more about a particular title of artist, just let me know.
Miles Davis
Kind of Blue*
58 Sessions*
Ballads*
Relaxin'*
Cookin'
Workin'
Steamin'
The New Miles Davis Quintet
Birth of the Cool*
The Musings of Miles
Bill Evans
Explorations*
Sunday at the Village Vanguard*
Everybody Digs Bill Evans*
Portrait in Jazz*
Waltz for Debby*
Interplay
Bill Evans at Town Hall
At Shelly's Manne-Hole
At The Montreux Jazz Festival
Re: Person I Knew
Loose Blues
Since We Met
Trio '64
Trio '65
Quintessence
How My Heart Sings
Moon Beams
Undercurrent - With Jim Hall*
Paul Desmond
The Paul Desmond Quartet Live
Polka Dots and Moonbeams*
Paul Desmond + MJQ at Town Hall
Like Someone in Love
Pure Desmond
Two of a Mind w/ Gerry Mulligan
Bossa Antigua
The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Time Out*
Gone With The Wind
West Side Story
Jazz Impressions of Eurasia
25th Anniversary Reunion
1975 - The Duets
Brubeck Time
Tommy Flanagan
Eclypso
Nights at the Vanguard*
Let's - The Music of Thad Jones*
Lady Be Good
Montreux '77
Moodsville
Alone Too Long
Thelonica
Sunset and the Mockingbird
Confirmation
Oscar Peterson
Live at the Blue Note
Live
Benny Carter Meets Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson Trio + Clark Terry
A Jazz Portrait of Frank Sinatra
West Side Story*
Reunion Blues
Night Train*
Blues Etude*
The Trio*
Oscar in Paris Disc 1
Oscar in Paris Disc 2
Face to Face w/ Freddie Hubbard
My Fair Lady and Fiorello
Oscar Peterson plays Count Basie
Very Tall*
Plays the Duke Ellington Songbook
Plays Porgy and Bess
Plays Cole Porter
Stan Getz
The Dolphin*
Sweet Rain
Spring is Here
Pure Getz
The Lyrical Stan Getz
Keith Jarrett
The Cure
Standards, Vol. 1*
Standards, Vol. 2*
Standards Live*
Bye Bye Blackbird
Shelly Manne
The West Coast Sound Volume 1
My Fair Lady*
At The Blackhawk Volume1
At The Manne-Hole Volume 1
Andre Previn
Gigi
After Hours
Like Previn*
Pal Joey
Art Farmer
Warm Valley*
Modern Art
Silk Road
Toshiko Akiyoshi
Finesse
At The Top of the Gate*
At Maybeck
Remembering Bud
Charlie Rouse
Takin' Care of Business
Unsung Hero
Sphere
Four For All
Bird Songs
Marcus Roberts
Gershwin for Lovers
Chet Baker
Chet*
Straight From The Heart
My Favourite Songs
In New York*
Once Upon a Summertime*
No Problem
Some Day My Prince Will Come
The Touch of Your Lips*
In Paris
In Milan
In Paris Volume 1
Kenny Barron
Lemuria-Seascape
Things Unseen
The Moment*
Sambao
Errol Garner
Jazz Masters 7
Concert By The Sea
McCoy Tyner
Things Ain't What They Used To Be
Live at the Musician's Exchange Café
Inception
Revelations
The Music of Burt Bacharach
With Stanley Clarke and Al Foster
Duke Jordan
Flight To Denmark*
Flight to Jordan*
Hank Jones
The Oracle
Upon Reflection*
Handful of Keys
Master Class
The Great Jazz Trio
Flowers For Lady Day
Love For Sale
Monk's Moods
The Club New Yorker
Kenny Drew
And Far Away
Your Soft Eyes
The Riverside Collection*
Pal Joey*
Zoot Sims
Warm Tenor*
Zoot at Ease
Zoot!
For Lady Day
Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers
John Lewis
Garden of Delight
The Bridge Game*
Preludes and Fugues
The Bridge Game Volume 2
Chick Corea
Alive
Chick Corea Akoustic Band
Warren Bernhardt
Reflections
Trio '83
Laurindo Almeida
Chamber Jazz
Outra Vez
Vince Guaraldi
Vince Guaraldi Trio
In Person
Emily Remler
East to Wes
Firefly
Standards*
Monty Alexander
The Duke Ellington Songbook
Echos of Jilly's
Triple Treat
Red Rodney
Then and Now
No Turn on Red
Fred Hersch
Plays Coleman, Coltrane, Ellington,.
Dancing in the Dark
Art Pepper
Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section*
Surf Ride
Tete-a-Tete
Wes Montgomery
The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery*
Full House
Ellis Marsalis
Ellis Marsalis Trio
Heart of Gold
Brad Mehldau
The Art of The Trio Volume 3
The Art of The Trio Volume 4
Introducing Brad Mehldau*
Places
Red Garland
The Nearness of You
It's a Blue World
Groovy*
All Kinds of Weather*
Red Garland's Piano*
A Garland of Red*
When There Are Grey Skies
Solar
At The Prelude Volume 1
Red Alert
Revisited
The P.C. Blues
Red in Bluesville
Can't See for Lookin'
Crossings
Feelin' Red
Art Tatum
Solo Masterpieces Volume 1
Solo Masterpieces Volume 4
Solo Masterpieces Volume 6
Solo Masterpieces Volume 8
Joe Beck/Jimmy Bruno
Polarity*
Joe Beck
Relaxin'
The Journey
Hampton Hawes
Trio, Volume 1
Here and Now
All Night Session, Volume 3
Volume 2: The Trio
Benny Green
Testifyin'
These Are Soulful Days
Barry Harris
At The Jazz Workshop
Chasin' The Bird
Preminado
Lynne Arriale
With Words Unspoken
A Long Road Home
Melody
Barney Kessel
Some Like It Hot
Red Hot and Blues
The Poll Winners
Cedar Walton
The Prestige Collection
The Trio, Volume 1
Grant Green
The Complete Quartets With Sonny Clark
Wynton Kelly
Kelly Blue
Piano
Smokin' At The Half Note With Wes Montgomery
Kelly At Midnight
Stanley Turrentine
The Best of Stanley Turrentine
Ballads*
Milt Jackson
Jackson, Johnson, Brown, & Company
Invitation
Clifford Brown
At Basin Street
Jazz Immortal
Art Blakey
Moanin'*
Tubby Hayes
The New York Sessions w/Clark Terry
Herbie Hancock
Maiden Voyage
Ray Brown
Soular Energy*
Some of My Best Friends are Trumpet Players
Some of My Best Friends are Piano Players
Bud Shank
Brazilliance Vol.2 w/Laurindo Almeida
Bob James
Straight Up
George Shearing
I Hear a Rhapsody
Clark Terry
Portraits
Cannonball Adderley
Somethin' Else
John Coltrane
Blue Trane
Duke Ellington
Duke's Big 4
Dexter Gordon
Ballads
Frank Morgan
Love Lost and Found
Eric Reed
Manhattan Melodies*
Stephane Grappelli
Live At The Operetka House in Warsaw
J.J. Johnson
Standards*
Marty Paich
The Marty Paich Trio
Ray Bryant
Potpourri
Solo Flight
Joe Pass
I Remember Charlie Parker
George Mraz
Duke's Place*
Bobby Timmons
Sweet and Soulful Sounds
