I would look for a double CD put out by Bluenote with the title "Best Bluenote Album in the World." It includes the following classic titles, and a whole lot more:
Horace Silver: Song for my Father
John Coltrane: Blue Trane
Art Blakey: Moanin
Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis: Autumn Leaves
Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack.
To the excellent list from Eee3, I would add the following albums as starters:
Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth
Charles Mingus: Ah Um
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
The last selection is a bit more challenging, but, oh so "Brilliant."
Horace Silver: Song for my Father
John Coltrane: Blue Trane
Art Blakey: Moanin
Cannonball Adderley/Miles Davis: Autumn Leaves
Kenny Burrell: Midnight Blue
Lee Morgan: The Sidewinder
Jimmy Smith: Back at the Chicken Shack.
To the excellent list from Eee3, I would add the following albums as starters:
Oliver Nelson: Blues and the Abstract Truth
Charles Mingus: Ah Um
Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus
Thelonious Monk: Brilliant Corners
The last selection is a bit more challenging, but, oh so "Brilliant."

