Help me build up a jazz album collection. Can you suggest a must have album?


Just got back into analog after not having a turntable for 38 years. That was a Thorens TD 320. Now I have a VPI. Building a jazz album collection now since jazz seems to be what I enjoy now. I have barely 12 albums from Miles Davis, Art Blakey, King Curtis, Ray Charles, John Coltrane, Ike Quebec and Illinios Jacquet. Can you suggest a must have album? I generally like great sax, and percussion and sometimes a good vocalist, but I am open to anything that sounds GREAT. Also, if there is a particular label, issue or type of album. Thanks in advance.

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Dave Brubeck, Time Out, and Gone With The Wind

Listened enjoyably for decades, I just learned a bit about them just now:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Out_(album)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gone_with_the_Wind_(album)

Note: The more Jazz you collect, the more Mono LP’s you will come across by artists in their ’rise to fame’ 40’s, 50’s. The recording techniques were already excellent, and a true mono cartridge is a little/lot/whole lot better at producing less noise and more distinction of individual instruments and voices.

Hopefully you have a tonearm with a removable headshell that allows you to change to a true Mono cartridge, even better is two tonearms with a mono cartridge ready to go, mix and match during a listening session.

 

I’m assuming you will listen a bit on YouTube before buying someone we recommend, because something like Miles Davis, Bitches Brew is important, but not the 1st Miles Davis you should experience, that is after you know more about him and his music. He went thru several stages, his personality, there is no way he could play the same stuff over and over again, ......

i.e. Toot’s Thielemans is a Harmonica Player with a unique sound, this would be a good start

Toots, Live 3