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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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Duke Ellington, The Great Paris Concert. Someone mentioned Modern Jazz Quartet at Carnegie Hall. 

There are a couple of boxed sets on Pablo that I love, everyone who was anyone during those times was there. Great recordings too.
Montreux '77: The Art Of The Jam Session, and
Montreux '77: The Collection
 

The ECM label specializes in very cerebral jazz, well recorded. 

 

As mentioned, a lot of great Blue Notes have been re-issued. 

By just listening to LPs, you are blocking out the greats of today. If you like female jazz singers, there are a bunch. This list seems unaccountably unfriendly to current African American singers such as Samara Joy, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and  Corinne Bailey Rae, but it's a start.

https://www.radioart.com/blog/today-s-remarkable-female-jazz-singers

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