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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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Some albums I've owned for years and revisit from time to time:

McCoy Tyner's Focal Point & Fly With The Wind

Buena Vista Social Club - eponymous album

Afro-Cuban All Stars - A Toda Cuba le Gusta

Herbie Hancock - Takin' Off

Bill Evans - Portrait in Jazz & Sunday At The Village Vanguard

Oliver Nelson - Blues and the Abstract Truth

Any early recordings by Thelonius Monk and John Coltrain

Modern Jazz Quartet 

Off beat suggestion: Lou Stein (many albums with him playing backup; his solo vinyl is long out of print)

Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Dakota Staton, Ruth Brown

You can use Tidal (for example) to recommend music related to these suggestions which will undoubtedly help you uncover more gems.

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