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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Agharta - Miles Davis - considered the best live jazz fusion lp ever

Devotion - John McLaughlin - his first solo lp

We Insist! : Freedom Now Suite - Max Roach (No record label would release this: Max had to create his own record label and release this himself)

Eon - Eon

Grazing Dreams - Collin Walcott (of Oregon)

Forgotten Fantasies - David Liebman . Richard Beirach

Focus - Stan Getz

Moanin’ - Art Blakey

A Trubute to Andy Razaaf - Maxine Sullivan

Trumpet Summit - Buck Clayton . Roy Eldridge

Left and Right - Roland Kirk

Afro American Sketches - Oliver Nelson Orchestra

Sea of Faces - Archie Schepp

Sweet Emma - Emma Barrett and Her Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Queen of the Boogie - Hadda Brooks (78 only, I believe)

Music for Player Piano, Vol 1-4 - Conlon Nancarrow (not strictly jazz)

Live at the Five Spot, Vol 1-2 - Eric Dolphy

Zero Hour - Astor Piazzola (jazz tango)

Swiss Movement - Les McCann . Eddie Harris

Tribute a Noro - Kako’s New York After Hour Orchestra

Safari with Sabu - Sabu Martinez