When I began exploring jazz I liked the following:
Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue", "Sketches Of Spain"
Dave Brubeck - "Time Out"
Bill Evans Trio - "Waltz For Debbie", "Sunday At The Village Vangard", "Everybody Digs Bill Evans"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie"
Coleman Hawkins - "Night Hawk"
Sonny Rollins - "Way Out West", "Saxophone Colossus"
Art Pepper - "Meets The Rhythm Section", "Plus Eleven"
John Coltrane - "Blue Train"
Gene Ammons - "Blue Gene"
Louis Armstrong - "Satchmo Plays King Oliver"
Count Basie - "88 Basie Street"
The above are only a mix, but they give you a taste of different styles, vocals, piano trios, sax quartets and quintets and, in the case of "Sketches of Spain", jazz arranged to include an orchestra.
Miles Davis - "Kind Of Blue", "Sketches Of Spain"
Dave Brubeck - "Time Out"
Bill Evans Trio - "Waltz For Debbie", "Sunday At The Village Vangard", "Everybody Digs Bill Evans"
Ella Fitzgerald - "Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie"
Coleman Hawkins - "Night Hawk"
Sonny Rollins - "Way Out West", "Saxophone Colossus"
Art Pepper - "Meets The Rhythm Section", "Plus Eleven"
John Coltrane - "Blue Train"
Gene Ammons - "Blue Gene"
Louis Armstrong - "Satchmo Plays King Oliver"
Count Basie - "88 Basie Street"
The above are only a mix, but they give you a taste of different styles, vocals, piano trios, sax quartets and quintets and, in the case of "Sketches of Spain", jazz arranged to include an orchestra.