Jazz Recommendations


I am just starting to get into Jazz. I recently bought Thelonious Monk Quartet "Live at Monterey" and was blown away. Could you recommend other mainstream Jazz recordings that I should have in a basic collection to help me get started.
kadlec

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I love miles davis's stuff on prestige & his first few recordings on columbia, john coltrane's stuff on atlantic. other faves billie holliday, but before her stuff on verve, gerry mulligan has alot of great stuff, hampton hawes all night sessions, chet bakers stuff on emercy(I think there are 4 cd's of those).
just relistened to two classic jazz albums. Kenny Burrell's midnight blue and Sonny Clark's cool struttin'. Both excellent efforts from two fantastic artists.