Kind of Blue

Big jazz fan here!

Not a big KoB fan, though. I like Sketches of Spain, Silent Way and Bitches Brew much more.

Here’s a few more. Note, that my tastes in jazz (and music in general) is toward more progressive forms. So, YMMV.

John Coltrane - A Love Supreme

Pharaoh Sanders - Black Unity, Karma

Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud, Journey in Satchidananda

Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage

McCoy Tyner - Sahara, Asanta, Extensions

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire, Lost Trident Sessions

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue, Road Games, I.O.U.

Return to Forever - Romantic Warrior, Hymn of the Seventh Gallery

Art Ensemble of Chicago - Nice Guys, People of Sorrow, Full Force

Oregon - Out of the Woods

Steve Coleman and the Five Elements - The Sonic Language of Myth, Genesis & the Opening of the Way

Mary Halvorson - Amarylis, Belladonna, Cloudward, Code Girl

Bruford - One of a Kind

@audioman58

How about Mike Olfield Tubular bells 1&2 is this considered Jazz ?
this was considered a classic for its time ,what category is that in ?

No, no, no!

Not even close to jazz.

It is firmly in the prog-rock genre, or progressive music genre. which is such a broad genre of music, with some of the widest variation in any musical genre I know of.

While several subgenres of prog are highly influenced by jazz, and may even be as much jazz as prog, Mike Oldfield is certainly not.

For example: the Zeuhl subgenre of prog, started by a drummer, Christian Vander, who idolized John Coltane. And that core of jazz tends to run through many bands that are in this subgenre. Or, the so called Canterbury scene of prog, has much in common with jazz fusion.

@larsman 

 I don't much like 'jazz', but I do like Miles Davis's early 70's stuff, as it doesn't sound to me like 'jazz' and it's really interesting music to me. Much of it reminds me of Grateful Dead space jams (and I've seen Branford Marsalis and Ornette Coleman jam with the GD a few times in Oakland). I got that Vinyl Me Please box set of 'Miles Davis - The Electric Years', and that is perfect for me. Herbie Hancock's 'Crossings' is like that too; doesn't sound like 'jazz', just 'music'. 

I am gathering that the reason why you are saying you don't consider early 70's Miles and "Crossings" jazz, is because they don't sound like all those 50's post bop jazz recordings, that seem to have become the mainstream music listener's entire idea of what jazz sounds like. 

Jazz is not a "style" of music that has a certain sound. It is a way of thinking about music, using sophisticated musical vocabulary, spontaneous composition ability, amazing levels of musicianship, musical communication with musicians while playing, etc. 

Make no mistake, those early 70's Miles recordings and "Crossings", are most definitely jazz. The musicians are all using jazz techniques, the vocabulary of jazz, jazz improv, etc.

There are subgenres of jazz, that sound even less like the jazz most people think of when they think of the "way jazz sounds", than those 70's Miles recordings or Crossings. 

Chamber-jazz, M-Base, avant-garde, fusion, jazz noir, just to name a few.