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Some recordings that everyone should hear...(some more known than others)

Art Blakey: Roots and Herbs (some great Wayne Shorter compositions on here.)

Wayne Shorter: Schizophrenia

Roland Kirk and Jack McDuff: Kirk's Work (An essential organ album)

Art Pepper: The Trip (Art at his best...The Trip is a wild ride of a tune)

Attila Zoller: Gypsy Cry (Attila at his best, has Lew Tabackin on a few tracks.)

Attila Zoller: When It's Time (featuring Lee Konitz on several tunes)

Sonny Stitt: The Last Sessions (bopping and beautiful)

Baden Powell: Live at the Rio Jazz Club (a master at work, solo)

Hermeto Pascoal: So Nao Toca Quem Nao Quer (check out Hermeto writing for big band on a couple of tracks)

Sonny Criss: Saturday Morning (right up there with the Crisscraft album, his "Saturday Morning" is a great tune)

Ben Sidran with the Bob Rockwell Quartet: Walk Pretty- The Songs of Alec Wilder (you can't go wrong with Bob Rockwell and Ben Sidran)

Repertory Quartet: Plays Mingus Pettiford (Bob Rockwell kills on this)

Clifford Jordan and John Gilmore: Blowin' In From Chicago

Benny Carter: Summer Serenade (the title composition is one of the most beautiful things ever, the whole album is great.)

Jerome Richardson: Jazz Station Runaway (one of his last albums, but great. his take on warm valley makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck)

Bud Powell/Don Byas: A Tribute to Cannonball (this is just fantastic and Cannonball even joins in on an outtake of Cherokee...I'm not sure how, but no one seems to know this album)

Gerry Niewood: Facets

Charlie Mariano: Adagio (a beautiful album, Charlie sounds great on this one)

Charlie Mariano: Silver Blue

Charlie Mariano and the KCP5: Many Ways (this is really wild)

Buell Neidlinger: Thelonioius Atmosphere (great tribute and extension of Monk's music featuring the amazing Marty Krystall on tenor and bass clarinet)

Lee Konitz: Tenorlee (Lee on tenor is something very interesting)

Frank Wess: The Frank Wess Quartet (some great flute playing on this one)

Charlie Mariano: Adagio (a beautiful album, Charlie sounds great on this one)

Charlie Mariano: Silver Blue

Elis Regina: Live in Montreux (Hermeto accompanies her on piano...unreal)

Chet Baker: Picture of Heath (featuring Art Pepper)

Herb Geller: The Herb Geller Quartet

Loren Pickford: Song for A Blue Planet (one of the great alto players playing with George Cables and Billy Higgins!)

Randy Weston: Tanjah

 

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How about the two Bob Mover records from the early 80's on Xandu.

In The True Tradition
Things Unseen

Fantastic playing.