Recommend Some Jazz Albums

[KJS]

Matador by Grant Green has a great version of My Favorite Things, done by Green, a guitarist, with Tyner and Jones from Coltrane's band. Also try:

Tom Cat by Lee Morgan
Oblique by Bobby Hutcherson
Judgement by Andrew Hill
Inner Urge by Joe Henderson
The Real McCoy by McCoy Tyner

KJS

[ChipWrecked]

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George Benson - Breezin'

Ronnie Laws - Pressure Sensitive

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

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he wants to listen to good jazz, not crap wannabe rock jazz, plus if you're gonna give him good fusion recomendations, none of these fit that bill either.

OP, if you're gonna check out George Bensen, check out Cookbook

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Oh. My mistake.
Guess I'll open a Coors Light.

[ebaudry]

Herbie Hancock: Headhunter

And the poster than suggested Amon Tobin's Bricolage, he meant to say the album Permutation, but they are both amazing.

Jazz is in there for sure, hard to call it jazz though. You won't be disappointed.

[ChipWrecked]

Other crap rock/wannabe/fusion/suck jazz I like but you probably shouldn't bother with:

Jeff Beck - Wired

Grover Washington Jr. - Winelight

[Pyromaniac]

No Keith Jarrett on this list?

I'd suggest

At The Blue Note - 6 discs, shorter standards, accessible

or

Sun Bear Concerts - 6 discs, longer improvs, reasonably accessible

[KDawgCometh]

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No Keith Jarrett on this list?

I'd suggest

At The Blue Note - 6 discs, shorter standards, accessible

or

Sun Bear Concerts - 6 discs, longer improvs, reasonably accessible

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good call. THe complete set of his american quartet is awesome. I don't know if there is a complete set of his european quartet, but all of the albums of that group are readily available on ecm. also, any of Jarrett's standards trio is top notch

[Benjamin]

Here are a couple essentials I haven't seen mentioned yet:

The Thelonius Monk Quartet: Monk's Dream
John Coltrane: Giant Steps

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