| Jazz | |||||||
| Artist | Title | Format | Year | Notes | |||
| Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington | |||||||
| The Complete Sessions | CD | 1961 - 1963 | |||||
| The Great Concert of Louis Armstrong | LP | 1951 | |||||
| Louie Armstrong’s Greatest Hits | LP | ??? | |||||
| Ray Brown Trio | Some of My Best Friends Are Sax Players | CD | 1996 | ||||
| Cab Calloway | Minnie the Moocher | LP | 1934 | ||||
| John Coltrane | Coltrane Live at Birdieland | LP | 1963 | ||||
| Chick Corea and Return to Forever | |||||||
| Light as a Feather | LP | 1973 | |||||
| Romantic Warrior | LP | 1976 | |||||
| Kenny Davern and the Rhythm Men | CD | 1996 | |||||
| Miles Davis | Kind of Blue (Hard Bop, Modal Jazz) | CD | 1959 | Probably his most famous recording, performed with John Coltrane. | |||
| In a Silent Way (Fusion) | CD | 1969 | |||||
| On the Corner (Jazz-Funk, Fusion) | CD | 1972 | Jazz-purists sometimes call this album their least-favorite Miles Davis recording, due to its heavy rhythms. I love this album, due to its fast intensity. | ||||
| Agharta (Fusion, Jazz-Rock) | CD | 1975 | Deep, Hard Fusion. Very intense Jimi Hendrixian improvs, his most rhythmic music ever. Recorded in the afternoon of February 1, 1975. | ||||
| Pangaea (Fusion, Jazz-Rock) | CD | 1975 | Recorded on the same day as the above, in the evening. More deep, hard Fusion. After this album Davis crashed creatively, not re-emerging for 6 years. | ||||
| Paco De Lucia | Luzia | CD | 1998 | ||||
| Al di Meola | The Essence of Al di Meola | CD | 1994 | ||||
| Soaring Through a Dream | CD | 1985 | |||||
| Land of the Midnight Sun | CD | 1976 | |||||
| Casino | LP | 1978 | |||||
| Electric Rendezvous | LP | 1982 | |||||
| Friday Night in San Francisco ( w/McLaughlin & De Lucia ) | CD | 1980 | |||||
| Di Meola Plays Piazzolla | CD | 1990 | |||||
| Passion Grace and Fire ( w/McLaughlin & De Lucia ) | LP | 1983 | |||||
| Duke Ellington | Duke Ellington at Newport | LP | ??? | ||||
| The Nutcracker Suite | LP | 1960 | |||||
| Ella Fitzgerald | Ella Fitzgerald / The Duke Ellington Songbook | LP | 1957 | ||||
| Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, Porgy and Bess | LP | 1976 | |||||
| Erroll Garner | Concert by the Sea | LP | ??? | ||||
| Stan Getz | Getz Au Go Go | LP | 1964 | ||||
| Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson: At the Opera House | LP | ??? | |||||
| Benny Goodman | The Complete Goodman Vol. 1 – 1935 | LP | 1935 | ||||
| The Best of Benny Goodman | CD | 1999 | |||||
| Dexter Gordon | Ballads (Compilation) | CD | 1991 | ||||
| Vince Guaraldi | Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus | CD | 1962 | Great West Coast Jazz piano, aka "Cool Jazz". Very influenced by Brazillian Samba. His breakthru album. | |||
| Jazz Impressions of a Boy Named Charlie Brown | CD | 1964 | This is the recording everyone remembers him for. More Cool Jazz piano, forever associated with Charlie Brown. He died in 1974, in Menlo Park, CA. | ||||
| Isaac Hayes | Hot Buttered Soul | CD | 1969 | Technically Soul, not Jazz. | |||
| The Jazz Crusaders | The Jazz Crusaders at the Lighthouse | LP | 1962 | ||||
| Pat Metheny Group | Promotional Sampler | LP | 1983 | Misc tracks: Straight On Red, Are You Going With Me?, Songs for Bilbao, Phase Dance, As Falls Wichita, Travels, etc. | |||
| Turk Murphey’s Jazz Band | LP | ||||||
| Passport | Looking Thru | LP | 1974 | Jazz-Fusion. A band with rotating members, formed by saxophonist Klaus Doldinger. Each album is different lineup. | |||
| Jean-Luc Ponty | Mystical Adventures | CD | 1981 | ||||
| Imaginary Voyage | LP | 1976 | |||||
| Lalo Schifrin | Mission: Impossible and More (1962 - 1972) | CD | 1996 | Jazz composer of great themes to TV shows, like the original Mission: Impossible. | |||
| Black Widow | CD | 1976 | |||||
| Toots Thielemans | Verve Jazz Masters 59 | CD | 1996 | Jazz-harmonica from Belgium. He "Jazz-whistles" too. A compilation of Toots' unique brand of Jazz, spanning from 1953-1991. | |||
| Dave Valentin | Primitive Passions | CD | 1996 | ||||
| Sounds from the Verve Hi-Fi | CD | 2002 | |||||
| Jazz Collections | |||||||
| Title | Format | Year | |||||
| So Blue, So Funky | "Heroes of the Hammond", Jazz on the Hammond Organ | CD | 1999 | ||||
| Blue 70’s | Jazz from the 1970's | CD | 2000 | ||||