AMG Jazz Recordings: A Beginner's Guide

• Cannonball Adderley/John Coltrane, Cannonball and Coltrane (Emarcy)
• Cannonball Adderley, Cannonball Adderley Quintet in San Francisco (OJC)
• Cannonball Adderley, Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Capitol)
• Affinity, A Tribute to Ornette Coleman (Music & Arts)
• Air, Air Lore (RCA/Bluebird)
• Howard Alden/Dan Barrett Quintet, ABQ Salutes Buck Clayton (Concord)
• Geri Allen, In the Year of the Dragon (Verve)
• Henry "Red" Allen, 1929-1933 (Classics)
• Henry "Red" Allen, World on a String (Bluebird)
• Mose Allison, I Don't Worry About a Thing (Rhino/Atlantic)
• Laurindo Almeida/Bud Shank, Brazilliance Vol. (World Pacific)
• Karrin Allyson, Collage (Concord)
• Franco Ambrosetti, Music for Symphony & Jazz Band (Enja)
• Albert Ammons/Meade Lux Lewis, The First Day (Blue Note)
• Gene Ammons, The Happy Blues (OJC)
• Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt, Boss Tenors (Verve)
• Ray Anderson, Big Band Record (Gramavision)
• Louis Armstrong/King Oliver, Louis Armstrong and King Oliver (Milestone)
• Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives, Vol. 1 (Columbia)
• , Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 2 (Columbia)
• , Hot Fives & Sevens, Vol. 3 (Columbia)
• , Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines, Vol. 4 (Columbia)
• , Pops: 1940s Small Band Sides (RCA/Bluebird)
• , Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia/Legacy)
• Art Ensemble of Chicago, Live (Delmark)
• Albert Ayler, Love Cry (Impulse)
• Chet Baker, Grey December (Pacific Jazz)
• , The Italian Sessions (Bluebird)
• , My Favorite Songs, Vols. 1 and 2: The Last Great Concert (Enja)
• Charlie Barnet, Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie (Bluebird)
• , Drop Me Off in Harlem (Decca)
• Count Basie, The Complete Decca Recordings (1937-1939) (GRP, 3CD)
• , April in Paris (Verve)
• /Joe Williams, Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (Verve)
• Count Basie, Count Basie at Newport (Verve)
• Count Basie/Zoot Sims, Basie and Zoot (OJC)
• Sidney Bechet, "Master Takes: Victor Sessions 1932-1943 (Bluebird, 3CD)
• Bix Beiderbecke, Vol. 1: Singin' the Blues (Columbia)
• , Vol. 2: At the Jazz Band Hall (Columbia)
• , Bix Lives (Bluebird)
• Art Blakey, Moanin' (Blue Note)
• , A Night in Tunisia (Blue Note)
• , Keystone 3 (Concord)
• Boswell Sisters, Vol. 1 (Collector's Classics)
• Ruby Braff, A Sailboat in the Moonlight (Concord)
• Anthony Braxton, Dortmund (Quartet 1976) (Hat Art)
• Michael Brecker, Michael Brecker (MCA/Impulse)
• Clifford Brown, Brown and Roach, Inc. (Emarcy)
• , At Basin Street (Emarcy)
• , The Beginning and the End (Columbia)
• Oscar Brown Jr., Sin & Soul and Then Some (Columbia/Legacy)
• Dave Brubeck, Jazz Goes to College (Columbia)
• , Time Out (Columbia)
• Jane Bunnett, Spirits of Havana (Denon)
• Gary Burton, Artist's Choice (Bluebird)
• Don Byas, On Blue Star (Emarcy)
• Donald Byrd, Mustang (Blue Note)
• George Cables, Cables' Vision (OJC)
• Cab Calloway, 1930-1931 (Classics)
• Benny Carter, All of Me (Bluebird)
• , Further Definitions (Impulse)
• , Benny Carter 4: Montreux 1977 (OJC)
• Betty Carter, Finally (Roulette)
• James Carter, Jurassic Classics (DIW/Columbia)
• Doc Cheatham, The Eighty-Seven Years of Doc Cheatham (Columbia)
• The Cheathams, Basket Full of Blues (Concord)
• Charlie Christian, The Genius of the Electric Guitar (Columbia)
• June Christy, Something Cool (Capitol)
• Sonny Clark, Dial S for Sonny (Blue Note)
• Buck Clayton, The Essential (Vanguard)
• Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Heart and Soul (Capri)
• Clusone Trio, Soft Lights and Sweet Music (Hat Art)
• Arnett Cobb, Arnett Blows for 1300 (Delmark)
• Al Cohn/Jimmy Rowles, Heavy Love (Xanadu)
• Nat King Cole, Jumpin' at Capitol (Rhino)
• , Jazz Encounters (Blue Note)
• Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic)
• , Free Jazz (Atlantic)
• , At the Golden Circle in Stockholm, Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
• Steve Coleman, Rhythm People (Novus)
• John Coltrane, Blue Trane (Blue Note)
• , Giant Steps (Atlantic)
• , John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman (GRP/Impulse)
• , Live at Birdland (Impulse)
• , Meditations (MCA)
• Eddie Condon, Dixieland All Stars (GRP/Decca)
• Bob Cooper, Coop! The Music of Bob Cooper (OJC)
• Chick Corea, Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (Blue Note)
• , Return to the Seventh Galaxy (Verve, 2CD)
• , My Spanish Heart (Polydor)
• Marilyn Crispell, Live in San Francisco (Music & Arts)
• Sonny Criss, Crisscraft (Muse)
• Bob Crosby, Bob Crosby & His Orchestra (GRP/Decca)
• Eddie Daniels, Breakthrough (GRP)
• Eddie Lockjaw Davis, All of Me (Steeplechase)
• Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (Capitol)
• , Miles Ahead (Columbia)
• , Milestones (Columbia)
• , Kind of Blue (Columbia)
• , The Complete Concert: 1964 (My Funny Valentine) (Columbia, 2CD)
• , Miles Smiles (Columbia)
• , Bitches Brew (Columbia, 2CD)
• Wild Bill Davison, The Commodore Master Takes (Commodore)
• , Showcase (Jazzology)
• Jack DeJohnette, Special Edition (ECM)
• Paul Desmond/Gerry Mulligan, Two of a Mind (RCA)
• Johnny Dodds, Blue Clarinet Stomp (Bluebird)
• Eric Dolphy, Outward Bound (OJC)
• , Out Therer (OJC)
• , Out to Lunch (Blue Note)
• Lou Donaldson, Blues Walk (Blue Note)
• Kenny Dorham, Jazz Contrasts (OJC)
• , Una Mas (Blue Note)
• Bob Dorough, Devil May Care (Bethlehem)
• Jimmy Dorsey, Contrasts (GRP/Decca)
• Tommy Dorsey, Yes Indeed (Bluebird)
• Dave Douglas, Five (Soul Note)
• Roy Eldridge, Little Jazz (Columbia)
• , Montreux, 1977 (OJC)
• Kurt Elling, Close Your Eyes (Blue Note)
• Duke Ellington, Early Ellington (1927-1934) (Bluebird)
• , Okeh Ellington (Columbia, 2CD)
• , Blanton-Webster Band (Bluebird, 3CD)
• , Fargo, ND, November 7, 1940 (Vintage Jazz Classics, 2CD)
• , The Far East Suite (Bluebird)
• , Seventieth Birthday Concert (Blue Note, 2CD)
• Herb Ellis, Nothing But the Blues (Verve)
• Bill Evans, Portrait in Jazz (OJC)
• , Conversations With Myself (Verve)
• Gil Evans, New Bottle, Old Wine (Blue Note)
• , Blues in Orbit (Enja)
• Art Farmer, Meet the Jazztet (MCA/Chess)
• Maynard Ferguson, The Birdland Dream Band (Bluebird)
• Ella Fitzgerald, The War Years (GRP/Decca, 2CD)
• , Pure Ella (GRP/Decca)
• , The Complete Ella in Berlin (Verve)
• Bill Frisell, Have a Little Faith (Elektra)
• Dave Frishberg, Can't Take You Nowhere (Fantasy)
• Ganelin Trio, Encores (Leo)
• Erroll Garner, Concert by the Sea (Columbia)
• Kenny Garrett, Pursuance (Warner Bros.)
• Stan Getz, Roost Quartet (Roulette)
• , Stan and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (Verve)
• , Getz and Gilberto (Verve)
• Dizzy Gillespie, Shaw Nuff (Musicraft)
• , Complete RCA Victor Recordings 1947-1949 (Bluebird, 2CD)
• /Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie With Roy Eldridge (Verve)_
• Dizzy Gillespie, At Newport (Verve)
• Jerry Gonzalez, Rhumba Para Monk (Sunnyside)
• Benny Goodman, The Birth of Swing (Bluebird, 3CD)
• , Sing, Sing, Sing (Bluebird)
• , Carnegie Hall Concert (Columbia, 2CD)
• Dexter Gordon, The Jumpin' Blues (OJC)
• Stephane Grappelli, Live in London (Black Lion)
• Stephane Grappelli, And David Grisman Live (Warner Bros.)
• Grant Green, The Latin Bit (Blue Note)
• , Matador (Blue Note)
• Johnny Griffin, The Congregation (Blue Note)
• Marty Grosz, Extra! The Orphan Newsboys (Jazzology)
• George Gruntz Concert JAzz Band, First Prize (Enja)
• Vine Guaraldi, Jazz Impressions of Black Orpheus (OJC)
• Barry Guy, London Jazz Composers Orchestra: Harmons (Intakt)
• Charlie Haden, Quartet West (Verve)
• Lionel Hampton, Midnight Sun (GRP/Decca)
• Herbie Hancock, Maiden Voyage (Blue Note)
• , The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (Warner Archives, 2CD)
• Roy Hargrove, Of Kindred Souls (Novus)
• Eddie Harris, Exodus to Jazz (Vee-Jay)