AMG Style List
Jazz Styles
- Acid Jazz
- Acoustic Blues
- Acoustic Chicago Blues
- Afro-Cuban Jazz
- Avant-Garde
- Ballads
- Big Band
- Boogie-Woogie
- Bop
- Bossa Nova
- Cabaret
- Classic Female Blues
- Classic Jazz
- Contemporary Funk
- Contemporary Jazz
- Cool
- Country Blues
- Crossover Jazz
- Dance Bands
- Dixieland
- East Coast Blues
- Folk-Jazz
- Free Funk
- Free Jazz
- Fusion
- Groove
- Hard Bop
- Instrumental Pop
- Jazz Blues
- Jazz-Rock
- Jive
- Jump Blues
- Latin Jazz
- M-Base
- Mainstream Jazz
- Modern Electric Blues
- New Orleans R&B
- New Orleans Jazz
- Piano Blues
- Piedmont Blues
- Post-Bop
- Progressive Big Band
- R&B
- Ragtime
- Soul-Jazz
- Standards
- Stride
- Swing
- Texas Blues
- Third Stream
- Trad Jazz
- Traditional Pop
- Urban Blues
- Vocal-Pop
- Vocalese
- West Coast Blues
- World Fusion
Fifteen Recommended Jazz Recordings to Start With:
- Louis Armstrong, Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia)
- Benny Goodman, Sing, Sing, Sing (Bluebird)
- Billie Holiday, The Quintessential, Vol. 5 (Columbia)
- Count Basie, The Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette)
- Duke Ellington, Uptown (Columbia)
- Charlie Parker, Yardbird Suite (Rhino)
- Dizzy Gillespie, At Newport (Verve)
- Dave Brubeck, Time Out (Columbia)
- Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Columbia)
- John Coltrane, My Favorite Things (Atlantic)
- Stan Getz, Getz/Gilberto (Verve)
- Wes Montgomery, The Incredible Jazz Guitar (OJC)
- Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder (Blue Note)
- Weather Report, Heavy Weather (Columbia)
- Wynton Marsalis, Blue Interlude (Columbia)
Twenty-Two Essential Jazz Vocal Recordings:
- Louis Armstrong, Vol. 6: St. Louis Blues (Columbia)
- The Mills Brothers, Chronological, Vol. 1 (JSP)
- Cab Calloway, 1932-1934 (Classics)
- Jimmy Rushing, The Essential (Vanguard)
- Joe Williams, Count Basie Swings/Joe Williams Sings (Verve)
- King Pleasure Sings With Annie Ross (OJC)
- Lambert, Hendricks and Ross, The Hottest New Group in Jazz (Columbia/Legacy)
- Mose Allison, I Don't Worry About a Thing (Rhino/Atlantic)
- Johnny Hartman, And John Coltrane (Impulse)
- Mel Tormé, Fujitsu-Concord Festival (1990) (Concord)
- Kurt Elling, The Messenger (Blue Note)
- Bessie Smith, The Complete Recordings, Vol. 3 (Columbia/Legacy)
- Ethel Waters, 1926-1929 (Classics)
- Boswell Sisters, Vol. 1 (Collector's Classics)
- Billie Holiday, The Complete Decca Recordings (Decca)
- Dinah Washington, Dinah Jams (Emarcy)
- Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Ella in Berlin (Verve)
- Abbey Lincoln, Straight Ahead (Candid)
- Sarah Vaughan, Complete Live in Japan (Mobile Fidelity)
- Banu Gibson, You Don't Know My Mind (Swing Out)
- Susannah McCorkle, I'll Take Romance (Concord)
- Dianne Reeves, Quiet After the Storm (Blue Note)
Six Essential Ragtime Recordings:
- Richard Zimmerman-Scott Joplin, His Complete Works (Murray Hill)
- William Albright, The Complete Rags of Scott Joplin (Music Masters)
- William Albright, Joplin: Marches, Waltzes & Rags (Music Masters)
- Eubie Blake, The 86 Years of Eubie Blake (Columbia)
- Reginald Robinson, Sounds in Silhouette (Delmark)
- Paragon Ragtime Orchestra, On the Boardwalk (Newport Classics)
Ten Essential New Orleans Recordings:
- Original Dixieland Jazz Band, 75th Anniversary (Bluebird)
- New Orleans Rhythm Kings, And Jelly Roll Morton (Milestone)
- King Oliver, Creole Jazz Band 1923-4 (Reservoir)
- Jelly Roll Morton, 1926-1928 (Classics)
- Louis Armstrong, Hot Fives Vol. 1 (Columbia)
- Johnny Dodds, Blue Clarinet Stomp (Bluebird)
- Sidney Bechet, Master Takes: Victor Sessions (Bluebird)
- Bunk Johnson, Complete Deccas, Victors and V Discs (Document)
- George Lewis, Hot Creole Jazz: 1953 (DCC)
- Kid Ory, Creole Jazz Band--1954 (Good Time Jazz)
Eleven Essential Classic Jazz Recordings:
- The Original Memphis Five, Collection, Vol. 1 (Collector's Classics)
- Fletcher Henderson, 1927 (Classics)
- Louis Armstrong, Vol. 4: Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines (Columbia)
- Bix Beiderbecke, Volume 1: Singin' the Blues (Columbia)
- Bix Beiderbecke and Paul Whiteman, Bix Lives (Bluebird)
- James P. Johnson, Snowy Morning Blues (GRP/Decca)
- Fats Waller, Fats and His Buddies (Bluebird)
- Jabbo Smith, 1929-1938 (Retrieval)
- Red Allen, 1929-1933 (Classics)
- Benny Goodman and Red Nichols, BG & Big Tea in NYC (GRP/Decca)
- Duke Ellington, Okeh Ellington (Columbia)
Jazz/Blues Crossover: Fifteen Recommended Albums:
- Blues Masters, Vol. 11: Classic Blues Women (Rhino)
- Blues Masters, Vol. 13: NewYork City Blues (Rhino)
- Jimmy Rushing, The Essential Jimmy Rushing (Vanguard)
- Big Joe Turner, Complete 1940-1944 (Official)
- Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann, Jimmy Witherspoon & Jay McShann (DA)
- Albert Ammons, King of Boogie (1939-1949) (Blues Classics)
- Meade Lux Lewis, 1939-1954 (Story of Blues)
- Blues Masters Vol. 5: Jump Blues Classics (Rhino)
- Blues Masters Vol. 14: More Jump Blues (Rhino)
- Louis Jordan, The Best of Louis Jordan (MCA)
- T-Bone Walker, The Complete Capitol/Black & White Recordings (Capitol)
- Mose Allison, Greatest Hits (Prestige)
- Ray Charles, Blues & Jazz (Rhino)
- Blue Funk: The History of the Hammond Organ (Blue Note)
- Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: And Roomful of Blues (Muse)
Classic Female Blues Singers: Ten Recommended Albums
- Blues Masters, Vol. 11: Classic Blues Women (Rhino)
- Bessie Smith, The Collection (CBS)
- Ma Rainey, Ma Rainey (Milestone)
- Sippie Wallace, 1923-29 (Alligator)
- Victoria Spivey, 1926-31 (Document)
- Mamie Smith, In Chronological Order, Vol. 1 (Document)
- Lucille Bogan, 1923-35 (Story of Blues)
- Alberta Hunter, Young Alberta Hunter (Vintage Jazz)
- Ethel Waters, Jazzin' Babies' Blues, 1927-1927 (Biograph)
- Women's Railroad Blues: Sorry But I Can't Take You (Rosetta)
Piano Blues: Sixteen Recommended Albums:
- Cow Cow Davenport, Alabama Strut (Magpie)
- Roosevelt Sykes, Roosevelt Sykes (1929-41) (Story of Blues)
- Leroy Carr, Naptown Blues (Yazoo)
- Albert Ammons, King of Boogie Woogie (1939-1949) (Blues Classics)
- Meade Lux Lewis, Complete Blue Note Recordings (Mosaic)
- Jimmy Yancey, Vol. 1 (1939-40) (Document)
- Big Maceo, King of Chicago Blues Piano, Vol. 1 & 2 (Arhoolie)
- Amos Milburn, Down the Road Apiece: The Best of Amos Milburn (EMI)
- Floyd Dixon, Marshall Texas Is My Home (Specialty)
- Camille Howard, Vol. 1: Rock Me Daddy (Specialty)
- Cecil Gant, Rock the Boogie (Krazy Kat)
- Sunnyland Slim, Sunnyland Slim (Flyright)
- Otis Spann, Otis Spann Is the Blues (Candid)
- Professor Longhair, Fess: Professor Longhair Anthology (Rhino)
- James Booker, New Orleans Piano Wizard: Live! (Rounder)
- Memphis Slim, Rockin' the Blues (Charly)
Swing and the Big Band Era: Twenty Essential Recordings:
- Fletcher Henderson, A Study in Frustration (Columbia)
- Louis Armstrong, Collection Vol. 5: Louis in New York (Columbia)
- Cab Calloway, 1930-1931 (Classics)
- Jimmy Lunceford, Stomp It Off (GRP/Decca)
- Benny Goodman, The Birth of Swing (Bluebird)
- Benny Goodman, Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert (Columbia)
- Bunny Berigan, The Pied Piper (Bluebird)
- Duke Ellington, The Blanton-Webster Band (Bluebird)
- Count Basie, The Complete Decca Recordings (GRP/Decca)
- Artie Shaw, Begin the Beguine (Bluebird)
- Glenn Miller, The Popular Recordings (Bluebird)
- Tommy Dorsey, Yes, Indeed! (Bluebird)
- Harry James, Best of Big Bands (Columbia)
- Gene Krupa, Uptown (Columbia)
- Woody Herman, Blues on Parade (GRP/Decca)
- Earl Hines, Piano Man (Bluebird)
- Charlie Barnet, Drop Me Off in Harlem (GRP/Decca)
- Benny Carter, All of Me (Bluebird)
- Art Tatum, Classic Piano Solos 1934-39 (GRP/Decca)
- Three Great Swing Saxophonists (Bluebird)
Ten Essential Bop Recordings:
- Charlie Parker, Yardbird Suite (Rhino)
- Charlie Parker & Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall (Jass)
- Dizzy Gillespie, Complete RCA Victor Recordings (Bluebird)
- Billy Eckstine, Mister B and the Band (Savoy)
- Bud Powell, Complete Blue Note and Roost Recordings (Blue Note)
- Coleman Hawkins, Hollywood Stampede (Capitol)
- Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron (Blue Note)
- Thelonious Monk, Complete Blue Note Recordings (Blue Note)
- Dexter Gordon, The Chase (Stash)
- Sonny Stitt, Tune Up (Muse)
Fifteen Essential Dixieland and Chicago Jazz Records:
- Obscure and Neglected Chicagoans (IAJRC)
- Bob Crosby, South Rampart Street Parade (GRP/Decca)
- Eddie Condon, Dixieland All-Stars (GRP/Decca)
- Eddie Condon, Town Hall Concerts Vol. 2 (Jazzology)
- Wild Bill Davison, The Commodore Master Takes (Commodore)
- Lu Watters, Vol. 1: Dawn Club Favorites (Good Time Jazz)
- Turk Murphy, Jazz Band Favorites (Good Time Jazz)
- Bob Scobey, Scobey & Clancy (Good Time Jazz)
- Recorded in New Orleans, Vols. 1 + 2 (Good Time Jazz)
- Louis Armstrong, Plays W.C. Handy (Columbia)
- Jack Teagarden, And His All-Stars (Jazzology)
- Dukes of Dixieland, At Disneyland (Columbia)
- World's Greatest Jazz Band, Live (Atlantic)
- Soprano Summit (Concord)
- Jim Cullum, Honey for Hoagy (Audiophile)
Eighteen Essential Mainstream Jazz Records:
- Jazz at the Philharmonic, The First Concert (Verve)
- Benny Carter, 3, 4, 5: The Verve Small Group Sessions (Verve)
- Buck Clayton, The Essential (Vanguard)
- Lester Young, The Jazz Giants '56 (Verve)
- Ben Webster, Soulville (Verve)
- Clark Terry, Duke With a Difference (OJC)
- Coleman Hawkins, Alive! (Verve)
- Harry "Sweets" Edison, Jawbreakers (OJC)
- Johnny Hodges, Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (GRP/Impulse)
- Zoot Sims and the Gershwin Brothers (OJC)
- Roy Eldridge, Montreux 1977 (OJC)
- Ruby Braff, A Sailboat in the Moonlight (Concord)
- Scott Hamilton, Major League (Concord)
- Warren Vache, Midtown Jazz (Concord)
- Dan Barrett, Strictly Instrumental (Concord)
- Howard Alden, The ABQ Salutes Buck Clayton (Concord)
- Ken Peplowski, Steppin' With Peps (Concord)
- Dave McKenna, The Keyman (Concord)
Jump Blues: Twelve Recommended Albums:
- Blues Masters Vol. 5: Jump Blues Classics (Rhino)
- Blues Masters Vol. 14: More Jump Blues (Rhino)
- Big Joe Turner, Big, Bad & Blue: The Joe Turner Anthology (Rhino)
- Louis Jordan, The Best of Louis Jordan (MCA)
- Roy Milton, Roy Milton & His Solid Senders (Specialty)
- T-Bone Walker, The Complete Capitol Black & White Recordings (Capitol)
- Amos Milburn, Down the Road Apiece: The Best of Amos Milburn (EMI)
- Joe Houston, Cornbread and Cabbage Greens (Specialty)
- Floyd Dixon, Marshall Texas Is My Home (Specialty)
- Roy Brown, Good Rocking Tonight: The Best of Roy Brown (Rhino)
- Wynonie Harris: Bloodshot Eyes: The Best ofWynonie H arris (Rhino)
- The Original Johnny Otis Show (Savoy)
Fourteen Essential Cool Jazz Recordings:
- Claude Thornhill, Best of the Big Bands (Columbia)
- Miles Davis, Birth of the Cool (Capitol)
- Lennie Tristano and Warne Marsh, Intuition (Capitol)
- Stan Getz, Roost Quartets (Roulette)
- Gerry Mulligan, In Paris, Vol. 1 (Vogue)
- Chet Baker, Quartet (Pacific Jazz)
- Gerry Mulligan/Paul Desmond Quartet (Verve)
- Lighthouse All-Stars, Sunday Jazz a la Lighthouse (OJC)
- Lighthouse All-Stars, Volume 6 (OJC)
- Shorty Rogers, Short Stops (Bluebird)
- Shelly Manne, Vol. 1: The West Coast Sound (OJC)
- Shelly Manne, My Fair Lady (OJC)
- Dave Brubeck, Jazz Goes to College (Columbia)
- Modern Jazz Quartet, Django (OJC)
Seventeen Essential Hard Bop Recordings:
- Miles Davis, Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
- Clifford Brown/Max Roach, At Basin Street (Emarcy)
- Sonny Rollins, A Night at the Village Vanguard (Blue Note)
- Horace Silver, And the Jazz Messengers (Blue Note)
- Art Blakey, Moanin' (Blue Note)
- Art Farmer/Benny Golson, Meet the Jazztet (Chess)
- Jackie McLean, Bluesnik (Blue Note)
- Hank Mobley, Workout (Blue Note)
- Freddie Hubbard, Ready for Freddie (Blue Note)
- Donald Byrd, Chant (Blue Note)
- Wes Montgomery, Full House (OJC)
- Lee Morgan, The Sidewinder (Blue Note)
- Joe Henderson, Page One (Blue Note)
- Grant Green, Idle Moments (Blue Note)
- Cannonball Adderley, Dizzy's Business (Milestone)
- Horace Silver, Song for My Father (Blue Note)
- Art Blakey, Straight Ahead (Concord)
Soul Jazz: Twenty [sic: 22] Essential Recordings
- Horace Silver, Finger Poppin' (Blue Note)
- Cannonball Adderley, Live in San Francisco (OJC)
- Bobby Timmons, This Here Is Bobby Timmons (OJC)
- Les McCann, Swiss Movement (Rhino/Atlantic)
- Gene Harris, Brotherhood (Concord)
- Jimmy Smith, House Party (Blue Note)
- Jimmy Smith, Midnight Special (Blue Note)
- Jimmy Smith, Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note)
- Jack McDuff, Live! (Prestige)
- Shirley Scott, Soul Shoutin' (Prestige)
- Johnny McGriff, Right Turn on Blues (Telarc)
- Charles Earland, Black Talk (OJC)
- Richard "Groove" Holmes, Soul Message (OJC)
- Grant Green, Grantstand (Blue Note)
- Grant Green, Idle Moments (Blue Note)
- George Benson, The New Boss Guitar (OJC)
- Willis Jackson, Please Mr. Jackson (OJC)
- Gene Ammons, Brother Jack Meets the Boss (OJC)
- Stanley Turrentine, Let It Go (Blue Note)
- Eddie Harris, The Electrifying Eddie Harris (Atlantic)
- Houston Person, Stolen Sweets (Muse)
- Hank Crawford, Soul Survivors (Milestone)
Ten Recommended Latin Jazz Albums:
- Machito, Mucho Macho Machito and His Afro-Cuban Salseros (Pablo)
- Machito w. Charlie Parker, Flip Phillips; Dizzy Gillespie Big Band, The Original Mambo Kings (Verve)
- Tito Puente, 50 Years of Swing (Ritmo Mundo Musical, 3-CD set)
- Chico O'Farrill, Cuban Blues (Verve, 2-CD set)
- Stan Kenton, Cuban Fire! (Capitol)
- Mongo Santamaria, Mongo's Greatest Hits (Fantasy)
- Cal Tjader, Talkin' Verve (Verve)
- Irakere, The Best of Irakere (Columbia)
- Poncho Sanchez, Baila Mi Gente--Salsa (Concord Picante)
- Ray Barretto and New World Spirit, Ancestral Messages (Concord Picante)
Ten Recommended Third Stream Albums:
- Leonard Bernstein, New York Philharmonic, Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue/An American in Paris, Bernstein: Symphonic Dances From West Side Story (Sony Classical)
- John Bruce Yeh, DePaul University Wind and Jazz Ensembles, Ebony Concerto, Music by Stravinsky, Babin, Gould, Bernstein, Shaw (Refeence Recordings)
- Artie Shaw, Best of the Big Bands
- Stan Kenton, City of Glass
- Gunther Schuller, Jimmy Giuffre, etc., The Birth of the Third Stream (Columbia)
- Modern Jazz Quartet, Third Stream Music (Atlantic)
- Stan Getz, Focus (Verve)
- Eddie Daniels, Breakthrough (GRP)
- Dave Brubeck, To Hope! A Celebration (Telarc)
- Lalo Schifrin, Firebird (Four Winds)
Twenty Essential Free Jazz Albums:
- Lennie Tristano, Intuition (Capitol)
- Ornette Coleman, The Shape of Jazz to Come (Atlantic)
- Ornette Coleman, Free Jazz (Atlantic)
- Ornette Coleman, Dancing in Your Head (A&M)
- John Coltrane, Ascension (Impulse)
- John Coltrane, Live in Japan (Impulse)
- Cecil Taylor, Jazz Advance (Blue Note)
- Cecil Taylor, For Olim (A&M)
- Eric Dolphy, Out to Lunch (Blue Note)
- Archie Shepp, Four for Trane (Impulse)
- Albert Ayler, At Slug's Saloon, Vols. 1 and 2 (ESP)
- Roscoe Mitchell, Sound (Delmark)
- Art Ensemble of Chicago, Full Force (ECM)
- Anthony Braxton, The Complete Braxton (Arista)
- World Saxophone Quartet, WSQ (Black Saint)
- Ganelin Trio, New Wine (Leo)
- David Murray, Children (Black Saint)
- Borah Bergman and Evan Parker, The Fire Tale (Soul Note)
- Ronald Shannon Jackson, Barbeque Dog (Antilles)
- Dave Douglas, Tiny Bell Trio (Hat Art)
Recommended Fusion Albums:
- Miles Davis, In a Silent Way (Columbia)
- Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (Columbia, 2CD)
- Herbie Hancock, Mwandishi: The Complete Warner Bros. Recordings (Warner Bros, 2CD)
- The Tony Williams Lifetime, Spectrum: The Anthology (Verve, 2CD)
- Weather Report, Weather Report (Columbia)
- Chick Corea w/Return to Forever, Return to the Seventh Galaxy (Verve, 2CD)
- Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin, Love, Devotion, Surrender (Columbia)
- Jaco Pastorius, Jaco Pastorius (Epic)
- John Scofield, Liquid Fire: The Best of John Scofield (Gramavision)
- Medeski, Martin and Wood, Friday Afternoon in the Universe (Gramavision)
Twenty-Five Essential Recordings of the 1980s and '90s (all styles):
- Howard Alden/Dan Barrett, ABQ Salutes Buck Clayton (Concord)
- Geri Allen, In the Year of the Dragon (Verve)
- Art Blakey, Keystone 3 (Concord)
- Ruby Braff, A Sailboat in the Moonlight (Concord)
- Michael Brecker, Michael Brecker (MCA/Impulse)
- James Carter, Jurassic Classics (DIW/Columbia)
- Kenny Garrett, Pursuance (Warner Bros.)
- Jerry Gonzalez, Rhumba Para Monk (Sunnyside)
- George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, First Prize (Enja)
- Roy Hargrove, Of Kindred Souls (Novus)
- Joe Henderson, Lush Life (Verve)
- Keith Jarrett, Bye Bye Blackbird (ECM)
- Joe Lovano, Rush Hour (Blue Note)
- Branford Marsalis, Trio Jeepy (Columbia)
- Wynton Marsalis, Black Codes From the Underground (Columbia)
- Jackie McLean, Dynasty (Triloka)
- Pat Metheny, Letter From Home (Geffen)
- Mingus Big Band, Nostalgia in Times Square (Dreyfus)
- David Murray, Hope Scope (Black Saint)
- Buell Neidlinger, Blue Chopsticks (K2B2)
- James Newton, The African Flower (Blue Note)
- Tito Puente, Goza Me Timbal (Concord Picante)
- John Scofield, Hand Jive (Blue Note)
- Yellowjackets, Four Corners (MCA)
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Jazz-Rap: Recommended Listening:
- The Jungle Brothers, Straight Out the Jungle (Warlock)
- De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising (Tommy Boy)
- A Tribe Called Quest, The Low End Theory (Jive)
- Gang Starr, Daily Operation (Chrysalis)
- Guru, Jazzmatazz, Vol. 1 (Chrysalis)
- Digable Planets, Reachin' (A New Refutation of Space and Time) (Pendulum)
- US3, Hand on the Torch (Blue Note)
- Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (GRP)
- Buckshot Lefonque, Buckshot Lefonque (Sony)
- The Roots, Do You Want More?!!!??! (DGC)
Acid Jazz: Essential Listening:
- Totally Wired (Acid Jazz)
- Brand New Heavies, Brand New Heavies (Delicious Vinyl)
- Galliano, What Colour Our Flag (Talkin' Loud/Mercury)
- Unitd Future Organization, No Sound Is Too Taboo (Talkin' Loud/Verve)
- Groove Collective, Groove Collective (Reprise)
- James Taylor Quartet, In the Hand of the Inevitable (Hollywood)
- Jamiroquai, Return of the Space Cowboy (Columbia)
- Young Disciples, Road to Freedom (Talkin' Loud/Mercury)
- Greyboy Allstars, Town Called Earth (Greyboy)
- Medeski, Martin & Wood, It's a Jungle in Here (Gramavision)
Jazz Rock: Recommended Recordings:
- Blue Funk: The History of the Hammond Organ (Blue Note)
- The Free Spirits, Out of Sound (ABC)
- The Electric Flag, A Long Time Comin' (Columbia)
- Miles Davis, Bitches Brew (Columbia)
- The Soft Machine, 3rd (Columbia)
- John McLaughlin, Devotion (Restless)
- Frank Zappa, Hot Rats (Rykodisc)
- Herbie Hancock, Headhunters (Columbia)
- Gil Scott-Heron, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Flying Dutchman)
- Miles Davis, Pangaea (Columbia)
- Joni Mitchell, Mingus (Asylum)
- James Blood Ulmer, Are You Glad to Be in America? (Artists House)
- Ronald Shannon Jackson, Decode Yourself (Island)
- Bazooka, Blowhole (SST)
Also see: Jazz Recordings: A Beginner's Guide.