My Amazon list of best jazz albums

Being the Swiss cheese brain that I am, it never occurred to me to bring my Amazon music lists to the blog.

Here's the link to my list of recommendations to build your Jazz collection at Amazon.com: Amazon.com: "Begin a diversified Jazz collection - for jazz newbies!", with reviews for each recording.

Other recordings beyond the list are also mentioned, but the initial list suggests how you should build your jazz collection...in order.

Here's the list:

1. Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
2. Herbie Hancock - Maiden Voyage
3. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out
4. John Coltrane - Blue Train
5. Miles Davis - In a Silent Way
6. Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
7. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
8. Charlie Parker - With Strings (The Master Takes)
   
9. Miles Davis - Birth of the Cool
10. Clifford Brown & Max Roach (eponymous)
    
11. Louis Armstrong - The Hot Fives & Sevens
12. Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch
13. Matthew Shipp - Harmony & Abyss
14. Frank Sinatra with Count Basie - Sinatra at the Sands
15. Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall
16. Billie Holiday & Lester Young - A Musical Romance
17. Wynton Marsalis - Live at the Village Vanguard
    
18. Ornette Coleman - Free Jazz
19. John Coltrane - Giant Steps
20. Jaco Pastorius (eponymous)
    
21. Dave Holland - Live at Birdland
22. Wayne Shorter - Adams Apple
    
23. McCoy Tyner - The Real McCoy
24. The Complete Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
    
25. Thelonius Monk - Straight No Chaser
26. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - A Night in Tunisia
27. Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
28. Jason Moran - The Bandwagon
29. Modern Jazz Quartet - Django
30. Miles Davis - Bags' Groove

Those are my recommendations on starting your jazz collection.