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Essential Music Jazz

Here are the essential albums for the Jazz genre. Some of these helped to create and define the genre. Some of them are so universally loved by critics and fans, they are synonymous with the genre. Others are simply the pinnacle of artistic success from a particular artist. Whatever the case, a great collection would be incomplete without these essential albums.

Artist	Title	Format	Comments	Cost
Coltrane, John	A Love Supreme	CD	remastered	$10.99	INFO
Coltrane, John	A Love Supreme	LP	remastered on heavy virgin vinyl	$15.99	INFO
Coltrane, John	A Love Supreme : Deluxe edition	CD	2 CD set	$22.99	INFO
Coltrane, John	Coltrane	LP	reissue Impulse 215	$15.99	INFO
Davis, Miles	Kind of Blue	CD	remastered with bonus track	$7.99	INFO
Davis, Miles	Kind of Blue : Legacy Edition	CD	includes 6 track bonus CD plus expanded booklet	$19.99	INFO
Davis, Miles	Kind of Blue : 50th Anniversary Collectors Edition	CD		$99.99	INFO
Ellington, Duke	Far East Suite	CD	Remastered with bonus tracks	$14.99	INFO
Fitzgerald, Ella & Louis Armstrong	Verve Jazz Masters 24: Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	CD		$10.99	INFO
Holiday, Billie	Love Songs	CD	Columbia Portrait cover	$10.99	INFO
Mingus, Charles	Mingus Ah Um	CD	Remastered	$10.99	INFO
Monk, Thelonious with John Coltrane	At Carnegie Hall	CD		$15.99	INFO
Parker, Charlie	Charlie Parker	CD	27 track collection	$11.99	INFO
Rollins, Sonny	The Bridge	CD	Remastered	$10.99	INFO
Simone, Nina	Little Girl Blue	CD	remastered with bonus tracks	$11.99	INFO