Not in order
Flamenco Sketches - Miles
Equinox - John Coltrane
Race With The Devil On The Spanish Highway - Al Di Meola
Blue Turning Grey - Louis Armstrong
Dancing In The Dark - Julian Adderley
Nakatini Suite - Lee Morgan
Moon Over Bourbon Street - Sting
Maiden Voyage - Herbie Hancock
Goodbye Porkpie Hat - Charles Mingus
Locomotion - John Coltrane
It would be good if AI could somehow turn these posts into a public Tidal/Qobuz/Spotify playlist for us to conveniently try, without searching for each one. I have no idea if it could.
Would ‘Maiden Voyage’ and ‘Cantaloupe Island’ by Herbie Hancock be there somewhere?
You can copy a list of tracks (artist, track - or vice versa) and paste them into the Free Text option in the website TuneMyMusic, which will create a playlist and export it to the streaming service of your choice (as long as you have a login). Works perfectly for me to create a Qobuz playlist, which I can then access from Qobuz or Roon.
Never heard of TuneMyMusic before! Good to know, thanks.
A different list - tune led, rather than artist led.
Chick Corea - Sometime Ago/La Fiesta
Charlie Parker - My Little Suede Shoes
Gil Evans - Las Vegas Tango
Carla Bley - The Lord is Listening To Ya
Gerry Mulligan - Bernie’s Tune
Archie Shepp - Damn If I Know (The Stroller)
Abdullah Ibrahim - The Wedding
Albert Ayler - Ghosts (Love Cry version)
Pharaoh Sanders - The Creator Has A Master Plan
David Murray - Flowers For Albert
Bud Powell - Parisian Thoroughfare.
Many thanks for the helpful tip.
Could you really take any listing seriously that thought the height of Satch’s career was what a Wonderful World or Basie major contribution to jazz was wallpaper for Frank Sinatra.
Good point. Favourites tend to lean on big crossover hits instead of deep cuts, which essential tracks would you recommend?
Re-reading your previous post about your list, they are all excellent tracks. I’ll probably set up a playlist based on it.
No “Jazz at the Pawn Shop”?
Surprising indeed, I thought it sounded great, but no one mentioned it so far.
The production on that is top shelf.
Can we include versions of standards etc or do they have to be the writer of the song.
This works a treat, thanks for your very helpful tip.
MArco 
My list, above, is all original tunes.
I put it up thinking it might offer a sense of jazz history.
We like what we like and know about. This I understand but I don’t always comprehend how, par example, you can appreciate Sonny Rollins without understanding how Lester Young,Coleman Hawkins or Don Byas taught him the elements. But that’s just me. Jazz studies have been forefront in a long life.
I will compose a more upto date
listing of favourites.
It’s actually a pretty tedious LP. If it weren’t for the exceptional recording quality, it would be languishing in obscurity.
I am surprised that nobody has mentioned the two most important figures in jazz, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington.
Armstrong’s “West End Blues” and “Potato Head Blues” - from a century ago, remember - are the templates for pretty much everything that has followed. Duke was jazz’s greatest and most productive composer and his “Harlem Air Shaft”, recorded in 1940 with the famous Jimmy Blanton/Ben Webster version of the Ellington orchestra is perhaps the single greatest piece of jazz ever. An early example of programmatic music, it’s also a symphony in under four minutes: a quite staggering achievement.
I did.