 | Blasé/Live at the Pan-African Festival by Archie Shepp
Buy used from: £42.26 Raw afrocentric jazz with some nice grooves and free excursions.
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 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: £7.68 / Used from: £2.98 Obvious I know - but this is possibly the best album ever made.
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 | In a Silent Way by Miles Davis
Buy used from: £4.70 Gorgeous ambient fusion jazz and a milestone in jazz history.
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 | Light Extracts by Eivind Aarset
Buy used from: £5.81 Modern jazz electronica fusion. Brilliant. Jazz is a living thing and albums like this show that.
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 | The Black Saint And The Sinner Lady by Charles Mingus
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £8.68 Classic from one of jazz's true geniuses. Truly experimental with elements of Spanish music in there.
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 | Journey In Satchidananda by Alice Coltrane
Buy new: £7.48 / Used from: £7.11 Alice created a truly unique fusion of jazz, strings, and Indian music and doesn't get the props she deserves. This is deep spiritual music.
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 | Karma by Pharoah Sanders
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.34 Mix of afrocentric grooves and way-out free jazz. If you're feeling a bit adventurous check this out.
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 | Twelve Moons by Jan Garbarek
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.99 Achingly beautiful and atmospheric. Mixes up folk musics with jazz to spectacular effect.
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![At Carnegie Hall: The Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 6 [VINYL]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JJNVCT4JL._SL75_.jpg) | At Carnegie Hall: The Billie Holiday Story, Vol. 6 [VINYL] by Holiday Billie
Buy used from: £13.64 Possibly my favourite Billie album,
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![A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/414vJaVqSlL._SL75_.jpg) | A Love Supreme [Deluxe Edition] by John Coltrane
Buy new: £20.78 / Used from: £11.00 An all-time classic and justifiably so. An essential for all jazz listeners.
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 | Look to the Rainbow by Astrud Gilberto
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £4.25 Lovely chilled Brazilian jazz. I'm a big Astrud fan.
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 | Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy/Art Forms of Dimensions Tomorrow by Sun Ra
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £22.11 Sun Ra was another genius - this is a characteristic trip through jazz's past and future and off into deep space.
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 | Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.00 Brilliant mix of electronics and traditional jazz instruments. I listen to this an awful lot!
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 | As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls by Pat Metheny
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £7.49 Evocative ambient jazz. All Metheny's eighties stuff is ace though.
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 | Sextant by Herbie Hancock
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.99 Incredible mix of electronics and jazz. Deeply seminal for both jazz and techno.
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 | Waltz for Debby by Bill Evans Trio
Buy used from: £19.64 Exquisitively played trio jazz from one of the best pianists ever.
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 | Brilliant Corners by Thelonious Monk
Buy used from: £3.24 All Monk LPs are interesting but this and Straight No Chaser are essential.
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 | Return to the Seventh Galaxy: The Anthology by Return to Forever
Buy used from: £11.49 Excellent retrospective of this ace fusion group. Jazz and rock in equal measures.
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 | The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £11.35 Avant garde jazz versions of Ennio Morricone's music. Weird and wonderful!
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 | Jazz Carnival: the Best of Azymuth by Azymuth
Buy new: £12.69 Ace Brazilian fusion group. Worth getting just for Jazz Carnival and Dear Limmertz.
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 | The Best of Donald Byrd by Donald Byrd
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £3.99 All his funky fusion classics present and correct.
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 | A Swingin' Affair
Buy used from: £1.99 Post-bop with Latin influences. Go is also really good.
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 | The Shape of Jazz to Come by Ornette Coleman
Buy used from: £3.98 Took me a while to get into this but I'm really into it now. Seminal and brilliant album.
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 | JOHN COLTRANE/_AFRO BLUE IMPRESSIONS by John Coltrane
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £18.62 I love early 60s Trane and this is a great live set.
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