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Oliver Nelson - The Blues and the Abstract Truth (Full Album) The first song was a Gem.

"Stolen Moments".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps3ftZQ5O3w

Freddie Hubbard - Ready for Freddie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0L53zSkZks&playnex...

Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch (Full Album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IobGNxWB0qE

Horace Silver - Song For My Father http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWeXOm49kE0

Latin Jazz caught FIRE! Cal Tjader http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWjM90ARNo8

Saw this man last year at Detroit's Jazz Fest. He blew that place apart.

Poncho Sanchez- Besame Mama http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGKVyRgwo4w

Wayne Shorter Schizophrenia Full Album http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StDt4Tn-2HM

Chet Baker Sings - Pacific Jazz (full album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mRB-P1uIGs

Chet Baker & Art Pepper - Playboys (Full Album) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0v04JKSOsuA

Chet's signature song My Funny Valentine This is Live, doesn't get any better. Trumpet or singing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzpfZaZfsZg

God these are just samples of Artists, albums and songs.

Dave Brubeck

Bill Evans

Oscar Peterson

John Coletrane

Charlie Parker

Gerry Mulligan.....and hundreds and hundreds more of 50s & 60s.

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I think Longshotblues gave you good suggestions.

As you get into the listening of 1950's and 1960's jazz, your going to find that, for the most part, there is a big difference in the two decades. The 1960's was a decade of revolution in America, and jazz changed in that it gave up conventions and got very experimental.

You can hear the old and new styles of playing on Oliver Nelson's Blues and The Abstract Truth album. There are two sax players on the album. Oliver Nelson is the more traditional sound, and then there's Eric Dolphy who also plays on the album, but in a much more aggressive and pioneering way. To me, this album is a signifying moment of the transition from traditional to experimental jazz.

Another album you should hear is Joe Henderson's Mode For Joe album, which also has a blend of traditional and experimental musicians.

Be sue to get Ornette Coleman's Free Jazz album, which is sited as the album that started the big change in the 1960's. There is a good chance that your not going to enjoy it, but you should hear it once, just to know what happened. The album had the whole jazz world talking.

Personally, I am much more into the 1960's music, than the 1950's. Try these 1960's albums also.

Andrew Hill- Point of Departure (Eric Dolphy on reeds)

Bobby Hutcherson- Dialogue

Sam Rivers- Countours

Charles Mingus- Oh Yeah! (get everything by Mingus)

Herbie Hancock- Maiden Voyage.

I second Hancock's Maiden Voyage. Absolutely anything by Bill Evans is great, how about Everybody Digs Bill Evans?....IMHO he was the greatest jazz man ever. For feeling like you are at a jazz club back in the day in a cloud of cigarette smoke and sipping a scotch you can't beat Charlie Parker's live One Night in Birdland.

interior the Forties, you probably did no longer purchase albums. you got 78s, a 10-inch disk with some 3 minute recording on the two factor. I nevertheless have countless dozen of them. June 8, 1946: Nat "King" Cole’s recording of “(Get Your Kicks On) course sixty six” enters the R&B chart, the place it is going to height at #3. Later that summer season, it turns right into a pop hit to boot, basically lacking the nicely suited Ten.

The In Crowd - The Ramsey Lewis Trio (1965)