I've never really heard much jazz before. Can you give me some essentials to get into it?
user
Sure, here are some great jazz albums to try out:

Billie Holiday: Portrait of a Lady (with Sidney Bechet)

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia

Astrud Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz and João Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema

Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Coltrane: Giant Steps

Bobby Hutcherson: The Kinetic

Billy Strayhorn: The Very Thought of You

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner Plays the Blues
assistant
Wow, those are a lot. Can you give me a top 5 artists you think I should look into?
user
That’s tough...well, I can give you my personal top 5.

Branford Marsalis

Wynton Marsalis

Terence Blanchard

Miles Davis

Joe Henderson
assistant
I've never really heard much jazz before. Can you give me some essentials to get into it?
user
Sure, here are some great jazz albums to try out:

Billie Holiday: Portrait of a Lady (with Sidney Bechet)

Miles Davis: Kind of Blue

Dizzy Gillespie: Night in Tunisia

Astrud Gilberto: Getz/Gilberto

Stan Getz and João Gilberto: The Girl from Ipanema

Sonny Rollins: Saxophone Colossus

Coltrane: Giant Steps

Bobby Hutcherson: The Kinetic

Billy Strayhorn: The Very Thought of You

McCoy Tyner: McCoy Tyner Plays the Blues
assistant
Wow, those are a lot. Can you give me a top 5 artists you think I should look into?
user
Sure, here are my top 5 jazz artists:

Lester Young

Charlie Parker

Billie Holiday

Dizzy Gillespie

Frank Sinatra
assistant
I've never really heard much jazz before. Can you give me some essentials to get into it?