Damani's List of Jazz 101 Albums
- Anything/everything by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
- Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
- Nicholas Payton - Gumbo Nouveau
- Charlie Parker - Birds with Strings
- Cannonball Adderley - Domination and Cannonball Takes Charge
- Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers - Mosaic
Chris’ Suggestions
- Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
- Johnny Contrane - Interstellar Space (“Way out there”)
- Sonny Rollins - The Bridge
- Horace Silver stuff
- Album with Thelonius Monk and Johnny Griffin