1. Anything/everything by Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald
2. Miles Davis - _Kind of Blue_
3. Nicholas Payton - _Gumbo Nouveau_
4. Charlie Parker - _Birds with Strings_
5. Cannonball Adderley - _Domination_ and _Cannonball Takes Charge_
6. 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