• Louis Armstrong: The California Concerts (Decca, 1951-55)

• Don Byas: Savoy Jam Party (Savoy, 1944-46)

• Benny Carter: The Essential Keynote Collection 7: The Complete Benny Carter (Mercury, 1946)

• Buck Clayton/Buddy Tate: Buck and Buddy Blow the Blues (Fantasy, 1961)

• Ornette Coleman: Dancing In Your Head (Artists House, 1977)

• John Coltrane: A Love Supreme (Impulse!, 1964)

• Miles Davis: Jack Johnson (Columbia, 1970)

• Duke Ellington: Duke Ellington Meets Coleman Hawkins (Impulse!, 1962)

• Duke Ellington: The Far East Suite (RCA, 1966)

• Stan Getz & Kenny Barron: People Time (Verve, 1992)

• Coleman Hawkins: Encounters Ben Webster (Verve, 1957)

• Johnny Hodges: Everybody Knows Johnny Hodges (Impulse!, 1964)

• Billie Holiday: All or Nothing at All (Verve, 1956-57)

• Budd Johnson: Let's Swing (Prestige, 1960)

• Roland Kirk: Rip, Rig and Panic / Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith (Emarcy, 1965-67)

• Yusef Lateef: Tenors of Yusef Lateef and Archie Shepp (YAL, 1992)

• Jackie McLean: Swing Swang Swingin' (Blue Note, 1959)

• Charles Mingus: Mingus Ah Um (Columbia, 1959)

• Charles Mingus: Mingus at Carnegie Hall (Rhino, 1974)

• Thelonious Monk: The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall (Riverside, 1959)

• Art Pepper: The Complete Galaxy Recordings (Galaxy, 1977-82)

• Bud Powell: The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (Blue Note, 1949-53)

• Don Pullen/George Adams: Breakthrough (Blue Note, 1986)

• Sonny Rollins: Silver City (Milestone, 1972-95)

• Jimmy Rushing: The You and Me That Used to Be (RCA, 1971)

• Roswell Rudd: Flexible Flyer (Freedom, 1974)

• Art Tatum: The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8 (Pablo, 1956)

• Ben Webster: The Soul of Ben Webster (Verve, 1957-58)

• Lester Young: The Essential Keynote Collection 1: The Complete Lester Young (Mercury, 1944)

Hard to whittle it down much past that. Of course, some James Brown, Lefty Frizzell, Howlin' Wolf, Louis Jordan, Van Morrison, Lou Reed, Hank Williams, and Neil Young would come in handy.