Looking for some jazz albums, any suggestions?

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I am looking under those criterias:
-The focus should be on the music, it doesn't have to be instrumental, but I prefer jazz music with little too no singing.
-There should be some melody and rhythm in it, i don't like jazz subgenres that sound too abstract, free jazz isn't my cup of tea at all. I prefer having a melody.
-I would appreciate either something that is relaxing and has a lounge sound and a heavy focus on piano (such as bossa nova) or something that has some funk influences (like acid jazz).

Jazz albums I own are From This Place by Pat Methany and A Go Go by John Scofield.

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Just log in to your YouTube account, play a bunch of music videos you enjoy and let the algorithm do the suggestions. Don't forget to click the thumb up on everything you want more of. In my experience the algo does a better job than any human I have ever met. It is several orders of magnitude better.

ProfGene.Togolot · Answer

The ones I have are older but they are better than most new ones. Maybe they have been reissued on CD.  All Blue Miles Davis,  Ellington at Newport, Ole Brubeck, 74 Miles Away, Cannonball Adderley They are all available on Youtube.  Anything by Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, Nina Simon, Chic Corea, and John Coltrane, Theolonious Monk, The Jerry Mulligan Quartet, Sonny Stitt, Earl Hines, Errol Gardner If you want to hear earlier jazz Jelly Roll Morton and Louis Armstrong Big Band, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, there are many others frank Sinatra and you could double this list with equally as good ,

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Bill Evans - From Left To Right.

D50 · Answer

Ray Charles "Genius+Soul=Jazz" 
Charles plays with Count Basie's big band. I can't get enough of it.

pianoman · Answer

Try youtube Jazz. There's a large collection there. Also if you have Cox cable, tune in to "Music Choice Jazz".

Nick · Answer

If you like A Go Go, Scofield recorded it with the band Medeski, Martin and Wood. You should check out the stuff they have recorded without him.

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Oscar Peterson made a lot of records. The joke was, a guy entered a contest and won every album Peterson ever made, and a forklift to get them home. Lounge sounds: George Shearing, Art Van Damm. Ellington Indigos. The Basie small groups. For funk, try Monk.

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He is old school jazz with no real funk. But if you haven't looked into Count Basie you certainly should. A masterful pianist and a fine arranger. Yes, getting towards big band but his reputation is well deserved. Otherwise I'd say go to Accujazz and put on the piano channel - look for the names on the things you enjoy the most.

Anonymous · Answer

Dave Grusin is pretty good. Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Buddy Rich, Lee Ritenour, Dave Brubeck, Gershwin, Prince, and so on.

Anonymous · Answer

Back in my younger days, the group Return To Forever was a favorite. The core had Chick Corea on keys and Stanley Clark on bass. The link is the classic lineup.

https://youtu.be/uLnqVJIm6bI

A more recent fav is guitarist Charlie Hunter.

https://youtu.be/oXVSYykrxx4

Looking for some jazz albums, any suggestions?

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