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Great and well-recorded jazz on CD

I'm looking for recommendations for great CDs that are also great recordings. Let's keep it to jazz recorded between 1950 and 1980. Some CDs I've been listening to recently that fit the bill as posed in this post include Sarah Vaughan's first LP with Clifford Brown (Verve), or Bags Meets Wes (Riverside).

I listen to just about anything, including free jazz and fusion. Not looking for suggestions of awesome records per se, or for suggestions of audophile-quality recent jazz.

I listen to music for all sorts of reasons, and some of the albums I like are horribly recorded. I do appreciate a nice Sun Ra album for example that has bedroom-quality recording (hear the telephone ring just before the cut ends!) But that's not what I'm asking about here. On the other hand, I don't mind old recordings where you can really hear the hiss and the bacon frying---those can still be beautiful recordings with a sense of space, depth, etc.

Any ideas? Thanks.
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hifimaniac
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Check out "The Poll Winners" and their second effort "The Poll Winners ride again". The trio is Ray Brown on bass, Shelley Manne on drums and Bernie Kessell on guitar. Each won two or more Polls in 1956 and 1957 at there respective instruments, thus their name!

I also love a hidden gem by Hampton Hawes, Bernie Kessel, Shelley Manne and Red Mitchell. The album is called "Four" and like above is a very well done CD. The musicians are pictured on the cover swinging golf clubs. I think you'll like them.

My favorite CD purchase this year by a mile is Rodrigo y Gabriela "Live in Japan". This isn't jazz but Nuevo flamenco, classical guitar that is so well recorded you will love it. It grows on you and the guitar work amazing. One F bomb at the beginning of track 13, just in case the kids are listening.
hifimaniac
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I forgot these favorites; on Reference Recordings; Dick Hyman's the Age of Swing. Bill Evan's Waltz for Debbie. Miles Davis LP's, Relaxin, Workin, Steamin.
Diana Krall's LIve in Paris. Wyton Marsalis's Unforgiveable Blackness.
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