Need some Jazz recommendations..some pop and swing


OK, not even sure how to articulate this. I love music...almost all kinds...I have some Jazz and particularly like the Oscar Peterson and Stan Getz stuff. I have the feeling there's a treasure trove of Jazz I could be enjoying....here's the problem. Most jazz I hear...I enjoy...but never much more than in a background music sort of way. I absolutely love rock/alt rock when it contains Jazz (E.g. Soul Coughing, Steely Dan...etc. .so.

I think I need some Jazz with some pop elements/hooks to it... you might even be able to say I need some beginners jazz?

(and yes, I get that jazz is generally improvisational in nature...and does not exist to repeat hooks)

Jazz snobs: please step away...to me, it's about the music and I mean no offense!
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Some of the blues artist's cross over to swing and you may enjoy the big band sound:

Clarence Gatemouth brown- Gate Swings
Charles Brown- Lucky so and so
Sugar Ray Norcia and the Bluetones- all of the recent cd's
Duke Robillard- several swing cd's