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Top Jazz & Pop/Rock Groups/Artists you listen to and the best recording you have on vinyl

Thought everyone may have a few minutes of downtime this week to do a survey. I'm looking to discover new groups/artists, especially Jazz that I may not be aware of. Please list the 10 Jazz and Pop/Rock Groups/Artists you spend the most time listening to and the best album/release from each you own or have heard. This is not your favorite album of the group, but the recording that sounds the best. Here's my list:

Jazz

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue - MOFI 45
John Coltrane - Ballads -Speakers Corner
Wes Montgomery - Down Here on the Ground - Speakers Corner
Milt Jackson - Bags Meets Wes! - Analogue Productions 45
Jimmy Smith - Back at the Chicken Shack - Analogue Productions 45
Stan Getz - Stan Meets Chet - Analogue Productions 45
Charles Mingus - Ah Hum- 180g
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus - 180g
Pat Metheny - Offramp - regular release/pressing
Earl Klugh - Finger Paintings MOFI UHQR

Pop/Rock

Steely Dan - Gaucho - Japanese Pressing
Beatles - Sgt. Pepper - MOFI UHQR
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps - Japanese Pressing
Boz Scaggs - Boz Scaggs - Analogue Productions
Pink Floyd - Dark Side MOFI UHQR
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors - Nautilus Recordings
Dire Straits - Love over Gold - Pallas Germany (Grundman)
Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes - MCA Mastersound
The Eagles - One of these Nights - Japanese Pressing
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty - Japanese Pressing

Thanks.
sokogear

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sokogear OP
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Thanks Chuck - but you really didn’t answer the question. I’m aware of Better Records, but they are much more than I am willing to spend, and I really don’t like noisy albums. I guess I have the mindset of what I used to pay, getting UHQRs for $35-40. I know it was 35-40 years ago, but even with inflation, it’s less than what BR charges.

I’m not looking to demo a system, am more interested in discovering new groups that people listen to a lot, and which of the albums they have from that group happens to sound best.

I don’t listen to albums just because they sound good or even great. I have an old demo record that Yamaha made for stores to demo their equipment which sounds unbelievable called Sessions II. It’s not even in the cabinet where my records are due to space limitations. It has to be a group/artist’s music that I really like. Of course I’d rather have a better sounding copy of a given album, but I won’t pay insane prices for them. It’s all about the music. If I wouldn’t go see them in a concert, I wouldn’t listen to them at home.

I’ll listen to a mediocre regular pressing of The Royal Scam or Pretzel Logic before Janis Ian. Maybe you want to sell me your second best copy of Rumours 🙂
sokogear OP
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I please list in the OP, so no question mark.

Maybe to @millercarbon was a comment.....

What about your list @fuzztone?
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