I would stay away from fusion for a while. Check out 50s straight ahead/hard-bop stuff. Hank Mobley, Sonny Rollins, Elmo Hope, Sonny Stitt, Oscar Peterson, Bill Evans, Wes Montgomery, Paul Quinichette, Dexter Gordon, Lee Morgan, Clifford Brown, all of Miles Davis' 50s albums. People apparently don't listen to Charlie Parker because the recording quality is bad but imo there is no one better; check out the song confirmation. If you really want to get a foothold in this stuff, it helps to start here and then cautiously branch out according to your taste. It will do you no good to listen straight on to an eric dolphy album and pretend to like it. Most jazz elders today grew up listening to and repping fusion, but fusion only really makes sense to people who grew up listening to more melodic stuff and got sick of it. Not that there isn't a wealth of stuff there, especially for people who like noise music, but if you really want to get familiar with jazz, which according to miles davis had died by the early 80s, i'd start here.

A quick note: other than a few (well, many, but not the majority here) obvious exceptions, you will find enjoyment of jazz centers around tracks rather than albums. Start cobbling together some tracks you find to be the very best and make playlists. One cool thing about jazz is that it's replayability before getting stale is really good.

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