Man I can give you a whole list of cool stuff, here we go...
John Coltrane - Blue Train - you must get this one. It has become one of my favorites, and if you like the trombone player (I play trombone, so I really like him), then you should get...
Curtis Fuller - New Trombone - this one has Sonny Red on sax, and if you like his style of playing, then you should check out
Sonny Rollins - Volume 2 - and here you will find one of the most respected jazz trombonists ever, J.J. Johnson (and he has a whole load of great cd's). But this album just has awesome players on it... like
Art Blakey (drums) - A Night in Tunisia - Moanin' - Roots and Herbs
Horace Silver (piano) - Horace-Scope - Blowin' the Blues Away
Thelonius Monk (piano) - I really don't have any of his stuff
Paul Chambers (bass)
And you should also check out some of this...
Lee Morgan - Cornbread - The Sidewinder
Freddie Hubbard - Hub-Tones
Clifford Brown - Brown and Roach, Inc.
John Coltrane - Giant Steps (showing his truly technical ability), and definately, A Love Supreme (you even get to hear him sing... kinda, heh)
Art Farmer - Modern Art
Miles Davis - Workin'
Dave Brubeck - Time Out - Time Further Out (I guess as a basis if you like this style of jazz)
Joshua Redman - Timeless Tales
Wayne Shorter - Speak No Evil
Cannonball Adderley - Somethin' Else
Herbie Hancock - Headhunters - Cantaloupe Island
I'm gonna have to pick up that My Funny Valentine concert album... man, Ron Carter on bass? and all of the rest of the players... that's sweet stuff.
if you like big band music, check out some Buddy Rich, or Stan Kenton...
oh and maaan, you gotta check out some Jimmy Smith! what an awesome organ player... get Back at the Chicken Shack or something.. maybe House Party? it's got Donald Bailey and Art Blakey on drums, Lee Morgan on trumpet, some Curtis Fuller on trombone, George Coleman, Lou Donaldson, Tina Brooks on sax, Kenny Burrell and Eddie McFadden on guitar (although I'm not really familiar with them or some of the sax players)
drum and bass jazz? heh, check out Russell Gunn - Ethnomusicology Volume 1
oohh, maybe some Bela Fleck - Outbound... it's got Victor Wooten, one of the best bass players in the world...
and if you like bass... definately check out some Jaco Pastorius (he played with Weather Report)
maybe, The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame, Birds of Fire - hey, it's got John McLaughlin... great guitar player.
and source direct, yeah...
John Scofield - Agogo - it has Medeski, Martin and Wood too, so if you like that stuff, get some of them...
oh and I haven't heard any Stanley Jordan, Charlier Hunter, Dave Holland, or The Guitar Trio... I might just have to check them out myself
okay, it's time to end this... hope that helped, and sorry if i overloaded you... but hey, you have tons of time to check out all of this stuff, so get to it!