Building a Jazz Library

By Steve Williams

Salt Lake City, UT – This is intended to be a listing of artists and recordings deemed to be essential in building a basic jazz library. Some of the recordings are simply a best of recording, so as to introduce a collector to an overall composite of the artist's work, not necessarily the most historic recording. Numbers don't determine importance of one recording over the other.

This listing could easily have numbered in the hundreds, but this grouping gives an enthusiast a basic introduction into some of the important movers and shakers of the jazz scene.