I'm going to stick with the ten albums by ten artists notion or else this will be too much Miles Davis, Bill Evans and Pat Metheny;
Kind of Blue--Miles Davis
Beyond the Missouri Sky--Pat Metheny/Charlie Haden
With Symphony Orchestra--Bill Evans
Focus--Stan Getz
Live--Paul Desmond
Monk--Thelonius Monk
My Favorite Things--John Coltrane
The Man with the Golden Arm soundtrack--composed by Elmer Bernstein with big band
Visible World--Jan Garbarek
Liquid Ether--Nils Petter Molvaer
HM: Songs, Brad Mehldau; Time Remembered, John McLaughlin; Music for Piano and Drums, Bill Bruford and Patrick Moraz; Our Man in Paris, Dexter Gordon; I Know about the Life, Archie Shepp; The Billie Holiday Story, Billie Holiday; All Night Long, Alan Holdsworth; Body and Soul, Errol Garner; Colours, Eberhard Weber; Mingus Ah Um, Charles Mingus
Brazilian Jazz Top Ten (no particular order)
Rio Nocturne--Paulo Maura
Brasileira--Antonio Carlos Jobim
Sol Do Meia Dia--Egberto Gismonti
Os Afro Sambas--Baden Powell
Non Stop to Brazil--Luiz Bonfa
Black Orpheus--Trio da Paz
Points of View--Nando Lauria
Live in Montreux--Joao Gilberto
Noite Clara--Ricardo Silveira
Babel--Pau Brasil