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| Art Blakey Quintet | A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 | 1954 |
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| Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers | Moanin' | 1958 |
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| Miles Davis | Jeru/Birth of the Cool | 1954 |
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| Erroll Garner | Concert by the Sea | 1956 |
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| Benny Goodman | The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert | 1950 |
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| Herbie Hancock | Maiden Voyage | 1965 |
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| Lee Morgan | The Sidewinder | 1964 |
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| The Quintet |
Jazz at Massey Hall/The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever | 1953 |
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| Sonny Rollins | Saxophone Colossus | 1956 |
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| Horace Silver | Song for My Father | 1965 |
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