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100 Essential Jazz Albums

The Set List found this 5/12/2008 on newyorker.com

While finishing “ Bird-Watcher ,” a Profile of the jazz broadcaster and expert Phil Schaap, I thought it might be useful to compile a list of a hundred essential jazz albums, more as a guide for the uninitiated than as a source of quarrelling for the collector. At first, I asked . . .