Kind of Blue (1959)

Awesome jazz stuff; more albums that need no intro!

Do not fear mistakes. There are none.

The Shape of Jazz to Come (1959)

Awesome avant-garde jazz, very influential in that it is arguably the very early starting point of free jazz, since it featured no chord structure and multiple players improvising simultaneously.

"I decided, if I'm going to be poor and black and all, the least thing I'm going to do is to try and find out who I am. I created everything about me."

Giant Steps (1960)

Awesome hard bop from one of the most influential saxophonists ever, full of standards.

"Sometimes I wish I could walk up to my music for the first time, as if I had never heard it before. Being so inescapably a part of it, I'll never know what the listener gets, what the listener feels, and that's too bad." - John Coltrane