for me jazz means bebop because improvisation is what makes jazz for me, but if you count swing as jazz than yeah-also, i'm a saxophone lover, so most of these aren't really super trumpet filled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKR94N_W79A - Somethin' Else Cannonball Adderley Quintet, classic bebop album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyirrcT5a6Q - Thembi by Pharoah Sanders is a classic free jazz album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcknIbp-A4Y - this is a pretty good version of sort of big band/swing song "In the Mood" by Glenn Miller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTLK4LlXBac - Work Song is a great album by Nat Adderley, it's a lesser known album, but still good
Artists that are basically always good-
Benny Goodman, Cannonball Adderley, Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, and I really like the Swedish artist Scott Hamilton, I think he has a really smooth sound.
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