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If you're a beginner, you can always start with:
Bigband/swing: Duke ellington, Glen Miller, Count Basie
Then move up:
Be-bop: Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie
My personal favorite:
Cool jazz: John Coltrane, Dexter Gordon, Chet Baker, Miles Davis, Coleman Hawkins, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Thelonius Monk etc.....
One way to do it is go to your local library and borrow the Ken Burns Jazz CD set - It's a little heavy on Louis Armstrong (which I don't like) but it's a decent crash course or starter to get you acquainted with jazz.
Don't forget, jazz is also user friendly with a lot of vocalists as well.
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