Essential Motown, Blues, and Jazz albums/ artists
 

I'm looking for some music in the Jazz, Blues, and Motown genres. Help me out.

As far as blues goes;

Muddy Waters
B.B. King
Robert Johnson
Howlin' Wolf
John Lee Hooker

miles davis - kind of blue

Thelonious Monk - Brilliant Corners

Also,

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

Motown is a pretty obvious bunch to start with:

Marvin Gaye
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles
Stevie Wonder
Jackson 5
The Supremes
The Marvelettes
Martha and the Vandellas
Temptations
Jimmy Ruffin
David Ruffin
Four Tops
Tammi Terrell
Gladys Knight and the Pips
Jermaine Jackson
Rick James
Commodores


That pretty much covers the range of sounds and the pre-80's era although there are obviously a huge host of other artists and plenty more on the motown label now which you wouldn't class as 'motown'. But yah.

Bitches Brew is also pretty fucking good.

Coltrane.

Bobby Blue Band
The Foundations
Gladys Knight
The Isley Brothers
The Originals