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These are some of my personal favorites, all of which my dad introduced me to. I will also mention that I didn’t like the first two the first one I heard them. Took me a few listens to “get it”.
Someone recently recommended Chet Baker. Check out the album “Chet”.
I would add:
Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet
"Take Five" by Dave Brubeck
"Giant Steps" by John Coltrane
Okay, so I'm a very recent passenger on the jazz train. Went most of my life not enjoying it because the stuff I was hearing didn't work for me. Then I ran across a gentleman, Abraham Laboriel that changed that. This video is of of the first I watched that flipped the switch in my head.
See, I figured out after hearing that stuff that it was mostly jazz horn I wasn't a fan of, though that's slowly changing. I definitely like bass, drum, and piano forward stuff the best.
Just gonna drop a few links for your perusal at leisure. There's no way to tell what you'll like or not, so I'm just picking a handful of stuff that makes me groove with it.
But I think it's important to note that jazz is a pretty big umbrella. The kind of smooth jazz that's closest to the down tempo stuff you're already into is even pretty broad in itself. My take is that jazz is less about clear delineations of style and more about the relationship between the player, their instrument, and the audience. When it's a group, they sink in and follow each other around a theme, and that's when jazz gets great.
When you find stuff like that where a group is in sync and flowing, I think you'll eventually find that it calls to you even if it doesn't fit what you already like.
There’s some really great suggestions here, I’ll add a few as well. I’ll start with some newer stuff, will be piano and organ heavy, but that’s what my husband plays so we tend to listen to that a lot. You should use this as a good way to meet your neighbours! Pop over and ask what they’re playing. Enjoy exploring the world of jazz, its mighty fun :)
The Bad Plus
GoGo Penguin
Bill Laurance
EST (Esbjörn Svensson Trio)
Bill Frisell (more guitar, has a bit of bluegrass. Blues Dream is one of my all time favourite albums)
Billie Holiday (really can’t go wrong with anything from her)
Dave Brubeck- Take Five (classic album)
Kieth Jarrett- Koln Concert (another fav)
Etta James - At Last (her voice! Amazing!)
I’ll probably be back to add some more haha.
Edit - thanks for the rec with the Spotify link! Really liking that.
Edit 2 - my husband suggested Mark Farina - Mushroom Jazz, def more in the realm of beats.
Dave Brubeck Quartet
Classics are classics for a reason, so that is doubtlessly where you should begin: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue.
It's probably the best jazz album ever produced - certainly one of the most important ones - and the opener So What is pretty much the perfect jazz song, with Miles' solo on it being everything a jazz solo should be.
Some good suggestions in here already but I’ll throw in wynton Marsalis for some classic jazz and pat metheny for some fun jazz guitar
Slightly different but I’ve digging acid jazz recently (sons of kemet, the comet is coming are a couple)
Welcome! Here's some of my favorite artists
Bobby Hutchinson
Wes Montgomery
Ronnie Laws
Idris Muhammad
Miles Davis comes to mind first.