The list goes on and on, but a few of my stops would be...
Louis Armstrong in the late 1920s/early 1930s.
Lester Young in Kansas City in the late 1930s.
Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1940-41.
Charlie Parker on 52d Street-mid to late 1940s.
Bird/Diz/Bud--Massey Hall, 1953
Clifford Brown with Max Roach--1954-55
Monk with Coltrane at the Five Spot--1957
Ornette Coleman at the Five Spot--1959
Miles Davis with Coltrane--1960 European tour
Charles Mingus at the Showplace, with Eric Dolphy--1960
John Coltrane Quintet with Eric Dolphy--1961
Charles Mingus at the Village Vanguard 1963--Black Saint big band.
Charles Mingus European tour 1964, with Dolphy, Byard, Jordan.
Lee Morgan--circa 1960s.