<---favorite Miles Davis album is "Bitches Brew" and the Complete Sessions are sweet as well

if you really want to check out some traditional jaazmusic, you should listen to:
Louis Armstrong / Hot five and hot seven (4 cd's)
Duke Ellington / Webster & Blanton band (4 cd's)
Count Basie / Decca recordings (3 cd's)
Billie Holiday & Lester Young / Complete recordings (2 cd's)
Charlie Parker / Savoy & Dial masters (4 cd's)
Bud Powell / The amazing Bud Powell vol. 1
Thelonious Monk / Brilliant corners
Miles Davis / Birth of the cool
Miles Davis / Kind of blue
John Coltrane / My favorite things
John Coltrane / A love surpreme
Sonny Rollins / Saxophone colossus
Ornette Coleman / The shape of jazz to come

let me add "Kind of Blue" to this, and also "Panthalassa" and "In a Silent Way"

Miles Davis is a musical GOD. My music theory teacher named his beagle after the man, he thought just that much of him. There are certain artists that perfected jazz. He was one of those very select few.

i kinda disagree with you there, I don't think you can "perfect" any genre/style of music

Oh, but I think you can. When music was just born, it didn't have any real shape or identity to it, like a baby. It is new. But, as it grows and people start tweeking it here and there, it only gets better and better (unless it's polka, and then it only got worse and worse... lol ). It's like a good wine: it only gets better over time.

Yeah, but just like people, music can't be perfect, that's my opinion
Even though miles davis rocks!