I've tried getting into Peterson but it somehow doesn't work for me. I like the style, but the music seems so predictable. In the same way Dixieland or Big Band Jazz is predictable, you know what I mean? I guess it's not my kind of jazz.
Something that is'nt too well-known but definitely is my kind of jazz, is Kenny Dorham's album "Quiet Kenny".
This is perhaps the best Jazz album I've ever encountered.
The youtube version (and, has to be said, the CD version) sound awful. It probably doesn't come over the way I want it to. But please get this record people
I am not a very big Brubeck fan myself. I feel like he's making "Jazz for the Masses". It's all a bit too easy. I don't say I don't respect the man's talents, but I think he can do better than he does. Did. Whatever.
There's one exception to this. It's called "Jazz Impressions of Eurasia"
A Friend of mine had been looking for this album for years. I found it for him in a store in Rotterdam. He played it at my place and, even though I'm listening to the song now on youtube... Goosebumps. It's abolutely brilliant.
Enjoy