Best ever? Well, good solos at least. In alphabetical order

Michaels Curtis' list

Louis Armstrong, West End Blues

Bix Beiderbecke, Singing the Blues

Stan Getz, Early Autumn

Dizzy Gillespie, A Night in Tunisia

Coleman Hawkins, Body and Soul

Charlie Parker, I Remember You

Django Reinhardt, Nuages

Artie Shaw, Stardust

Art Tatum, Tiger Rag

Lester Young, Fine and Mellow, backing Billie Holiday

A. G. Zaire's list

Louis Armstrong (cornet) Struttin' with Some Barbecue

Louis Armstrong (voc) Heebie Jeebies

Seamus Blake, Goodbye Portk Pie Hat (hon. mention to a live performance by Craig Handy)

Tommy Flanagan, With Malice Toward None, from The Birthday Concert

Dizzy Gillespie, A Night in Tunisia, Jazz@ Massey Hall

Charlie Parker, Parker's Mood

Sonny Rollins, You Don't Know What Love Is from Saxophone Colossus.

Chucho Valdes, La Negra Tomasa

Lester Young, Easy Living, backing Billie Holiday

Ben Webster, Cottontail, with the Ellington band