Learn more about jazz

I want to know the difference between vary fields of jazz and the singers and musicians of them.

I love my John Coltrane and Bix Beiderbecke and am a big Madeline Peyroux fan, but feel there is a whole world of jazz out there which it would never be humanly possible to listen to. Lucky enough to have a conglomeration of locals who play fine jazz down my pub once a month. I need to take the garbage CD’s out of the car and replace them with soley quality jazz to get round to knowing Miles, Billie Holiday and Artie Shaw

i have put a whole series of jazz discs on my netflix list.

Thank you Stephen Boudreau!