Suggested listening for beginners

After our JazzCode session at 606 Club in London last week I recieved a nice letter from a Swiss account executive working for a leading multi-national IT company attending London Business School:

Dear Carl,

thank you very much for your performance yesterday - I think it was great and inspiring. I am an absolute jazz beginner and you showed a slide in 606 with some of your favorite records - can I ask you to give me me a few
recommendations if I wanted to start with jazz listening?

Thank you, Thomas

Here is what I think would be a good start:

1. Kind of Blue with Miles Davis
2. Coltrane Plays the Blues
3. John Coltrane and Duke Ellington
4. Any record with Errol Garner
5. Jazz Samba with Stan Getz
6. Milestones with Miles Davis
7. Porgy and Bess with Miles Davis
8. Big Beat with Art Blakey