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Look into Ornette Coleman's The Shape of Jazz to Come. Don't let the free jazz label scare you off, this stuff has more catchy melody than most "straight" jazz. Damn fine.
Another album/track you should check out is Pharoah Sanders' Karma. Most of the album is comprised of the 30+ min "The Creator has a Master Plan". Again, this is in a free jazz vain, but incredibly melodic, energetic music.
Oh, I don't know if you're explored any jazz fusion, but check out Miles Davis' Bitches Brew and In A Silent Way. Seeing you're on a SY message board, you'd probably appreciate some rock with your jazz. I stayed away from fusion for a long time. I had this idea that it would be super corny and dated. But those two albums are amazing amazing amazing.
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He would clear the rubble from the mouth of the shaft, he would bend the handle of the teaspoon in a loop and tie the string to it, he would lower it down the shaft deep into the earth, and when he brought it up there would be water in the bowl of the spoon; and in that way, he would say, one can live.
J.M. Coetzee, "Life and Times of Michael K"
Free music at: www.last.fm/music/Jacques+de+Villiers
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