Can anyone recommend some Swing/Jazz for me please?

Stuff I like, for what it's worth...

Rahsaan Roland Kirk (the Inflated Tear is a bee-yoo-tee-full album)
Coltrane (of course)
Miles Davis before the mid-70s (Kind of Blue is a classic, as is Birth of the Cool; Bitches Brew is cool, to, if you like it plugged, noisy, and abstract)
Charles Mingus (Oh Yeah is a good one, but there's a lot of stuff out there)

Other stuff...
Pretty much any Count Basie will give you a good taste of the old big band sound. That guy Ellington -- I hear he was pretty good, too.
If you're a fan of the piano, listen to some Art Tatum. The guy was absolutely amazing.

You mention Benson -- dunno about any guitar stuff. Never really got into it.

I have a few of Count Basie's albums which are pretty good.

If you are looking for some modern Jazz take a peek at Diana Krall (taking a peek can be taken literally too. She's a real cutie. Why she married Elvis Costello is beyond me. lol).

Well, you may try here
Listen to BBC Radio (Jazz)
and discover perhaps some new favourites.

Personally, I could imagine, some of the Chris Barber reords /cd's I mean) from the 90's come very close to what you are looking for (besides the ones noted above): LINK

The first few Squirrel Nut Zippers albums are worthy... especially 'Hot'.

The Susie Arioli Swing Band is phenomenal. She does a lot of 1920's/30's stuff.

Will poke around at home to see what else to recommend.

Do you prefer your swing hot or cold?

Swing - Try some of the old swing from the 30/40's like Ella, Duke Ellingtion, Benny Goodman, early Frank, the Dorsey Brothers, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller and so on. These greats started the show, listen to them and you'll appreciated all the other selections so much more.

I've been listening to a lot of Nina Simone lately and groovin to her smokey sounds.

Great great great great great great. Didn't want to fork over the cash to see her in Seattle, then she died. Feel like a damn cheap fool now...

Miles Davis' seven (actually eight) CD set "the complete live at the plugged nickel 1965" (columbia) is worth trying.

satt and the other PD already mentioned Miles Davis (Sketches of Spain is my pick).

Charlie Parker.

Post-Depression era? Billie Holiday is one of my favorite soloists; Harry James, Tommy Dorsey, Glenn Miller all had great bands.

Try on a little Fats Waller. "One nevers knows, does one?"

edgarbythe is the audiophile here; let me go get him.

Grand Duke - a lot of the recommendations here are quite different from the swing/jazz styles you were interested in. Maybe look for online samples of some of these artists before you invest anything in them.

I like a lot of Jazz, but not in an organized way. I recognize pieces when I hear them, but can't name them; mostly, I am no help on a thread like this. Besides what has been recommended, I can, however recommend GENIUS PLUS SOUL = JAZZ, by Ray Charles. There is a surprising album which I have on vinyl featuring Bob Wills, which sounds very swing instead of country/western. I don't recall the label or album title. Anyone interested, I could go through my collection.

(Psst, beth, he mentioned george benson as well, so we're already looking at a wide-ranging pallete/palate...)

here's a few you might like:
Miles Davis-Kind Of Blue
Charles Mingus-Mingus Ah Um
Thelonious Monk-Monks Dream
Bud Powell-The Complete Bud Powell
Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers-The Big Beat

there are lots of "Best Of" CDs out there, so i would recomend getting a few of those and find out which band strikes your fancy.

Many thanks to all! Circumstances dictated my absence from A2K for a while, so apologies if it looked like I'd bailed!