Jazz Music to Practice Walking Bass and Soloing?

I have been performing classical contra-bass for about 4-5 years, and have been playing jazz guitar for a year. I'm truly inspired by jazz bass and soloing. I have a few artists that I've been told to listen to to practice with, but I'm not sure exactly which songs I should focus on.

My plan is to go through my jazz book (from guitar-I know my keys and II V's) and then plug in my iphone to my amp and play the songs and improvise a jazz walking bass right over it on my upright bass. My problem is figuring out which songs by these artists are the best to practice over.

Miles Davis
Herbie Hancock
Louis Armstrong
Dizzy Gillespie
Sonny Rollins
Django Reinhardt
Bill Evans
Charles Mangy
Charlie Parker
Clifford Brown
Dexter Gordon
Freddie Hubbard

If you have any suggestions as to how I can practice this step in music, please add that in too!

Depends on you

All of em
all of those artist work is considered a standart jazz tune

lemme add a few
john coltrane
t.monk
benny golson
a.c.jobim
c.corea
etc

practice slowly, speed it up then live happily ever after

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