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Double Bass Good for walking

G'day from NZ

I'm a long time jazz enthusiast who has only recently really got into learning to play. Hopefully will be getting myself a teacher asap but in the mean time could someone please suggest to me a few good charts to walk over. I've been doing some walking over modal tracks recently and found it can be quite hard. Especially when you have 16 measures of D dorian (yes, So What :)) P.C seems to find repetition to be the key there. My theory is pretty good and I feel like I know what sounds good when you're walking just from years of listening to great players. So any charts. Chances are I will have the song in my iTunes but can't be sure, so the more suggestions the more likely I am to be able to play something. If you have a chord sheet of the track you could attach that would be even better.

Any help would be greatly appreciated,
Slim.
 
The Miles sextet recording of "on Green Dolphin Street" from the Kind of Blue 50th Legacy edition is truly wonderful - although there's lots of pedal, the walking is great.

Coltrane,Cannonball, Bill Evans, PC and Jimmy Cobb - can't recommend it highly enough!!
 
If you are interested in hearing some great walking bass, very clearly played on standards - then you have to listen to :

"Motion" by Lee Konitz - with Elvin Jones and Sonny Dallas on bass!

Both my regular Jazz teacher and our own Ed Fuqua recommended this to me and every time I listen to it, I feel I learn more. So there is no chordal instrument and it is just bass to outline the chords all the way through some of the most famous standards.