 | Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $3.49 Coolest, Miles and Bill Evans and Coltrane & Cannonball play Cool. Best selling Jazz CD of all time. Very relaxing after a stressful day. Some songs, like "Blue in Green" actually written by uncredited Bill Evans. SACD has best recording, by far.
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 | Anniversary! by Stan Getz
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $5.58 Getz best. Getz, the master of Cool, at the top of his form, lyrically soaring on his 60th birthday, only a few years before his death. My most-played Getz album.
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 | Bossas and Ballads: The Lost Sessions by Stan Getz
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $8.86 late Stan is Cool, rivals Anniversary for wonderful. not released til years after his death, one of his most listenable.
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 | 'Round About Midnight by Miles Davis
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.46 Miles plays it Cool with Coltrane. And Miles plays with feeling! this is the finest, most emotive of many versions of the title song, by Thelonius Monk. Miles wonderful version of "Bye Bye Blackbird". SACD has best recording by far.
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 | The Complete Village Vanguard Recordings, 1961 by Bill Evans
Buy new: $17.97 / Used from: $15.99 early Bill Evans, recorded live in the sequence they were played, and therefore preferable to Waltz for Debbie & Village Vanguard CDs which list repeated performances of the same song. If Evans style sounds familiar, it's because nearly every jazz pianist since him imitates the playing style he invented.
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 | Portrait in Jazz by Bill Evans
Buy used from: $7.00 very early Evans without rushed tempos. Rain or Come Shine, Autumn leaves.
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 | New Jazz Conceptions by Bill Evans
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.44 early Bill Evans plays it Cool (and innovative). reinvents piano forever
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 | Quartets by Stan Getz
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.25 great early Getz with Al Haig
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 | Esoteric by Al Haig
more Al Haig, plays it Cool with a million fingers, slower lyrical tempos with sudden virtuosic bursts of 132nd notes. How can he play that fast, that lyrically, in tempo??
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 | Invitation by Al Haig
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $29.79 Al Haig, king of the Bepop piano plays it Cool with ten thousand fingers
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 | Birth of the Cool by Miles Davis
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.00 Miles Davis and Gerry Mulligan Birth the Cool
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 | Time Out by The Dave Brubeck Quartet
Buy new: $8.97 / Used from: $5.43 how many beats per measure??? full of odd time signatures, revolutionary at it's release. With Paul Desmond on alto, who may be the best talent in the group.
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 | The Best of the Gerry Mulligan Quartet with Chet Baker by Gerry Mulligan Quartet
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.50 Gerry teaches Chet
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 | Blue Serge by Serge Chaloff
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $6.00 Serge Chaloff teaches Gerry
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 | In Paris: Barclay Sessions 1955-1956 by Chet Baker
Buy new: $10.97 / Used from: $4.50 Chet with and without virtuousic bassist Twardzik, who od-ed durring this session.
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 | Jazz Samba by Stan Getz
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $8.68 Stan plays Brazilian Cool with Charlie Byrd on guitar (non vocal). The only album in music history to be number 1 on the Billboard Jazz, Rock and Pop charts at the same time!
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 | Getz/Gilberto by Stan Getz
Buy new: $11.97 / Used from: $5.00 with vocal, the second best-selling Jazz CD of all time. Jobim & Gilberto play, Astrud sings & Getz effortlessly soars. The only thing one can fault this album on is you hear it a lot! SACD has best recording
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 | The Complete Aladdin Recordings by Lester Young
Buy new: $15.97 / Used from: $15.95 before there was Cool there was Lester. With Nat King Cole
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 | In Person Friday and Saturday Nights at the Blackhawk, Complete by Miles Davis
Buy new: $44.98 / Used from: $22.99 classic live Miles Davis show, with Hank Mobley's wonderful solo on Bye Bye Blackbird
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 | Someday My Prince Will Come by Miles Davis
Buy used from: $6.29 Miles, Bill and Cool it. The underrated Hank Mobley plays a wonderfully lyric tenor and shows why he sounds better than Coltrane.
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 | Trio and Sextets by Al Haig
Al Haig plays it Cool with Stan and Wardell Gray
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 | Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet by Miles Davis Quintet
Buy used from: $2.00 Miles Relaxes and plays it Cool with Coltrane again
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 | Somethin' Else by Cannonball Adderley
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $5.95 Miles and Cannonball play it Cool. I love the lyrical "Autumn Leaves" which Miles plays with great feeling.
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 | Soul Station by Hank Mobley
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $6.75 Overlooked and underrated in the 60's, Hank Mobley with a beautiful lyric tone. His most popular album
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 | Modern Art: The Complete Art Pepper Aladdin Recordings, Vol. 2 by Art Pepper
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.25 Pepper, on alto, lays down a remarkable session between incarcerations.
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 | Workout by Hank Mobley
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $6.83 bop and lyricism - The best things in life are free
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 | Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants by Miles Davis
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $7.31 Miles Cools it with Giants
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 | Blue Sun by Mark Isham
Buy used from: $4.40 new (not 50's-60's) but Cool, thought and meditative nevertheless!
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 | Lush Life by John Coltrane
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $2.19 even Coltrane Plays it Cool
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| Easy Living by Paul Desmond
Buy used from: $2.74 Paul Desmond, from Dave Brubeck group plays it Cool as a Dry Martini. I don't know why but this is the wrong album cover. The egomanical Brubeck forced Desmond to signed a contract saying that he would never to record with any other pianist!
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 | Soultrane by John Coltrane
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.39 Cooltrane
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