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    This document is a list of 100 tracks that provide a history of cool jazz from 1923 to 2008. It includes seminal recordings by early innovators like Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. Major developments are highlighted such as the emergence of bebop in the late 1940s with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. The list also covers classic recordings from the 1950s by artists like Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Bill Evans that defined the West Coast cool jazz style. It concludes with more modern practitioners of cool jazz from the late 20th century onward.

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    This document is a list of 100 tracks that provide a history of cool jazz from 1923 to 2008. It includes seminal recordings by early innovators like Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. Major developments are highlighted such as the emergence of bebop in the late 1940s with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. The list also covers classic recordings from the 1950s by artists like Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Bill Evans that defined the West Coast cool jazz style. It concludes with more modern practitioners of cool jazz from the late 20th century onward.

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    This document is a list of 100 tracks that provide a history of cool jazz from 1923 to 2008. It includes seminal recordings by early innovators like Frank Trumbauer, Bix Beiderbecke, and Duke Ellington. Major developments are highlighted such as the emergence of bebop in the late 1940s with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis. The list also covers classic recordings from the 1950s by artists like Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, and Bill Evans that defined the West Coast cool jazz style. It concludes with more modern practitioners of cool jazz from the late 20th century onward.

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    A HISTORY OF COOL JAZZ IN 100 TRACKS

    Edited by Ted Gioia

    Frank Trumbauer:
    I Never Miss the Sunshine (1923) 

    Ferde Grofé:
    Mississippi Suite (1925) 

    Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke:


    Singin' the Blues (1927)

    Frank Trumbauer & Bix Beiderbecke:


    I'm Coming Virginia (1927) 

    Bix Beiderbecke:
    In a Mist (1927) 

    Duke Ellington:
    Black Beauty (1928) 

    Red Norvo:
    In a Mist (1933)

    Red Norvo:
    Dance of the Octopus (1933)

    Benny Carter:
    Nightfall (1936)

    Count Basie (with Lester Young):


    Oh, Lady Be Good (1936)

    Billie Holiday & Lester Young:


    All of Me (1941) 

    Claude Thornhill:
    Snowfall (1941)

    Nat King Cole:


    Straighten Up and Fly Right (1943)
    Lennie Tristano:
    I Can�t Get Started (1946)

    Dave Brubeck Octet:


    Curtain Music (Closing Theme) (1946) 

    Nat King Cole:


    Route 66 (1946)

    Charlie Parker:
    Embraceable You (1947) 

    Claude Thornhill:
    Yardbird Suite (1947) 

    Miles Davis Nonet:


    Moon Dreams (live) (1948) 

    Woody Herman (with Stan Getz):


    Early Autumn (1948) 

    Miles Davis Nonet:


    Boplicity (1949) 

    Miles Davis Nonet:


    Venus De Milo (1949)

    Shorty Rogers:
    Popo (1951)

    Shorty Rogers:
    Didi (1951) 

    Lars Gullin:
    Silhouette (1952) 

    Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond:


    You Go to My Head (1952)  This is the quintessential cool jazz duet

    Dave Brubeck & Paul Desmond:


    Over the Rainbow (1952)

    Gerry Mulligan Quartet (with Chet Baker):


    Bernie's Tune (1952) 
    Chet Baker:
    My Funny Valentine (1952) 

    Lennie Tristano (with Warne Marsh & Lee Konitz):


    Out of Nowhere / 317 E. 32nd Street (1952)

    Duke Ellington:
    Reflections in D (1953) 

    June Christy:
    Something Cool (1953)

    Gerry Mulligan Tentette:


    A Ballad (1953)

    The Modern Jazz Quartet:


    Django (1954) 

    Chet Baker:
    But Not for Me (1954)

    Shelly Manne:
    Pas de Trois (1954)

    Miles Davis:
    'Round Midnight (1955)

    Billie Holiday:
    What's New (1955)

    Ahmad Jamal:
    Pavanne (1955)

    The Modern Jazz Quartet:


    Concorde (1955)

    Mel Tormé and the Marty Paich Dek-tette:


    Lulu's Back in Town (1956)

    Miles Davis:
    My Funny Valentine (1956) 

    Teddy Charles Tentet:


    The Quiet Time (1956)
    George Russell:
    All About Rosie (1957)

    Miles Davis:
    My Ship (1957)

    Gil Evans:
    Jambangle (1957)

    The Sauter-Finegan Orchestra:


    These Foolish Things (1957)

    Billie Holiday:
    Fine and Mellow (1957

    Bill Evans:
    Peace Piece (1958)

    Miles Davis:
    Summertime (1958) 

    Jimmy Giuffre:
    The Train and the River (1958)

    Ahmad Jamal:
    Poinciana (1958)

    Bud Shank & Laurindo Almeida:


    Little Girl Blue (1958) 

    Miles Davis:
    My Man's Gone Now (1958)

    João Gilberto:
    Chega de Saudade (1958)

    Chico Hamilton:
    Blue Sands (1958) 

    Miles Davis:
    Flamenco Sketches (1959)

    Miles Davis:
    So What (1959)
    Shelly Manne:
    Summertime (1959)

    Lee Konitz & Jimmy Giuffre:


    Palo Alto (1959) 

    Gunther Schuller:
    Concertino for Jazz Quartet and Orchestra (1959)

    Art Pepper:
    'Round Midnight (1959)

    Miles Davis:
    Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio) (1959) R

    John Lewis:
    Sketch (1959) 

    Gerry Mulligan (featuring Zoot Sims):


    Come Rain or Come Shine (1960)

    Gerry Mulligan (featuring Bob Brookmeyer):


    You Took Advantage of Me (1960)

    Bill Evans:
    My Foolish Heart (1961) 

    Art Farmer:
    Goodbye, Old Girl (1961)

    Stan Getz:
    I�m Late, I�m Late (1961) 

    Miles Davis:
    Someday My Prince Will Come (1961) 

    Jimmy Giuffre (with Paul Bley & Steve Swallow):


    Emphasis (1961) 

    Stan Getz:
    Desafinado (1962)

    Vince Guaraldi:
    Cast Your Fate to the Wind (1962)
    Stan Getz:
    The Girl from Ipanema (1963) 

    Miles Davis:
    Summer Night (1963)

    Henry Mancini:
    The Pink Panther Theme (1963)

    Vince Guaraldi:
    Linus and Lucy (1964)

    Steve Kuhn & Gary McFarland:


    St. Tropez Shuttle (1966)

    Dave Holland:
    Conference of the Birds (1972) 

    Bill Evans & Claus Ogerman:


    Symbiosis (1974)

    Stan Getz & Jimmy Rowles:


    The Peacocks (1975)

    Jim Hall:
    Concierto de Aranjuez (1975) 

    Paul Desmond:
    Wendy (1975)

    Keith Jarrett:
    The K�ln Concert: Part I (1975)

    Cal Tjader:
    When Lights Are Low (1977) 

    Stan Getz:
    Blood Count (1987)

    Chet Baker:
    Stella by Starlight (1987)

    Art Farmer:
    Soul Eyes (1991) 
    Gerry Mulligan:
    Deception (1992) 

    Maria Schneider:
    Evanescence (1992)

    Shirley Horn:
    You Go to My Head (1995)

    Diana Krall:
    S'wonderful (2001) 

    Tomasz Stanko:
    Soul of Things I (2001) 

    Norah Jones:
    Don't Know Why (2002) 

    Madeleine Peyroux:
    Between the Bars (2003)

    Enrico Rava & Stefano Bollani:


    Estate (2006)

    Maria Schneider:
    Cerulean Skies (2007)

    Marcin Wasilewski:
    Cinema Paradiso (2007)

    Teddy Charles:
    Nostalgia in Times Square (2008)

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