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Nov 24, 2024, 25 tweets

An introduction to Cool Jazz in 25 records - A thread🧵

Slide into the smooth, smoky world of Cool Jazz with these essential albums that'll make your ears think they're lounging in a velvet-lined lounge...

1. Miles Davis - Birth Of The Cool

2. Dave Brubeck Quartet - Time Out

3. Bill Evans Trio - Portrait Of Jazz

4. Grant Green - Street Of Dream

5. Chet Baker - Chet Baker Sings

6. Ahmad Jamal - At The Pershing: But Not For Me

7. The Modern Jazz Quartet - Django

8. Lee Konitz - Motion

9. Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Gerry Mulligan Quartet Volume 1

10. Oliver Nelson - The Blues And The Abstract Truth

11. Art Pepper - Art Pepper Meets The Rhythm Section

12. George Shearing & Dakota Staton - In The Night

13. Stan Getz - Stan Getz Plays

14. Paul Desmond - Easy Living

15. Bill Evans and Jim Hall - Undercurrent

16. The Horace Silver Quartet - Song For My Father

17. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue

18. Lester Young & Oscar Peterson - Lester Young with the Oscar Peterson Trio

19. Gil Evans - Out Of The Cool

20. Vince Guaraldi Trio - Jazz Impressions Of Black Orpheus

21. The Oscar Peterson Trio- We Get Requests

22. Stan Getz - West Coast Jazz

23. Coleman Hawkins & Ben Webster - Coleman Hawkins Encounters Ben Webster

24. Jim Hall - Concierto

25. Bill Evans - You Must Believe In Spring

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