Info:
Artist: Various
Album:  West Coast Jazz Essentials
Year: 2021
Genre: Jazz
Format/Quality: .mp3 320 kbps

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While the jazz scenes in Los Angeles and San Francisco were often overlooked compared to their East Coast and Midwest counterparts during the '40s and '50s, the West Coast has long produced a kaleidoscope of fantastic pioneering music. West Coast jazz often refers to the lighter sounds of cool jazz, which thrived in L.A. during the '50s, but the city was also an early base for beboppers like Charlie Parker and Howard McGhee, and it was where Ornette Coleman first formulated his paradigm-shifting free jazz in the late '50s. Big-band leaders Stan Kenton and Shorty Rogers forged a complex sound that moved away from the dance floor, while small-group leaders like Chico Hamilton and Jimmy Giuffre experimented with classical influences. Up in the Bay Area, pianist Dave Brubeck pioneered his metrically complex sound, eventually topping the charts with Time Out in 1959. The region continues to be a jazz hotbed, proven by the epic spirituality of Kamasi Washington or the hip-hop-drenched sounds of Terrace Martin.

Tracklist:
01. Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Bernie's Tune
02. Charlie Parker Quartet - Confirmation (Take 3 / Master)
03. Serge Chaloff - A Handful Of Stars
04. Miles Davis - Jeru
05. Hampton Hawes - All the Things You Are
06. John Anderson, Chico Hamilton, Buddy Collette, Gerald Wiggins, Curtis Counce, Jimmy Hall - Tanganyika
07. Benny Carter, Frank Rosolino, Ben Webster, André Previn, Barney Kessel, Leroy Vinnegar, Shelly Manne - A Walkin' Thing
08. Frank Morgan - Champ, The
09. Art Pepper - Straight Life
10. Charlie "Bird" Parker - Relaxin' At Camarillo
11. Dodo Marmarosa - Up In Dodo's Room (Take 1)
12. Lucky Thompson - Boppin' the Blues
13. The Gerald Wilson Orchestra - Dissonance in Blues
14. Woody Herman & His Orchestra - Four Brothers (Album Version)
15. Howard Mcghee - Rifftide
16. Slim Gaillard - Chicken Rhythm
17. Camille Howard - Money Blues
18. Nat King Cole Trio - Straighten Up And Fly Right
19. Jimmy Giuffre - The Train and the River
20. Red Norvo - If I Had You
21. Art Pepper - You Go To My Head
22. Bob Brookmeyer - Jada (2004 - Remaster)
23. Buddy Collette - Jazz City Blues
24. Richie Kamuca - Star Eyes
25. Sonny Rollins - I'm An Old Cowhand
26. Curtis Counce Quintet - The Countdown
27. Teddy Edwards Quartet - Higgin's Hideaway
28. Sonny Criss - Easy Living
29. Harold Land - Delirium
30. Jim Hall - Thanks For The Memory
31. Bob Enevoldsen, Marty Paich, Red Mitchell, Howard Roberts, Don Heath, Larry Bunker - Iron Works
32. The Paul Bley Quartet - 0 Plus One
33. Fred Katz - Sometimes I'm Happy
34. Chet Baker - Let's Get Lost
35. Jimmy Hamilton And His Orchestra - In a Sentimental Mood
36. Boyd Raeburn - Duck Waddle
37. June Christy - Something Cool (Mono)
38. Chris Connor - All About Ronnie
39. Chico Hamilton - Beyond the Blue Horizon
40. Gerry Mulligan - Frenesi
41. Stan Getz - Four
42. Warne Marsh - Smog Eyes
43. Dave Brubeck, Paul Desmond - A Foggy Day
44. Jimmy Giuffre, Jack Sheldon - Sultana
45. Cy Touff, Richie Kamuca, Pete Jolly, Leroy Vinnegar, Chuck Flores - Prez-Ence
46. Herb Geller, Harold Land, Ray Brown, Lou Levy, Kenny Dorham, Lawrence Marable - An Air for the Heir
47. Ornette Coleman - Lonely Woman
48. Charles Mingus - Weird Nightmare
49. Frank Rosolino - Frank 'N Earnest
50. Clifford Brown - Daahoud
51. Charlie Parker - A Night In Tunisia
52. Lennie Niehaus - Whose Blues?
53. Don Fagerquist - Love Is Just Around the Corner
54. Miles Davis - Move
55. Pete Jolly - Clickin' with Clax
56. Chico Hamilton With Paul Horn - Katz Up
57. Howard Roberts - Terpsichore (Original Mix)
58. Flute Fraternity - Baubles, Bangles & Beads
59. Sonny Rollins - How High The Moon
60. Mel Tormé - Lullaby of Birdland
61. Laurindo Almeida, Bud Shank - Simpatico
62. Vince Guaraldi, Caj Tjader, Stan Getz Sextet - Ginza Samba (Bonus Track)
63. Erroll Garner - Autumn Leaves (Original Edited Concert - Live at Sunset School, Carmel-by-the-Sea, CA, September 1955)
64. Dexter Gordon, Chuck Thompson, Jimmy Robinson, Leroy Vinnegar, Carl Perkins - Blowin' for Dootsie
65. Marty Paich - Easy Listnin'
66. Jack Montrose - Paradox
67. Lawrence Marable Quartet, James Clay - Airtight
68. Ornette Coleman - Peace
69. Hampton Hawes - Love Is Just Around the Corner
70. Chet Baker - To Mickey's Memory
71. Red Callender Sextette - Chico's Boogie
72. Art Pepper - Diane's Dilemma
73. Shorty Rogers, Jimmy Giuffre, Pete Jolly, Curtis Counce, Shelly Manne - Martians Go Home (From Vol. 1, "Hollywood, March 1, 1955")
74. The Dave Brubeck Quartet - Gone With the Wind
75. Chico Hamilton Quintet, Buddy Collette - The Sage
76. Pete Rugolo and His Orchestra - Laura
77. Stan Kenton - Thermopolae
78. Bill Holman - Back to Minors
79. Maynard Ferguson Octet - Hymn to Her
80. Clifford Brown - Joy Spring
81. Carmell Jones - Hip Trolley
82. Dexter Gordon - Daddy Plays the Horn
83. Ornette Coleman - When Will the Blues Leave? (Remastered)
84. The Mel Lewis Sextet - You Took Advantage of Me
85. Conte Candoli - Jazz City Blues
86. The Warne Marsh Quartet - Billie's Bounce
87. Barney Kessel - My Old Flame
88. Laurindo Almeida, The Danzaneros - The Big Town (Remastered)
89. The Gerald Wiggins Trio - The Man That Got Away
90. The Dave Brubeck Trio - 'S Wonderful (Album Version)
91. Stan Levey - La chaloupée
92. Buddy Collette - A Nice Day
93. Lee Konitz, Gerry Mulligan Quartet - Lover Man (Live At The Haig, Los Angeles / 1953)
94. Terry Gibbs - Dancing In The Dark