Cool Jazz
5,267works
37,128pressings
1948first year
Works per year
Pressed in
Formats
Format by decade
| Format | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinyl | 22% | 95% | 97% | 94% | 60% | 13% | 7% | 30% | 58% |
| CD | · | · | · | · | 26% | 76% | 84% | 57% | 28% |
| Cassette | · | · | · | 4% | 13% | 8% | · | · | 2% |
| File | · | · | · | · | · | · | 2% | 7% | 7% |
| Box Set | 6% | · | · | · | · | 2% | 2% | 1% | 1% |
Sounds like
BopPost BopSwingHard BopModalContemporary JazzSoul-JazzBossa NovaEasy ListeningSmooth JazzBig BandLatin JazzJazz-FunkAfro-Cuban Jazz
Most-pressed works
| Title | Artist | Year | Pressings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time Out | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959 | 545 |
| Birth Of The Cool | Miles Davis | 1957 | 245 |
| Little Girl Blue | Nina Simone | 1959 | 203 |
| Ballads | The John Coltrane Quartet | 1963 | 197 |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas | Vince Guaraldi | 1965 | 193 |
| Concert By The Sea | Erroll Garner | 1956 | 172 |
| Miles Ahead | Miles Davis + 19 | 1957 | 159 |
| Duke Ellington & John Coltrane | Duke Ellington | 1963 | 157 |
| Time Further Out (Miro Reflections) | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1961 | 146 |
| Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits | Dave Brubeck | 1966 | 125 |
| Jazz Giants | George Benson | 1981 | 121 |
| Ahmad Jamal At The Pershing | Ahmad Jamal Trio | 1958 | 117 |
| Chet | Chet Baker | 1959 | 113 |
| Undercurrent | Bill Evans | 1962 | 110 |
| Chet Baker Sings | Chet Baker | 1956 | 104 |
| Moon Beams | The Bill Evans Trio | 1962 | 92 |
| Gone With The Wind | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959 | 91 |
| Django | The Modern Jazz Quartet | 1956 | 88 |
| Concorde | The Modern Jazz Quartet | 1955 | 86 |
| Modern Jazz Performances Of Songs From My Fair Lady | Shelly Manne & His Friends | 1956 | 86 |
| Mulligan Meets Monk | Thelonious Monk | 1957 | 84 |
| Take Five / Blue Rondo A La Turk | The Dave Brubeck Quartet | 1959 | 82 |
| Herbie Mann At The Village Gate | Herbie Mann | 1962 | 82 |
| Take Ten | Paul Desmond | 1963 | 82 |
| Fontessa | The Modern Jazz Quartet | 1956 | 81 |
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Built from the Discogs monthly data dumps (CC0), snapshot 2026-09-01. Counts are of catalogued works and pressings, not of listening.