Top Cool Jazz Albums
Rank All Time Artist Album Subgenre(s) Other Genre(s) Year
1
29
 Miles Davis Kind of Blue Modal Jazz 1959
2
326
 Dave Brubeck Quartet Time Out 1959
3
365
 Miles Davis Classics in Jazz/Birth of the Cool 1954
4
495
 Bill Evans Sunday at the Village Vanguard 1961
5
734
 Bill Evans Waltz for Debby 1962
6
1038
 Miles Davis Miles Ahead 1957
7
1085
 Lennie Tristano Lennie Tristano 1956
8
1102
 Gil Evans Out of the Cool Big Band 1961
9
1382
 The Modern Jazz Quartet Fontessa 1956
10
1444
 Art Pepper Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section 1957
11
1565
 Oscar Peterson Night Train 1963
12
1587
 The Modern Jazz Quartet Django Third Stream 1956
13
1593
 The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet The Art Tatum - Ben Webster Quartet/The Tatum Group Masterpieces, Vol. 8 Stride 1958
14
1904
 Jimmy Giuffre 3 Thesis/1961 Third Stream 1961
15
1956
 Miles Davis Ascenseur pour l'échafaud/Jazz Track Film Score 1958
16
2005
 John Coltrane Ballads Modal Jazz 1963
17
2020
 Stan Getz Focus Avant-Garde Jazz 1961
18
2078
 Charlie Parker Charlie Parker with Strings 1950
19
2135
 Jimmy Giuffre 3 Fusion/1961 Third Stream 1961
20
2275
 Jimmy Giuffre Jimmy Giuffre 3 1957
21
2438
 Bill Evans and Jim Hall Undercurrent Modal Jazz 1962
22
2448
 Chet Baker Chet Baker Sings Standards, Vocal Jazz 1954
23
2515
 Bill Evans Portrait in Jazz 1960
24
2816
 Art Pepper Smack-Up 1960
25
2825
 Lee Konitz & Lennie Tristano Lee Konitz & Lennie Tristano/Subconscious-Lee 1949
26
2862
 Lee Konitz Motion 1961
27
2897
 June Christy Something Cool Vocal Jazz 1954

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Abdullah Ibrahim Water from an Ancient Well 1986
Milt Jackson and John Coltrane Bags & Trane Bebop 1961
Bill Evans Everybody Digs Bill Evans Modal Jazz 1959
Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Christmas Christmas Music, Jazz Pop, Television Music 1965
Gerry Mulligan Gerry Mulligan Meets Ben Webster 1959
Art Pepper Art Pepper + Eleven 1959
Bill Evans Explorations 1961
Lester Young The Jazz Giants 1956
Johnny Smith Moonlight in Vermont 1956
Bernard Herrmann Taxi Driver OST Film Score 1976
Dave Brubeck Quartet Jazz Goes to College 1954
Grant Green Born to Be Blue Hard Bop 1985
Gerry Mulligan What Is There to Say? 1959
Ben Webster Soulville 1958
Chet Baker It Could Happen to You Vocal Jazz 1958
Shelly Manne The West Coast Sound 1955
Dave Brubeck Quartet At Carnegie Hall 1963
Bill Evans Moon Beams/Polka Dots and Moonbeams 1962
Miles Davis Seven Steps to Heaven 1963