Artist	Song
Miles Davis	So What
from Kind of Blue (1997)
The Dave Brubeck Quartet	Take Five
from Time Out (1993)
Charlie Parker	Koko
from The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes (2002)
Charles Mingus	Better Git It In Your Soul
from Mingus Ah Um (1999)
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra	Night In Tunisia
from Dizzier & Dizzier (Remastered) (1996)
Thelonious Monk	'Round Midnight
from The Complete Blue Note Recordings (1994)
John Coltrane	Impressions
from Coltrane (Deluxe Edition) (2002)
Art Pepper	Straight Life
from Surf Ride (1993)
Bill Evans	Waltz for Debby
from The Bill Evans Album (1996)
Bud Powell, NHØP & William Schiöpffe	Bouncing With Bud
from Bouncing With Bud (1990)
Art Farmer & Benny Golson	Killer Joe
from Meet the Jazztet (1990)
Chet Baker	My Funny Valentine
from The Best of Chet Baker Sings (1989)
Charlie Byrd & Stan Getz	Desafinado
from Jazz Samba (1997)
Candido Camero, Donald Byrd, Donald Byrd Singers, Grady Tate, Grant Green, Herbie Hancock, Kenny Burrell, Ron Carter & Stanley Turrentine	Cantaloupe Island
from Grant Green His Majesty King Funk and Up With Donald Byrd (1995)
Herbie Hancock	The Sorcerer
from Speak Like a Child (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (2005)
Clifford Brown & Max Roach Quintet	Joy Spring
from Clifford Brown and Max Roach (2000)
Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers	Blues March
from Moanin' (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Dexter Gordon	Three O'Clock in the Morning
from The Classic Blue Note Recordings (2003)
Gerry Mulligan Quartet	Jeru
from The Original Quartet With Chet Baker (1998)
Horace Silver	Sister Sadie
from Blowin' the Blues Away (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Paul Desmond, Jim Hall, Connie Kay & Percy Heath	Here's That Rainy Day
from The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1997)
Mel Tormé	Too Close for Comfort
from Mel Tormé Swings Shubert Alley (1989)
The Modern Jazz Quartet	Delaunay's Dilemma
from Django (2006)
Sonny Rollins	Alfie's Theme Differently
from Alfie (1997)
Wes Montgomery	Impressions
from Wes Montgomery's Finest Hour (2000)

Comment:

If big band music hadn't withered away due to the natural evolution of artistry, economics would have doomed it, since the costs were soaring and the venues were disappearing. Miles Davis cut a huge swath during this period, turning his back on bebop to create the "cool school." His "So What" is emblematic of the sound. And Dave Brubeck, with saxman Paul Desmond, created what's possibly the most famous riff in modern jazz with "Take Five."

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