Artist	Song
Miles Davis	So What
from Kind of Blue (1997)
John Coltrane	My Favorite Things, Part 1 (Single Version)
from My Favorite Things (2005)
Dave Brubeck	Take Five
from Dave Brubeck's Greatest Hits (1991)
Herbie Hancock	Cantaloupe Island
from Empyrean Isles (The Rudy Van Gelder Edition Remastered) (1999)
Thelonious Monk	'Round Midnight
from The Best of Thelonious Monk (2006)
Charlie Parker	Koko
from Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings (2002)
Charles Mingus	Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
from Mingus Ah Um (1999)
Dizzy Gillespie	A Night In Tunisia
from Bebop Professor (2002)
Bill Evans	Waltz for Debby
from The Bill Evans Album (1996)
Sonny Rollins	St. Thomas
from Saxophone Colossus (2006)

Comment:

When most people think about jazz, this is what leaps to mind — the era between bebop and Miles Davis turning kind of blue. John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dave Brubeck . . . these are just some of the kings who transported jazz from the dance floor to the concert hall.

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