Best Cool Jazz Albums of All Time

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RankAlbumArtist		Year	★ Overall		Critics	Users
6	Kind of Blue - Miles Davis	1959	91.6	84.8	100	90.4	90.2	95	89	91.8
19	In a Silent Way - Miles Davis	1969	90	84.6	100	88.9	88.2	93.8	86	88.6
33	A Charlie Brown Christmas - Vince Guaraldi	1965	89.4	82.4	100	89	91.9	94	81	87.6
64	Waltz for Debby - Bill Evans	1962	88.5	81	100	86	88.3	95	81	88
80	Mingus Ah Um - Charles Mingus	1959	88	81.8	100	85.6	84.5	92.8	84	87.4
118	Getz/Gilberto - Stan Getz & João Gilberto	1964	87.4	80.2	98	87.1	87.4	93.4	82	83.8
145	My Favorite Things - John Coltrane	1961	86.9	82.6	95	86.5	85.3	93.4	81	84.4
208	Somethin' Else - Cannonball Adderley	1958	86.3	78.4	100	81.5	84	94.4	82	84
275	Idle Moments - Grant Green	1965	85.7	78	100	82.3	82.1	93.4	80	84.4
297	Time Out - The Dave Brubeck Quartet	1959	85.6	78.8	87	83.3	84.9	93.2	84	88
353	Workin' with the Miles Davis Quintet - The Miles Davis Quintet	1959	85.2	76.4	100	79.8	82.9	93	79	–
362	'Round About Midnight - Miles Davis	1957	85.1	76.4	100	80.8	82.9	92.8	81	82
376	Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack) - Angelo Badalamenti	1992	85.1	82.4	81	89	–	92	78	88
378	Taxi Driver - Bernard Herrmann	1976	85.1	79	90	86.5	89.7	91.8	74	84.4
381	Saxophone Colossus - Sonny Rollins	1957	85	79	93	82.3	84	94	81	82
413	Scenery - Ryo Fukui	1976	84.9	76.6	–	85.9	87.6	95	80	84
435	Sunday at the Village Vanguard - Bill Evans Trio	1961	84.7	78.6	100	79.3	74.6	94.6	78	88
465	Eastern Sounds - Yusef Lateef	1961	84.6	76.8	95	82	83.5	94.8	78	82
467	Go - Dexter Gordon	1962	84.6	75.2	100	77.5	89.1	92.2	78	80
470	The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery - Wes Montgomery	1960	84.6	76.2	100	80.6	80.9	90	78	86.2
481	The Blues and the Abstract Truth - Oliver Nelson	1961	84.5	76.6	100	79.7	82.2	93.8	78	81.4
527	Portrait in Jazz - Bill Evans Trio	1960	84.3	75.6	95	80.1	84.7	93.6	78	83.2
593	Relaxin' With the Miles Davis Quintet - The Miles Davis Quintet	1958	84	74.2	100	76.5	84.1	93.2	80	80
647	Chet Baker Sings - Chet Baker	1954	83.8	77.2	85	81.9	88.3	93.2	79	82
672	Sarah Vaughan - Sarah Vaughan	1955	83.7	75.2	100	78.9	82.2	91.8	78	80
726	Cool Struttin' - Sonny Clark	1958	83.5	76	100	76.9	81.5	93.4	79	78
729	Soul Station - Hank Mobley	1960	83.5	76.8	90	80.7	83.2	93.6	79	81.4
748	Pithecanthropus erectus - The Charlie Mingus Jazz Workshop	1956	83.5	76.4	100	79.4	79.6	90.8	80	78
831	Birth of the Cool - Miles Davis	1957	83.1	74.4	100	80	78.8	88.8	80	80
887	Money Jungle - Duke Ellington, Charlie Mingus & Max Roach	1963	83	77.6	90	79.7	83.2	90.4	78	81.8
890	Everybody Digs Bill Evans - Bill Evans Trio	1959	83	76.2	90	81.8	82.9	92.8	75	82
908	Night Train - The Oscar Peterson Trio	1963	82.9	74.2	90	80	85.6	89.8	77	83.8
938	Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet - The Miles Davis Quintet	1957	82.8	75.2	95	77	78.7	93	81	80
992	John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman - John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman	1963	82.7	73.8	90	80.1	86	92.2	74	–
1026	Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane	1963	82.6	76.6	80	81.9	86.5	92.6	78	–
1045	Ascenseur pour l'échafaud - Miles Davis	1958	82.5	76.4	85	78.8	83.9	92.6	81	80
1090	Steamin' With the Miles Davis Quintet - The Miles Davis Quintet	1961	82.4	73.2	100	78.1	80	92.6	77	76
1138	Jazzmatazz Volume 1 - Guru	1993	82.3	74.2	90	84.3	82.7	91.8	77	76
1292	You Must Believe in Spring - Bill Evans	1981	82	78	70	82.9	87.2	93.6	77	85
1376	Undercurrent - Bill Evans & Jim Hall	1962	81.8	76.6	80	81.6	86.4	90.2	76	–
1382	E. S. P. - Miles Davis	1965	81.8	75	95	77.5	–	91.2	76	76
1456	Porgy and Bess - Miles Davis	1959	81.6	73.6	100	78	79.1	86.8	78	76
1462	The Awakening - The Ahmad Jamal Trio	1970	81.6	77.2	80	82.6	83.8	92.8	75	80
1684	Little Girl Blue - Nina Simone	1959	81.2	77.4	70	81.3	84.7	91.8	81	82
1721	Jazz Samba - Stan Getz & Charlie Byrd	1962	81.1	73.6	90	78.3	77.1	90.8	77	–
1905	Olé Coltrane - John Coltrane	1961	80.8	79.8	70	81.1	81.2	92.6	79	81.8
2030	Ballads - John Coltrane Quartet	1963	80.6	75	80	78.7	85.4	93	78	74
2211	Miles Ahead - Miles Davis + 19	1957	80.3	71	95	75.2	81.7	88	79	72
2782	Chet - Chet Baker	1959	79.4	72.8	73	78.6	–	92.8	79	80
2842	Lush Life - John Coltrane	1961	79.3	71.2	90	72.7	76.3	91.6	75	78
3259	Soultrane - John Coltrane	1958	78.6	70.6	90	74.7	73.9	91.8	77	72
3829	Someday My Prince Will Come - Miles Davis Sextet	1961	77.5	72.6	80	72.7	76.1	92.2	77	72
5909	Foreign Affairs - Tom Waits	1977	69.2	63.6	70	67	67.1	83.8	71	62

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