Cool Jazz

Sub-genre of jazz associated with the U.S. West Coast. Emerged 1948. Wikipedia

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55 artists with 901.1K combined listeners. 55% of them sit in the Smooth Jazz / Smooth Saxophone / Cool Jazz community on the map. It shares the most artists with Smooth Jazz.

Where Cool Jazz sits on the map

• Smooth Jazz / Smooth Saxophone / Cool Jazz · 30 artists (55%)
• Jazz / Hard Bop / Vocal Jazz · 14 artists (25%)
• MPB / Nova MPB / Psicodelia Brasileira · 2 artists (4%)
• Arab Pop / Egyptian Pop / Classic Arab Pop · 1 artists (2%)
• Classical / Pop Violin / Italian Opera · 1 artists (2%)
• Classic City Pop / Japanese Jazz Fusion / Burmese Pop · 1 artists (2%)

Strongest pairings in Cool Jazz

Cool Jazz artists who most often share real, user-made playlists.

1. Norman Brown & Peter White · 28 shared playlists
2. Fourplay & Peter White · 23 shared playlists
3. Donald Byrd & Ronnie Laws · 21 shared playlists
4. The Crusaders & Donald Byrd · 21 shared playlists
5. Donald Byrd & Lonnie Liston Smith · 20 shared playlists
6. Ramsey Lewis & Donald Byrd · 19 shared playlists
7. Bob James & Joe Sample · 16 shared playlists
8. Spyro Gyra & Bob James · 16 shared playlists
9. Lonnie Liston Smith & Ronnie Laws · 14 shared playlists
10. Norman Brown & Joe Sample · 14 shared playlists

Related genres

Genres that share the most artists with Cool Jazz, for their size.

• Smooth Jazz · 21 shared artistsBoth: Stanley Clarke, Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton
• Smooth Saxophone · 4 shared artistsBoth: Stanley Clarke, Fourplay, Peter White
• Jazz Guitar · 3 shared artistsBoth: Michael Ross, Roberto Restuccia, Swallowed Whole
• Jazz Trumpet · 2 shared artistsBoth: The Brecker Brothers, Mike Murray
• UK Contemporary Jazz · 2 shared artistsBoth: Jerald Daemyon, Brian Hughes
• Jazz Funk · 2 shared artistsBoth: Ramsey Lewis, John Klemmer
• Jazz Piano · 2 shared artistsBoth: George Shearing, Willie Smith
• Yacht Rock · 4 shared artistsBoth: Bob James, Herb Alpert, The Brecker Brothers

Artists

55 artists tagged Cool Jazz, ranked by listeners.

1. Ibrahim Maalouf364.5K listeners
2. Donald Byrd66.0K listeners · Quiet Storm
3. Stanley Clarke48.2K listeners · Smooth Saxophone
4. Lee Ritenour43.8K listeners · Smooth Jazz
5. Larry Carlton35.2K listeners · Smooth Jazz
6. Joe Sample32.8K listeners · Smooth Jazz
7. Fourplay31.1K listeners · Smooth Jazz
8. Bob James30.1K listeners · Smooth Jazz
9. Spyro Gyra25.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
10. Peter White23.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
11. Ramsey Lewis22.9K listeners · Quiet Storm
12. Norman Brown22.7K listeners · Smooth Jazz
13. George Shearing22.2K listeners · Vocal Jazz
14. The Crusaders19.0K listeners · Classic Soul
15. Stanley Jordan16.8K listeners
16. Herb Alpert12.5K listeners · Yacht Rock
17. Gato Barbieri7.2K listeners
18. Brian Bromberg6.7K listeners · Funk Rock
19. The Rippingtons6.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz
20. The Brecker Brothers5.7K listeners · Yacht Rock
21. Lonnie Liston Smith5.6K listeners · Quiet Storm
22. Down to the Bone4.6K listeners · Smooth Jazz
23. Wayman Tisdale4.6K listeners · Smooth Jazz
24. Roy Eldridge4.1K listeners · Jazz
25. Tom Scott3.3K listeners · Yacht Rock
26. Les Mccann3.2K listeners · Afrofuturism
27. Sadao Watanabe2.3K listeners · Japanese Jazz
28. Hubert Laws2.0K listeners
29. Ronnie Laws1.6K listeners · Quiet Storm
30. Stuff1.6K listeners
31. Wave1.2K listeners
32. Chieli Minucci1.1K listeners
33. Fattburger1.1K listeners
34. Hank Crawford1.1K listeners
35. pEp1.0K listeners
36. Grover Washington Jr1.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz
37. John Klemmer1.0K listeners
38. Michael Ross1.0K listeners · Irish Rock
39. Dany Crew Beat1.0K listeners · MPB
40. The Oscar Peterson Trio1.0K listeners · Vocal Jazz
41. Willie Smith1.0K listeners
42. Jerald Daemyon1.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz
43. Roberto Restuccia1.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz
44. Mike Murray1.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz
45. Telemakus1.0K listeners
46. John Waters1.0K listeners · Funk
47. After Hours1.0K listeners · Color Noise
48. The Sonny Rollins Quartet1.0K listeners · Jazz
49. Gerry Mulligan Quartet1.0K listeners · Bebop
50. David T. Walker1.0K listeners
51. Swallowed Whole1.0K listeners
52. Brian Hughes1.0K listeners
53. Sounds of Sinai1.0K listeners
54. Ray Obiedo1.0K listeners · Soul
55. Keith Andrew1.0K listeners · Smooth Jazz