Classic west coast jazz from Contemporary Records – sometimes just gets call Art Pepper + Eleven, sometimes Modern Jazz Classics. Not sure if 12 people counts as a big band – Wikipedia says “a small big band.” Marty Paich did the arranging.

Songs composed by Dizzy Gillespie, Horace Silver, Charlie Parker, Gerry Mulligan, and Sonny Rollins among others. A must have for people (like me) who are fans of the west coast “cool jazz” and the late big band era.

My copy—via private sale—is the Acoustic Sounds Series reissue from 2022 mastered by Bernie Grundman and pressed at QRP. This is a great reissue series, and they reproduce the original labels (albeit with a new catalog number).