West Coast Jazz?

Stan Getz would be my favorite from that era. Start with Getz meets Mulligan in Hi-Fi. Maybe not his best album but a good intro to "West Coast Jazz" The album is from 1957

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Wes Montgomery perhaps??

How about Curtis Counce, Bob Cooper, Bob Perkins, Conti Condoli, Pete Jolly, Harold Land, Carl Perkins, Shelly Manne, Teddy Edwards, Hampton Hawes,Stan Levey, Monty Budwig,and Mel Lewis just to mention a few great west coast boppers that recorded in the 50's and 60's.

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Check out Shelly Manne and His Men Play Peter Gunn - the original version on the Contemporary label. Fantastic mid-sized combo playing Henri Mancini tunes that were written for the show. It's an early stereo recording that rivals anything you'd hear produced today. Truly a great, under-appreciated album. Even the ojc reissue cd sounds pretty good.

Zoot Sims "Hawthorne Nites" , "The L.A Four";Laurindo Almeida, Ray Brown, Shelly Mann, Bud Shank. Possibly Howard Rumsey's "Lighthouse Allstars";Shorty Rogers, Maynard Ferguson, Rolf Ericson, Stu Williamson, Conte Candoli, Milt Bernhart, Bob Enevoldsen, Frank Rosolino, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Cooper, Bud Shank, Hampton Hawes, Marty Paich, Claude Williamson, Sonny Clark, Shelly Manne, Max Roach, Stan Levey, and guests Miles Davis and Chet Baker were among the participants. The music was essentially bebop with some cooler-toned performances, particularly the ones starring Cooper on oboe or English horn and Shank on flute.

That should be a good start.