The second album by Michigan jazz pianist Craig Taborn — known to most jazz fans as a sideman to James Carter — is a giant leap past the adept musicianship shown on his DIW debut. Taborn’s trio, with drummer extraordinaire Gerald Cleaver and new bassist Chris Lightcap, plays a kind of jazz that’s new in a sense, even though it is rooted in time-honored traditions.

Although not strictly a 'West Coast' musician Stan Getz did live and play regularly in California.
In the two years between August 1955 and August 1957 he recorded a number of sessions for Norman Granz's Verve label which resulted in three albums being issued: 'West Coast Jazz', 'The Steamer' & 'Award Winner' plus four tracks that formed part of a fourth album,'Stan Getz And The Cool Sounds'.