This reel is a tiny but potent tour of West Coast mood. Brubeck’s At a Perfume Counter is all crisp angles and sly swing, with the quartet’s rhythmic push pulling against cool, sculpted piano lines. It feels urbane and slightly cinematic, the kind of track that makes you picture neon reflections on wet streets.

Purple Moon, led by Desmond’s alto, shifts the room lighting lower. Desmond’s tone is famously dry and conversational, and here it floats over the rhythm section like cigarette smoke. The melody is simple but haunting, suggesting the late-night introspection that cool jazz does so well.

Then Cal Tjader flips the palette. Jazz Latino is buoyant and percussive, a reminder that Latin jazz in this era was not a novelty, it was a full-blooded extension of modern jazz. Vibraphone lines sparkle over hand-drum patterns, and the groove is forward-leaning without ever rushing. As a three-track program it is short, but it lands like a perfectly sequenced radio set: cool, cool, then sun-lit heat.