{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Very Cool | type = Studio | artist = [[Lee Konitz]] | cover = Very Cool.jpg | alt = | released = 1957 | recorded = May 12, 1957<br><small>New York City</small> | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Verve Records|Verve]]<br><small>MGV 8209</small> | producer = [[Norman Granz]] | chronology = [[Lee Konitz]] | prev_title = [[The Real Lee Konitz]] | prev_year = 1957 | next_title = [[Tranquility (Lee Konitz album)|Tranquility]] | next_year = 1957 }} '''''Very Cool''''' is an album by American jazz saxophonist [[Lee Konitz]] which was his first released on the [[Verve Records|Verve]] label in 1957.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/verve-records/catalog-8200-series/#mgv-8209 Verve Records Catalog: 8200 series] accessed June 2, 2016</ref><ref>[https://www.press.umich.edu/pdf/0472115871-discography.pdf Lee Konitz discography] accessed June 2, 2016</ref> {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[Allmusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic">{{AllMusic|class=album |id=mw0000543813 |title=''Very Cool'' – Listing |accessdate=June 2, 2016}}</ref> }}
== Track listing == # "Sunflower" (Don Ferrara) - 8:06 # "[[Stairway to the Stars]]" ([[Matty Malneck]], [[Frank Signorelli]], [[Mitchell Parish]]) - 5:24 # "Movin' Around" (Ferrara) - 7:49 # "Kary's Trance" (Lee Konitz) - 7:13 # "Crazy She Calls Me" ([[Carl Sigman]], [[Bob Russell (songwriter)|Bob Russell]]) – 7:26 # "[[Billie's Bounce]]" ([[Charlie Parker]]) - 6:13
== Personnel == *[[Lee Konitz]] - [[alto saxophone]] *Don Ferrara - [[trumpet]] *[[Sal Mosca]] - [[piano]] *[[Peter Ind]] - [[double bass|bass]] *[[Shadow Wilson]] - [[drum kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}}{{Lee Konitz}} {{Authority control}}
[[Category:Lee Konitz albums]] [[Category:1957 albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Norman Granz]] [[Category:Verve Records albums]]