波普爵士乐被认为是现代爵士乐的开端，这种承上启下的爵士乐是严肃的爵士乐爱好者所必须仔细聆听的，既有老牌爵士乐的味道又有后来爵士乐的感觉。

Coleman Hawkins-Wrap Up Your Troubles in Dreams
-Get Happy
-Undecided

Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
- All the Things You Are

Dizzy Gillespie - Manteca
- Softly, as in a Morning Sunrise

Bud Powell - I’ll remember April

Fats Navarro & Tadd Dameron - John’s Delight