| West Coast Coolin' | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Norman Brown |
| Border: | yes |
| Released: | September 21, 2004 |
| Genre: | |
| Length: | 44:11 |
| Label: | Warner Bros. |
| Producer: | James Poyser, Paul Brown, Norman Brown, Jay Dee, Malik Pendleton, Vikter Duplaix, Brian Culbertson, Herman Jackson |
| Prev Title: | Just Chillin' |
| Prev Year: | 2002 |
| Next Title: | Stay with Me |
| Next Year: | 2007 |
West Coast Coolin' is the sixth studio album by American jazz guitarist Norman Brown, released in 2004 by Warner Bros. Records.[1] The album reached No. 3 on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Albums, No. 5 on the Billboard Top Jazz Albums and No. 24 on the Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop albums charts.[2]
Woodrow Wilkins of All About Jazz wrote,
The guitarist/vocalist is a master of the laid-back groove, successfully bringing together elements of smooth jazz and contemporary R&B. On West Coast Coolin', Brown consolidates his reputation as a premier recording and performing artist with a collection of ten tracks—written and co-written by the leader—that push the idea of "chillin'" to new heights.[3]Thom Jurek of AllMusic commented,
Brown works with a host of producers, and his familiar smooth jazz underpinnings — derived more from George Benson and Hiram Bullock than Wes Montgomery these days — are present but not prevalent on most of the set. Instead, his slick nu-soul/nu-jazz singing style — identified by a thin whispery tenor — gets front and center on more than half the album's ten cuts.[4]