The Chicago Sound is the sole album led by American jazz bassist Wilbur Ware.

It features a quintet with the saxophonist Johnny Griffin and was recorded in 1957 for the Riverside label.

[1] It was subsequently re-released by the Jazzland label as: Johnny Griffin & Wilbur Ware with Junior Mance and renamed "The Chicago Cookers" in 1960.

Allmusic reviewer Scott Yanow considered the album "a fine debut by Ware.

It seems strange that in his remaining 20-plus years the bassist never led another album".