Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Woody 'N You - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
2. Disorder at the Border - Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra
3. Moose - Charlie Barnet
4. Tiny's Tempo - Tiny Grimes Quintet
5. Good Bait - Dizzy Gillespie All Stars
6. Something for You - Oscar Pettiford
7. Night in Tunisia - Boyd Raeburn
8. In the Middle - Georgie Auld & His Orchestra,
9. Groovin' High - Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
10. Dizzy Atmosphere - Dizzy Gillespie
11. Opus X - Billy Eckstine, Billy Eckstine
12. Reverse the Charges - Frank Socolow
13. Lover Man - Sarah Vaughan
14. Hot House - Dizzy Gillespie All Star Quintet,
15. Hallelujah - Red Norvo & His Selected Sextet,
16. Koko - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
17. Second Balcony Jump - Billy Eckstine, Billy Eckstine
18. Night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie
19. Ornithology - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
20. If You Could See Me Now - Sarah Vaughan
21. Jay Bird - J.J. Johnson
22. Our Delight - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
23. Things to Come - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
24. Bebop in Pastel - Sonny Stitt
25. Webb City - Bebop Boys

Disc 2:

1. Opus de Bop - Stan Getz
2. Dodo's Bounce
3. Smooth Sailing - Lucky Thompson,
4. Woodchopper's Holiday - Sonny Berman
5. Man I Love - Wardell Gray Quartet
6. (Back Home Again In) Indiana - Bud Powell Trio
7. Disc Jockey Jump - Gene Krupa
8. All God's Chillun Got Rhythm
9. Oop-Pop-a-Da
10. Chase - Dexter Gordon, Wardell Gray
11. All Night, All Frantic - Allen Eager
12. Mad Lad - Sir Charles Thompson
13. Milestones - Miles Davis All-Stars
14. Ow! - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
15. Confirmation - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
16. Thrivin' on a Riff - Claude Thornhill
17. Squirrel - Tadd Dameron Sextet
18. Ruby, My Dear - Thelonious Monk
19. Embraceable You - Charlie Parker Quintet
20. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Anita O'Day
21. Scrapple from the Apple - Charlie Parker Quintet
22. In Walked Bud - Thelonious Monk
23. Donna Lee - Claude Thornhill
24. How High the Moon - Ella Fitzgerald

Disc 3:

1. Duel - Teddy Edwards, Dexter Gordon
2. Nostalgia - Fats Navarro
3. Dexter's Riff - Dexter Gordon Quintet
4. Dexter's Mood - Dexter Gordon,
5. Cool Breeze - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
6. Manteca - Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra
7. Wee Dot - Leo Parker
8. Yardbird Suite - Claude Thornhill
9. How High the Moon - Stan Kenton & His Orchestra
10. Bon-o-Logy
11. Four Brothers - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
12. Thin Man
13. Bop Alley
14. Bluebird - Charlie Parker's All Stars,
15. Talk of the Town - Milt Jackson, Howard McGhee Sextet
16. Confirmation - Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys
17. Jumpin' There - Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys
18. Epistrophy - Thelonious Monk
19. Stealin' Apples - Goodman Group,
20. Ah-Leu-Cha - Charlie Parker's All Stars,
21. Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker's All Stars,
22. Skunk - Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro
23. Double Talk - Howard McGhee, Fats Navarro
24. Blue Brew - Brew Moore
25. Cu-Ba - James Moody,

Disc 4:

1. Tin Tin Deo - James Moody,
2. Foo's - Tony Fruscella
3. Ool-Ya-Koo - Ella Fitzgerald
4. Jam for Boppers - Gene Ammons, Tom Archia
5. That's Right - Woody Herman & His Orchestra,
6. Victory Ball
7. Casbah - Tadd Dameron
8. Professor Bop - Babs Gonzales
9. Move - Miles Davis & His Orchestra,
10. Israel - Miles Davis & His Orchestra,
11. Undercurrent Blues - Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
12. Focus - Tadd Dameron
13. Blue Lou - Goodman Group,
14. Bebop Spoken Here - Charlie Barnet
15. Wallington's Godchild - Kai Winding
16. Crossing the Channel - Kai Winding
17. I'll Keep Loving You - Bud Powell
18. Tempus Fugit - Bud Powell
19. Euphoria - Charlie Ventura
20. Crazy Chords - Stan Getz Quartet
21. Wail - Bud Powell
22. Twisted - Wardell Gray Quartet
23. Move - Serge Chaloff

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95689 in Music
• Released on: 2001-05-28
• Number of discs: 4
• Formats: Box set, Import
• Dimensions: .52 pounds

Album Description
The language of bebop is one of the most enduring and eloquent in the history of jazz music. The 97 bebop statements in this box set sound as fresh and invigorating now as when they were first recorded some 50 years ago. The artists include Coleman Hawkins, Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Berman, Woody Herman and Miles Davis. Includes 52 page fully illustrated booklet, discography and rare photographs. Over four hours of music. 4 standard jewel cases packaged in a 5' x 5' colorful cardboard slipcase. 2000 release.

Customer Reviews

COOL, MAN, COOL!!
Geez, where are all the reviews for this incredible British collection?? Just look at all the artists here - all recorded between 1944-1949 (and cleaned up very nicely for cd issue). This is the real deal!! If you weren't old enough to live through the bop era (like me) and want to hear examples of the coolest jazz of all time, this box is for you. The cover art is nostalgic and colorful, all discs clock in at over an hour, and the 55-page booklet is packed with photos (see Dizzy Gillespie in 1944!) and very informative. To collect all this elsewhere would cost a small fortune. I thought the first few cuts leaned a bit toward the Big Band sound, but they also offer a peek into where this great American style of music was born. This is by far the best jazz collection I own.

Smilin and Scattin
Like eating really good filet mignon for the first time, and feeling slightly sorry that you deprived yourself up that point. But otherwise, just smiling, swaying to the beat and scatting along.

A good friend of mine who is a semi-professional musician attempted to teach me about modes, how jazz is often constructed. I'm just an appreciative music fan, but clearly the artists on this collection were high adepts, skillful in weaving together some of the most complex yet unpretentious music ever heard. Too many fabulous artists to single out; they're all good. I hope jazz fans back in the day enjoyed this music as much as I do.

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Amazing and Essential
This huge compilation casts a wide net, capturing the classic recordings of the giants of bebop: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Bud Powell, the early recordings of future stars like Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz, the popularizers who made it accessible to a larger audience: Woody Herman, Benny Goodman, Charlie Barnet and Charlie Ventura and the rarities by now-obscure musicians: Freddie Webster, Sonny Berman, Tom Archia, Tony Fruscella and many others.

Why buy this set? You won't hear this music anywhere else as radio these days won't play anything made before the LP era.
You will discover that although this music was far-out, Dizzy Gillespie was popular enough to have his own big band and a
major-label record contract. Charlie Parker could play any style,
his first record with Tiny Grimes is pure swing and Parker plays superbly. You'll hear Trummy Young, Louis Armstrong's trombone player, play superbly on "Good Bait" with Dizzy Gillespie and Dexter Gordon. You will hear so much rare and excellent music, otherwise completely unobtainable, by musicians, like Tadd Dameron, so influential and yet now forgotten. You will hear the
greatness of those who died far too soon like Wardell Gray and Fats Navarro.

If you want to experience and understand this music, this is essential listening. Reasonably priced, excellently documented too!