Various – BeBop – Pioneers And Classic Performances 1941-1949 – 3CD

With Acrobat’s catalogue having grown substantially, and its product strategy evolved significantly over the years, we are occasionally looking to repurpose some of our early albums in the context of the product formats that are now more widely used in our releases. This 70-track 3-CD set comprises the complete contents, plus some added titles, of three products released in our ACRCD range more than fifteen years ago, and which offered the opportunity to assemble a nicely coherent, substantial and enhanced single product at a lower price than the three single CDs combined. Those CDs were ACRCD 117, 118 & 119 “Bebop Vols. 1, 2 & 3”. The titles on those three CDs have now been re-compiled in chronological order, with duplicated titles removed and twelve new titles added, along with a substantial booklet. The collection comprises recordings which are seen as significant performances in the genesis and development of bebop as a genre, or regarded as important or notable examples of bebop. The tracks have also been selected so that a significant proportion of the artists regarded as pioneers, innovators or noted exponents of bebop are represented in the collection. On that basis, it features a host of great names not only in bebop but in the wider world of jazz, and the collection offers a highly entertaining an insightful trawl across a dynamic jazz decade.

Track Listing:

CD1:
Lionel Hampton With Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Christian: 1. Hot Mallets -   Benny Goodman Orchestra Featuring Charlie Christian: 2. Solo Flight -   Charlie Christian With Benny Goodman: 3. Good Enough To Keep (Airmail Special) -   Minton's Jam Session: 4. Topsy [Charlie's Choice] [Swing To Bop] (Pt. 1) -   Coleman Hawkins & His Orch.: 5. Woody’n You -   Ben Webster Quartet: 6. Kat’s Fur -   Tiny Grimes Quintet: 7. Tiny’s Tempo -   Coleman Hawkins Quartet: 8. Flyin' Hawk -   Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra: 9. Opus X -   Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra: 10. Stuffy -   Dizzy Gillespie: 11. Salt Peanuts -   Dizzy Gillespie Quintet: 12. Hot House -   Sarah Vaughan With Dizzy Gillespie & His All Star Quintet: 13. Lover Man -   Sir Charles (Thompson) & His All Stars: 14. The Street Beat -   Don Byas All Stars: 15. Blue And Sentimental -   Dexter Gordon's All Stars: 16. Blow Mr Dexter -  Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers : 17. Koko -    Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers: 18. Now's The Time -   Lester Young: 19. Jammin' With Lester -   Dexter Gordon Quintet: 20. Long Tall Dexter -   Boyd Raeburn Orchestra: 21. Boyd Meets Stravinsky -   Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra: 22. Second Balcony Jump -   Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: 23. Anthropology -   Coleman Hawkins & His 52nd Street All Stars: 24. Spotlite - 

CD2:
52nd Street Allstars with Allen Eager: 1. Allen’s Alley -   Mel Torme: 2. That's Where I Came In -   Charlie Parker Septet: 3. Night In Tunisia -   Roy Eldridge & His Orchestra: 4. Yard Dog -   Dizzy Gillespie Sextet: 5. Oop Bop Sh'bam -   Jay Jay Johnson's BeBoppers: 6. Mad Bebop -   Stan Getz & The Be-Bop Boys: 7. Opus De Bop -   Lester Young Quintet: 8. Lester’s Bebop -   Kenny Clarke & His 52nd Street Boys: 9. Royal Roost -   10. 52nd Street Theme -   The Be-Bop Boys: 11. Fat Boy Parts 1 & 2 -   Mary Lou Williams' Trio: 12. Hesitation Blues -   Howard McGhee: 13. Midnight At Minton's -   Fats Navarro & His Thin Men: 14. Goin' To Minton's -   Lester Young: 15. Just Cooling -  Lucky Thompson & His Lucky Seven: 16. Boppin' The Blues -   Charlie Parker All-Stars with Miles Davis: 17. Donna Lee -   Charlie Parker With Miles Davis & Bud Powell: 18. Cheryl -   Django Reinhardt: 19. Babik (Be-Bop) -   Dexter Gordon And Wardell Gray: 20. The Chase -   Miles Davis with Charlie Parker: 21. Milestones -   Miles Davis All Stars: 22. Little Willie Leaps -   

CD3:
Tadd Dameron Sextet: 1. Dameronia -    Thelonious Monk Sextet: 2. Thelonious -   Charlie Parker Quintet: 3. Scrapple From The Apple -   Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra: 4. Donna Lee -   Lionel Hampton & His Orchestra: 5. Midnight Sun -   Thelonious Monk Quartet: 6. Round Midnight -   Red Norvo Septet: 7. Bop -   Fats Navarro: 8. Be Bop Romp -  Coleman Hawkins & His All Stars: 9. Half Step Down, Please -   Claude Thornhill Orchestra: 10. Yardbird Suite -   Ella Fitzgerald: 11. How High The Moon -   Metronome All Stars: 12. Leap Here -   Woody Herman & His Orchestra: 13. Keen And Peachy -   Woody Herman & His Second Herd: 14. Four Brothers -   Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra: 15. Manteca -   Thelonious Monk Quartet: 16. Epistrophy -   Benny Goodman With Fats Navarro & Wardell Gray: 17. Stealin' Apples -   Tadd Dameron Septet: 18. Symphonette -   James Moody & His Modernists: 19. Tin Tin Deo -   Miles Davis: 20. Boplicity -   Bud Powell: 21. Bud’s Bubble -   22. Off Minor -   Mel Torme: 23. Sonny Boy -   Wardell Gray Quartet: 24. Twisted -