Bebop: Pioneers And Classic Performances / Var Bebop: Pioneers And Classic Performances / Var CD

With Acrobat's catalogue having grown substantially, and it's 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 3-CD product at a lower price than the three single CDs combined. Those products 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. They 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.

1. Lionel Hampton with Dizzy Gillespie ; Charile Christian - Hot Mallets 2. Benny Goodman Orchestra Featuring Charlie Christian - Solo Flight 3. Charlie Christian with Benny Goodman - Good Enough to Keep (Airmail Special) 4. Minton's Jam Session - Topsy [Charlie's Choice] [Swing to Bop] (PT1 5. Coleman Hawkins ; His Orch. - Woody'n You 6. Ben Webster Quartet - Kat's Fur 7. Tiny Grimes Quintet - Tiny's Tempo 8. Coleman Hawkins Quartet - Flyin' Hawk 9. Billy Eckstine ; His Orchestra - Opus X 10. Coleman Hawkins ; His Orchestra - Stuffy 11. Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts 12. Dizzy Gillespie Quintet - Hot House 13. Sarah Vaughan with Dizzy Gillespie ; His All Star Quintet - Lover Man 14. Sir Charles (Thompson) ; His All Stars - the Street Beat 15. Don Byas All Stars - Blue and Sentimental 16. Dexter Gordon's All Stars - Blow Mr Dexter 17. Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers - Koko 18. Charlie Parker - Now's the Time 19. Lester Young - Jammin' with Lester 20. Dexter Gordon Quintet - Long Tall Dexter 21. Boyd Raeburn Orchestra - Boyd Meets Stravinsky 22. Billy Eckstine ; His Orchestra - Second Balcony Jump 23. Dizzy Gillespie ; His Orchestra - Anthropology 24. Coleman Hawkins ; His 52nd Street All Stars - Spotlite 25. 52nd Street Allstars with Allen Eager - Allen's Alley 26. Mel Torme - That's Where I Came in 27. Charlie Parker Septet - Night in Tunisia 28. Roy Eldridge ; His Orchestra - Yard Dog 29. Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Oop Bop Sh'bam 30. Jay Jay Johnson's Beboppers - Mad Bebop 31. Stan Getz ; the Be-Bop Boys - Opus de Bop 32. Lester Young Quintet - Lester's Bebop 33. Kenny Clarke ; His 52nd Street Boys - Royal Roost 34. Kenny Clarke ; His 52nd Street Boys - 52nd Street Theme 35. The Be-Bop Boys - Fat Boy Parts 1 ; 2 36. Mary Lou Williams' Trio - Hesitation Blues 37. Howard McGhee - Midnight at Minton's 38. Fats Navarro ; His Thin Men - Goin' to Minton's 39. Lester Young - Just Cooling 40. Lucky Thompson ; His Lucky Seven - Boppin' the Blues 41. Charlie Parker All-Stars with Miles Davis - Donna Lee 42. Charlie Parker with Miles Davis ; Bud Powell - Cheryl 43. Django Reinhardt - Babik (Be-Bop) 44. Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray - the Chase 45. Miles Davis with Charlie Parker - Milestones 46. Miles Davis All Stars - Little Willie Leaps 47. Tadd Dameron Sextet - Dameronia 48. Thelonious Monk Sextet - Thelonious 49. Charlie Parker Quintet - Scrapple from the Apple 50. Claude Thornhill ; His Orchestra - Donna Lee 51. Lionel Hampton ; His Orchestra - Midnight Sun 52. Thelonious Monk Quartet - Round Midnight 53. Red Norvo Septet - Bop 54. Fats Navarro - Be Bop Romp 55. Coleman Hawkins ; His All Stars - Half Step Down, Please 56. Claude Thornhill Orchestra - Yardbird Suite 57. Ella Fitzgerald - How High the Moon 58. Metronome All Stars - Leap Here 59. Woody Herman ; His Orchestra - Keen and Peachy 60. Woody Herman ; His Second Herd - Four Brothers 61. Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra - Manteca 62. Thelonious Monk Quartet - Epistrophy 63. Benny Goodman with Fats Navarro ; Wardell Gray - Stealin' Apples 64. Tadd Dameron Septet - Symphonette 65. James Moody ; His Modernists - Tin Tin Deo 66. Miles Davis - Boplicity 67. Bud Powell - Bud's Bubble 68. Bud Powell - Off Minor 69. Mel Torme - Sonny Boy 70. Wardell Gray Quartet - Twisted