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
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.
