When Be-Bop Was King

Although there have been very many jazz packages released featuring the Legends in this series, surprisingly they have rarely been presented as the Kings of the free form music they created. Relatively little attention or marketing has been directed at the fact that people such as Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown and Dizzy Gillespie truly were the Kings of BeBop! In this beautifully packaged 6 page digipak, we deliver 2 CD’s featuring the simply magnificent jazz that these heroes of their era produced during the unique years of BeBop. True to the requirements of the jazz aficionado the liner notes include the city and date of the recording as well as all the musicians who took part in the session. MILES DAVIS COMPILATION NOTES: The early part of Miles Davis’ recording career was dominated by his inclusion in Charlie Parker’s line up, and so they share a great number of bebop’s finest moments. It was decided not to repeat those selections made on the Charlie Parker CD in the same series, although Davis’ contribution to these tracks should not be underestimated. Instead we have chosen to take a more daring route through Davis’ bebop years. The 1957 Capitol album “The Birth Of Cool” is featured in full – a record that was complied by Capitol retrospectively from Davis’ sessions for them in 1949 and 1950, when they had signed him as a bebop act. Whilst the eventual release reflected the most important move that Davis made towards his own independence, and sent signals towards what he would fully form into “cool jazz” in the mid 1950’s, the recordings sit comfortably amongst the bebop idiom. The second disc is more audacious, as it highlights the direction that Miles Davis took bebop music in the early 1950’s, when it was all but proclaimed dead. Davis, and his invited guests, eventually invented “hard bop”, which had its routes so firmly set in bebop tradition that his early 1950’s recordings deserve to be examined. Indeed the recordings Miles Davis made for “Prestige” in the first half of the 1950’s are seen by many, as his greatest triumph. Tracks; Disc 1. 1. Thriving On A Riff / 2. Cheryl / 3. Milestones / 4. Little Willie Leaps / 5. Half Nelson / 6. Sippin’ At Bells / 7. Scrapple From The Apple / 8. Crazeology / 9. Klaunstance / 10. Steeplechase / 11. Overtime / 12. Victory Ball / 13. Move / 14. Jeru / 15. Godchild / 16. Budo / 17. Rouge / 18. Boplicity / 19. Israel / 20. Venus De Milo / 21. Moon Dreams / 22. Deception / 23. Rocker / 24. Darn That Dream Disc 2. 1. Morpheus / 2. Down / 3. Whispering / 4. Ezz-Thetic / 5. Hi Beck / 6. Conception / 7. Out Of The Blue / 8. Denial / 9. Dig / 10. My Old Flame / 11. t’s Only A Paper Moon / 12. Compulsion / 13. The Serpent’s Tooth / 14. ‘Round About Midnight / 15. Willie The Wailer

Number of Discs: 2

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