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ISSUE 50: EARLY BE-BOP

The Magazine
The 1940s saw one of the most momentous events in jazz history: the invention of be-bop. Turning their backs on the empty showiness of swing, musicians such as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie created a new music - fast, intricate and challenging.

The Music
Trace the successive explosions in the Big Bang of modern jazz in tunes such as 'Anthropology', 'Loverman', 'Woody'n You', 'Ow!', 'Little Willie Leap' and 'Groovin' High'. Lighting the fuses with Parker and Gillespie are Bud Powell, Fats Navarro, Illinois Jacquet and Stan Getz.

'early be-bop'...track by track (total running time 64 min 07 sec)
1. Kenny Clarke's 52nd Street Boys: Royal Roost [2.53] Clarke
2. Billy Eckstine & His Orchestra: Oop Bop Sh'Bam [2.58] Gillespie, Fuller
3. 52nd Street All-Stars: Allen's Alley [3.00] Best
4. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: Ow! [2.53] Gillespie
5. Eddie Davis & His Be-Boppers: Stealin' Trash [2.46] Davis
6. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: Woody'n You [2.56] Gillespie
7. Parker-Gillespie Quintet: Groovin' High [5.07] Gillespie
8. Sarah Vaughan: If You Could See Me Now [2.48] Dameron, Sigman
9. Kai's Krazy Kats: Loaded [3.01] Miller
10. Stan Getz: Don't Worry 'Bout Me [2.36] Koehler, Bloom
11. Woody Herman & His Orchestra: Keen & Peachy [2.51] Burns, Rogers
12. Tadd Dameron Sextet: Our Delight [2.56] Dameron
13. Miles Davis All-Stars: Little Willie Leap [2.50] Davis
14. Sarah Vaughan: Loverman [3.19] Ramirez, Davis Sherman
15. Claude Thornhill & His Orchestra: Anthropology [3.00] Parker
16. Illinois Jacquet & His Orchestra: King Jacquet [2.53] Jacquet
17. Bud Powell Trio: Indiana [2.41] MacDonald, Hanley
18. Fats Navarro & His Thin Men: Ice Freezes Red [2.37] Navarro
19. Dizzy Gillespie & His Orchestra: Things To Come [2.42] Gillespie, Fuller

BONUS TRACKS
20. Lucky Thompson & His Lucky Seven: Boppin' The Blues [2.59] Thompson
21. Coleman Hawkins & His Orchestra: Half Step Down Please [3.01] Dameron