Artist: Various
Album: Birth of Be Bop: Wichita – New York – 1940-1945
Genre: Early Jazz, Bop
Label: Frémeaux & Associés
Year Of Release: 1996
Format: FLAC (tracks+.cue)
Tracklist:
CD 1:
Jones/Smith Inc. – Shone Shine Boy
Gene Krupa’s Swing Band – Swing Is Here
Art Tatum – Mighty Lak a Rose
Teddy Hill and his NBC Orchestra – Blue Rhythm Fantasy
Jay McShann and his Orchestra – Honeysuckle Rose
Cab Calloway and his Orchestra – Pickin’ the Cabbage
Clark Monroe’s Band – I Got Rhythm
Minton’s Playhouse Band – Nice Work If You Can Get It
Minton’s Playhouse Band – Honeysuckle Rose
Minton’s Playhouse Band – Stardust
Clark Monroe’s Band – Cherokee
Jay McShann and his Orchestra – Sepian Bounce
Andy Kirk and his Twelve Clouds of Joy – McGhee Special
Lucky Millinder and his Orchestra – Little John Special
Cootie Williams Sextet – Floogie Boo
Coleman Hawkins – Woody’N You
Cootie Williams and his Orchestra – ’round Midnight
Tiny Grimes Quintet – Redcross
CD 2:
Bill Eckstine and his Orchestra – Blowing the Blues Away
Clyde Hart and his Orchestra – Little Benny
Coleman Hawkins Quartet – Drifting on a Reed
Sarah Vaughan and her All Stars – Interlude
Clyde Hart’s All Stars – Sorta Kinda
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet – Be-Bop
Oscar Pettiford and his 18 All Stars – Something For You
Earl Hines and his Orchestra – At the El Grotto
Boyd Raeburn and his Orchestra – A Night In Tunisia
Woody Herman and his Orchestra – Apple Honey
Bill Eckstine and his Orchestra – Opus X
Dizzy Gillespie and his All Star Quintet – Salt Peanuts
Dizzy Gillespie and his All Star Quintet – Hot House
Howard McGhee – Mad Hype
Frank Socolow Quintet – September In the Rain
Dexter Gordon – Dexter Minor Mad
Charlie Parker’s Re Boppers – Now’s the Time
Charlie Parker’s Be Bop Boys – Koko
