Okay, gimme your best BeBop (hard bop, post bop, etc.) suggestions.

[Shakespeare]

I'm currently on a Mingus kick--always a good thing--but I'm always looking for something new and different (or old and temporarily forgotten) to reach for next.

So, lemme have it.

[kimchi]

1. Doth mine ears hear the Elizabethan tongue of yore; as I understand not?

Wouldst thou speak hereon of musical arrangements? Alas, my creaked age renders me deaf and mute to the fashionable pursuits of youth.

[Shakespeare]

2. Kick for the night crowd....

...can it be that there are no bop fans on DU? Nah, couldn't be...

[Paragon]

3. She Bop

...he bop & we bop
I bop, you bop & they bop
Be bop, be bop a loo bop
I hope He will understand...

[Shakespeare]

4. To quote Daffy Duck....

Har har. Very funny. It is to laugh. :P

[dolo amber]

5. Here's a great thread

addressing just this sort of thing...I got LOADS of great suggestions. Enjoy! :hi:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=1067711

[DancingBear]

6. Here are a few

Dexter Gordon - Dexter Blows Hot And Cool
Gene Ammons/Sonny Stitt - Boss Tenors
all four of the Miles Davis Quartet w/Coltrane LP's (Relaxin', Workin', Steamin', Cookin')

and even though it's not in the bebop era:

Eric Alexander - Up, Over And Out

hope that helps :)

[LowerManhattanite]

7. You asked...and here they are!

In no particular order...dig on these!

Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Groovin' High.


Dizzy and the MJQ: Our Love Is Here To Stay.


Thelonious: Brilliant Corners (from that album) or 'Round Midnight fron the "Live at the It Club" album.

Mingus: Haitian Fight Song (I'll bet you just checked that one out! :) )

The Duke Ellington Orchestra: Harlem Air Shaft

Alternate choices: Duke and Trane's "The Feeling of Jazz" and Duke and Coleman Hawkins' "Limbo Jazz" (just for fun)

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

8. Miles Smiles

[legin]

11. Gotta mention my two favourites from that Miles era

E.S.P (track 5 sucks, track 7 the best) possibly roundabout second to Kind of Blue (ish).

Filles de Kilimanjaro (tracks 1,4 and 5 the best)

[legin]

9. Joe Henderson - Page One

Lightish but OK.

[everythingsxen]

10. My Bebop picks:

Cowboy (Bebop) & (Bebop) Cola


:evilgrin:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

12. Anything by Herb Ellis or Joe Pass

If you like albums for their compositions, then Ellis's 7 Come 11 is great...if not then get compilations of either artist. :hi:

[bif]

13. Anything by "One for All"=New bop that really swings

MJQ, Buddy De Franco, Shelly Manne and his Men (Live at the Manne Hole and Live at the blackhawk), any late 50's and early 60's Chet Baker, Monk of course.