Various Artists - Bebop: Pioneers And Classic Performances 1941-49 / 3CD set

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. These 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.

disc 1
    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

disc 2
    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

disc 3
    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