🎷bebop that's worth owning on vinyl, not just streaming
pressing quality and liner notes matter as much as the sessions themselves. deep cut territory past the first two.
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1
Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948
the 10LP set. steep but this is the whole story: Miles, Dizzy, Bud Powell, Max Roach all passing through these sessions.
2
Bud Powell - The Amazing Bud Powell, Vol. 1 (Blue Note 1503)
3
Thelonious Monk - Genius of Modern Music, Vol. 1 (Blue Note)
not strictly bebop by the time he was doing his own thing but the sessions come straight out of it.
4
Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High (Savoy sessions)
5
Fats Navarro with the Tadd Dameron Band
makes me think about how different this scene would look if he'd lived past 26. tragic story, incredible trumpet.
6
Sonny Stitt / Bud Powell / J.J. Johnson (Prestige)
7
Dexter Gordon - Long Tall Dexter (Savoy)
deep cut compared to the rest of this list, tenor bebop gets less love than the alto and trumpet guys.
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