[JAZZ] Best bebop albums?

[Ari]

I have found that from the jazz CDs I own, I tend to gravitate around the same few albums. My favorite style is the bebop from the 40s/50s/60s, and I have a preference for the alto/tenor saxophone sound.

I'm looking for albums that are similar to these:

Charlie Parker - The Quintessence (2cds)
Dexter Gordon - Go
Sonny Rollins - Saxophone Colossus
John Coltrane - Blue Train, Giant Steps
Clifford Brown, Max Roach - Alone Together
Bobby Timmons - The soul Man
Art Blakey - Moanin'

Could you point me toward the essential bebop albums, especially from saxophone players?

[burk48237]

You started with a great list!! My additions would be, "Mysteriouso" Thelonious Monk with Bob Rous "Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane".
"Ballads" John coltrane, great CD, Elvin Jones gives a lesson on Minimalist Drumming on this CD! "The Turnaround" Hank Mobley, Almost any Miles from that era had either Hank Mobly or John Coltrane, Mobley had a very smooth baritone sound. "Adams Apple" by Wayne Shorter, Also Art Blakleys "Caravan" had Wayne Shorter. "Our Man in Paris" by Dextor Gordon. Hope this helps.

[DaveBeny]

Here are some suggestions for albums from the Blue Note label. Go to Fopp in Covent Garden - you can get virtually the entire range for £5 a piece.

Not all of these suggestions are strict bebop - some can be called "hardbop" and some are "modal".

Art Blakey - 'Free For All'
Dexter Gordon - 'Dexter Calling'
Joe Henderson - 'Page One'
Joe Henderson - 'Mode for Joe'
Freddie Hubbard - 'Hubtones'
Jackie Mclean - 'Let Freedom Ring'
Bud Powell - 'The Amazing Bud Powell vol.1'
Sonny Rollins - 'Vol. 1'
Wayne Shorter - 'Adam's Apple'
Horace Silver - 'Finger Poppin'
Horace Silver - 'Song for my Father'
Horace Silver - 'Six Pieces of Silver'
Larry Young - 'Unity'

I have tried to keep this list to saxophone-centred albums. The exceptions (Young, Blakey, Powell) all feature great sax performances.

[Matt Till]

Anything Thelonious Monk related.

[Dennis Kong]

Besides what Dave suggested:

1)Wayne Shorter:

BN:Speak No Evil, Schizophrenia, JuJu,Night Dreamer,ETC, SoothSayer, The Collector.
BN: any of the Art Blakey Lps.
BN: Free Form- Donald Byrd.
BN: Search for the New Land- Lee Morgan
VJ: The Young Lions ( with Lee Morgan),

2)Jackie Mclean:
BN: Almost everything: Bluesnik, Capuchin Swing, A Fickle Sonance, Swing,Swang, etc , ones I recommend

Prestige: 4-5-6, Lights Out.

Jubilee: Quintet ( with Doug Watkins)

3)Joe Henderson:
BN: all. Inner Urge- my favorite

Milestone: The Kicker, Quartets, In the Pursuit of Blackness.

4) Tina Brooks:
BN- either Mosiac or BN cds.

5) Harold Land:
BN: Take Aim
Contemp: Grooveland
Contemp: The Fox ( originally issued on Hi-Fi label)
Atlantic: Hear Yea, Hear Yea. with Red Mitchell
Contemp: For Real -by Hampton Hawes. with Scott Lafaro.

6)Brooker Ervin
Prestige: all-
Bethlehem: The Book Cooks
PJ: Structrually Sound
BN: In-Between, & BN double lp reissue -Back from the Gig
Atlantic: Blues& Roots -Charlie Mingus
UA-Jazz Portraits- Charlie Mingus

Some other sax players I suggest but due to space considerations.. (and there are quite few I left out too )
Include:
Chris Woods- Prestige
Sonny Stitt- Cobblestone
Art Pepper- Contemp
Don Wilkerson- BN
Cannonball Adderley-Riverside
Richie Kamuca-HiFi, Contemp (with Shelly Manne)
Tubby Hayes- Tempo or Jasmine

Thats a start !
Have those in my collection.
Dennis

[JimK]

Originally Posted by Ari

My favorite style is the bebop from the 40s/50s/60s, and I have a preference for the alto/tenor saxophone sound.

Just to split hairs...
On a whole-
Bebop = 1940s (Charlie Parker, pre-Afro Cuban Dizzy, Sonny Stitt, etc)
Hard Bop = 1950s (Lee Morgan, Art Blakey, Horace Silver, Cannonball, etc)
Post Bop = 1960s (Wayne Shorter, Coltrane, etc)

Granted, some of the artists moved in & about the above mentioned(like Miles...).

[Bruce Lindfield]

Yes - I like all the albums that David has mentioned, for example - but they are all what I would call "Hard Bop" !

I love Horace Silver and would add Cape Verdean Blues and Blowin' the Blues Away!

[Ari]

Thank you all for your input so far.

I already have some of the albums mentioned, but I'll make sure to check out those I am not yet familar with.