Professor Bebop
Dizzy Gillespie - CD
- Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
- Format: CD
- Year: 2002, 2003
- UPC: 636551440028
- Item Number: RCL144002
- Release date: 01/12/2005
- 1. Bebop
- 2. Good Bait
- 3. Perdido
- 4. Cherokee
- 5. Blue 'n' Boogie
- 6. Groovin' High
- 7. All the Things You Are
- 8. Salt Peanuts
- 9. Shaw 'Nuff
- 10. Hot House
- 11. Congo Blues
- 12. Slim's Jam
- 13. Diggin' Diz
- 14. Dizzy Atmosphere
- 15. Confirmation
- 16. When I Grow Too Old to Dream
- 17. 'Round About Midnight
- 18. 52nd Street Theme
- 19. Night in Tunisia
- 20. Anthropology
- 21. Oop Bop Sh'bam
- 22. Our Delight
- 23. Things to Come
- 24. Smokey Hollow Jump
- 25. Boppin' the Blues
- 26. Emanon
- 27. Ow!
- 28. Oop-Pop-A-Da
- 29. Two Bass Hit
- 30. Algo Bueno (Woody 'n' You)
- 31. Cool Breeze
- 32. Cubana Be
- 33. Cubana Bop
- 34. Manteca
- 35. Ool-Ya-Koo
- 36. Duff Capers
- 37. I'm Be Boppin' Too
- 38. Katy (Dizzier and Dizzier)
- 39. Jump Di-Le-Ba
- 40. Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat
- 41. Bloomdido
- 42. Oscar for Treadwell
- 43. Leap Frog
- 44. Relaxin' with Lee
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Professor Bebop by Dizzy Gillespie on CD
Possibilities for collecting Dizzy Gillespie material are as varied as harmonic inversions on a set of bebop choruses. Professor Bop, featuring 20 tracks, first showed up circa 1994 as a release on the Atlantis label. The French Le Jazz imprint did a repackaging variation the following year, then again as the '90s came to a close and the legend of the man with the bent horn passed into another century. The original label perhaps sinking into the ocean, another firm calling itself Recall came up with a 2002 expansion, this time titled Professor Bebop and consisting of two discs, 45 tracks, and expanded portions of Gillespie silliness such as the carnivorous "Hey Pete! Let's Eat More Meat." In both cases the program sticks to material recorded between the mid-'40s and early-'50s, meaning that many of the popular compositions that show up in bebop fake books are unveiled in their full glory. The trumpeter's prominence in this "Dizzy Atmosphere" of progressive creativity earned him the "professor" nickname, also exploited on other available compilations with confusingly similar names such as Bebop Professor. In all cases the producer is faced with a similar juggling act, the balls in the air being Gillespie's mind-blowing relationship with alto saxophonist Charlie Parker, his ambitious attempts at large ensembles including a '40s orchestra, and his stage persona as a goofball and associated theme songs. Some listeners may find the latter kind of material as far from the glories of "Groovin' High" as Gillespie's South Carolina birthplace is from southern Borneo. Tadd Dameron and Gil Fuller are among the fine arrangers Gillespie brought in to assist in managing the nearly 100 different musicians lucky and skilled enough to have been involved in these tracks; Dameron bounces his theme "Our Delight" until it becomes just that. A taste of Fuller's concoctions is also present, the leader's at times frantic horn figures sent to rescue a damsel from the mouth of a carnivorous beast half trombone, half baritone sax. Even when interpreting Tin Pan Alley and using similar chord changes to the originals, the new themes concocted by bebop henchmen were detached from mushy sentimentality in a way that inevitably must have made jazz seem like a threat to mankind, to some people anyway. What is essentially just aesthetic power transmits easily through any and despite too many repackagings. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, All Music Guide
- Artist: Dizzy Gillespie
- Format: CD
- Year: 2002, 2003
- UPC: 636551440028
- Item Number: RCL144002
- Release date: 01/12/2005
- Label: Recall, Recall (UK)
- Genre: Jazz
- Style: Afro-Cuban Jazz, Bop, Hard Bop, Jazz Instrument, Trumpet Jazz, World Fusion
- Album Type: "Best of..." / "Greatest Hits"
- 1953-1954
- A Night in Tunisia: The Very Best of Dizzy Gillespie
- Afro [Special Packaging] (Import)
- Anthology [2004]
- At Newport
- At Newport
- Birk's Works: Verve Big Band Sessions
- Blue Moon
- Career: 1937-1992
- Closer to the Source
- Closer to the Source
- Cognac Blues
- Cool Breeze: Big Band Live 1957
- Copenhagen Concert
- Diz and Getz [Remastered] (Import)
- Dizzier and Dizzier
- Dizzy Atmosphere [Quadromania]
- Dizzy Atmosphere [Rajon] (Import)
- Dizzy for President
- Dizzy Gillespie & James Moody with Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra (Import)
- Dizzy Gillespie & Strings
- Dizzy Gillespie Goes Hollywood
- Dizzy Gillespie Meets the Phil Woods Quintet
- Dizzy Gillespie Story
- Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4
- Dizzy on the French Riviera
- Dizzy: The Music of John Birks Gillespie
- En Concert
- Gettin' Dizzy: The High Flying Dizzy Gillespie
- Greatest Hits
- Greatest Hits Series [Sony]
- Groovin' High [Indigo] (Import)
- Groovin' High [Living Era]
- Have Trumpet, Will Excite! [Expanded]
- Introduction to Dizzy Gillespie: His Best Recordings 1937-1947
- Jambo Caribe
- Jazz After Hours
- Jazz in Paris: The Giant (Import)
- Ken Burns Jazz
- Kusch
- Les Incontournables
- Live at the 1965 Monterey Jazz Festival
- Night in Tunisia: Big Band Live 1957
- Odyssey: 1945-1952
- One Night in Washington
- Portrait of Jenny
- Round About Midnight
- Salt Peanuts
- Salt Peanuts
- School Days [Bonus Tracks] (Import)
- Shaw Nuff
- Showtime at the Spotlite 52nd Street New York City, June 1946
- Sittin' In
- Soul Time
- Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac
- The Best of Odyssey 1945-1952
- The Champ [Bonus Tracks]
- The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
- The Cool World
- The Dizzy Gillespie Story [Bonus Tracks]
- The Dizzy's Diamonds: The Best of Verve Years
- The Giants of Jazz
- The New Continent
- The Quintessence New York - Chicago: 1940-1947
- Timeless Dizzy Gillespie
- Verve Jazz Masters 10
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