Debut Records Story [Box set]

Various Artists - Jazz - Bebop/Post-Bop/Avant-Garde | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 24, 1997)
• Original Release Date: March 26, 1997
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Box set
• Note on Boxed Sets: During shipping, discs in boxed sets occasionally become dislodged without damage. Please examine and play these discs. If you are not completely satisfied, we'll refund or replace your purchase.
• Label: Debut
• ASIN: B000000XB7
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,524 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Dizzy Atmosphere - Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/Max Roach/Duke Jordan/Tommy Potter

2. The Way You Look Tonight - Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/Max Roach/Duke Jordan/Tommy Potter

3. Ornithology - Charlie Parker/Red Rodney/Al Haig/Tommy Potter/Roy Haynes

4. Hot House - Charlie Parker/Red Rodney/Al Haig/Tommy Potter/Roy Haynes

5. Confirmation - Charlie Parker/Red Rodney/Al Haig/Tommy Potter/Roy Haynes

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach

2. A Night in Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker/Bud Powell/Charles Mingus/Max Roach

3. Bass-Ically Speaking - Billy Taylor/Charles Mingus

4. I'll Remember April - J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding/Bennie Green/Willie Dennis

5. Move - J.J. Johnson/Kai Winding/Bennie Green/Willie Dennis

See all 13 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Notes to You

2. The Pendulum at Falcon's Lair

3. Stockholm Sweetnin'

4. Fluid Drive

5. Right Around Home

See all 16 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Nature Boy

2. Alone Together

3. Easy Living

4. Portrait

5. Variegations

See all 12 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sublime, important, June 25, 2009

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This review is from: Debut Records Story (Audio CD)

It's just impossible to exaggerate the importance and pleasure of this set of jazz recordings. They form, in fact, an alternative history of jazz between 1952 and 1957--typically, "the (late) bop years," but here shown to be full of both rich, various experiment and a loving regard for the whole of jazz's past. If (like me) you sometimes get the weary impression that the only officially approved good stuff of the period came from the horns of Parker, Gillespie and their hard-bopping associates, you need the tonic, the oasis, the bright bubbling spring, of The Debut Records Story.

Debut Records was, basically, Charles Mingus' vehicle for nurturing and promoting the jazz he cared about. It also (not incidentally) gave the young Mingus a handy, dependable recording platform--first as bassist, then increasingly as bandleader and composer. His wife Celia and the brilliant drummer/bandleader Max Roach were partners, but Debut was--surprise!--mostly Mingus's show.

Both the variety and quality of the players and material here give these four (!) discs real star quality. If you want classic bop, oh, it's here: "Perdido," "Salt Peanuts" and "Night in Tunisia" in history-making performances from the band fronted by Parker and Gillespie and rounded out by Bud Powell, Mingus and Max Roach. (That's not a band, it's a catechism.) But there are also wonderfully un-doctrinaire sessions from the likes of a Kai Winding-led four-trombone septet (John Lewis on piano, Mingus on bass), early Roach configurations featuring Hank Mobley on tenor sax, excellent, idiosyncratic cuts from Thad Jones, John LaPorta and (of course) Mingus-led outfits and, yes, some of the earliest recordings we have featuring the Mingus-Dannie Richmond rhythm section. And more! And more!

In short, the Debut Records Story is a deeply enjoyable, really crucial piece of The Jazz Story itself--one that reminds us that jazz has always been among the freshest, most diverse, most challenging of the arts.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The Debut Records Story, October 25, 2008

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If you like Jazz and especially the old stuff.. Debut Records Story is a good sound History for you. On four CDs, you will hear some original recordings of Parker, Miles, Red Rodney, Charles Mingus, Lee Konitz, John Mehegen, Hank Jones, Walter Davis Jr., Max Roach, the Heath Brothers, John LaPorta, Thad Jones and many others... I was only able to find this package second hand...