Earl Bostic 1948-1949

Earl Bostic | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 4, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Classics R&b Records/Trad Aliv
• ASIN: B00007JR31
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #637,309 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Disc Jockey Nightmare

2. Slightly Groovy

3. Bar Fly Baby

4. Artistry By Bostic

5. Scotch Jam

6. Apollo Theater Jump

7. Serenade to Beauty

8. Tiger Rag

9. The Man I Love

10. Temptation

11. Bostic's Boogie Blues

12. Joy Dust

13. Wild Man

14. Watch Where You Walk, Boy

15. Blip Boogie

16. From Midnight to Dawn

17. Swing Low Sweet Boogie

18. Earl's Imagination

19. Earl Blows a Fuse

20. Nay! Nay! Go Way!

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Hear this album and get goosebumps, July 12, 2002

By 

T. H VonZabern "tomvonz" (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 1948-1949 (Audio CD)

Bostic -- the master, revered by Bird and Coltrane, and so many others from WW II onward, at the height of his interpretive and technical powers. His plaintive, expressive "The man I love" will send shivers down your spine, his urbane riffs and turns in "Slightly Groovy" will evoke the elegant world of Cary Grant, and his cheeky "Disk Jockey's Nighmare" with its suprising borrowed snatches from La Marseilleise, Rossini and other unlikely sources will make you smile.

Bostic's technique and ability are nothing short of phenomenal, and his inventive genius is equally astonishing, and is most often expressed in seemingly effortless virtuosic runs and twirls that provide interest without ever detracting from the melodic material. If you haven't ever heard Bostic's music before, this album is a superb introduction to his art, before he succumbed to commercialism in the '50's.