Hip Jazz Bop: Not Your Typical Self Made Man

Hip Jazz Bop: Not Your Typical Self Made Man

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"Jazz is not your typical lifestyle. Are you typical?" These insouciant bons mots are but a part of the colorful packaging designed to entice new listeners to a compilation of fine bop-era jazz. The Hip Jazz-Bop series mines the vaults of the Black Lion label for choice cuts of 1950s and '60s jazz, when bebop and hard bop reigned supreme. The 10 selections here cover a lot of ground. Bud Powell's version of "Salt Peanuts" scampers at breakneck speed, whereas Dexter Gordon waxes melancholic on "I Guess I'll Have to Hang My Hat." Art Tatum, on "Body and Soul," and Ben Webster, on "Perdido," bridge the stylistic gap between swing and bop, while Kenny Dorham's "Grand Street," Howard McGhee's "Arbee," and Lee Konitz's "Mean to Me" fully capture the cool intensity of classic bebop. The neohipster packaging and hip '50s jazz make a nice fit and should pique curiosity for this time-honored music. --Wally Shoup

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