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Artist: Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny Stitt, Max Roach, Hank Jones
Title Of Album: The Bop Session
Year Of Release: 1975
Recovery Data: April 25, 2010 [VinylRipp By Napi#10]
Genre: Jazz – Bop
Quality/ Bitrate: Ape High [817]
Total Time: 51:34 mins.
Total Size: 286,62 MB [With Artwork]
MB: 322 (1 x 200 + 1 x 122 + 10% Recovery)
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Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet),
Sonny Stitt (alto and tenor saxophones),
John Lewis, Hank Jones (piano),
Percy Heath (bass),
Max Roach (drums).
Album notes:
Recorded in New York City on May 19 & 20, 1975.
This LP matches together trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Sonny Stitt (on alto and tenor) with an all-star rhythm section (John Lewis or Hank Jones on piano, bassist Percy Heath and drummer Max Roach) for six classic bop standards. Gillespie was near the end of his prime but is in generally good form while Stitt typically eats the material (songs such as “Confirmation,” “Groovin’ High” and “All the Things You Are”) with no difficulty. Bop fans should enjoy this date despite the lack of surprises.
~ Scott Yanow
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02 – Confirmation – 08:42 min.
03 – Groovin’ High – 07:25 min.
04 – Lover Man – 07:06 min.
05 – All The Things You Are – 10:07 min.
06 – Lady Bird – 08:33 min.
In all the pieces the saxophone comes from the left speaker (depending on how the wires are hooked up), the trumpet from the right, and the bass, drums, and piano from the center. For best appreciation of the album, the volume should be turned up, to enable hearing Max Roach’s clicking cymbol rhythms.
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1. Blue’n'Boogie. This piece is unusual, in this set, because after the intro there is a piano solo (rather than a sax or trumpet solo). Next comes a sax solo which, at one point, appears to quote from a fragment of When the Saints Go Marching In. At another point, Mr.Stitt plays one note repeatedly, but with two different fingers, providing an interesting effect. Then there’s a trumpet solo. Next a bass solo. There is a drum solo, which concludes with an alternating interlude. Overall, the alternating interlude could be construed as a drum solo, and it consists of the instruments taking turns like this: trumpet, sax, drums, trumpet, drums, sax, drums, trumpet, drums, and sax.
2. Confirmation. Confirmation and Groovin’ High are tunes for all Americans to learn by heart. First comes a sax solo. The sax solo contains many notes, as one might expect. They are strung together in a way that invokes oozing honey, melting butter, or a cube of vibrating jelly. At one point in the solo, Mr.Stitt plays one note repeatedly, but with two different fingerings, providing a special effect (see above). There’s a trumpet solo. Then a piano solo. Then come multiple bass solos, each bracketed by an ascending fluttering motif on trumpet/sax. There are six such ascending fluttering motifs.
3. Groovin’ High. The sax solo consists of many notes, as one might expect, but one of them is distorted (intended or not). (The single distorted note provides a more powerful effect than repeatedly playing distorted notes, here and there throughout the piece.) Then comes a trumpet solo. Then a piano solo. Groovin’ High is unique among these pieces in that it concludes with a dramatic fanfare.
4. Lover Man. This piece is slow, though the lenghthy muted trumpet solo contains a few spurting arpeggios that are as quick as those found elsewhere in this set. Lover Man begins with a long sax solo. Then there’s a muted trumpet solo. Then a short piano solo. Then a sax solo.
5. All the ThiPlease Login or Register to view this contentngs You Are. Begins with a sax and muted trumpet duet. Then a muted trumpet solo. Then sax solo. In this piece, the sax has a somewhat sharper tone, rather than the more honey-toned saxophone tone found in the other pieces. Then a piano solo. Then a non-muted trumpet interlude, DRUM SOLO, sax solo, DRUM SOLO, trumpet solo, DRUM SOLO, sax solo, DRUM SOLO, trumpet solo, DRUM SOLO, sax solo, DRUM SOLO, finally a duet with muted trumpet and sax.
6. Lady Bird. Lady Bird begins with a sax solo. The saxophone solo contains Sonny Stitt’s trademark ascending fluttering arpeggios. Muted trumpet solo. Piano solo (the longest on this album). Bass solo. Drum solo. The ending comprises Sonny Stitt playin the tune (theme) while Gillespie improvises on this tune.
I saw Max Roach twice at Keystone Korner in San Francisco (with Odean Pope and with Cecil Bridgewater), once in Emeryville, CA (this particular set featured Cecil Bridgewater on trumpt, a young man on bongo drums and an older man on upright electric bass), and once at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he performed with Richard Davis. I also saw Sonny Stitt perform, twice at Keystone Korner in San Francisco, and once at a tiny tavern in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
In my opinion, every American high school student should be issued a copy of “The Bop Session,” (along with Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Ives’ A Symphony:New England Holidays) prior to graduation, as part of their acculturation process. The Bop Session is a perfectly executed album of music.
By Tom Brody (Berkeley, CA)
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I’m sorry too much, but the N° 6 file, Lady Bird is destroyed by many not musical sounds that made impposible enjoy the music. I don’t understand how the ripper doesn’t hear it before upload this beautiful record.
dolapemonsal@gmail.com
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Indeed there are some noises on the CD deteriorated where I store the audio when I did the ripping in 2002. The new rip in a few minutes
Sorry again
As I climb the links at the whole drive, I leave to you the new song riped again.
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Thanks for your friendly advice and your appreciation
Thank you for your answer and the new link, I’m downloading it just now, love you Liza.
Thanks A Lot, my friend; enjoy It!
Sorry Again, please.
The New Links (05-05-2010) is done