4. Be-Bop to Cool: An Evolution
East Coast and West Coast

Listen
All audio materials should be available through the Public Radio MusicSource®, most record stores, The Smithsonian Institution, and some public libraries.

• Dizzy Gillespie: The Bebop Revolution (BMG Bluebird 2177 2 RB)
• Dizzy Gillespie and His Sextets and Orchestra (Shaw 'Nuff Musicraft MVSCD 53)
• Jazz at Massey Hall. Charlie Parker, Dizzy, etc. (Fantasy OJCCD 044-2)
• The Amazing Bud Powell, Volume I (Blue Note B21 Y 81503)
• Thelonious Monk: The Composer (Columbia CK 44 297)
• Miles Davis: Birth of Cool (Blue Note 92862)
• Gerry Mulligan: Tentet and Quartet Featuring Chet Baker (GNP/Crescendo GNPD 56)
• The Dave Brubeck Quartet: Time Out (Columbia 40585)

View
The videos listed with an asterisk (*) can be ordered from Jamey Aebersold Jazz Inc., P.O. Box 1244C, New Albany, IN 47151-1224 (800-456-1388).

• Dizzy Gillespie: A Night in Tunisia (A 81)*
• Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser (A 102)*
• Dexter Gordon: 'Round Midnight (A 103)*
• West Coast and Cool Jazz (A 306)*

Read

• Feather, Leonard. Inside Jazz (Bebop). J.J. Robbins, New York, 1949.
• Giddins, Gary. Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker. Beech Tree Books, New York, 1989.
• Gitler, Ira. Swing to Bop: An Oral History of the Transition in Jazz in the 1940s. Oxford University Press, New York, 1985.

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