Dan Block- Almost Modern: The Swing To Bop Project (CD)
New York's Kelly's Stables on 52nd Street was a hotbed of innovative musical ideas in the early 1940s. The Coleman Hawkins Band was extending the harmonic boundaries of the music in association with younger musicians laying the seeds of the bebop revolution. Dan Block (a NY tenor saxophonist and clarinetist) and guitarist Chris Flory spent 5 years researching the period in an attempt to find the connection points and transition from Swing to Bop. This recording, Almost Modern, is the musical result of their work, including tunes by Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Sir Charles Thompson.
Tracklist:
- Dexter Rides Again
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- Byas'd Opinion
- Illinois Goes to Chicago
- I Waited for You
- That's Earl's Brother
- Dizzy Atmosphere
- Meandering
- Setting the Pace
- I Mean You
- Sportsman's Hop
- Koko
- Disorder at the Border
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.
New York's Kelly's Stables on 52nd Street was a hotbed of innovative musical ideas in the early 1940s. The Coleman Hawkins Band was extending the harmonic boundaries of the music in association with younger musicians laying the seeds of the bebop revolution. Dan Block (a NY tenor saxophonist and clarinetist) and guitarist Chris Flory spent 5 years researching the period in an attempt to find the connection points and transition from Swing to Bop. This recording, Almost Modern, is the musical result of their work, including tunes by Dexter Gordon, Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas, Illinois Jacquet, Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Fuller, Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Sir Charles Thompson.
Tracklist:
- Dexter Rides Again
- Too Much of a Good Thing
- Byas'd Opinion
- Illinois Goes to Chicago
- I Waited for You
- That's Earl's Brother
- Dizzy Atmosphere
- Meandering
- Setting the Pace
- I Mean You
- Sportsman's Hop
- Koko
- Disorder at the Border
> Due to the current limited nature of music titles, ALL CD & Vinyl purchases are limited to FOUR copies per customer, per item. If you place multiple orders for multiples of the same title, your subsequent orders will be canceled.