Bebop - the Absolutely Essential

Disc 1

1. The Dizzy Gillespie Septet - a Night In Tunisia
2. The Charlie Parker Septet Ornithology
3. The Miles Davis All-Stars Milestones
4. The Thelonious Monk Quintet - In Walked Bud
5. Bud Powell's Modernists - Bouncing With Bud
6. Coleman Hawkins and His Orchestra - Woody 'N You
7. The Tiny Grimes Quintet - Tiny's Tempo
8. Oscar Pettiford and His All Stars - Something For You
9. Red Norvo and His Selected Sextet Hallelujah
10. Jay Jay Johnson's Be-Boppers - Jay Bird
11. The Sonny Stitt All Stars - Bebop In Pastel
12. The Stan Getz Quartet - Opus De Bop
13. Dizzy Gillespie and His All Star Quintet - Salt Peanuts
14. Charlie Parker's Reboppers Koko
15. The Dexter Gordon Quintet - Long Tall Dexter
16. Sonny Berman's Big Eight - Woodchopper's Holiday
17. Red Rodney's Be-Boppers - All God's Children Got Rhythm
18. Fats Navarro- Nostalgia
19. The Serge Chaloff All Stars - Gabardine and Serge
20. Bab's Three Bips and a Bop - Oop-Pop-A-Da

Disc 2

1. The Charlie Parker All Stars - Donna Lee
2. The Thelonious Monk Quartet Epistrophy
3. Miles Davis and His Orchestra Move
4. Art Blakey's Messengers - the Thin Man
5. The Dizzy Gillespie Sextet - Groovin' High
6. Bud Powell's Modernists - Dance of the Infidels
7. Sir Charles Thompson's All Stars- Mad Lad
8. Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray - the Chase
9. The Tadd Dameron Sextet - the Squirrel
10. Anita O'Day - What is This Thing Called Love?
11. Leo Parker's All Stars - Wee Dot
12. Kenny Clarke and His Fifty Second Street Boys - Jumpin' Ther
13. The Miles Davis All Stars - Little Willie Leaps
14. James Moody's Modernists - Cu-Ba
15. Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Manteca
16. The Charlie Parker Septet - Yardbird Suite
17. Illinois Jacquet and His Orchestra - Mutton Leg
18. Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra Casbah
19. Kenny Clarke and His Fifty Second Street Boys Confirmation
20. The Howard McGhee Sextet With Milt Jackson - the Talk of the

Disc 3

1. The Thelonious Monk Quintet - Round Midnight
2. Art Blakey's Messengers - Bop Alley
3. The Charlie Parker Quintet - Scrapple From the Apple
4. Bud Powell - Tempus Fugit
5. Jay Jay Johnson's Bop Quintet - Bone-O-Logy
6. The Dizzy Gillespie All Stars - Good Bait
7. The Dexter Gordon Quintet - Dexter's Riff
8. The Fats Navarro and His Thin Men - Goin' To Mintons
9. James Moody's Modernists - Tin Tin Deo
10. Babs Gonzales and His Orchestra - Professor Bop
11. Miles Davis and His Orchestra Israel
12. The Kai Winding Sextet - Crossing the Channel
13. The Wardell Gray Quartet Twisted
14. Bud Powell's Modernists Wail
15. Dexter Gordon and Teddy Edwards - the Duel
16. The Howard McGhee and Fats Navarro Boptet - the Skunk
17. The Metronome All Stars - Victory Ball
18. Tadd Dameron and His Orchestra Focus
19. Charlie Barnet and His Orchestra - Bebop Spoken Here
20. The Stan Getz Quartet - Crazy Chords