Beginning in the 1940s and hitting its stride in the 1950s, bebop took jazz in a new stylistic direction with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker and Thelonious Monk in the forefront.
Track listings:
1. Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts
2. Charlie "Bird" Parker - Scrapple From The Apple
3. Miles Davis - Move
4. Bud Powell - Tempus Fugue It
5. Thelonious Monk - Ruby, My Dear
6. Chet Baker - A Night On Bop Mountain
7. The Quintet - Wee
8. Charlie "Bird" Parker & Tiny Grimes - Romance Without Finance
9. Gene Ammons & Sonny Stitt - New Blues Up And Down
10. Duke Jordan Quintet - Cu-Ba
11. Charlie "Bird" Parker & Dizzy Gillespie - A Night In Tunisia (Live)
12. Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High
13. Charlie Parker Quintet - Bird Of Paradise
14. Art Blakey & the Jazz Messengers - Moanin'