Atomic Age Cocktail Party

Atomic Boptails (140)

 
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This week for The Atomic Age Cocktail Party, it's a special listener-suggested program. This show is called Atomic Boptails; a look at be-bop throughout the hi-fi era. Be-bop music was the natural evolution from swing and became the musical fuel for the Beat Generation. It was seen as a little wild…a little dangerous…and a little subversive. The music had fast rhythms (where you get the bop name) as well as frantic solos, and a language all its own. We’ll hear from Dizzy Gillespie, Gene Krupa, Cannonball Adderley, and many more.

Playlist

Title Artist Album
Be-Bop Spoken Here Charlie Barnet Capitol Jumps: From The Vaults Vol. 3, 1944-1953
Salt Peanuts Dizzy Gillespie Groovin' High
Vox Bop Georgie Auld That's Auld!
For Boppers Only Charlie Ventura It's All Bop To Me
Undercurrent Blues Benny Goodman Benny Goodman And His Orchestra
Aesop's Foibles Artie Shaw 1949 - Previously Unreleased Recordings
Groovin' High Art Pepper Art Pepper + Eleven "Modern Jazz Classics"
Lemon Drop Gene Krupa Sing, Sing, Sing
Lullaby in Rhythm June Christy The Uncollected June Christy, Vol. 2, 1957
Boplicity Miles Davis Birth Of The Cool
Hot Dog Chubby Jackson And His All Stars Band Gerry Mulligan Quartet / Chubby Jackson Big Band
Coop de Graas Shorty Rogers and His Giants The Big Shorty Rogers Express
Rugolo Meets Shearing Pete Rugolo Adventures In Rhythm
Bells Harry James & His Orchestra Gene Krupa & Harry James - Capitol Vaults Jazz Series
Casa De Marcel Cannonball Adderley In The Land Of Hi-Fi
Professor Bop Three Bips & A Bop, Feat. Babs Gonzales Capitolizing / Professor Bop
Everybody's Boppin' Lambert, Hendricks & Ross The Hottest New Group In Jazz