''BeBopBeBopBeBopBeBop'' (sometimes simply referred to as ''BeBop'') is an album of
bebop standards by pianist
Paul Bley recorded in Denmark in 1989 and released on the
SteepleChase
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label.
Paul Bley catalog
accessed June 26, 2014
Reception
Allmusic awarded the album 4 stars calling it "A surprising album from Bley, long considered an outside player with little, if any, affinity for straight bop. He shatters that myth on this set".[Wynn, R.]
Allmusic Review
accessed June 26, 2014 '' The Penguin Guide to Jazz'' said "''Bebop'' is a taxingly inventive and constantly surprising run through a dozen kenspeckle bop tunes".
Track listing
# "Now's the Time" ( Charlie Parker) – 4:40
# "My Little Suede Shoes" (Parker) – 7:47
# " Ornithology" (Parker) – 7:06
# "A Night in Tunisia
"A Night in Tunisia" is a musical composition written by Dizzy Gillespie around 1940–42, while Gillespie was playing with the Benny Carter band. It has become a jazz standard. It is also known as "Interlude", and with lyrics by Raymond Leveen w ...
" (Dizzy Gillespie
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) – 4:23
# " Don't Blame Me" ( Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 6:29 Bonus track on CD
# "The Theme" (Traditional) – 7:35 Bonus track on CD
# "Bebop" (Gillespie) – 2:38
# " Lady Bird" ( Tadd Dameron) – 6:32
# "Tenderly
"Tenderly" is a popular song published in 1946 with music by Walter Gross and lyrics by Jack Lawrence. Written in the key of E as a waltz in time, it has since been performed in 4/4 and has become a popular jazz standard. Notable versions have ...
" ( Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence Jack Lawrence may refer to:
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) – 4:37
# "Steeplechase" (Parker) – 3:14
# " Barbados" (Parker) – 3:52
# "52nd Street Theme
This is a list of compositions by jazz musician Thelonious Monk.
0-9 52nd Street Theme
A contrafact based loosely on rhythm changes in C, and was copyrighted by Monk under the title "Nameless" in April 1944. The tune was also called "Bip Bop" b ...
" ( Thelonious Monk) – 3:41
Personnel
* Paul Bley – piano
*Bob Cranshaw
Melbourne Robert Cranshaw (December 3, 1932 – November 2, 2016) was an American jazz bassist. His career spanned the heyday of Blue Note Records to his recent involvement with the Musicians Union. He is perhaps best known for his long associa ...
– bass
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*Keith Copeland
Keith Copeland (born in New York City on April 18, 1946, died in Germany on February 14, 2015) was a jazz drummer and music educator.
Career
His father, Ray Copeland, was a jazz trumpeter, and he learned by watching him, but he decided to play dr ...
– drums
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References
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1990 albums
Paul Bley albums
SteepleChase Records albums