I Like Be I Like Bop
Disc 1: Abbey’s Boogie / Disc
2: Bebop Woogie
96 p. Book
ODDS & SVENDS OF EARLY AMERICAN & EUROPEAN BEBOP VIOLIN
& CONTEMPORARY VIOLIN CURIOSITIES 1940s–1950s
An ear-opening double anthology with rare 78s and unreleased
broadcasts that establishes the chronology
and context of early bebop violin and rescues contemporary curiosities
from obscurity with 96 page analytical-historical photo-essay
Almost Like Being in Bop: A Not-So-Brief Account of the Swing to
Recorded Bebop & Progressive Violin in America and Europe
The essay ranges far and wide and includes new
biographical-discographical findings, new interview quotations,
previously unseen photos
The CDs include rare and unreleased recordings including broadcasts by
Americans: Abbey; Bella; Creach; Frigo; Girard; Kennedy; Lookofsky;
Nance; Nero; Orloff; Otis; Perry; Smith; Smock; South; Wetmore
Europeans: Asmussen; Bacsik; Christensen; Grappelli; Iwring; Kahn;
Laurence [Hodeir]; Ottersen; Wentzel Larsen; Zacharias
Many of the rare 78s have never before been rereleased including the
only known example of
a 1950s Leon Abbey recording and an overlooked Grappelli recording with
George Shearing
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