by Coleman Hawkins · Proper Records · CD · EAN 0604988991420
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«The Bebop Years» is the Coleman Hawkins compilation, released in 2000 by Proper Records, in a four-CD box set.
Collection documenting Coleman Hawkins's period in the 1940s, when the saxophonist, already established in swing, moved toward bebop and crossed paths with young modernists such as Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk. The repertoire includes standards like «Body and Soul», «April in Paris» and «How High the Moon».
The box includes four CDs with over eighty tracks and an illustrated 56-page booklet. Catalogue number Properbox 14.
For fans of classic jazz, swing and bebop, and for collectors of historical recordings from the 1940s.
