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Bop Lives!

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: 1. Coleman Hawkins with Dizzy Gillespie---Woody'n You 2. Jimmy Forrest---All The Gin Is Gone 3. Sir Charles Thompson with Charlie Parker---Street Beat 4. Francine Griffin---Anthropology 5. Bud Powell---Rifftide 6. Cecil Payne---Cuba 7. Donald Byrd---Blues Walk 8. Babs Gonzales---Ray's Groove

Bop Lives!

By Various Artists

Label: Delmark Records
Released: 2003
Track listing: Coleman Hawkins/Dizzy Gillespie

Various Artists: Bop Lives!

by C. Michael Bailey
November 18, 2003

Delmark’s 50th Anniversary Collection, Part 6 Delmark continues to celebrate its Golden Anniversary with a release of bebop classics from 1944 through 1998. This collection offers a curious cross-section from early Sir Charles Thompson ("Street Beat," 1945) to late Bud Powell ("Rifftide," 1962). The music captured here is stranger, more organic, and often more authentic than ...

Various: Bop Lives!

by Ken Hohman
October 7, 2003

While 50 years of music from Delmark Records is a reason for any jazz or blues fan to celebrate, Bop Lives! is the kind of low budget sampler you would expect from a lesser label. It appears that all eight tracks were chosen by blindfold and that no special attention was paid to chronology. In fact, ...