Settin' the Pace [Box set]

Settin' the Pace [Box set]

ASIN: B000058A08

Editorial Reviews
Product Description
55 tracks from 1943 to 1950...mostly be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Criss and more. Includes 44 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases with individual artwork, housed together in a deluxe slipcase.

Tracks:

I've Found A New Baby
Rosetta
Sweet Lorraine
Blowed And Gone
Blowing The Blues Away
Groovin' High
Blue 'N' Boogie
Lonesome Lover Blues
Last Night
Honeysuckle Rose
Takin' Off
If I Had You
The Street Beat
Blow Mr. Dexter
Dexter's Deck
Dexter's Cuttin' Out
Dexter's Minor Mad
Looking For A Boy

Tracks:

Long Tall Dexter
Dexter Rides Again
I Can't Escape From You
Dexter Digs In
Jump Call
Mischievous Lady
Lullaby In Rhythm
The Chase
Chromatic Aberration
It's The Talk Of The Town
Blues Bikini
The Hunt
Byas A Drink

Tracks:

Disorder At The Border
Cherokee
After Hours Bop
I'll Follow You
Bop
Ghost Of A Chance
Sweet And Lovely

Tracks:

Hornin' In
The Duel
Settin' The Pace
So Easy
Dexter's Riff
Wee Dot
Lion Roars
Dexter's Mood
Dextrose
Index
Dextivity
Sid's Delight
Move
Ain't Gonna Quit You Baby
Helen's Advice
Knockin' Myself
Airplane Blues

Album Description

55 tracks from 1943 to 1950...mostly be-bop with Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Criss and more. Includes 44 page illustrated booklet. Four standard jewel cases with individual artwork, housed together in a deluxe slipcase.

Album Details

Over Four Hours of Music on Four CDs (55 Tracks) plus a 44-Page Fully Illustrated Booklet. The 55 Tracks Here Span the Period 1943-1950 & Feature the Immense Talents of Dexter Himself as Well as Such Luminaries as Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Ben Webster, Billy Eckstine, Sonny Criss & Barney Kessel. The 44 Pages in the Booklet Are Crammed with Rare Photos, Track Information & the Story of One of the True Giants of Jazz.

Customer Reviews:

The emergence of bop tenor.......2004-01-23

The kings of bop were Dizzy and Bird - on trumpet and alto, and there were Bud Powell, Monk, Kenny Clarke and Max Roach on piano and drums. It may be true that the tenor sax is just not suitable for bebop, just as the soprano sax is certainly not - but for other reasons. The tenor sound is just too big for the fast flurry of arpeggio notes, that is part of bop playing.
Dexter Gordon was one tenor player who managed to excell playing bebop without loosing any of the sound qualities of his instrument. His deep and elastic sound was part of the great tenor tradition, yet perfectly modern. I am convinced that the evolution of Sonny Rolling, Joe Henderson and John Coltrane, could not have been what it was without the influence of Dexter's sound.
It is interesting to compare Gordon with the great Wardell Gray, who is co featured on many tracks - especially the third cd. Gray's harmonic ideas were modern - but rhythmically he was part of the older tradition.

These recordings, spanning an era between 1943 and 1950, are crucial to the development of bop tenor saxophone playing. They contain exciting live jam session recordings as well as studio recording, and great playing from all musicians involved - Fats Navarro, Gray, Teddy Edwards, Howard Mcgee, Leo parker, and of course Dexter Gordon himself. I recommend the four CD package to anyone interested in the tenor sax and in bebop.

An essential collection of the first great bop tenor player.......2002-06-22

As I parse through this collection I am amazed that Proper was able to compile such a complete collection surveying the early years of Dexter Gordon. It's all here, the historic Savoy sides that Dexter led between 1945 through 1947 which include a stellar cast of sidemen such as Bud Powell, Max Roach, Fats Navarro and Leo Parker. There is also the historic Dial sides w/ Wardell Gray and Teddy Edwards that produced tracks like "The Chase" (w/ Gray), and "The Duel" (w/ Edwards). A set containing the Savoy and Dial sides would be fantastic on it's own but Proper has also included a number of other tracks of Dexter featured with the Billy Eckstine Band, Dizzy Gillespie's Sextet, Red Norvo, and Benny Carter's band. Also included is the historic 9/4/45 date led by Sir Charles Thompson for the Apollo label that also featured Charlie Parker! And if that wasn't enough there are 5 lenghty tracks recorded on 7/6/47 at the Elk's Auditorium in Los Angeles and billed as the "Hollywood Jazz Concert". These tracks include Howard McGhee, Trummy Young, Sonny Criss, Wardell Gray, Hampton Hawes, and Barney Kessel and although the sound is not superb on the live tracks, the performances are excellent and give the listener an inside look at what the Central Avenue scene must have been like in the mid to late 1940s.

All in all this collection is an excellent compilation of one of the true greats of modern jazz.

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