| And so we continue our journey into the RCA Victor album set "BeBop: An Album Of Modern Jazz" with side 5, "Epistrophy" by Kenny Clarke and his 52nd Street Boys. If this doesn't knock you sideways into an easy chair for a fractured ride..... ;) Yeah, this is definite proof that a pure Groove Juice Special can be found in BeBop jazz. ;) Extreme justice being done to Monk's piece here. Seeing as how the personnel (save for Collins & Abramson) is virtually identical (both in personnel AND sound) to the group that recorded "Webb City" & "Fat Boy" for Savoy in 1946 (appearing on the "New Sounds In Modern Music, Volume 1" billed as "The Be Bop Boys"), I figured this must have been Klook's working band at the time and probably recorded around the same time. The personnel for this September 5, 1946 session are: Kenneth Clarke - drums Theodore "Fats" Navarro, McKinley "Kinny" Dorham - trumpets Edward "Sonny" Stitt - alto sax Ray Abramson - tenor sax Eddie De Verteuil - baritone sax John Collins - guitar Earl "Bud" Powell - piano Alfred W. "Al" Hall - bass Dig..... |
