Prestige · in the Kissa Kissa racks
In The Beginning
| Recorded | Feb 1945 |
|---|---|
| Label | Prestige |
| Released | 1945 |
| Personnel | 46 credited players |
| Discogs | master 480039 |
The record
Early bebop caught mid-formation, with Gillespie and Parker still finding the language that would upend jazz within a few short years. A February '45 snapshot of the music's founding vocabulary, cut before the style even had a settled name.
Session personnel
- Dizzy Gillespie — trumpet
- Murray Shipinsky — bass
- Shelly Manne — drums
- Chuck Wayne — guitar
- Frank Paparelli — piano
- Dexter Gordon — tenor saxophone
- Charlie Parker — alto saxophone
- Slam Stewart — bass
- Cozy Cole — drums
- Remo Palmieri — guitar
- Clyde Hart — piano
- Curly Russell — bass
- Sidney Catlett — drums
- Al Haig — piano
- Sarah Vaughan — vocals
- Sonny Stitt — alto saxophone
- Ray Brown — bass
- Kenny Clarke — drums
- Milt Jackson — vibraphone [vibes]
- Gil Fuller — vocals
- Alice Roberts — vocals
- John Lewis — piano [either of]
- Howard Johnson — saxophone
- John Brown — saxophone
- Pee Wee Moore — saxophone
- Ray Abrams — saxophone
- Warren Luckey — saxophone
- Alan Moore — trombone
- Charles Greenlee — trombone
- Leon Comegys — trombone
- Dave Burns — trumpet
- John Lynch — trumpet
- Raymond Orr — trumpet
- Talib Daawud — trumpet
- Gordon Thomas — trombone
- Joe Harris — drums
- Bill Frazier — saxophone
- James Moody — saxophone
- Scoops Carey — saxophone
- Taswell Baird — trombone
- Elmon Wright — trumpet
- Matthew McKay — trumpet
- Kenny Hagood — vocals
- Jimmy Heath — alto saxophone
- Percy Heath — bass
- Jimmy Oliver — tenor saxophone
Contemporary reception
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Pressings
| 1973 | Prestige · P-24030 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered earliest on file · gatefold |
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| 1973 | Prestige |
| 1973 | Prestige · PR 24030 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Mono · gatefold |
| 1973 | Prestige · PR 24 030 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Stereo |
| 1973 | Prestige · P-24030 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Promo, Remastered, Gatefold · gatefold |
| 1973 | Prestige · PR 24030 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered, Gatefold · gatefold |
| 1974 | Prestige · L 45413/4 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered · gatefold |
| 1981 | Prestige · S 66.028 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Remastered |
| 1981 | Prestige · HB 6078 — Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Reissue, Gatefold · gatefold |
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