VA - So Much, So Quickly: British Modern Jazz Pianists 1948-63 (2018)

To those British jazzmen coming to terms with the Bebop revolution of the Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk during the late 1940s, there was one, hugely imposing barrier; harmony. The new, supersonic melodies and off-kilter rhythms were one thing but underpinning these and forming the very bedrock of the music was a very novel, very definite methodology, a new system of chordal building blocks that challenged the understanding of all but the most patient. Inevitably, it fell to the pianists - those with a map of keyboard harmony laid out before them - to try and discover just what were these new, at times mind-bogglingly complex routes towards the cutting edge.

Track List:

01 Idabop Ralph Sharon featured with The Esquire Five 3:08
02 The Man From Mintons George Shearing Trio 2:31
03 Too Marvellous For Words Tommy Pollard featured with the Ronnie Scott Quartet 3:03
04 The Nearness Of You Ronnie Scott with the Ronnie Ball Trio 3:37
05 Fools Rush In Victor Feldman featured with the Ronnie Scott Quartet 2:43
06 Chelsea Bridge Damian Robinson Trio 2:58
07 May-Zee Dill Jones Trio 3:22
08 Bluebird Terry Shannon featured with the Dizzy Reece Quartet 7:36
09 Opus Untitled Derek Smith 2:49
10 Sweet Lorraine Lennie Felix Trio 2:41
11 Moveable Eddie Thompson Trio 6:06
12 Autumn In Cuba Alan Branscombe featured with the London Jazz Quartet 3:20
13 We’ll Call You Stan Tracey Trio 4:34
14 Cheek To Cheek Dave Lee Orchestra 2:17
15 There It Is Brian Dee featured with The Jazz Five 6:58
16 All The Things You Are Harry South Trio 5:33
17 Willow Weep For Me Stan Jones Trio 4:49
18 Portrait Bill Le Sage featured with the Tony Kinsey Quintet 3:32
19 Manumission John Burch featured with The New Don Rendell Quintet 6:55
20 Drop Me Off In Harlem Norman Stenfalt Quartet 3:31
21 Pictures Pat Smythe featured with the Joe Harriott Quintet 5:07
22 In The Night Gordon Beck featured with the Tubby Hayes Quartet 7:31
23 Wrap Your Troubles In Dream Colin Purbrook featured with the Tony Coe Quintet 6:00
24 I Get A Kick Out Of You Dudley Moore Trio 3:03