0105 Alan Dean [My Baby Likes to Bebop] FLAC 17(58.30)

Contributed by Azule Serape.
Alan Dean sings a wordless vocal unison line very much in the style of Buddy Stewart in that same 1948 period but the results are not as bad as you might fear.
It's interesting to hear this early British bop with the front line of  dance band swing musicians mixed in with the new emerging stars like Tommy Pollard and Ralph Sharon. Tommy plays vibes throughout the Sextet titles rather than his usual piano.
The second group heard here on the last five tracks, The Alan Dean Be-Boppers, was the forerunner of the Club X1 group which was later to take bebop several steps forward in Britain and which will feature here in due course.
Front and back cover scans.

Reg Arnold - trumpet
Kenny Baker - trumpet
Hank Shaw - trumpet
John Dankworth - alto
Aubrey Frank - tenor
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Tommy Pollard - vibes
Ralph Sharon - piano
Pete Chilver - guitar
Jack Fallon - bass
Joe Muddell - bass
Norman Burns - drums
Laurie morgan - drums
Alan Dean - vocals

01 Galaxy
02 I Can't Get Started With You
03 First Gear
04 Confirmation
05 My Baby Likes to Bebop
06 Disc Jockey Jump
07 Fallonology
08 Jack Fiddles While Norman Burns
09 Oop-Pop-a-Da
10 Disc Jockey Jump
11 Gaberdine and Serge
12 First Gear
13 Gone with the Windmill
14 Barbados
15 Elevenses
16 Ool Ya Koo
17 Galaxy

Label: Esquire S337 12"
Recorded: 1948 1949
Lineage: LP>FLAC

0054 Various [Bop-In' Britain The Learning Curve Volume 1] FLAC 25(1.12.01)

Contributed by Azule Serape, who writes:-
A wonderful compilation of very early British Modern Jazz from some very obscure labels such as Bosworth and Paxton with other tracks coming from Decca and Melodisc. All were originally on 78 rpm discs recorded between 1949 and 1951 and were transferred to cd for re-issue.
Someone on the blog asked previously about pianist Steve Race in a jazz setting. Well, here he is in two different groups recorded in 1949.
Some musicians featured on the disc are Jimmy Skidmore, Tommy Whittle,  Don Rendell, Johnny Dankworth, Ronnie Scott, Ralph Sharon, Ronnie Ball plus many others.
For discographical followers, Howard Lucraft (the nominal leader of the date) plays guitar on some of the Steve Race tracks. He emigrated to the USA (yes, yet another one) in 1950 and later found fame with the West Coast musicians and as a jazz writer for Metronome and Melody Maker.
A second volume will appear here later.

(01-04)
Freddy Gardner - tenor
Johnny Douglas - accordion
Howard Lucraft - guitar
Steve Race - piano
Mickey Rome - bass
Roy Cooper - drums
(05-08)
Leon Calvert - trumpet
Johnny Dankworth - alto
Steve Race - piano
Pete Chilver - guitar
Jack Fallon - bass
Norman Burns - drums
(09-13)
Reg Arnold - trumpet
Johnny Dankworth - alto
Ronnie Scott - tenor
Bernie Fenton - piano
Joe Muddel - bass
Laurie Morgan - drums
Alan Dean - vocal (13)
(14-17)
Jimmy Deuchar - trumpet
Eddie Harvey - trombone
Johnny Dankworth - alto
Don Rendell - tenor
Bill Le Sage - piano
Joe Muddel - bass
Tony Kinsey - drums
(18-19)
Jimmy Skidmore - tenor
Victor Feldman - vibes
Ralph Sharon - piano
Pete Chilver - guitar
Jack Fallon - bass
Martin Aston - drums
(20-21)
Tommy Whittle - tenor
Ronnie Ball - piano
Frank Donnison - bass
Tony Kinsey - drums
(22-25)
Bobby Pratt - trumpet
Roy Willox - alto
Tommy Whittle - tenor
George Hunter - baritone
Frank Horrox - piano
Johnny Hawksworth - bass
Ronnie Verrall - drums

01 Rebop Rebels
02 Quintessence
03 Boppin' the Boogie
04 Baltimore Bop
05 Vertigo
06 Marzipan
07 Bugle Call Bop
08 Microcosmo
09 Gone with the Windmill (Take 1)
10 Gone with the Windmill (Take 2)
11 Barbados
12 Elevenses
13 Ool-Ya-Koo
14 Lightly Politely
15 Strike Up the Band
16 Marmaduke
17 Little Benny
18 Burman's Bauble
19 Boptical Illusion
20 All the Things You Are
21 Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
22 Wit's End
23 Portland Place
24 Sam's Say
25 Night and Day

Label: Various
Recorded: 1949-1951
Lineage: CD>FLAC