Boperation (1999)

About this title: Ray Vega pays tribute to 13 fellow trumpeters on Boperation, offering Latin jazz interpretations of songs that were, in most cases, written by the trumpeters themselves. All of the trumpeters that Vega salutes became well known after World War II and made their mark playing bop, cool, or post-bop; the Puerto Rican New Yorker doesn't embrace anything by pre-bop icons like Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, and Harry James, but, rather, turns his attention to the works of post-swing improvisers ranging from Dizzy Gillespie, Art Farmer, and the Fats Navarro/Howard McGhee team to Clifford Brown ... read more

Tracks:

1. Hub-Tones [Hubbard]
2. Lotus Blossom [Coslow/Johnston]
3. Boperation [Navarro/McGhee]
4. Birk's Works [Gillespie]
5. Dark Shadows [Henderson]
6. Daahoud [Brown]
7. Blue in Green/Four [Davis]
8. Stepping Stone [Shaw]
9. Tangerine [Mercer/Schertzinger]
10. Whisper Not [Golson]
11. Social Call [Gryce]
12. Mr. Kenyatta [Morgan]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.