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CHARLIE PARKER (VERVE)

Description:
Quartet and small group performances. Included are all his Verve recordings with pianist Hank Jones. If you have the original 10" LP issue of this album with the '50s David Stone Martin cover art, hang on to it it's worth anywhere from $240 to $400! but also acquire this greatly expanded CD version on the Verve Master Series. In addition to the original eight selections, recorded in 1953 with Al Haig or Hank Jones piano, Percy Heath or Teddy Kotick bass and Max Roach drums, you get an awesome variety of other Parker quartet, quintet and septet sessions, plus extensive outtakes and false starts grouped at the end of the disc from the 10" LP sessions. Bird was still in marvelously inventive form in 1953, hardly ever repeating the same idea twice, clearly inspired by the propulsive Roach groove. The spectacular Buddy Rich is the disruptive drummer on "Blues fast," "Celebrity" and three other cuts, one of which "Ballade" features Coleman Hawkins. "The Bird" 1947 is lifted from The Jazz Scene anthology, and the septet tracks from 1949 have a light Afro Cuban flavor. All of this had been previously revealed on the ten CD Complete Charlie Parker on Verve in similarly good sound, so completists needn't bother. The sharpies at Verve do correct one egregious error from the original collector's item; the track perhaps understandably misidentified as Frank Loesser's "I Hear Music" on the LP is really Jerome Kern's "The Song Is You.

Songs:

Personnel

Details:

Now's The Time

I Remember You

Confirmation

Chi-Chi

The Song Is You

Laird Baird

Kim

Cosmic Rays

Star Eyes

Blues (East)

I'm In The Mood For Love

The Bird

Celebrity

Ballade

Cardboard

Visa

Chi-Chi

Kim

Cosmic Rays

Confirmation (false start)

Chi-Chi (false start)

Collective Personnel: Percy Heath, Hank Jones, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Coleman Hawkins, Tommy Turk, Al Haig, Kenny Dorham

Label:	UNIVERSAL
Number:	539757
Item Code:	22635
Format:	CD
Genre:
Dates:	(1947-1953)
Price:	$17.00
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