Charlie Parker – The Charlie Parker Collection 1941-1954 (6-CD Set)

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Release Date:  2021

Label:  Acrobat Music

 

Track List

Disc 1

1. Hootie Blues    Jay McShann And His Orchestra
2. Red Cross    Tiny Grimes Quintette
3. Groovin’ High    Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
4. Cherokee    Clark Monroe’s Band
5. Tiny’s Tempo    Tiny Grimes Quintette
6. All The Things You Are    Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
7. Dizzy Atmosphere    Dizzy Gillespie Sextet
8. Salt Peanuts    Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet
9. Shaw ‘Nuff    Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet
10. Lover Man    Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet
11. Hot House    Dizzy Gillespie And His All Star Quintet
12. Hallelujah    Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet
13. Get Happy    Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet
14. Slam Slam Blues    Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet
15. Congo Blues    Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet
16. Warming Up A Riff    Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
17. Billie’s Bounce    Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
18. Now’s The Time    Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
19. Thriving From A Riff [Anthropology]     Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
20. Ko-Ko     Charlie Parker’s Reboppers
21. Dizzy Boogie    Slim Gaillard Septet
22. Slim’s Jam    Slim Gaillard Septet

Disc 2

1. Poppity Pop    Slim Gaillard Septet
2. Diggin’ Diz [Bongo Beep]    Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen
3. Moose The Mooche    Charlie Parker Septet
4. Yardbird Suite    Charlie Parker Septet
5. Ornithology    Charlie Parker Septet
6. A Night In Tunisia    Charlie Parker Septet
7. Be-Bop [Dizzy’s Fingers]    Howard McGhee Quintet/Quartet
8. Lover Man    Charlie Parker Quintet
9. The Gypsy    Charlie Parker Quintet
10. This Is Always    Charlie Parker Quartet
11. Dark Shadows    Charlie Parker Quartet
12. Bird’s Nest    Charlie Parker Quartet
13. Cool Blues [Hot Blues]    Charlie Parker Quartet
14. Relaxin’ At Camarillo    Charlie Parker’s New All Stars
15. Cheers    Charlie Parker’s New All Stars
16. Carvin’ The Bird    Charlie Parker’s New All Stars
17. Stupendous    Charlie Parker’s New All Stars
18. Donna Lee     Charlie Parker All Stars
19. Chasin’ The Bird    Charlie Parker All Stars
20. Cheryl    Charlie Parker All Stars
21. Buzzy    Charlie Parker All Stars
22. Milestones    Miles Davis All Stars
23. Little Willie Leaps    Miles Davis All Stars
24. Half Nelson    Miles Davis All Stars
25. Sippin’ At Bell’s    Miles Davis All Stars

Disc 3

1. Dexterity    Charlie Parker Quintet
2. Bongo Bop    Charlie Parker Quintet
3. Dewey Square [Prezology]    Charlie Parker Quintet
4. The Hymn    Charlie Parker Quintet
5. Bird Of Paradise [All The Things You Are]    Charlie Parker Quintet
6. Embraceable You    Charlie Parker Quintet
7. Bird Feathers [Schnourphology]    Charlie Parker Quintet
8. Klactoveesedstene    Charlie Parker Quintet
9. Scrapple From The Apple    Charlie Parker Quintet
10. My Old Flame    Charlie Parker Quintet
11. Out Of Nowhere    Charlie Parker Quintet
12. Don’t Blame Me    Charlie Parker Quintet
13. The Bird    Charlie Parker Quartet
14. Drifting On A Reed [Air Conditioning]    Charlie Parker Sextet
15. Quasimodo    Charlie Parker Sextet
16. Charlie’s Wig    Charlie Parker Sextet
17. Bird Feathers [Bongo Beep]    Charlie Parker Sextet
18. Crazeology    Charlie Parker Sextet
19. How Deep Is The Ocean ?    Charlie Parker Sextet
20. Another Hair-Do    Charlie Parker All Stars
21. Bluebird    Charlie Parker All Stars
22. Klaunstance    Charlie Parker All Stars
23. Bird Gets The Worm    Charlie Parker All Stars
24. Barbados    Charlie Parker’s All Stars

Disc 4

1. Ah-Leu-Cha    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
2. Constellation    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
3. Parker’s Mood    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
4. Perhaps    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
5. Marmaduke    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
6. Steeplechase    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
7. Merry-Go-Round    Charlie Parker’s All Stars
8. No Noise    Machito And His Afro Cuban Orchestra
9. Mango    Mangue Machito And His Afro Cuban Orchestra
10. Okiedoke     Machito And His Afro Cuban Orchestra
11. Visa    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
12. Just Friends    Charlie Parker With Strings
13. April In Paris    Charlie Parker With Strings
14. Summertime    Charlie Parker With Strings
15. I Didn’t Know What Time It Was    Charlie Parker With Strings
16. Star Eyes    Charlie Parker Quartet
17. Wahoo [Perdido]    Charlie Parker Quintet
18. Bloomdido    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
19. An Oscar For Treadwell    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
20. Mohawk    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
21. My Melancholy Baby    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
22 Leap Frog    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra

Disc 5

1. Relaxin’ With Lee    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
2. Dancing In The Dark    Charlie Parker With Strings
3. Out Of Nowhere    Charlie Parker With Strings
4. Laura    Charlie Parker With Strings
5. East Of The Sun    Charlie Parker With Strings
6. They Can’t Take That Away From Me    Charlie Parker With Strings
7. Easy To Love    Charlie Parker With Strings
8. I’m In The Mood For Love    Charlie Parker With Strings
9. I’ll Remember April    Charlie Parker With Strings
10. Au Privave    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
11. She Rote    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
12. K.C. Blues    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
13. Star Eyes    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
14. My Little Suede Shoes    Charlie Parker’s Jazzers
15. Tico Tico    Charlie Parker’s Jazzers
16. Si Si    Charlie Parker Quintet
17. Swedish Schnapps    Charlie Parker Quintet
18. Back Home Blues    Charlie Parker Quintet
19. Lover Man    Charlie Parker Quintet
20. Temptation    Charlie Parker With Strings
21. Lover    Charlie Parker With Strings
22. Autumn In New York    Charlie Parker With Strings
23 Stella By Starlight    Charlie Parker With Strings

Disc 6

1. La Cucuracha    Charlie Parker Quintet
2. Estrellita    Charlie Parker Quintet
3. Begin The Beguine    Charlie Parker Quintet
4. Night And Day    Charlie Parker Big Band
5. Almost Like Being In Love    Charlie Parker Big Band
6. The Song Is You     Charlie Parker Quartet
7. Laird Baird     Charlie Parker Quartet
8. Kim    Charlie Parker Quartet
9. Cosmic Rays    Charlie Parker Quartet
10. Compulsion    Miles Davis Sextet
11. In The Still Of The Night    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
12. Old Folks    Charlie Parker And His Orchestra
13. Chi Chi    Charlie Parker Quartet
14. I Remember You    Charlie Parker Quartet
15. Now’s The Time    Charlie Parker Quartet
16. Confirmation    Charlie Parker Quartet
17. I Get A Kick Out Of You    Charlie Parker Quartet/Quintet
18. Just One Of Those Things    Charlie Parker Quartet/Quintet
19. My Heart Belongs To Daddy    Charlie Parker Quartet/Quintet
20. Love For Sale    Charlie Parker Quintet
21. I Love Paris    Charlie Parker Quintet

 

Notes

Charlie Parker was without doubt one of the most important and influential musicians in the entire history of jazz, as a pioneering and innovative alto saxophonist during the bebop era, as a composer of some of the enduring modern jazz standards, and as a bandleader and catalyst in a remarkable range of musical settings during a career that was all too brief, cut short by an early death as a result of the excesses of his pressurised lifestyle. Coming to the fore in the early 1940s, he was an early collaborator of like-minded luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and over the next decade produced a substantial and extraordinary body of recorded work. This great-value 137-track 6-CD set comprises some interesting early recordings with other leaders, and then a significant proportion of his recordings as a leader and as a prominent member of other leaders’ bands, working in a variety of formats from quartets and quintets, through to noted recordings with strings. It includes most of his recordings on the Savoy and Dial labels, and on Mercury, Clef, Norgran and Verve for Norman Granz, his primary record company relationships, and features some of the finest musicians of the day, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Buddy Rich, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Erroll Garner, Barney Kessel, Bud Powell, John Lewis, Hank Jones, Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, Charles Mingus and more. It does not purport to be a complete or definitive anthology, but it certainly represents about as comprehensive and representative cross-section of his work as can be accommodated in this set.

 

 

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