Alyn Shipton offers guidance to building a jazz library. This programme features legendary alto saxophonist Charlie 'Bird' Parker, one of the architects of bebop and still one of the most technically dazzling instrumentalists of all time.
Recommendations:
Studio recordings:
Bird, the Complete Recordings of Charlie Parker on Verve (Verve)
The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio sessions (Savoy)
The Dial Masters, Original Choice Takes (Spotlite)
And for a budget guide to Parker's studio recordings: Boss Bird (Proper Box)
Live recordings:
Jazz at Massey Hall (Original Jazz Classics)
Town Hall New York City: 22 June 1945 (Uptown)
Bird on 52nd Street (Original Jazz Classics)
Chasin' The Bird (Proper Box)
Playlist
DISC 1
Title The Song Is You
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Kern / Hammerstein
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 9
Label Verve
Number 8371412
Track 1
Duration 2.54
DISC 2
Title Koko (Take 1)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Charlie Parker Story
Label Savoy
Number SV 0105
Track 15
Duration 0.37
DISC 3
Title Koko (Take 2)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Charlie Parker Story
Label Savoy
Number SV 0105
Track 16
Duration 2.53
DISC 4
Title Lover Man
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Ramirez / Davis / Sherman
Album The Dial Masters Original Choice Takes
Label Spotlite
Number SPJ
CD 109-2
CD 1 Track 7
Duration 2.20
DISC 5
Title Embraceable You
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer G and I Gershwin
Album The Dial Masters Original Choice Takes
Label Spotlite
Number SPJ CD 109-2
CD 2 Track 6
Duration 2.20
DISC 6
Title Lover Man
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Ramirez / Davis / Sherman
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 6
Label Verve
Number 8371412
CD 6 Track 20
Duration 3.11
DISC 7 Title Leap Frog (Take 1)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 4
Label Verve
Number 8371412
CD 4 Track 18
Duration 0.26
DISC 8
Title Leap Frog (Take 2)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 4
Label Verve
Number 8371412
CD 4 Track 19
Duration 0.19
DISC 9 Title Leap Frog (Take 3)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 4
Label Verve Number 8371412
CD 4 Track 20
Duration 0.40
DISC 10
Title Leap Frog (Take 5)
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Parker
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 4
Label Verve
Number 8371412
CD 4 Track 22
Duration 2.33
DISC 11
Title Just Friends
Artist Charlie Parker with Strings
Composer Lewis / Klenner
Album The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Vol 4
Label Verve
Number 8371412
CD 4 Track 1
Duration 2.38
DISC 12
Title A Night In Tunisia
Artist Quintet Of The Year
Composer Gillespie / Paparelli
Album Jazz at Massey Hall
Label Debut / Original Jazz Classics
Number OJCCD 5044
Track 6
Duration 3.42
DISC 13
Title Bebop
Artist Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker
Composer Gillespie
Album Town Hall New York City: 22 June 1945
Label Uptown
Number UPCD 27.51
Track 2
Duration 4.16
DISC 14
Title Out of Nowhere
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Green / Heyman
Album Bird on 52nd Street
Label Original Jazz Classics
Number OJCCD 114
Track 3
Duration 1.08
DISC 15
Title Street Beat
Artist Charlie Parker
Composer Thompson
Album Chasin' The Bird
Label Proper
Number Properbox 99
CD 3
Track 6
Duration 5.02
Read Alyn Shipton's Charlie Parker Profile
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