Bird: The Original Recordings of Charlie Parker

Artist: Charlie Parker Label: Polygram Records Category: Music Average customer rating: Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 042283717626 EAN: 0042283717626 ASIN: B00000478C Release Date: 1990-10-25

Listmania:

1. Must have music for trunk mount CD
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4. Classic Jazz For Dummies

Tracks:

1. Now's The Time
2. Laura
3. Mohawk
4. Kim
5. Blues For Alice
6. Laird Baird
7. K.C. Blues
8. Lover Man
9. Just Friends
10. The Bird
11. April In Paris
12. Lester Leaps In

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Customer Reviews:

Superb Introduction To Parker As Bandleader, Player, Writer.......2001-01-12

"Bird" is a spectacular introduction to this jazz legend given the framework. Parker is featured in some of his most accessible saxophone playing (all songs coming in at five minutes or less except for the last, live track) and intriguing recorded settings. You get him in ballad mode, with his supple melody on the sparse "Lover Man" bettering his lush movie themes "Laura" and "April In Paris," and the chestnut "Just Friends." (The small-combo harder tracks are preferred, but Parker, like lablemate Billie Holiday, enjoyed the prestige of playing in front of strings). You get him as songwriter and lightning-quick blues riffmeister, with superb solos on his "Now's The Time," his signature song "The Bird," "KC Blues," and an interlock with trumpeter Red Rodney on "Blues for Alice."

Most of all, you get Charlie Parker as bandleader, leading be-bop's Mount Olympians (Miles, Monk, Diz, Rich, Roach) to some of their finest, most cohesive early work. Hear Miles Davis on "KC Blues." Hear Lester Young on his rollicking, 12-minute Carnegie Hall live track "Lester Leaps In," featuring some of the most superb live recorded jazz ever from Parker, trumpeter Roy Eldridge, and trombonist Tommy Turk/ You will wish you could have among the grateful that late summer Carnegie Hall night in 1946. But then hear "Mohawk," featuring a scatting Dizzy Gillespie solo and one nearly as good from Monk, for the jazz equivalent of what St. Peter must have felt witnessing the Transfiguration.

"Bird," despite inconsistent sound quality and fair but not great liner notes, can be essential as budget-priced eye-opener to Parker's deep, rich catalogue or to the bebop jazz form itself. Those wanting to reach further should get any Parker's Dial or Savoy best-of, or Parker's label-crossing entry in Ken Burns' "Jazz" set for more from this bedrock figure.

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