Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker Artist: Charlie Parker
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music



Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1


UPC: 731453975729
EAN: 0731453975729
ASIN: B0000069NB


Release Date: 1998-03-24

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Tracks:

  1. Now's The Time
  2. I Remember You
  3. Confirmation
  4. Chi-Chi
  5. The Song Is You
  6. Laird Bird
  7. Kim
  8. Cosmic Rays
  9. Star Eyes
  10. Blues (Fast)
  11. I'm In The Mood For Love
  12. The Bird
  13. Celebrity
  14. Ballade
  15. Cardboard
  16. Visa
  17. Chi-Chi
  18. Chi-Chi
  19. Chi-Chi
  20. Kim
  21. Cosmic Eyes
  22. Confirmation (False Start)
  23. Confirmation (False Start)
  24. Chi-Chi (False Start)
  25. Chi-Chi (False Start)

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Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Good intro to Parker in good sound.......2005-10-05

This CD's organizing principle is not clear to me - it collects all of Parker's recordings with pianist Hank Jones, but otherwise I'm not sure how they decided what to put on here (compared to the 2CD Verve Best Of, for example).

Regardless, the selections are superb, and generally in very good sound compared to most of what's available for Parker. I've also compared all of the tracks on this 1998 CD to the same tracks on the 1988 Complete Parker on Verve box - and this disc comes out noticeably better in every case.

There are cheaper ways to get introduced to Parker, and certainly the earlier Dial/Savoy material is fundemental, but this is a very good intro in decently good sound.

5 out of 5 stars Bird's swan song.......2005-02-23

This is an excellent albums compiling Bird last sessions playing straight ahead bebop. Many reasons make this a stellar CD: 1) the sound is excellent, except for a couple of tracks, I might say that this is the best sounding bebeop Bird available. 2) The track selection is very good, 'confirmation', 'nows the time' 'kim' are classics. 3) The bird is in excellent form 4) mostly these are quartet sessions, so the only horn here is Bird's. 5) alternate and false starts are added to the end so they dont interfere and allows to get closer to the genious of Parker at work. A must purchase, too bad is buried allong the hundreds of Parker CDs available.

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