This 10 CD box set captures the essence of the musical genius Charlie Parker, the founding father of modern jazz. It gathers together the best studio albums and the rarest live recordings in one set. Featuring Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk and many other bebop stars.
CD1
CHARLIE PARKER – No. 1 (1948)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) +
Bass Bob Kesterson (tracks: 5, 6, 7, 8) & Vic McMillan (tracks:
1, 2, 3, 4) + Drums Roy Porter (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
Guitar Arvin Garrison (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4) + Piano Dodo
Marmarosa (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4) & Jimmy Bunn (tracks: 5, 6, 7, 8)
+ Tenor Saxophone Lucky Thompson (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4)
Trumpet Howard McGhee (tracks: 5, 6, 7, 8) & Miles Davis
(tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4)
1. A Night in Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli)
2. Yardbird Suite (Parker)
3. Moose the Mooche (Parker)
4. Ornithology (Harris/Parker)
5. Lover Man (Davis/Sherman/Ramirez)
6. Bebop (Gillespie)
7. The Gypsy (Reid)
8. Max Making Wax (Gershwin/Pettiford)
CHARLIE PARKER – No. 2 (1949)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Red Callender + Drums
Harold West (tracks: B1 to B5) & Roy Porter (tracks: A1 to A4) +
Guitar Barney Kessel (tracks: A1 to A4) + Piano Dodo Marmarosa
(tracks: A1 to A4) & Erroll Garner (tracks: B1 to B5) + Tenor Saxophone Wardell Gray (tracks: A1 to A4) + Trumpet Howard McGhee
(tracks: A1 to A4) + Vocals Earl Coleman (tracks: B1 to B5)
9. Relaxin´ at Camarillo (Parker)
10. Cheers (Parker/McGhee)
11. Carving the Bird (Parker/McGhee)
12. Stupendous (McGhee/Broiles)
13. Cool Blues (Parker)
14. Dark Shadows (Coleman/Henry)
15. Hot Blues (Parker)
16. This Is Always (Warren/Gordon)
17. Bird´s Nest (Parker)
CHARLIE PARKER – No. 3 (1949)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Tommy Potter + Drums
Max Roach + Piano Duke Jordan + Trombone J.J. Johnson
(tracks: B3) + Trumpet Miles Davis
18. Don´t Blame Me (Fields/McHugh)
19. Dexterity (Parker)
20. Bird Of Paradise (Parker)
21. Bongo Bop (Parker)
22. Embraceable You (Gershwin)
23. Dewey Square (Parker)
24. Quasimado (Parker)
25. Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
CD2
CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS (1950)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Ray Brown + Cello
Frank Miller + Drums Buddy Rich + Harp Meyer Rosen + Oboe
Mitch Miller + Piano Stan Freeman + Viola Frank Brieff + Violin
Bronislaw Gimpel & Max Hollander
1 April in Paris (Harburg/Duke)
2. Summertime (Heywood/Gershwin)
3. If I Should Lose You (Robin/Rainger)
4. I Didn´t Know What Time It Was (Rodgers/Hart)
5. Everything Happens to Me (Adair/Dennis)
6. Just Friends (Lewis/Klenner)
CHARLIE PARKER SEXTET (1950)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Tommy Potter + Drums
Max Roach + Piano Duke Jordan + Trombone J. J. Johnson +
Trumpet Miles Davis
7. My Old Flame (Johnston/Coslow)
8. Air Conditioning (Parker)
9. Crazeology (Harris)
10. Bird Feathers (1) (Parker)
11. Out Of Nowhere (Heyman)
12. Bongobeep (Parker)
13. Bird Feathers (2) (Parker)
14. Klactoveedsedstene (Parker)
RED NORVO´S FABULOUS JAM SESSION (1951)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Slam Stewart + Drums
J.C. Heard & Specs Powell + Piano Teddy Wilson + Tenor
Saxophone Flip Phillips + Trumpet Dizzy Gillespie +
Vibraphone Red Norvo
15. Hallelujah (Part 1) (Traditional)
16. Get Happy (Part 1) (Arlen/Koehler)
17. Slam Slam Blues (Part 1) (Stewart)
18. Congo Blues (Part 1) (Norvo)
19. Hallelujah (Part 2) (Traditional)
20. Get Happy (Part 2) (Arlen/Koehler)
21. Slam Slam Blues (Part 2) (Stewart)
22. Congo Blues (Part 4) (Norvo)
CD3
SOUTH OF THE BORDER (1952)
1. Tico Tico (Abreu/Drake/Oliveira)
2. Un Poquito De Tu Amor (Cugat/Freed)
3. My Little Suede Shoes (Parker)
4. Estrellita (Picone/Venosa)
5. Begin the Beguine (Porter)
6. La Paloma (Yradier)
7. La Cucuracha (Traditional)
8. Mama Inez (Gilbert/Grenet)
CHARLIE PARKER & DIZZY GILLESPIE – “BIRD & DIZ“ (1952)
9. Bloomdido (Parker)
10. My Melancholy Baby (Norton/Watson/Burnett)
11. Relaxin´ with Lee (Parker)
12. Passport (Parker)
13. Leap Frog (Parker)
14. An Oscar for Treadwell (Parker)
15. Mohawk (Parker)
16. Visa (Parker)
CHARLIE PARKER (1954)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Percy Heath + Drums
Max Roach + Piano Al Haig
17. Now´s the Time (Parker)
18. I Remember You (Mercer/Schertzinger)
19. Confirmation (Harris/Parker)
20. Chi Chi (Parker)
21. I Hear Music (The Song Is You) (Kern/Hammerstein II)
22. Laird Baird (Parker)
23. Kim (Parker)
24. Cosmic Rays (Parker)
CD4
CHARLIE PARKER MEMORIAL (1955)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Curley Russell &Tommy
Potter + Drums Max Roach + Piano Bud Powell & Duke
Jordon & John Lewis + Trumpet Miles Davis
1. Another Hair Do (Take 1, 2, 3) (Parker)
2. Blue Bird (Parker)
3. Bird Gets the Worm (Parker)
4. Barbados (Parker)
5. Constellation (Take 1, 2) (Parker)
6. Parker´s Mood (Parker)
7. Ah-Leu-Cha (Take 1, 2) (Parker)
8. Perhaps (Take 1, 2) (Parker)
9. Perhaps (Take 6) (Parker)
10. Marmaduke (Take 1, 2) (Parker)
11. Steeplechase (Parker)
12. Merry-Go-Round (Parker)
13. Buzzy (Take 1, 2) (Parker)
BIRD ON 52nd STREET (1955)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Tommy Potter + Drums
Max Roach + Piano Duke Jordan + Trumpet Miles Davis
14. 52nd Street Theme (Monk)
15. Shaw ´Nuff (Parker/Gillespie)
16. Out Of Nowhere (Hyman/Green)
17. Hot House (Dameron)
18. This Time the Dream´s on Me (Arlen/Mercer)
19. Night in Tunisia (Gillespie/Paparelli)
20. My Old Flame (Johnston/Coslow)
21. The Way You Look Tonight (Fields/Kern)
22. Out Of Nowhere (2) (Hyman/Green)
23. Chasin´ the Bird (Parker)
24. This Time the Dream´s on Me (2) (Arlen/Mercer)
25. Dizzy Athmosphere (Gillespie)
26. How High the Moon (Lewis/Hamilton)
CD5
“BIRD” AT ST. NICK´S (1955)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Tommy Porter + Drums
Roy Haynes + Piano Al Haig + Trumpet Red Rodney
1. I Didn´t Know What Time It Was (Rodgers/Hart)
2. Ornithology (Harris/Parker)
3. Embraceable You (Gershwin/Gershwin)
4. Visa (Parker)
5. I Cover the Waterfront (Heyman/Green)
6. Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
7. Star Eyes (Andrew/Speaks)/ 52nd Street Theme (Monk)
8. Confirmation (Parker)
9. Out Of Nowhere (Heyman/Green)
10. Hot House (Dameron)
11. What´s New (Haggart/Burke)
12. Now´s the Time (Parker)
JAZZ AT MASSEY HALL – THE QUINTET (1953)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Chan (Parker) + Bass Charlie Mingus
+ Drums Max Roach + Piano Bud Powell + Trumpet Dizzy
Gillespie
13. Perdido (Drake/Lengsfelder/Tizol)
14. Salt Peanuts (Gillespie/Clarke)
15. All the Things you Are (Kern/Hammerstein)
16. Wee (Gillespie)
17. Hot House (Dameron)
CD6
CHARLIE PARKER PLAYS COLE PORTER (1955)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Teddy Kotick + Drums
Art Taylor & Roy Haynes + Guitar Billy Bauer & Jerome Darr +
Piano Walter Bishop Jr.
1. I Get a Kick Out Of You (Porter)
2. I Get a Kick Out Of You (Alternate Take) (Porter)
3. Just One of Those Things (Porter)
4. My Heart Belongs To Daddy (Porter)
5. I´ve Got You under My Skin (Porter)
6. Love for Sale (Porter)
7. Love for Sale (Alternate Take) (Porter)
8. I Love Paris (Porter)
9. I Love Paris (Alternate Take) (Porter)
THE GENIUS OF CHARLIE PARKER – JAZZ PERENNIAL (1949-1953)
10. Star Eyes (Raye/DePaul)
11. Blues (Fast) (Parker)
12. I´m in the Mood for Love (Fields/McHugh)
13. In the Still Oft the Night (Porter)
14. Old Folks (Hill/Robison)
15. If I Love Again (Oakland/Murray)
16. Cardboard (Parker)
17. Vista (Parker)
18. Segment (Parker)
19. Passport (Parker)
20. Diverse (Parker)
CD7
CHARLIE PARKER – LE JAZZ COOL (HISTORICAL RECORDINGS VOL. 1) (1944-1948)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Curly Russell & Tommy
Potter + Drums Art Blakey & Max Roach + Piano Al Haig &
Bud Powell & Tadd Dameron + Trumpet Fats Navarro & Kenny
Dorham & Miles Davis
1. Ko Ko (Ellington)
2. ´Round Midnight (Hannigan/Monk)
3. Cool Blues (Parker)
4. Ornithology (Take 1) (Parker)
5. Move (Descota/Denzil/Best)
6. White Christmas (Berlin)
7. Ornithology (Alternate Take) (Parker)
8. Hot House (Dameron)
9. Groovin´ High (Gillespie)
10. 52nd Street Theme (Monk)
CHARLIE PARKER & LESTER YOUNG – AN HISTORIC MEETING AT THE SUMMIT (1946)
11. Lester Leaps in (Young) Charlie Parker
12. How High the Moon (Hamilton/Lewis) Lester Young
13. Out of Nowhere (Hayman/Green) Charlie Parker
14. Laura (Mercer/Raksin) Charlie Parker
15. Lester Leaps in (Alternate Version) (Young) Lester Young
16. Destination Moon (Fisher/Alfred) Lester Young
17. Happy Bird Blues (Parker) Charlie Parker
18. Blues (Unknown) Lester Young
CD8
CHARLIE PARKER IN SWEDEN (1950)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Contrabass Thore Jederby +
Drums Jack Noren + Piano & Tenor Saxophone Gösta
Theselius + Trumpet Rolf Ericson & Rowland Greenberg
1. Anthropology (Gillespie/Parker)
2. Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
3. Embraceable You (Gershwin/Gershwin)
4. Cool Blues (Parker)
5. Star Eyes (DePaul/Raye)
6. All the Things You Are (Kern/HammersteinII)
7. Strike up the Band (Gershwin/Gershwin)
8. Body and Soul (Eyton/Green/Heyman/Sour)
9. Fine and Dandy (James/Swift)
10. How High the Moon (Hamilton/Lewis)
11. Cheers (McGhee/Parker)
12. Loverman (Davis/Ramirez/Sherman)
13. Out of Nowhere (Heyman/Green)
CD9
“BIRD” IS FREE (1952)
1. Rocker (Mulligan)
2. Sly Mongoose (Edwards)
3. Moose the Mooche (Parker)
4. Stareyes (Raye/DePaul)
5. This Time the Dream´s on Me (Mercer/Arlen)
6. Cool Blues (Parker)
7. My Little Suede Shoes (Parker)
8. Lester Leaps in (Young)
9. Laura (Mercer/Raskin)
THE HAPPY “BIRD” (1951)
Bass Charles Mingus & Teddy Kotick + Drums
Roy Haynes + Piano Dick Twardzik & Walter
Bishop Jr. + Tenor Saxophone Wardell Gray
10. Happy Bird Blues (Parker)
11. Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
12. I Remember April (Raye/DePaul/Johnston)
13. I May Be Wrong (Rufkind/Sullivan)
CD10
AN EVENING HOME WITH THE “BIRD” (1950)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Leroy Jackson +
Drums Bruz Freeman + Guitar George Freeman
Piano Chris Anderson + Tenor Saxophone Claude McLin
1. There´s A Small Hotel (Rodgers/Hart)
2. These Foolish Things (Link/Strachey)
3. Fine and Dandy (Kay)
4. Hot House (Dameron)
THE “BIRD” RETURNS (1948 - 1949)
Alto Saxophone Charlie Parker + Bass Tommy Potter +
Drums Max Roach + Piano Al Haig + Tenor Saxophone Lucky
Thompson (tracks: A1, B1 to B3) + Trumpet Kenny Dorham
(track: B4) & Miles Davis (tracks: A1 to B3) + Vibraphone Milt
Jackson (tracks: A1, B1 to B3)
5 Chasin´ the Bird (Parker)
6. Thriving On a Riff (Parker)
7. Koko (Parker)
8. Half Nelson (Parker)
9. Scrapple from the Apple (Parker)
10. Cheryl (Parker)
11. Barbados (Parker)
