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The Washington Concerts

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Released: 2001
Track listing: Fine and Dandy, These Foolish Things, Light Green, Thou Swell, Willis, Don't Blame Me, Something to Remember You By/Blue Room, Roundhouse, Ornithology, Out of Nowhere, Cool Blues, Anthropology, Scrapple from the Apple, Medley: Out of Nowhere/Now's the Time, Red Rodney interview.

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Charlie Parker: The Washington Concerts

by Michael Fortuna
July 1, 2001

Only Bird could make a plastic saxophone sound amazing.Charlie Parker, the virtuoso alto saxophonist who started the bebop movement in jazz, gave a jaw-dropping performance with Joe Timer's orchestra at the Club Kavakos in Washington, D.C. in 1953.Eight songs taken from that concert (where Parker played a plastic saxophone) were released in ...