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Bird & Diz

Label: Verve Music Group
Released: 2007
Track listing: Bloomdido; My Melancholy Baby; Relaxin' With Lee; Leap Frog; An Oscar For Treadwell; Mohawk; My Melancholy Baby (alternative take); Relaxin' With Lee (alternative take); Leap Frog (3 alternative takes); An Oscar For Treadwell (alternative take); Mohawk (alternative take); Relaxin' With Lee (4 breakdown takes); Leap Frog (7 breakdown takes).

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Charlie Parker: Bird & Diz

Read "Bird & Diz" reviewed by Samuel Chell

by Samuel Chell
April 14, 2007

A 1950 recording released on a 10" LP in 1952, this session was conceived by Norman Granz as an opportunity to win for Charlie Parker a larger audience by showcasing him in the company of jazz stars playing “pretty tunes written by good songwriters. But with the exception of “Melancholy Baby" these are exactly the same ...

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