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Charlie Parker: Bird & Diz
by Samuel Chell
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 ...
Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie: Bird And Diz
by Chris May
Charlie Parker played in some strange settings during his career--with a cowboy band in Hollywood, a “Gypsy" string trio in a Manhattan restaurant, the street busker Moondog, and several klezmer bands--but such liaisons tended to be random, unrecorded encounters in clubs and restaurants. Aside from a 1945 session which included the novelty hipster, vocalist and guitarist ...
Charlie Parker's telegrams to Chan Parker, on hearing of the death of their daughter
by Bill Siegel
Chan, please help me Dropping from the wires, a cry hangs in the air like a dustcloud about the shoulders of the man alone working its way into the wrinkles of his coat the cracks of his face filling his jowls, bending his neckChan, please help In ...
Charlie Parker with Lennie Tristano: Complete Recordings
Label: Definitive Records
Released: 2006
Track listing: All of Me; I Can't Believe That You're in Love with Me; Ko Ko; Hot House; I Surrender Dear;
Fine and Dandy; Ko Ko (Theme); On the Sunny Side of the Street into 52nd Street Theme; How
Deep Is the Ocean?; Tiger Rag; 52nd Street Theme; 52nd Street Theme; Donna Lee;
Everything I Have Is Yours; Fats Flats/Hot House; Tea for Two; Don't Blame Me; Groovin' High;
Ko Ko into Anthropology; Overtime [Short Take]; Overtime [Long Take]; Victory Ball [Short
Take 1]; Victory Ball [Short Take 2]; Victory Ball [Long Take].
At Jirayr Zorthian's Ranch, July 14, 1952
Label: Disconforme
Released: 2006
Track listing: Night in Tunisia; Ornithology; Embraceable You; Hot House; Scrapple from the Apple; Cool
Blues; Dixie/Yankee Doodle March/I Got Rhythm; Scrapple from the Apple No. 2;
Privave/Dance of the Indifels.
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