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The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings: 1944-1948

Label: Savoy Jazz
Released: 2001
Track listing: A Night In Tunisia; All the Things You Are; Another Hair Do; Au-Leu-Cha; Barbados; Bebop; Billie

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The Washington Concerts

By Charlie Parker

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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 ...

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Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings: 1944-1948

by Jim Santella
February 1, 2001

Technology is changing as fast as our dress codes change cycles. And yet, we still manage to settle in with the things we like. Whether it’s from vinyl to compact disc, VHS to DVD, or simply from form-fitting blue jeans to baggy counterparts, we do enjoy what stays around. With this 8-CD set, seasoned collectors can ...

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Anthony Ortega

by Robert Spencer
January 10, 2001

Here is a man who has played with Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Bley, Quincy Jones, Don Ellis, Dinah Washington, and {{Ella Fitzgerald. Here is a man whose alto saxophone playing has been compared to Charlie Parker's and Ornette Coleman's--both with just cause. Here is a man whose Sixties sessions, long out of print ...

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Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948

Read "The Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
January 1, 2001

Tracking the genuine Charlie ‘Yardbird’ Parker has proven to be an elusive task. But the journey has been a rewarding experience, never mind the fact I never arrived at my destination. Note to so-called ‘Bird experts,’ I don’t claim to present any valuable insights into Charles Parker, Jr. born August 29, 1920, died March 12, 1955. ...

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Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings (1944

by C. Michael Bailey
January 1, 2001

On the heels of Louis Armstrong: The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens Savoy releases another seminal chapter in the development of Jazz. If Louis Armstrong’s The Complete Hot Fives and Sevens can be seen as Moses’ contribution to the Old Testament, then certainly Charlie Parker’s mid 1940s recordings for Savoy and Dial can be seen as ...

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