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Parker's Mood

Featuring the music of King Pleasure
Duration: 2:42
March 24, 2011

Parker's Mood

By Stefano di Battista

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: 1. Salt Peanuts; 2. Embraceable You; 3. Night In Tunisia; 4. Parker's Mood; 5. Confirmation; 6. Donna Lee; 7. Laura; 8. Hot House; 9. Congo Blues; 10. 'Round Midnight.

Parker's Mood

By Stefano DiBattista

Label: Blue Note Records
Released: 2005

Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood

by Jim Santella
July 5, 2005

Recreating a bit of jazz history, Stefano di Battista displays the kind of blazing-fast technical wizardry that brought Charlie Parker to our attention when bebop was just a youngster. Alternately, he adds tender ballads with his heart on his shirtsleeve to demonstrate that side of Bird which appealed to the lover within each of us. His ...

Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood

by John Kelman
February 11, 2005

Is it possible to be too reverent to one's roots? Over the course of three prior releases for Blue Note, Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista has honoured a number of players who have informed his music, including Art Pepper, Cannonball Adderley, and Johnny Hodges. But whereas previous discs have delivered homage in the context of largely ...

Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood

by AAJ Staff
February 7, 2005

Coming on the heels of another prominent Bird dedication, Anothony Braxton's recently reissued Charlie Parker Project, Parker's Mood is not only a change of pace but a totally distinct look at the music of one of bebop's founding fathers. Whereas Braxton's sprawling work was loose, cantankerous, and abstractly modern, Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista's collection is ...

Stefano di Battista: Parker's Mood

by Stephen Latessa
February 6, 2005

It is hard to settle down and write a well-measured review of any album that opens with “Salt Peanuts." The tune is so full of natural zest that it would even sound glorious played by an orchestra of kazoos. Predictably, the version that kicks off Parker's Mood does not disappoint and energizes the listener for the ...

Stefano Di Battista: Parker's Mood

by Mark F. Turner
January 24, 2005

The spirit of Charlie “Bird" Parker continues in recent recordings from the deconstructed interpretations of Anthony Braxton's Charlie Parker Project to the modern techno-manipulation of Bird Up! -- The Charlie Parker Remix Project. Now saxophonist Stefano Di Battista brings listeners a more straight-ahead tribute to the founder of bebop. While the true magic of Parker's music ...

Parker's Mood

By Stefano di Battista

Label: Label Bleu
Released: 2004

Parker's Mood

By Roy Hargrove

Label: Jazz Heritage
Released: 1995
Track listing: Klactoveesedstene; Parker's Mood; Marmaduke; Steeplechase; Laura; Dexterity; Yardbird Suite; Red Cross; Repetition; Laird Baird; Dewey Square; Card Board; April In Paris; Chasin' The Bird; Bongo Beep; Star Eyes;