Charlie Parker - The Essential Charlie Parker (1992)

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Artist: Charlie Parker
Title: The Essential Charlie Parker
Year Of Release: 1992
Label: Polygram Records, Verve[314 517 173-2]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 60:16
Total Size: 255 MB(+3%)
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist

1. Now's the Time
2. If I Should Lose You
3. Mango Mangue
4. Bloomdido
5. Star Eyes
6. Confirmation - (master take)
7. My Little Suede Shoes
8. Just Friends
9. Lover Man
10. I Got Rhythm
11. Repetition
12. K.C. Blues
13. Relaxing With Lee - (master take)
14. April in Paris
15. Okiedoke
16. Song Is You, The

Charlie Parker - The Essential Charlie Parker (1992)

Charlie "Bird" Parker is one of the giants of 20th century music. Alto saxophonist Parker combined what he had learned from the blues, swing, classical, even country music with a harmonic and rhythmic adventurousness that became known as bebop, becoming one of the greatest soloists in jazz history. Many musicians that played with Parker went on to make jazz/music history themselves: Max Roach, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis, and Kenny Dorham, among others. THE ESSENTIAL gives a wonderful cross-section of the music Parker recorded for Verve Records from 1946 to 1953. You get Bird in quintets with Monk, Buddy Rich, and Dizzy Gillespie ("Relaxing With Lee"), in a wailing jam session with Coleman Hawkins and Buck Clayton ("I Got Rhythm"), fusing bop and Afro-Cuban/Latin music with Machito's big band ("Mango Mangue"), and sailing sweetly with a string section ("Just Friends"). Not sure where to start with Parker, or with bebop or post-swing-era jazz? The answer is in this album's title.

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