Charlie Parker - Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings (2002)

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Title: Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Savoy Jazz [17120]
Genre: Jazz, Bop
Quality: FLAC (tracks + .cue,log,scans)
Total Time: 60:32
Total Size: 261 MB(+3%)
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Tracklisting:

01 - Tiny's Tempo
02 - Koko
03 - Moose the Mooche
04 - Yardbird Suite
05 - Ornithology.flac
06 - A Night in Tunisia
07 - Cool Blues.flac
08 - Relaxin' at Camarillo
09 - Chasin the Bird
10 - Cheryl
11 - Milestones
12 - Embraceable You
13 - Scrapple From the Apple
14 - Out of Nowhere
15 - Quasimado
16 - Crazeology
17 - Bluebird
18 - Au-Leu-Cha
19 - Parker's Mood
20 - Merry Go Round
Charlie Parker - Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings (2002)

This compilation whittles Charlie Parker's output on the Savoy and Dial labels down to 20 essential tracks. The booklet is certainly impressive for a best-of item; producer Orrin Keepnews offers a complete sessionography, richly informative track-by-track annotation, and an introductory essay. Interestingly, he includes several originally unissued takes as representative of Parker's best and elects to scrap the 1946 Dial session that yielded a notoriously smacked-out reading of "Lover Man" and ended with Parker being institutionalized. Listeners who can't be bothered with endless alternate takes won't find any here, but devotees will want to seek out the full set, The Complete Savoy and Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948, also brought forth by Savoy in 2002. ~ David R. Adler