Track Listing 1. Bloomdido 2. My Melancholy Baby 3. Relaxin' With Lee 4. Leap Frog 5. Oscar For Treadwell, An 6. Mohawk 7. My Melancholy Baby 8. Relaxin' With Lee 9. Leap Frog 10. Leap Frog 11. Leap Frog 12. Oscar For Treadwell, An 13. Mohawk 14. Relaxin' With Lee 15. Relaxin' With Lee 16. Relaxin' With Lee 17. Relaxin' With Lee 18. Leap Frog 19. Leap Frog 20. Leap Frog 21. Leap Frog 22. Leap Frog 23. Leap Frog 24. Leap Frog
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Buddy Rich, Thelonious Monk | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Personnel: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Thelonious Monk (piano); Curly Russell (bass); Buddy Rich (drums). Producer: Norman Granz. Reissue producers: Michael Lang, Ben Young. Recorded in New York, New York on June 6, 1950. Includes liner notes by Norman Granz and James Patrick. Digitally remastered by Steven Fallone and Ben Young (Polygram Studios). This is part of the Verve Master Editions series. Did you ever say "I sure would like to have been a fly on the wall for the recording of that album?" Now you can be, with Verve's Master Edition of BIRD AND DIZ, the final collaborative recording date by the two giants of bebop. This was also the only time the duo ever recorded with Thelonious Monk. Every utterance from the session is preserved here, including mistakes, false starts and studio chatter. The quicksilver bop lines of Parker's sax and Gillespie's trumpet ride over the angular piano punctuation of Monk and the bombastic drumming of Buddy Rich.
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