Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Just Friends
2. Swedish Schnapps
3. Laird Baird
4. K.C. Blues
5. April in Paris
6. Laura
7. Embraceable You
8. Ballade
9. Au Privave
10. Song Is You, The
11. Mango Mangue
12. Confirmation
13. Segment
14. She Rote
15. Kim
16. In the Still of the Night
17. Star Eyes
18. How High the Moon?
DISC 2:
1. Cardboard
2. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
3. Oh, Lady, Be Good!
4. I Can't Get Started
5. Lover Man
6. Funky Blues
7. Old Folks
8. Now's the Time
9. Tico-Tico
10. What Is This Thing Called Love?
11. Blues For Alice
12. Leap Frog
13. Bloomdido
14. My Little Suede Shoes
15. Chi Chi
16. Repetition
| Details | | Playing Time: | 133 min. | | Contributing Artists: | Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald, Lester Young, Thelonious Monk | | Producer: | Norman Granz | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Mono | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Ella Fitzgerald (vocals); Willie Smith, Harry Terrill, Murray Williams, Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges (alto saxophone); Flip Phillips, Lester Young, Ben Webster, Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone); Manny Albam, Danny Banks (baritone saxophone); Red Rodney, Miles Davis, Roy Eldridge, Kenny Dorham, Charlie Shavers, Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet); Tommy Turk, Bill Harris, Lou McGarity (trombone); John Lewis, Hank Jones, Walter Bishop, Al Haig, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk (piano); Freddie Green, Barney Kessel (guitar); Ray Brown, Teddy Kotick, Percy Heath, Tommy Potter, Charles Mingus, Curly Russell (bass); Buddy Rich, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach, Lee Young, Don Lamond, J.C. Heard, Roy Haynes, Shelly Manne (drums).
Machito And His Afro-Cuban Orchestra: Machito (maracas); Gene Johnson, Fred Skerritt (alto saxophone); Jose Madera (tenor saxophone); Leslie Johnakins (baritone saxophone); Mario Bauza, Paquito Davilla, Bobby Woodlen (trumpet); Rene Hernandez (piano); Roberto Rodriguez (bass); Luis Miranda (congas); Jose Mangual (bongos); Ubaldo Nieto (timbales).
The Dave Lambert Singers: Butch Birdsall, Jerry Parker, Annie Ross (vocals).
Recorded between 1947 and 1953. Includes liner notes by James Patrick.
This is part of Verve's Take 2 series.
This generous and carefully-documented compilation provides a wide overview of Parker's work from the late 40's and early 50's. It includes well-recorded material that previously appeared on the GENIUS OF CHARLIE PARKER LPs, tunes from concept albums like SOUTH OF THE BORDER (with Machito's orchestra) and CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS (cooler than you'd expect, at times), and cuts from various JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC releases on the Clef label. The main unifying element besides Parker's work is the touch of impressario Norman Granz, the man who created Jazz At The Philharmonic, and founded Clef records and the Verve label. Granz's faith in the idea of spontaneity--and thus the concept of the jam session as concert or recording event--was tempered by a desire to challenge Parker into going beyond the finite possibilities of the small bebop group. Parker wails with quartets and quintets on the GENIUS tunes, but we also hear him in orchestral settings (one of Parker's own ambitions) on the WITH STRINGS material and bumping up against swingsters like Hodges and Eldridge on the PHILHARMONIC sessions.
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