• 180 GRAM COLORED VIRGIN VINYL
• INCLUDES 3 BONUS TRACKS
This release presents all of Bird and Diz’s collaborative performances at Birdland. The amazing first session, like the Massey Hall concert, features Bud Powell on piano and includes a fantastic rendition of Thelonious Monk’s “’Round Midnight”.
PERSONNEL:
- A1-A4: Bud Powell (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d). “Symphony Sid” Torin (MC). Birdland, New York, March 31, 1951.
- B1-B2: Miles Davis (tp), Sahib Shihab (bar), Wade Legge (p), Lou Hackney (b), Al Jones (d), Joe Carroll & Dizzy Gillespie (vc). Birdland, New York, May 23, 1953.
- B3-B5: Billy Taylor (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d). Leonard Feather (MC). Birdland, New York, March-April, 1951.
- (*) BONUS TRACKS:
- A5 & B6: Charlie Parker (as), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Al Haig (p), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d). Ernie Whitman (MC). AFRS Jubilee radio broadcast, Hollywood, California, December 29, 1945.
TRACKS:
- SIDE A
- 1) BLUE ‘N’ BOOGIE
- 2) ANTHROPOLOGY
- 3) ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT
- 4) A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
- 5) GROOVIN’ HIGH (*)
- SIDE B:
- 1) THE BLUEST BLUES
- 2) ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
- 3) HOT HOUSE
- 4) EMBRACEABLE YOU
- 5) ORNITHOLOGY/HOW HIGH THE MOON (*)
- 6) DIZZY ATMOSPHERE(*)