Charlie Parker

• 2-CD SET LIMITED EDITION

• 4 STARS ALL MUSIC GUIDE

• INCLUDES 16 BONUS TRACKS

This edition contains the long unavailable Birdland set pairing Bird with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell in its entirety. Navarro would die shortly after these recordings were made on July 7, 1950 due to a combination of tuberculosis and heroin addiction. He was only 26. Bird, Fats and Bud are splendid on all of these long and relaxed performances. As a bonus, we have added another complete set taped at Birdland a few months earlier, and the only existing tune from a 1953 radio broadcast, presenting Bird and Bud playing “Dance of the Infidels”.

PERSONNEL:

• Charlie Parker, alto sax
• Fats Navarro, trumpet
• Bud Powell, pianov
• Curley Russell, bass
• Art Blakey, drums

Live at Birdland, New York, May 17, 1950.

• (*) BONUS TRACKS:
• CD 2 [5-20]: Charlie Parker (as), J.J. Johnson (tb), Red Rodney (tp), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d). Live at Birdland, New York, February 14, 1950.

• CD 2 [21]: Charlie Parker (as), Bud Powell (p), Charles Mingus (b), Art Taylor (d). Live at Birdland, New York, May or June 1953.

TRACKS:

• CD 1: (74:12)
• 01 52nd STREET THEME .
• 02 WAHOO .
• 03 ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT .
• 04 THIS TIME THE DREAM’S ON ME .
• 05 DIZZY ATMOSPHERE .
• 06 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA.
• 07 MOVE into 52nd STREET THEME .
• 08 THE STREET BEAT .
• 09 OUT OF NOWHERE .
• 10 ORNITHOLOGY .
• 11 I’LL REMEMBER APRIL into 52nd STREET THEME .

• CD 2: (71:56).
• 01 LITTLE WILLIE LEAPS into 52nd STREET THEME .
• 02 EMBRACEABLE YOU .
• 03 COOL BLUES .
• 04 52nd STREET THEME .
• 05 HOT HOUSE (*).
• 06 OUT OF NOWHERE (*).
• 07 VISA into 52nd STREET THEME (*).
• 08 ANTHROPOLOGY/WEE (*).
• 09 WHAT’S NEW? into RUBY MY DEAR (*).
• 10 LITTLE WILLIE LEAPS(*).
• 11 YESTERDAYS into 52nd STREET THEME (*).
• 12 52nd STREET THEME (*).
• 13 DIZZY ATMOSPHERE (*).
• 14 WAHOO (*).
• 15 I CAN’T GET STARTED (*).
• 16 WEE (*).
• 17 52nd STREET THEME (*).
• 18 ON A SLOW BOAT TO CHINA (*).
• 19 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (*).
• 20 52nd STREET THEME (*).
• 21 DANCE OF THE INFIDELS (*).

• Note: These recordings were made with amateur equipment and their sound quality is not up to today’s standards. Every effort has been made to improve the sound quality through the use of modern technologies.