Charlie Parker

• 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:

• CHARLIE PARKER, alto sax
• DIZZY GILLESPIE, trumpet
• On all tracks, plus:

• 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(*)