Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker

DIGIPACK EDITION

When Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie went into the recording studio together on 28 February 1945, they had already served a shared apprenticeship in the big bands of Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine, had jammed informally exploring their common interest in adventurous extensions of swing harmonies and reconfigured rhythms, and were, individually and collaboratively, prepared to redirect the course of modern jazz. That session shouldn’t in any way be considered the public “birth” of bebop; those seeds had already been sown by Dizzy in recordings with, respectively, Don Byas and Dexter Gordon. But the pairing of Parker and Gillespie at this time was to prove noteworthy for two circumstances – their brilliance together, and the subsequent rarity of their appearances in partnership, facts that account for the importance of this collection of live performances.

PERSONNEL, TRACKS & DATES:

• ON TRACKS [1-6]: TOWN HALL, NEW YORK 
• Dizzy Gillespie - (trumpet)
• Charlie Parker - (alto saxophone)
• Don Byas tenor - (saxophone on track 1)
• Al Haig - (piano)
• Curley Russell - (double bass)
• Max Roach - (drums on 1–4)V
• Sidney Catlett - (drums on 5–6)

• 01 Bebop
• 02 A Night In Tunisia
• 03 Groovin’ High
• 04 Salt Peanuts
• 05 Hot House
• 06 Fifty Second Street Theme

• Recorded June 22, 1945 at Town Hall, New York City.

• ON TRACKS [7-11] CARNEGIE HALL, NEW YORK
• Dizzy Gillespie - (trumpet)
• Charlie Parker - (alto saxophone)
• John Lewis - (piano)
• Al McKibbon - (double bass)
• Joe Harris - (drums)

• 07 A Night In Tunisia
• 08 Dizzy Atmosphere
• 09 Groovin’ High
• 10 Confirmation
• 11 Koko

• Recorded September 29, 1947 at Carnegie Hall, New York City.

• ON TRACKS [12-15] BIRDLAND, NEW YORK
• Dizzy Gillespie - (trumpet)
• Charlie Parker - (alto saxophone)
• Bud Powell - (piano)
• Tommy Potter - (double bass)
• Roy Haynes - (drums)

• 12 Blue ‘N’ Boogie
• 13 Anthropology
• 14 ‘Round Midnight
• 15 A Night In Tunisia

• Recorded March 31, 1951 at Birdland, New York City