Charlie Parker ‎– Bird In Paris

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS:

The music in this CD comes from no-professional privates tapes and its technical sound quality its no up to today’s standarts. However, it is released because of the impotance of the musicians involved and of its high musical and historical value. Every effort has been made to improve the sound qualilty through advanced restoration technologies.

CHARLIE PARKER (as)

KENNY DORHAM (tp)

AL HAIG (p)

TOMMY POTTER (b)

MAX ROACH (d)

This set contains all known recordings made by Bird in France. CD One is devoted to all of his preserved performances at the famous Salle Pleyel in May 1949, backed by Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter and Max Roach.
CD Two opens with a concert in Roubaix featuring the same band during the same tour. Among its highlights is a rare live reading of “Lover Man”. Three rare TV show soundtracks from the same period have been added as a bonus.

“Bringing the boppers to the edges of their seats was the Charlie Parker quintet. The band had a tremendous beat, and Parker, displaying his prodigious technique and originality of ideas, wove in and out of the rhythmic patterns laid down by Roach to the accompaniment of ecstatic cries of ‘Formidable’ from the fanatics.” (Down Beat, July 1, 1949)

CD1: 1. Salt Peanuts, 2. Barbados, 3. 52nd Street Theme, 4. Out Of Nowhere, 5.Salt Peanuts, 6. Scrapple From The Apple, 7. Out Of Nowhere, 9. 52nd Street Theme, 10. Out Of Nowhere, 11. A Night In Tunisia, 12. Moose The Mooche, 13. I Got Rhythm, 14. 52nd Street Theme, 15. Hot House, 16. Blues Finale.

Total Time: 70:28

CD2: 1. Ornithology, 2. Out Of Nowhere, 3. Cheryl, 4. 52nd Street Theme, 5. Lover Man, 6. Groovin’ High, 7. Half Nelson, 8. 52nd Street Theme, 9. Lady Bird, 10. Intro Into Now’s The Time*, 11. Lover *, 12. I Can’t Get Started *, 13. Blues *, 14 Anthropology*,15. Bop City*,16. I Get A Kick Out Of You*, 17. Big Foot *, 18. Anthropology *,19. Donna Lee*, 20. Blues*, 21. Almost Like Being In Love*

Total Time: 61:58

On CD One, track 16, add: Aimé Barelli, Miles Davis, Bill Coleman, Hot Lips Page (tp), “Big Chief” Russell Moore (tb), Hubert Rostaing (cl), Sidney Bechet (ss), Don Byas, James Moody (ts), Hazy Osterwald (vib) & Jean “Toots” Thielemans (g).

On CD Two, track 9: Charlie Parker (as) with the Maurice Moufflard Orchestra.

CD ONE: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, May 8, 9, 14 & 15 (two concerts), 1949.

CD TWO [1-8] Colisèe Movie House, Roubaix, France, May 12, 1949.

CD TWO [9] ORTF Radio Broadcast, Studio Washington, Le Poste Parisien, Paris, France, November 28, 1950.

*BONUS TRACKS (CD TWO, 10-21)

CD TWO [10-13] Charlie Parker (as), Shorty Sherrock (tp), Sidney Bechet (ss), Joe Bushkin (p), Chubby Jackson (b), George Wettling (d). TV broadcast. New York, February 21, 1949.

CD TWO [14-17] Charlie Parker (as), Miles Davis, Max Kaminsky (tp), Kai Winding (tb), Joe Sullivan (p), Max Roach (d), among others.
TV broadcast, New York, March 4, 1949.

CD TWO [18-21] Charlie Parker (as), Milton De Lugg (accordion) and others.
TV show, New York, October 31, 1950.

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