Charlie Parker ‎– Complete Bird At The Bandbox

• FOR THE FIRST TIME ON A SINGLE SET!
• INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET
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.

All existing broadcasts presenting Charlie Parker at the Bandbox club in New York. He is featured here in unusual contexts, with the Bill Harris/Chubby Jackson Herd and with organist Milt Buckner, as well as a whole show in a quartet format.

As a bonus, all existing music from a jam session recorded in 1951 at Christy’s Restaurant, in Framingham, Massachusetts, as well as a rare session taped that same year at the Diplomat Hotel in New York.

This collection contains Parker’s only existing version of “Your Father’s Moustache”, as well as all of his surviving versions of “Caravan”.

PERSONNEL:
CHARLIE PARKER, alto sax on all tracks, with:
ON TRACK [1]: Bill Harris (tb), Charlie Mariano (as), Harry Johnson (ts), Sonny Truitt (p), Chubby Jackson (b), Morey Feld (d). The Bandbox, New York, February 16, 1953.
ON TRACK [2]: Milt Buckner (org), Bernie McKay (g), Cornelius Thomas (d). The Bandbox, New York, March 23, 1953.
ON TRACKS [3-6]: Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Kenny O’Brien (b), Roy Haynes (d), Leonard Feather & Bob Garrity (ann). The Bandbox, New York, March 30, 1953.
(*)BONUS TRACKS: ON TRACKS [7-9]: Bill Wellington (ts), Wardell Gray (ts), Nat Pierce (p), Jack Lawlor (b), Joe MacDonald (d). Christy’s Restaurant, Framingham, Massachusetts, April 12, 1951.
ON TRACKS [10-15]: Miles Davis (tp), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d). Diplomat Hotel, New York, January 19, 1951
TRACKS:
01 YOUR FATHER’S MOUSTACHE
02 GROOVIN’ HIGH
03 CARAVAN [Theme] into COOL BLUES/STAR EYES
04 MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES/ORNITHOLOGY
05 52ND STREET THEME/DIGGIN’ DIZ [aka DYNAMO A]
06 52ND STREET THEME/EMBRACEABLE YOU
07 SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE (*)
08 LULLABY IN RHYTHM (*)
09 HAPPY BIRD BLUES (*)
10 BILLIE’S BOUNCE (*)
11 COOL BLUES (*)
12 APRIL IN PARIS (*)
13 ORNITHOLOGY into 52ND STREET THEME (*)
14 CARAVAN (*)
15 BIG FOOT [aka DRIFTING ON A REED] (*)
Total Time: 78:45