Charlie Parker

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AllMusic Review by Michael G. Nastos

This collection is a whopper, a 61-track/four-CD box set of sessions recorded live at Birdland from a variety of dates, years, and groupings. As a collection, this set holds up well if you can get past the sound quality, which at times is raw, thin, or tinny. The sidemen are all the usual suspects who Charlie Parker had in his bands, and the material is 95 percent familiar, while there are a few repeat tunes. Some string or orchestral arrangements crop up, but it's mostly Parker and small ensembles tearing up the bebop thing. Surely there are many completists who simply will have to own this, and while devotees should rightly question the means and ends of such a release, it is one that belongs in Bird's discography as a rare document, and at the very least is an intriguing compilation.

Track Listing - Disc 1

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Out of Nowhere Johnny Green / Edward Heyman	Charlie Parker	2:34
2	What's New? Johnny Burke / Bob Haggart	Charlie Parker	2:38
3	Little Willie Leaps Miles Davis	Charlie Parker	2:43
4	Yesterdays/52nd Street Theme Otto Harbach / Jerome Kern / Thelonious Monk	Charlie Parker	3:19
5	Dizzy Atmosphere Dizzy Gillespie	Charlie Parker	3:48
6	Wahoo Tadd Dameron	Charlie Parker	4:24
7	I Can't Get Started Vernon Duke / Ira Gershwin	Charlie Parker	1:31
8	Allen's Alley Denzil Best	Charlie Parker	3:44
9	Mambo Chico O'Farrill	Charlie Parker	5:16
10	Lament for the Congo Traditional	Charlie Parker	5:57
11	Conception George Shearing	Charlie Parker	11:00
12	52nd Street Theme Thelonious Monk	Charlie Parker	1:47
13	Wahoo Tadd Dameron	Charlie Parker	6:35
14	'Round About Midnight Bernie Hanighen / Thelonious Monk / Cootie Williams	Charlie Parker	5:08
15	This Time the Dream's on Me Harold Arlen / Johnny Mercer	Charlie Parker	6:20
16	Dizzy Atmosphere Dizzy Gillespie	Charlie Parker	6:55

Track Listing - Disc 2

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	A Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli	Charlie Parker	5:41
2	Move Denzil Best	Charlie Parker	6:28
3	The Street Beat Charlie Parker / Sir Charles Thompson	Charlie Parker	9:25
4	Out of Nowhere Johnny Green / Edward Heyman	Charlie Parker	6:20
5	Little Willie Leaps Miles Davis	Charlie Parker	5:23
6	Ornithology Benny Harris / Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	7:51
7	I'll Remember April Gene DePaul / Patricia Johnston / Don Raye	Charlie Parker	7:56
8	Embraceable You George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	Charlie Parker	6:19
9	Cool Blues Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	6:53
10	52nd Street Theme Thelonious Monk	Charlie Parker	2:11

Track Listing - Disc 3

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Just Friends John Klenner / Sam M. Lewis	Charlie Parker	2:59
2	Everything Happens to Me Tom Adair / Matt Dennis	Charlie Parker	2:40
3	East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman	Charlie Parker	3:23
4	Laura Johnny Mercer / David Raksin	Charlie Parker	3:00
5	Dancing in the Dark Howard Dietz / Arthur Schwartz	Charlie Parker	3:41
6	Blue 'n' Boogie Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli	Charlie Parker	6:48
7	Anthropology Dizzy Gillespie / Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	5:28
8	'Round About Midnight Bernie Hanighen / Thelonious Monk / Cootie Williams	Charlie Parker	3:12
9	A Night in Tunisia Dizzy Gillespie / Frank Paparelli	Charlie Parker	4:45
10	What Is This Thing Called Love? Cole Porter	Charlie Parker	1:57
11	Laura Johnny Mercer / David Raksin	Charlie Parker	3:24
12	Repetition Neal Hefti	Charlie Parker	2:38
13	They Can't Take That Away from Me George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	Charlie Parker	3:01
14	Easy to Love Cole Porter	Charlie Parker	2:15
15	Rocker/Jumpin' with Symphony Sid Gerry Mulligan / Lester Young	Charlie Parker	4:46
16	Hot House Tadd Dameron	Charlie Parker	4:22
17	Embraceable You George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	Charlie Parker	3:43
18	How High the Moon Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis	Charlie Parker	5:28

Track Listing - Disc 4

	Title/Composer	Performer	Time
1	Ornithology Benny Harris / Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	5:50
2	52nd Street Theme Thelonious Monk	Charlie Parker	4:54
3	How High the Moon Nancy Hamilton / Morgan Lewis	Charlie Parker	5:27
4	Embraceable You George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin	Charlie Parker	3:34
5	Your Father's Moustache Benny Harris	Charlie Parker	5:27
6	Cool Blues Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	4:05
7	Star Eyes Gene DePaul / Don Raye	Charlie Parker	4:57
8	Moose the Mooche Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	5:14
9	Broadway Billy Bird / Teddy McRae / Henri Woode	Charlie Parker	2:54
10	Moose the Mooche Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	5:16
11	Cheryl Charlie Parker	Charlie Parker	7:19
12	The Bluest Blues Gary McFarland / Sir Charles Thompson	Charlie Parker	6:33
13	On the Sunny Side of the Street Dorothy Fields / Jimmy McHugh	Charlie Parker	2:56
14	What Is This Thing Called Love? Cole Porter	Charlie Parker	2:07
15	Repetition Neal Hefti	Charlie Parker	2:36
16	Easy to Love Cole Porter	Charlie Parker	2:08
17	East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) Brooks Bowman	Charlie Parker	3:29

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