Charlie Parker: The Complete Verve Master Takes (2003) 3CD Box Set 320Kbps Jazz # DrBN

There's nothing fancy about this release - except Charlie Parker’s saxophone playing.
On this 3-CD Set you'll find all 73 studio master takes Bird recorded for Verve, ranging from a 1947 Carnegie Hall date to Parker's last recording in 1954.
It's all here, from his first Verve side, “The Bird”, to his last side, “I Love Paris”.
It is 24-carat from start to finish, some of most exciting jazz recorded up to the mid-1950s or since.


Charlie Parker

The Complete Verve Master Takes: 1947 – 1954

3-CD Box Set

2003





3CDs / 2003 / 320Kbps


Tracklist / Disc 1:

1. The Bird
2. Cardboard
3. Visa
4. Segment / Tune X
5. Passport / Tune Y
6. Passport / Tune Z (based on "I Got Rhythm")
7. Just Friends
8. Everything Happens to Me
9. April in Paris
10. Summertime
11. I Didn't Know What Time It Was
12. If I Should Lose You
13. Star Eyes
14. Blues (Fast)
15. I'm in the Mood for Love
16. Bloomdido
17. An Oscar for Treadwell
18. Mohawk
19. My Melancholy Baby
20. Leap Frog
21. Relaxin' With Lee
22. Dancing in the Dark
23. Out of Nowhere
24. Laura


Tracklist / Disc 2:

1. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon)
2. They Can't Take That Away from Me
3. Easy to Love
4. I'm in the Mood for Love
5. I'll Remember April
6. Au Privave
7. She Rote
8. K.C. Blues
9. Star Eyes
10. My Little Suede Shoes
11. Un Poquito de Tu Amor
12. Tico-Tico (AKA "Tico-Tico No Fuba")
13. Fiesta
14. Why Do I Love You?
15. Blues for Alice
16. Si Si
17. Swedish Schnapps
18. Back Home Blues
19. Lover Man
20. Temptation
21. Lover
22. Autumn in New York
23. Stella by Starlight
24. Mama Inez
25. La Cucaracha


Tracklist / Disc 3:

1. Estrellita
2. Begin the Beguine
3. La Paloma
4. Night and Day
5. Almost Like Being in Love
6. I Can't Get Started
7. What Is This Thing Called Love?
8. The Song Is You
9. Laird Baird
10. Kim
11. Cosmic Rays
12. In the Still of the Night
13. Old Folks
14. If I Love Again
15. Chi-Chi
16. I Remember You
17. Now's the Time
18. Confirmation
19. I Get a Kick Out of You
20. Just One of Those Things
21. My Heart Belongs to Daddy
22. I've Got You Under My Skin
23. Love for Sale
24. I Love Paris


Personnel:

Charlie Parker: alto saxophone, tenor saxophone
with various lineups featuring Dizzy Gillespie, Gil Evans, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis,
Kenny Dorham, Max Roach, Oscar Peterson, Charles Mingus and many more

Produced by Norman Granz