Bird at St. Nick’s was a live tape recording by Charlie Parker taken from a February 1950 performance at St. Nicholas Arena. The recording was [More]
This recording from the budget label Alamac finds Charlie Parker in brilliant form playing with a small group filled with talented young Swedish players (including [More]
Inglewood Jam, also known as Bird and Chet , is a live album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker, recorded in California in 1952 with trumpet [More]
“Now’s the Time captures Charlie Parker during one of his peak recording periods. The personnel of Hank Jones, Al Haig, Percy Heath, Teddy Kotick, and [More]
This compilation of original Verve sessions (spanning 1947-1953) comes highly recommended, not only for its earful of superb musicianship from the creators of modern jazz, [More]
Track listing: A1 Four Brothers 0:00 A2 Early Autumn 3:06 A3 Timmy Rogers – Comedian 6:10 A4 Repetition 10:52 A5 What Is This Thing Called [More]
White Christmas is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. The song was written by Berlin for the musical film Holiday Inn, [More]
“Jam Session” is the only album I’ve heard that presents Charlie Parker in familiar company with room to stretch out and with microphones capable of [More]
Track listing: A1 What Is This Thing Called Love (C. Porter) 15:53 B1 Funky Blues (Oscar Peterson) 13:46 Personnel: Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges [More]
Track listing : 00:00 – Coleman Hawkins – Body and Soul 03:00 – Charlie Parker – Scrapple from the Apple 05:58 – Bud Powell – [More]