Parker,Charlie Charlie Parker Collection 1941-54 CD

Charlie Parker was without doubt one of the most important and influential musicians in the entire history of jazz, as a pioneering and innovative alto saxophonist during the bebop era, as a composer of some of the enduring modern jazz standards, and as a bandleader and catalyst in a remarkable range of musical settings during a career that was all too brief, cut short by an early death as a result of the excesses of his pressurised lifestyle. Coming to the fore in the early 1940s, he was an early collaborator of like-minded luminaries such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis, and over the next decade produced a substantial and extraordinary body of recorded work. This great-value 137-track 6-CD set comprises some interesting early recordings with other leaders, and then a significant proportion of his recordings as a leader and as a prominent member of other leaders' bands, working in a variety of formats from quartets and quintets, through to noted recordings with strings. It includes most of his recordings on the Savoy and Dial labels, and on Mercury, Clef, Norgran and Verve for Norman Granz, his primary record company relationships, and features some of the finest musicians of the day, including Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Thelonious Monk, Buddy Rich, Milt Jackson, Ray Brown, Erroll Garner, Barney Kessel, Bud Powell, John Lewis, Hank Jones, Art Blakey, Sarah Vaughan, Sonny Rollins, Percy Heath, Charles Mingus and more. It does not purport to be a complete or definitive anthology, but it certainly represents about as comprehensive and representative cross-section of his work as can be accommodated in this set.

1. Hootie Blues 2. Cherokee 3. Tiny's Tempo 4. Red Cross 5. Groovin' High 6. All The Things You Are 7. Dizzy Atmosphere 8. Salt Peanuts 9. Shaw 'Nuff 10. Lover Man 11. Hot House 12. Hallelujah 13. Get Happy 14. Slam Slam Blues 15. Congo Blues 16. Warming Up A Riff 17. Billie's Bounce 18. Now's The Time 19. Thriving From A Riff [Anthropology] 20. Ko-Ko 21. Dizzy Boogie 22. Slim's Jam 23. Poppity Pop 24. Diggin' Diz [Bongo Beep] 25. Moose The Mooche 26. Yardbird Suite 27. Ornithology 28. A Night In Tunisia 29. Be-Bop [Dizzy's Fingers] 30. Lover Man 31. The Gypsy 32. This Is Always 33. Dark Shadows 34. Bird's Nest 35. Cool Blues [Hot Blues] 36. Relaxin' At Camarillo 37. Cheers 38. Carvin' The Bird 39. Stupendous 40. Donna Lee 41. Chasin' The Bird 42. Cheryl 43. Buzzy 44. Milestones 45. Little Willie Leaps 46. Half Nelson 47. Sippin' At Bell's 48. Dexterity 49. Bongo Bop 50. Dewey Square [Prezology] 51. The Hymn 52. Bird Of Paradise [All The Things You Are] 53. Embraceable You 54. Bird Feathers [Schnourphology] 55. Klactoveesedstene 56. Scrapple From The Apple 57. My Old Flame 58. Out Of Nowhere 59. Don't Blame Me 60. The Bird 61. Drifting On A Reed [Air Conditioning] 62. Quasimodo 63. Charlie's Wig 64. Bird Feathers [Bongo Beep] 65. Crazeology 66. How Deep Is The Ocean? 67. Another Hair-Do 68. Bluebird 69. Klaunstance 70. Bird Gets The Worm 71. Barbados 72. Ah-Leu-Cha 73. Constellation 74. Parker's Mood 75. Perhaps 76. Marmaduke 77. Steeplechase 78. Merry-Go-Round 79. No Noise 80. Mango Mangue 81. Okiedoke 82. Visa 83. Just Friends 84. April In Paris 85. Summertime 86. I Didn't Know What Time It Was 87. Star Eyes 88. Wahoo [Perdido] 89. Bloomdido 90. An Oscar For Treadwell 91. Mohawk 92. My Melancholy Baby 93. Leap Frog 94. Relaxin' With Lee 95. Dancing In The Dark 96. Out Of Nowhere 97. Laura 98. East Of The Sun 99. They Can't Take That Away From Me 100. Easy To Love 101. I'm In The Mood For Love 102. I'll Remember April 103. Au Privave 104. She Rote 105. K.C. Blues 106. Star Eyes 107. My Little Suede Shoes 108. Tico Tico 109. Si Si 110. Swedish Schnapps 111. Back Home Blues 112. Lover Man 113. Temptation 114. Lover 115. Autumn In New York 116. Stella By Starlight 117. La Cucuracha 118. Estrellita 119. Begin The Beguine 120. Night And Day 121. Almost Like Being In Love 122. The Song Is You 123. Laird Baird 124. Kim 125. Cosmic Rays 126. Compulsion 127. In The Still Of The Night 128. Old Folks 129. Chi Chi 130. I Remember You 131. Now's The Time 132. Confirmation 133. I Get A Kick Out Of You 134. Just One Of Those Things 135. My Heart Belongs To Daddy 136. Love For Sale 137. I Love Paris