Charlie Parker - Now's The Time [Back Up] (2004)

01. Confirmation 
02. I Remember You
03. Now's The Time
04. Chi-Chi 
05. Laird Baird
06. Cosmic Rays	 
07. Kim	 
08. The Song Is You
09. Star Eyes 
10. I'm In The Mood For Love 
11. Blues [Fast]	 
12. The Bird 
13. Ballade 
14. Celebrity 
15. Cardboard 
16. Visa	
17. My Melancholy Baby	
18. Bloomdido
19. Leap Frog 
20. An Oscar For Treadwell 
21. Relaxin' With Lee
22. Mohawk

    Hank Jones -     Piano
    Charlie Parker -  Sax (Alto)
    Thelonious Monk - Piano
    Curly Russell -  Bass
    Carlos Vidal - Conga
    Tommy Turk - Trombone
    Coleman Hawkins - Sax (Tenor)
    Teddy Kotick -  Bass
    Percy Heath - Bass
    Ray Brown - Bass
    Kenny Dorham - Trumpet
    Dizzy Gillespie - Trumpet
    Al Haig - Piano
    Shelly Manne - Drums
    Buddy Rich - Drums
    Max Roach - Drums
    Tommy Potter - Bass

A legendary figure in jazz, and deservedly so: one of the first beboppers, he was that genre's foremost improviser, spinning out lovely, often bizarre melodic runs. His compositions, like most early bop, were usually based on either blues or "I Got Rhythm" changes, but many have melody lines so impressive they're still recorded today. I have no idea how to review Parker's output.

This is a Verve release, and it's actually well-organized: the tracks are two complete quartet dates, from 1952 and 1953. None of the material is available on Very Best Of Bird, and most of it's excellent: "Confirmation" and the title track are the best known. The quartet format leaves Parker maximum space to improvise, and some of the tunes don't even have themes: he just blows from start to finish. Verve could have given you a lot more for your money, though: the disc runs less than forty minutes, and about half of that is outtakes. --- warr.org

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