Charlie Parker - Confirmation: Best of the verve years 1995

CD1

01-Just Friends
02-Swedish Schnapps
03-Laird Bird
04-K.C. Blues
05-April in Paris                  play
06-Laura
07-Embraceable You
08-Ballade
09-Au Privave
10-The Song is You
11-Mango Mangue
12-Confirmation                    play
13-Segment
14-She Rote
15-Kim
16-In the Still of the Night
17-Star Eyes
18-How High the Moon

CD2

01-Cardboard
02-I Didn't Know What It Was
03-Oh, Lady, Be Godd!
04-I Can't Get Started
05-Lover Man                   play
06-Funky Blues
07-Old Folks
08-Now's The Time
09-Tico-Tico                   play
10-What Is This Thing Called Love_
11-Blues For Alice
12-Leap Frog
13-Bloomdido
14-My Little Suede Shoes
15-Chi Chi
16-Repetition

Personnel includes: 
Charlie Parker
Stan Freeman -  Piano
Ray Brown - Bass
Buddy Rich - Drums
Jimmy Carroll Arranger, Conductor
Red Rodney - Trumpet
John Lewis - Piano
Kenny Clarke - Drums
Hank Jones - Piano
Teddy Kotick - Bass
Max Roach - Drums
Miles Davis - Trumpet
Walter Bishop, Jr. - Piano
Joe Lipman - Arranger, Conductor

Recorded between 1947 and 1953.

This generous and carefully-documented compilation provides a wide overview of Parker's work from the late 40's and early 50's. It includes well-recorded material that previously appeared on the GENIUS OF CHARLIE PARKER LPs, tunes from concept albums like SOUTH OF THE BORDER (with Machito's orchestra) and CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS (cooler than you'd expect, at times), and cuts from various JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC releases on the Clef label. The main unifying element besides Parker's work is the touch of impressario Norman Granz, the man who created Jazz At The Philharmonic, and founded Clef records and the Verve label. Granz's faith in the idea of spontaneity--and thus the concept of the jam session as concert or recording event--was tempered by a desire to challenge Parker into going beyond the finite possibilities of the small bebop group. Parker wails with quartets and quintets on the GENIUS tunes, but we also hear him in orchestral settings (one of Parker's own ambitions) on the WITH STRINGS material and bumping up against swingsters like Hodges and Eldridge on the PHILHARMONIC sessions.

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