The Bebop Shop : Now's The Time: Bud, Bird & Bebop : Charlie Parker
In addition to select recordings, the four disc set includes unique interviews by Mr. Anderson with artists who performed with Charlie Parker, or "Bird" as they knew him, describing in detail their experiences with him during this period of time. These interviews provide, for the first time, a glimpse into the creative process that was engaged in making these song tracks. This is a "must have" for serious Charlie Parker music collectors. (ESP DISK) Price: £48.99
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £16.99
As a bonus, there is another complete set taped at Birdland a few months earlier, with Bird playing with Red Rodney, J.J. Johnson, Al Haig, Tommy Potter and Roy Haynes - plus the only existing tune from a Birdland radio broadcast presenting Bird and Bud playing “Dance of the Infidels” - with Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Art Taylor. (Discovery Records) Price: £16.99
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £15.49
The supporting cast of trumpeter Miles Davis, pianist Duke Jordan, bassist Tommy Potter, and drummer Max Roach helped compromise the Charlie quintet but Jordan is heard in solo only briefly and Davis hardly at all. Tape was precious and Knepper saved the lion’s share for Bird. The standards and the originals are all here as only Parker could play them, including “A Night in Tunisia” “break” and several versions of “52nd Street Theme.” (Fantasy, Inc.) Price: £15.49
A BEBOP SHOP MILESTONE- An essential recording for your jazz CD shelf Price: £12.99
This concert, recorded at The Rockland Palace on September 26, 1952 was specially organized in honour and support of Benjamin J. Davis, an official of both the American communist party and The Daily Worker. who was sentenced to a 5 year jail sentence in 1949, for ‘political subversion’. Davis, a campaigner against segregation and racial discrimination, was a Harlem hero.
Charlie Parker, alto sax on all tracks, with (at Rockland) : Walter Bishop, piano; Mundell Lowe, guitar; Teddy Kotick, bass; Max Roach, drums; plus string section on many tracks. Personnel on the bonus tracks includes : Duke Jordan, Charles Mingus, Art Blakey, Red Rodney, Kenny Drew, Curley Russell, Teddy Kotick and Roy Haynes. (Discovery Records) Price: £16.99
The big bonus to this CD is previously unreleased live material from two other D.C. concerts Bird performed at the Howard Theater in 1952 and 1953. Two tracks from the 1952 show included here are Scrapple From the Apple and a medley of Out of Nowhere/Now’s the Time, performed by a group that included pianist Bill Shanahan, tenor saxophonist Zoot Sims, trumpeter Charlie Walp, guitarist Charlie Byrd, bassist Mert Oliver and drummer Don Lamond. The four tracks recorded in 1953 (Ornithology, Out of Nowhere, Cool Blues and Anthropology) were performed by Parker’s quartet, including Jack Holliday (piano), Franklin Skeete (bass) and Max Roach (drums). (Blue Note Records) Price: £8.99
Three ultra-rare bonus tracks: his only known live recordings with Machito, previously unissued; and an extended quartet version of “I Can’t Get Started” recorded live at an unknown venue in New York, probably from a radio broadcast. (Discovery Records) Price: £26.99
