Jazz At Massey Hall (with Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus & Max Roach) [Bonus Track Version] - Charlie Parker

Biography

Born: August 29, 1920 in Kansas City, KS

Genre: Jazz

Years Active: '40s, '50s

One of a handful of musicians who can be before-mentioned to have permanently changed jazz, Charlie Parker was arguably the greatest saxophonist of aggregate time. He could play remarkably tight lines that, if slowed down to half speed, would reveal that every official communication made sense. "Bird," along with his contemporaries Dizzy Gillespie and Bud Powell, is considered a institutor of bebop; in reality he was each intuitive player who simply was expressing himself. Rather than basing his improvisations closely forward the melody as was...

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We (a.k.a. Allen's Alley)
Hot House
A Night in Tunisia
Drum Conversation
I've Got You Under My Skin
Embraceable You
Sure Thing
Cherokee
Hallelujah
Lullaby of Birdland
Perdido
Salt Peanuts
All the Things You Are
52nd Street Theme
Bas-ically Speaking (Bonus Track)
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
Charlie Parker by Strings: Complete Master Takes
Savoy Jazz Christmas Blues
Best of the Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
Cinderella (Rodgers & Hammerstein Original International Tour Cast Recording)
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes