Charlie Parker And Lester Young

Charlie Parker & Lester Young - The Complete JATP Performances (1999) {2CD Set, Definitive Records DRCD11146 rec 1946, 1949}
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© 1946, 1949, 1999 Definitive Records / Disconforme | DRCD11146
Jazz / Bop / Bebop / Saxophone

This double CD contains the entire sessions featuring jazz legends Charlie Parker and Lester Young from the first two Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts in 1946 and the final concert in 1949. These saxophonists appear alongside other masters of the genre: Roy Eldridge, Dizzy Gillespie, Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura, Al Killian, and Howard McGhee. These are consistently engaging performances that captured these creative musicians sparking each other into one fiery jam session after another. Ella Fitzgerald makes an appearance as vocalist on "How High the Moon," which closes out this set.

Charlie Parker Records: The Complete Collection, Vol. 30 - Charlie Parker & Lester Young - An Historical Meeting At the Summit (2012 CP Records 233193/30 rec 1949}
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© 1949, 2012 Charlie Parker Records / Membran Media / Documents | 233193 / 30
Jazz / Bop / Saxophone

Exhaustive 30 CD collection from the Jazz legend's short-lived label. Contains 44 original albums (421 tracks) plus booklet. Every record-collector has run across an album with the little sax-playing bird in it's label-logo, right next to the brand name Charlie Parker Records or CP Parker Records. Turning the sleeve over, especially if it was one of the non-Parker releases, and seeing a '60s release date under the header Stereo-pact! Was as exciting an experience as it was confusing. Was the claim Bird Lives meant more literally than previously thought?

Charlie Parker - Jazz at the Philharmonic "1946" (1996) {Giants Of Jazz CD53107 rel 1996}
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© 1946, 1996 Giants Of Jazz / Promo Sound AG | CD 53107
Jazz / Bebop / Bop / Saxophone

The 1946 Jazz at the Philharmonic concerts were true all-star events. This CD compiles portions of two different evenings. The first track, from January, includes trumpeters Dizzy Gillespie, Al Kilian, and Howard McGhee and saxophonists Charlie Parker, Willie Smith, Charlie Ventura, and Lester Young in the front line. Young, having recently gotten out of the military service, is still not at full strength, with Parker and Gillespie taking charge in the rousing "Sweet Georgia Brown." McGhee takes Dizzy's place on the remaining January numbers.

The focus of this exciting, if imperfect, CD is a 1973 reunion of Gene "Jug" Ammons and Sonny Stitt, who were responsible for some of the most famous tenor saxophone battles of the 1940s and early '50s. When the two locked horns, it was musical sportsmanship at its finest. Jug and Stitt had a mutual respect for one another, and their battles were the essence of friendly competition.