Charlie Parker Ornithology The Best of Bird

“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It covers the legendary artists prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Featuring Dizzy Gillespie (piano and trumpet), Curley Russell (bass), Max Roach (drums), Miles Davis (trumpet), Bud Powell (piano), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Charles Mingus (bass) and more!

“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It covers the legendary artists prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Featuring Dizzy Gillespie (piano and trumpet), Curley Russell (bass), Max Roach (drums), Miles Davis (trumpet), Bud Powell (piano), Kenny Dorham (trumpet), Charles Mingus (bass) and more!

The packaging is impeccable, this seven-CD box set has a definitive 48-page booklet, and the recording quality is as good as possible, so why the "poor" rating? Dean Benedetti, a fanatical Charlie Parker disciple, recorded Bird extensively during three periods in 1947-1948 but did his best to turn off his wire recorder whenever anyone but Parker was soloing. He became legendary, as did his long lost acetates, and Mosaic has done what it could to make the excerpts coherent but the results are still quite unlistenable. None of the performances on this large set are complete; guests such as Thelonious Monk and Carmen McRae are introduced, play, or sing two notes and then are cut off. And, although Parker seems to play well, these performances reveal no new secrets and add nothing to his legacy.

Charlie Parker Records: The Complete Collection, Vol.27 - Charlie Parker, Historical Masterpieces 1 (2012 CP Records 233193/27}
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© 1948-50, 2012 Charlie Parker Records / Membran Media / Documents | 233193 / 27
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?