CHARLIE PARKER LIVE AT THE FINALE CLUB 1946 FULL ALBUM

[@derycktrahair8108]

This is rough wire recording from the time & let none of you Hi-Fi experts criticize. This is the closest we can be to being there. Thanks to those who made it available.

[@toulminbrown9166]

The United States owes New York City especially those that are cultured in the ways of jazz which has been recognized throughout Europe it is a great accomplishment that we produced a culture in New York City that was smart enough and Kansas City to record this group these gentlemen were interdimensional they they were in The 5th dimension they were ahead of others Charlie Parker to me equivocates roughly with people like Johann Sebastian Bach and Ludwig van Beethoven.

[@alansenzaki4148]

@@toulminbrown9166 this was recorded in 1946 at the finale club in little tokyo los angeles.

[@sitarnut]

@@alansenzaki4148 Probably recorded by Dean Benedetti on his wire spool rig. He's in the fantastic Ross Russell, "Bird Lives" book.

[@olebirgerpedersen]

I remember those days where our only possibillity was a Phillips steal recorder, that sometimes had his own ideas. When I to day listen to our own recordings from this time in f.x. Eastpark Jazzclub it sounds exactly like this, but in my head I am able to hear whats realy happened.

[@mgconlan]

@@olebirgerpedersen Actually it's not a Dean Benedetti recording. Dean recorded a lot of live Parker but he usually only recorded the theme statements and Bird's solos because his interest was because he was learning alto sax and he wanted to play Parker's music. Also Benedetti never used a wire recorder (he went straight from a disc recorder to a tape recorder). These recordings aren't in the complete Mosaic Records boxed set of the Benedetti recordings and I'd never heard of them before. Given how troubled Parker's life was in 1946 (just before his nervous breakdown and confinement at Camarillo State Mental Hospital) it's amazing how good he is here.

[@ghairraigh]

Charlie Parker at the Finale Club and More Label: Rare Live Recordings RLR 88634 Number of Tracks: 18 Details: March 1946; August 28, 1950; March 25, 1952 (c); March 5, 1949 (c); April 1946 (c) TRACK LIST 1 Billie's Bounce (C. Parker) [Mar 1946] 2 Ornithology (C. Parker-B. Harris) [Mar 1946] 3 All the Things You Are (J. Kern-O. Hammerstein) [Mar 1946] 4 Blue 'n' Boogie (D. Gillespie-F. Paparelli) [Mar 1946] 5 Anthropology (D. Gillespie-C. Parker) [Mar 1946] 6 Hot House - What is This Thing Called Love? [Aug 28, 1950] 7 I May Be Wrong, But I Think You're Wonderful (H. Ruskin-H. Sullivan) [Aug 28, 1950] 8 Parker's Mood (C. Parker) [Aug 28, 1950] 9 S Wonderful (G. Gershwin-I. Gershwin) [Aug 28, 1950] 10 Indiana (J.F. Hanley-B. McDonald) [Aug 28, 1950] 11 Ornithology (C. Parker-B. Harris) [Mar 25, 1952 (c)] 12 Cool Blues (C. Parker) [Mar 25, 1952 (c)] 13 Barbados (C. Parker) [Mar 5, 1949 (c)] 14 Anthropology (D. Gillespie-C. Parker) [Mar 5, 1949 (c)] 15 Tea for Two (V. Youmans-I. Caesar) [Apr 1946 (c)] 16 Body and Soul (J.W. Green-E. Heyman-R. Sour-F. Eyton) [Apr 1946 (c)] 17 Cherokee (R. Noble) [Apr 1946 (c)] 18 Ornithology (C. Parker-B. Harris) [Apr 1946 (c)] SESSIONS MUSICIANS March 1946 Charlie Parker (as); Miles Davis (tpt); Joe Albany (p); Addison Farmer (b); Chuck Thompson (d) April 1946 (c) Charlie Parker (as); Willie Smith (as); Benny Carter (as, tpt); Nat "King" Cole (p); Oscar Moore (g); Johnny Miller (b); Buddy Rich (d); Miles Davis (tpt); Fred Trainer (tpt); Calvin Strickland (tpt); Walter Williams (tpt); Ira Pettiford (tpt); Candy Ross (tb); Johnny Morris (tb); Al Grey (tb); Charley Johnson (tb); Bob Graettinger (as); Joe Epps (as); Harold Clark (ts); Hubert "Bumps" Myers (ts); Willard Brown (ts); James Cannady (g); Sonny White (p); Thomas Moultrie (b); Percy Brice (d); Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman (ann) March 5, 1949 (c) Charlie Parker (as); Kenny Dorham (tpt); Eli "Lucky" Thompson (ts); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d) August 28, 1950 Charlie Parker (as); Unknown (tpt); Jimmy Knepper (tb); Al Haig (p); Tommy Potter (b); Roy Haynes (d) March 25, 1952 (c) Charlie Parker (as); Dick Cary (p); Eddie Safranski (b); Don Lamond (d); Leonard Feather (ann)

[@chrisdennehy9425]

You got it- I posted hastily before reading fully your comment. My compliments.

[@theopaopa1]

thank you very much for this marvellous post and all the information ... best regards

[@jazzlover7434]

Thank you very much for posting this discographical information. Collectors and jazz enthusiasts love having these details to get the full picture of where an artist was at musically in his/her career as well as who they were playing with and how those other musicians influenced their playing. Thanks again for supplying valuable details! :)

[@MrGleske]

ghairraigh j

[@ghairraigh]

All of you should read the posted comment by Elieu d'Olivièré which includes blue ink Links to the start times of each tune and Fernando Ortiz de Urbina's valuable correction. ...it was posted here a year before I did! - Malcolm MacDonald.

[@lastknowngood0]

Awesome treasure ! Thanks so much aquamatic ! ;-)

[@corywilson9074]

Way to go again Orchard! Make money off of dead musicians and make deals without even doing anything to mention any of the band members! You never fail to amaze in drawing disbelief! Bird lives! And so do the the other musicians, if you cared to educate the kids...thanks!!!!!!!!!!!

[@islamicchronicles5381]

THANK YOU

[@20thcenturyremnant]

0:00:00 Billie's Bounce 0:03:43 Ornithology 0:08:59 All The Things You Are 0:14:08 Blue 'N Boogie 0:19:17 Anthropology 0:22:05 Hot House / What Is This Thing Called Love 0:26:00 I May Be Wrong 0:29:04 Parker's Mood 0:32:31 'S Wonderful 0:35:45 Indiana 0:40:20 Ornithology 0:48:43 Cool Blues 0:53:03 Barbados 0:57:00 Anthropology 0:59:26 Tea For Two 1:03:32 Body And Soul 1:06:10 Cherokee Ornithology (missing)

[@TheLemon333]

Thanks! Wonder what those songs listed at the top all about. Nat King Cole?

[@lasmilyunamelodias8766]

¡¡¡GRACIAS 🧡🎵🧡 INFINITAS!!!

[@wighatsuperreggie]

Personnel on #1-5: Charlie Parker (as), Miles Davis (tp), Joe Albany (p), Addison Farmer (b), Chuck Thompson (d). Recorded at the Finale Club, Los Angeles, February-March, 1946 Personnel on #6-10: Charlie Parker (as), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d). Recorded in New Brunswick, New Jersey, on August 28, 1950 Personnel on #11-12: Charlie Parker (as), Bill Harris (tb on #11 only), Buddy De Franco (cl on #11 only), Dick Cary (p), Eddie Safranski (b), Don Lamond (d). Recorded at Valencia Theater, New York, on March 25, 1952 Personnel on #13-14: Charlie Parker (as), Kenny Dorham (tp), Lucky Thompson (ts), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d). Recorded at Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York, on March 5, 1949 Personnel on #15-18: Charlie Parker (as), Willie Smith (as on #15), Benny Carter (as on #16), Nat King Cole (p), Oscar Moore (g), Johnny Miller (b), Buddy Rich (d). Recorded At NBC Studios, Los Angeles, March-April 1946

[@jakewilkinson1157]

Yes!! Where did you find that info?

[@jakewilkinson1157]

Particularly the stuff with Jimmy Knepper. The slow blues has many of the Parker's Mood material on it so I always wondered if it was in 48...but the trombone always stumped me!

[@wighatsuperreggie]

I can’t remember now. Probably just googled it.

[@jakewilkinson1157]

@@wighatsuperreggieCool! Thanks.

[@meezydarko]

Bird the greatest musician of all time. I firmly believe one can't compose the stuff he plays- so much humanity in the details, the lilting dancing rhythm, the doleful descending melodies drenched in blues, the introspective, sometimes brooding harmonies. There will never be another bird

[@paulmorgan2948]

Yung Meezy One can tell that your post is truly heartfelt. I was 3 years old when Bird died. I had heard about his music off and on throughout my life until I ran across a cd in 1990 or thereabouts. It was a hits collection from the Savoy years. His alto mesmerized me first. Then it was the drumming of Max Roach. What heady times.

[@wighatsuperreggie]

I saw an ant carrying a crumb the other day, and I swear, he was quite possibly the greatest single ant athlete, possibly ever. Also, his exoskeleton was the absolutely most beautiful brown that has every happened in existence ever in the universe and ever will...

[@meezydarko]

@@wighatsuperreggie youre hating im practicing

[@olebirgerpedersen]

In jazz perhaps yes, but there is so much music you can't compare. Try to listen to Gustav Mahlers symphonies or Richard Strauß 's operas, not to mention Alban Bergs violinconcert. Listen to Parker when he talkes about Strawinskij and Bartok . Besides he studied Hindmith compositions book.

[@toulminbrown9166]

I did a review yesterday it was a interview with Charlie Parker in this interview one of the things that bird pointed out was that as a child his family was almost evicted because he played so much each day at one point in the interview Charlie Parker States and I quote I was playing 11 to 15 hours a day and I did this that much practice in other words for 4 years or more"

[@jerryallison6266]

Rare album, never heard it before - Thanks so much for posting

[@kair.7532]

Great to hear a recording of bird really stretching out a little bit

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

This is the earliest recording of Miles playing with Bird. Charlie Parker (as), Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham (tp), Benny Carter, Willie Smith (as), Buddy De Franco (cl), Lucky Thompson (ts), Bill Harris, Jimmy Knepper (tb), Joe Albany, Al Haig, Nat King Cole (p), Oscar Moore (g), Tommy Potter, Johnny Miller (b), Don Lamond, Buddy Rich, Roy Haynes, Max Roach (d)

[@kunal963somaiya]

No, that would be the 1945 Savoy Sessions of November

[@viggosimonsen]

Bird is so much at home in Cherokee. He completely masters the changes

[@mgconlan]

Not surprising since he'd been playing "Cherokee" since at least 1940 and his greatest original, "KoKo," is based on the "Cherokee" changes.

[@mgconlan]

Also Parker was part-Cherokee himself. Other great musicians who were part African-American and part-Native American: Oscar Pettiford, Sonny Rollins, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown.

[@olebirgerpedersen]

That he did from his very beginning. There exist a very early recording with guitar accompagnment only. He also used the changes from Cherockee in some of his compositions.

[@thinktwice4565]

Miles soo impressive on this recordings. He has studied Gilespie in and Out , but he has his own special thing . We can hear that he is the one leading the Band. Listen to Ornithology. Miles is soo much at home. Bird

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

magic rare live album from the sax king charlie bird parker, no played sax better then this man. love jazz music like this so beautiful. live at the finale club 1946.

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

BOO BIRD charlie parker speaks to me, and the sax is damm cool :)

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

BOO BIRD hell yes i have one of them lol.

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

BOO BIRD a bit lol

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

BOO BIRD no but i try.

[@jamiewarriorwarlordmccallu5712]

BOO BIRD thanks all i can do is try :)

[@wighatsuperreggie]

Oh that blues at 31:00... Soooooooooo gooooooood thank you Bird, you sing like a bird...

[@jackhewitt7067]

I'm reading about this series of gigs rigjt now in the book Bird Lives! by Ross Russell, the premiere book on the true life of Bird. And here is the music we've all been ready for. Thank you for sharing this performance with us regular folks. Bird lives, as are we!

[@jackhewitt7067]

Bebop invades the West!!!!!!

[@alfafender]

I love this version of Blue and Boogie. I first heard Phil Schaap play it on WKCR in the 70's on a Charlie Parker festival. Great riffs with Miles.

[@Suchapill]

This whole album reminds me of getting up early in the morning and hearing Phil Schap play Bird on WKCR FM

[@strangersname]

@@Suchapill Bird LIVES!!!

[@cbgbstew4072]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[@isaquegomes6229]

Charlie parker and the best of all time, and there's no one ..

[@johnadkins5855]

Dodo Marmarosa on piano on some of these tracks

[@victorguthartditguitard6594]

listen and listen... astounding and never equalled

[@chrisdennehy9425]

Large swathe - Hot House...Indiana- of this material is from a "single" Bird played New Brunswick, NJ, 8/28/50.

[@thinktwice4565]

This Is the Music 💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😎😎😎😎😎🤔

[@TheGripsholm]

Just beautiful ! Is this the "classical" band formation, including duke jordan on piano, tommy potter on bass and Max Roach playing the drums ?

[@hookalakah]

No. It's the first band that Parker had at the Finale: Miles Davis, pianist Joe Albany, bassist Addison Farmer and drummer Chuck Thompson--from march of '46. That summer he played in the same place in a band built around him by trumpeter Howard McGhee...right until the "Loverman" session.

[@GamleMich]

I think I hear a trombone on at least one of the numbers (All the Things you are) - J.J. Johnson ...?

[@mgconlan]

@@GamleMich Also there's a tenor sax on "Hot House," probably Lucky Thompson.

[@lawrence-yx1ew]

The building in little Tokyo where this took place still stands. 230 1/2 1st streetThere's a street sign in its honor.

[@alansenzaki4148]

Lawrence I looked on google. Is it s.k.uyeda dept.store?..230 1st street?...am not sure what the 1/2 means...i did'nt see any sign just a glass store front...oh well.🎶🎷🎹🎵🍸.....found it!..on the other side of the light pole. It was commemorated in march, 2019 by the japanese community as a historical site and was called bronzville as african americans could not find housing in los angeles at the time. Japanese americans were sent to american concentration camps at that time and left a vacancy in little tokyo where blacks were welcomed. If you google Finale Club los angeles 1946 it shows everything.Thank you for posting your info Lawrence!..Parker and a young 20 year old Miles!

[@ladenso1]

A couple of quibbles with the listings of previous commenters (1) Numbers 11 and 12 were March 24, 1952, not March 25. Bird did a studio date on March 25. (2) On number 14 Milt Jackson is obviously present on vibes. Bird did two gigs that day--the Waldorf Astoria with the personnel shown by the previous commenters, but also the Royal Roost with Bags added. The authoritative Bird discography by Peter Losin shows the Waldorf Astoria "Anthropology" running 2:23 as it does here, but without Bags. He shows the "Anthropology" from the Royal Roost that day as running 5:01. So something doesn't add up. I will try to get in touch with Peter about this.

[@lastknowngood0]

Kudos to aquamatic for this awesome upload and to ghairraigh for the documentation You guys are OUTSTANDING! ;-)

[@tanuki45able]

all data please - specifications - the Japanese way, not publishers way !!

[@mostresticator5]

thank you sir!

[@benriemersma8137]

"Parker's improvisations represented the medicine [hipsters’] souls required in a universe ostensibly doomed” what a quote

[@williambooth8631]

Ahhh! those horn "triplets" who has that many fingers

[@georgerebic1240]

BIRD LIVES!!! Happy 104th birthday to the Great Charles Christopher Parker, jr. on this day August 29, 2024.

[@barbaraciesla3408]

HI WENT HIS OWN WAY ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,"a r r o g a n t?"

[@elliotharris9056]

Please,there MUCH,MUCH worse recordings of Bird...this is fine if u know what you have hear...Really pretty good, Bird is pretty clear and out front. Thanks for this...

[@RonCarterBassist]

👏🏾👏🏾

[@sadiqbey3357]

Now Is the Time...and some of us think it never is. BIRD!

[@amandawhiteley6737]

Just great!

[@syrinnaxxelizabeth]

my son came in asking if i was playing a video game while listening to this.

[@lo0ksik]

bad thing

[@jazzwest1]

thats sad

[@chrisarchard2009]

Lord help us all

[@nominalegg5865]

Anybody know the name of the blues at 29:06 and what recording date? It sounds like an alt take of Parker's Mood. A rare "slow" blues for Bird.

[@Thouveninpascal]

It is a Bb slow blues, like "Parker's mood", but to be "Parker's mood", it should be the alto melodic intro and coda on Gmin and Cmin (plus 4 bars piano solo), the only theme of "Parker's mood".

[@barbaraciesla3408]

MUSICALLY INDEPENDENT JAZZMAN / genious/

[@GamleMich]

This album not only contains the radio broadcast from The Finale with the Parker-Davis Quintet (5 tunes), but also 12 other tracks (the last one of the album, "Ornithology", is missing here). They range from 1946-52, with all crews having Charlie Parker. It takes some space, but is anyone interested in crews / titles / dates ...? If this is the case, I can write them out for you here :-)

[@valois89]

Interested, can confirm that is the case

[@meezydarko]

Please please write them up, I know it takes lots of work but it's very valuable to me and many others

[@petr3788]

Magnificent.

[@TheBlues088]

Who's birthday?

[@antoineperrichon]

I think it Can be a person staying there and listening to the music in the club. But, I Can all explain.

[@wighatsuperreggie]

The crowd is going nuts for jazz! This is right before it sadly became a chamber music. Even Mingus couldn't stop it... sad.

[@bjornjanlert1013]

yess I agree .. sorry .. but we can listen on YT ! tackar Bj(82)

[@aquamatic2446]

bad bad Bird.He's the master.

[@brandonmalone8780]

Bad..

[@andrewkingsley5925]

The following link will take you t Ur webs. Pleasure de i nou

[@morkus26]

20:22 Great Miles opening line on rhythm changes

[@Thetrueking-gr2ss]

Where did you unbury this rarity?

[@sefmagrath6261]

love Charlie Parker, his knowledge of rhythm & time is so apparent

[@JLMEYO]

He can play!

[@petergordon3346]

NIIIIIIIIIICE, 1940'ish jam session, black L.A... getting down for my black folk, and ALSO, get high. JOE ALBANY doing his "slow drag"... dip sum.. sweet, and low down.....DO IT, dont stop.

[@musimages23]

who is on clarinet? on ornithology

[@EricAllenDolphy245]

Awesome 👌🏽 sauce 😎 and then some ❤🎨🙏🏾👍🏽🎶🎷🫴🏾🫳🏽🎺🎵🌎💥🤛🏽

[@kaivrock]

There are so many bad Charlie Parker recordings. They sound like they were recorded in the 20's He deserved so much better.

[@pusteblume54]

Great !

[@bjornjanlert1013]

absolut .. Jazzens Bethofen .. I joke .. lol .. men visst är den banbrytande .. I say from Adinas Udde ..

[@midianpoet]

Great, thanks for sharing - time 8:00 - 9:00 ..pure joy :) .

[@corywilson9074]

Btw, it’s Orchard who orchard should be ashamed, not comments providing names through the later comments. I want names of who are involved.

[@kajgenell]

never heard this before. so fine

[@ladenso1]

I heard back from Peter Losin regarding track # 14: "Thank you again for bringing this to my attention. I think I just left Milt Jackson off the list of musicians at the Waldorf Astoria performance. I added him."

[@Birdlives247]

ALL OF THE PLAYERS ARE POSTED APPROX. 15 COMMENTS BACK BEFORE THIS COMMENT.

[@irvinglevere2348]

wow musical wonder

[@corywilson9074]

I don’t want links, they are not education and have no sense of responsibility when looking up to someone

[@peterhaley2836]

great bird, flying from the start

[@jameskennedy721]

really complex stuff .

[@mariolongo7369]

Parker...number ONE❤

[@BigfootBionic]

As Mingus once said "if Charlie Parker was a gunslinger there'd be a whole lot of dead gunslingers".

[@wighatsuperreggie]

That clarinetist is really great too, who is that?!

[@thinks461]

www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/BirdDisco.aspx?id=ParkerFinale ... there are 3 clarinetists on these recordings. The link I have plonked here gives more info. Cheers.

[@charlesmiller9589]

Nail His eyes to his Tongue blues one of my favorites.

[@julianasbatarginas3930]

Bebop pioneer in his prime

[@shawntoh]

45:06 Buddy DeFranco (clarinet)?

[@oscargrillo9508]

Tony Scott?

[@zezehdiramone6506]

bird in flight 👏👏👏👏🎵

[@marcioramosfoto]

The Best!!!

[@yogipion2955]

Parker the bird

[@MuhammadAbdullah-sw9qp]

Thank You

[@thomaskirkpatrick1134]

GREAT MILES TOO!!!!

[@paulpenelly5564]

19:50

[@paulpenelly5564]

19:58

[@paulpenelly5564]

20:02

[@paulpenelly5564]

20:03

[@isaquegomesandrade1387]

God sax

[@jiyujizai]

💙🌸😃🌱

[@cowtownfiesta]

gr8!

[@WizardGlitter]

an exhibition that goes on tour.

[@WizardGlitter]

[...being the argument you make yourself]

[@mgconlan]

I forgot KZbin doesn't handle cut-and-paste lists very well, but here is the full discography for this album (compiled from Peter Losin's Web site and the JazzDisco Parker discography):

[@mgconlan]

Billie’s Bounce (1), Ornithology (2), All the Things You Are (3), Blue n’ Boogie (4), Anthropology (5) - Charlie Parker (as), Miles Davis (t), Joe Albany (p), Addison Farmer (b), Chuck Thompson (d) - “Live” at the Finale Club, Los Angeles, March 1946

[@mgconlan]

Hot House/What Is This Thing Called Love (6), I May Be Wrong (7), Parker’s Mood (8), ’S Wonderful (9), (Back Home Again in) Indiana (10) - Charlie Parker (as), unk. (t), Jimmy Knepper (tb), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d) - New Brunswick, N.J., August 28, 1950

[@mgconlan]

Ornithology (11), Cool Blues (12) - Charlie Parker (as), Henry “Red” Allen, Billy Butterfield (t), Russell “Big Chief” Moore, Bill Harris (tb), Jerry Jerome (ts, cl), Buddy De Franco (cl),​​ Teddy Wilson, Dick Cary (p), Eddie Safranski (b), Don Lamond (d), Willis Conover, Leonard Feather (announcers) - Loew’s Valencia Theatre, Jamaica, N.Y., March 24, 1952

[@mgconlan]

Barbados (13), Anthropology (14) - Charlie Parker (as), Eli “Lucky” Thompson (ts), Kenny Dorham (t), Milt Jackson (vib), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d) - Royal Roost Club, N.Y.C., March 5, 1949

[@mgconlan]

Tea for Two (15), Body and Soul (16), Cherokee (17) - Charlie Parker, Willie Smith, Bob Graettinger, Joe Epps (as), Benny Carter (as, t). Harold Clark, Harold “Bumps” Meyers, Willard Brown (ts), Miles Davis, Fred Trainer, Calvin Strickland, Walter Williams, Ira Pettiford (t), Candy Ross, Johnny Morris, Al Grey, Charley Johnson (tb), Nat “King” Cole, Sonny White (p), Oscar Moore, James Cannady (g), Johnny Miller, Thomas Moultrie (b), Buddy Rich, Percy Brice (d), Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman (announcer) - Armed Forces Radio Service “Jubilee” broadcast, Los Angeles, April 1946 (this appears to be Benny Carter’s regular big band augmented with guest stars)

[@loupgarou39]

Who is the piano player?

[@thinks461]

Russ Conway. No, sorry, follow this 'ere link: www.plosin.com/MilesAhead/BirdDisco.aspx?id=ParkerFinale

[@nyshoefly]

Is this recording slowed down or is bird playing a C Melody? They keys are correct but his horn sounds low! thanks for the great recording!

[@charlesmiller9589]

My favorite ballad by Bird “OUT OF NOWHERE” 1947 Dial Records, it’s Perfect!

[@rinahall]

@@charlesmiller9589 who cares ?

[@theopaopa1]

1:13 :)

[@charlesmiller9589]

Charlie Parker changed music no doubt about it. I particularly like his Dial and Savoy recordings, from 1944-48 was his most enjoyable to me....

[@HaitiCult]

Is someone on Clarinet at one point? Who is it?

[@ChrisMezzolesta]

Haiti Cult Only a guess, but Buddy De Franco??!! It sounds like the "and more" portion might be a Jazz at the Philharmonic concert or something...

[@mostresticator5]

Chris Mezzolesta you are correct...its buddy de franco....also featured is miles, kenny dorham, joe albany, nat cole, benny carter, bill harris and jimmy knepper

[@HaitiCult]

thanks guys, great saturday morning get caffinated music. at least that worked for me. Cheers

[@Garramedia]

...And Willie Smith

[@oscargrillo9508]

@@ChrisMezzolesta Tony Scott?

[@Thouveninpascal]

The only live version of "Billie's bounce" I know. If somebody have another one , 'd be glad.. Same about "Au privave", or "Blues for Alice", no live version ever heard.

[@nyshoefly]

piano player is horrible. who is it?

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Listen to Cherokee at the end, Nat King Cole at the keys. And he's cookin'!

[@thinkpad20]

Yeah he's really bad lol... I mean, better than I could do, but he makes Tommy Flanagan on Giant Steps sound like Oscar Peterson

[@johnvalentine3456]

@@thinkpad20 Tommy plays a nice solo on that, Oscar would have mostly played Blues licks in B, Eb and G.

[@rinahall]

Joe Albany is awful on piano

[@charlesmiller9589]

_ _ Albany made appearances with some other great players...like LESTER YOUNG

[@rinahall]

@@charlesmiller9589 so what ?

[@johnvalentine3456]

not awful, wrong assesmant

[@dangramful]

The Jimi Hendrix of the alto sax

[@cathyflaherty5690]

mmmmmmm, not sure about dat, but I do love bird.

[@mjsamm1]

Jimi Hendrix is the Charlie Parker of the guitar.

[@Rickriquinho]

Don’t be ridiculous…

[@mattiameis3300]

Unlike classical and rock jazz has had a single 'Best artist of all time', his name is CHARLIE PARKER, probably the greatest genius of the twentieth century ... With all due respect to the great Hendrix, Bird it is of another galaxy :)

[@lo0ksik]

disagree, both are genius. and i would like to add DJANGO REINHARDT to this, GENIUS ALSO

[@Grithron2]

Listening to this again - the rhythm sections all seem to have at least one very obvious weak link, and when it's not the drums, or Nat Cole, it's Al Haig (what's wrong, why is he so often "lost"?)

[@FIGSEXTON12]

My brother george wallington playwed with charlie parker in 1944 thur 1946 in the onx club and dizzy Great suff PETER FIGLIA WZLLINGTON