Charlie Parker ‎- Montréal (1953) [Full Album}

-Reccorded:
(tracks 1-7) Chez Parée, Stanley St., Montréal, February 7, 1953
(tracks 8-12 )CBC Studios, Dorchester Blvd., Montréal, February 5, 1953
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-Tracklist:
00:00 [01] Intro Chez Parée
00:43 [02] Ornithology (How High the Moon)
05:03 [03] Cool Blues
12:40 [04] I'll Remember April
18:24 [05] Moose the Mooche (I Got Rhythm)
23:35 [06] Embraceable You
27:17 [07] Now's The Time
35:08 [08] Intro TV Program
35:34 [09] Cool Blues
37:32 [10] Bernie's Tune
40:46 [11] Don't Blame Me
44:11 [12] Wahoo (Perdido)
47:35 [13] Closing
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-Personnel:
Alto Saxophone - Charlie Parker (tracks: 1 to 3, 5 to 9, 11, 12)
Bass - Bob Rudd (2) (tracks: 5 to 7), Hal Gaylor* (tracks: 1 to 4), Neil Michaud (tracks: 9 to 12)
Drums - Billy Graham (5) (tracks: 1 to 4), Bobby Malloy (tracks: 5 to 7), Ted Paskert (tracks: 9 to 12)
Guitar - Dick Garcia
Piano - Paul Bley (tracks: 9 to 12), Steep Wade (tracks: 5 to 7), Valdo Williams (tracks: 1 to 4)
Tenor Saxophone - Brew Moore (tracks: 10, 12)
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[@henridelagardere264]

00:00 [01] Intro Chez Parée 00:43 [02] Ornithology _(How High the Moon)_ 05:03 [03] Cool Blues 12:40 [04] I'll Remember April 18:24 [05] Moose the Mooche _(I Got Rhythm)_ 23:35 [06] Embraceable You 27:17 [07] Now's The Time 35:08 [08] Intro TV Program 35:34 [09] Cool Blues 37:32 [10] Bernie's Tune 40:46 [11] Don't Blame Me 44:11 [12] Wahoo _(Perdido)_ 47:35 [13] Closing

[@profesrreed6925]

Blessings on you

[@lasmilyunamelodias8766]

¡¡¡GRACIAS 🧡🎵🧡 INFINITAS!!!

[@henridelagardere264]

@@lasmilyunamelodias8766 De nada, los amigos de Bird son mis amigos.

[@bermchasin]

thanks!!!!

[@cleorasile2502]

That's my Uncle Ted on drums songs 9 through 12. Uncle Ted was also a very talented photographer.

[@raoulalphonse141]

did he takes photo this day, befor or after the concert ?

[@cesardanielgatuno969]

Must be amazing being able to have a glanze to the past through pictures!

[@eart6616]

amazing

[@scottclute7443]

May GOD always bless your Uncle Ted, Cleo Easily. SRC.

[@scottclute7443]

Uncle Ted is a fine musician!!!!

[@nidranrebreski2828]

I remember Red Rodney on Charlie Parker, explaining why Bird stuck on that plastic saxophone for a long while "having neglected to collect the money to get his horn out of the pawn. Can somebody tell me where does Bird sound plastic?"

[@glennhenrich992]

no where! Bird sounds like Bird on every horn he played, The 'plastic 'Graftonite alto made in England during the brass shortage following WW II, was not a bad horn

[@morkus26]

20:40 Barry Harris mentions this phrase in his DVD sets, right at the start.

[@jonathanweiss7716]

Does anyone know who the rhyrhm section is?

[@ChromaticHarp]

I wish the piano player would leave some space. Or stroll altogether…WAY too busy comping for Bird.

[@paulhaywood7002]

This is superb. Thank you KZbin and Takis for making my life even better! A live concert with a good sound quality (except for poor Dick Garcia's inaudible guitar). BIrd is in good form and playing some wonderful licks. Pianist Valdo Williams seems to have been heavily influenced by Al Haig (no bad thing). Where are all these incredible recordings coming from? For decades I had been under the impression that I owned everything he recorded! In the last ten years some very rare and priceless sessions have come to light. How many more are out there??

[@paulmorgan2948]

Paul Haywood The Bird flies again.

[@thomasforsythe7256]

I understand what you are saying. That's a good thing to me. First heard Bird when I was 21. I'm 68 and keep hearing new stuff to my ears and not just Bird

[@davecollins3710]

I knew Valdo.

[@georgemarsh6303]

Bird sounds great but the I think the recording is horrible. Sax out front and clear, the rest wayyyy in the background, sounding like they're in another room. The great thing about it though is that bird is playing longer solos than usual, and anything with bird is worth checking out.

[@wasimirojonesiii8708]

After listening to this recording for a considerably portion of time i got to the concluntion that bird lives !

[@justindloski9129]

V.

[@KingJorman]

What a gift to be able to hear this for the first time! I’m attending a Bird concert!

[@brandonmalone8780]

I was there . I remember it like it was yesterday. I heard bird say he had to use the restroom. So i shut the toilet off before he went in. So he couldnt flush . Then i put some of his pee in a bottle..from time to time I get that old bottle out, put this album on , sit back, and take a sip

[@paulgibby6932]

@@brandonmalone8780 you have a gift

[@jimmymartineztorres4900]

Charlie Parker, el Bird, brilla en su solitario destino. Creador del Be bop, desarrolló la técnica de los acordes vertiginosos como una cascada, que filtraban nuevas sonoridades entre líneas de la sintaxis jazzística. Innovo la ejecución, aportando a la renovación del jazz, música afro americana. El mercado parece haber olvidado su música, Pero Bird brilla junto a Dizzy, Bud powell, Mingus y otros grandes: su influencia en el mundo de los ejecutantes está viva todavía.

[@MrKaplan230]

Bird lives !

[@gregggelb6152]

Bird sounds great on this recording, thanks for sharing

[@oldhawk4123]

This is one of the best recordings I'v ever heard from Charlie Parker. He is in absolute top shape. Unbelievable what he's doing.

[@antoningilbert1615]

I mean, the recording of Parker's great, but the guitarist is barely heard, which ruins not the guitarist's solo, but also Parker's trade with him

[@ronsena877]

The album cover photo cover alone is historic. Charlie playing a pro-to type plastic sax.

[@k.1784]

is he playing it on the album?

[@nicoaneme6613]

Are you shure?

[@carlodelysid]

By all standards of the time, that Grafton plastic horn was a bad sounding hard to play toy, yet here we are. Charlie was as close to God as humans get. God playing saxophone.

[@Pierre50mm]

Until the '60s, Montreal was the capital of jazz in Canada. Now it has the greatest jazz fest in the world.

[@imbees2]

Jazz at it's finest. unconventional at the time. Bird was on the low down, the up town and the forever town. That's what he does!!!!

[@megisynynef2224]

This is utterly magnificent Bird. Oh , to have been there that night. Many thanks for uploading.

[@theodorepullins3124]

THE LATE GREAT 👍🏻 CHARLIE PARKER REST IN MUSIC 🎵 🎼 🎶 YOU WERE A GREAT 👍🏻 MUSICIAN YOUR MUSIC 🎵 🎼 🎶 LIVES ON...........🙂

[@miguelangelug2393]

Jazz is Charlie..

[@raoulalphonse141]

ahahahah not nice for the others !

[@imbees2]

play it now, Charlie Parker!!!

[@SELMER1947]

Genius at work

[@garypanjazzproductionsledo9655]

Hmm yardbird flying hear. The only other recordings I say could match this of him is the Massey hall recording of bird, Gillespie, B. Powell,Mingus and roach. The only time the Magic five performed together.

[@jesserussell7242]

Bebop is one of the greatest styles ever I love it because it’s very fast and complex it is great it’s too bad Charlie Parker never lived to see his impact on the world I love this type of music I could listen to it for hours keep on putting more stuff like that.

[@andrewgillis8572]

WOW around 20:00 mark my country Canada becomes the center of the fine arts world - the sound is good & Mr Parker IMO is re-setting his own bar. Tune is Moose which is named for he junko partner in LA from 1945 - Brid's connect for smack. Audience in MTL gets it - Parker is as great as anyone has ever said. Said, for 8 years. Listen to the applause for Embraceable.You - Mr Parker has to cut it off. The Roz Russell book does not do this event justice, it really was a downer & sorry I read it & did not make my own assessment of Bird the way I have James Brown or Betty Carter - would avoid a bio on them, now, lest it be written by some square or agenda-drrver or axe-grinder

[@ChromaticHarp]

Are you talking about the book ‘Bird Lives’? A downer indeed…

[@jesserussell7242]

Wow Charlie Parker does live he is my absolute favorite artist ever and Man bebop should not be forgotten because it’s not the greatest jazz styles ever.

[@sbphillips177]

Same here man..absoulute fav..

[@nicolasblondel5501]

Bird was specially in good shape that day, other live recording around this time are not so good, #Birdforever

[@olebirgerpedersen]

What about the Massey Hall concert ?

[@nicolasblondel5501]

@@olebirgerpedersen You right, Bird is excellent at Massey Hall. I rather spoke about Boston Hi-Hat performances. See you !

[@oraziocelentano3829]

Stupendo spaccato di un mondo che cambiava... la guerra era alle spalle. Grande musica colta, grande Bird

[@RonCarterBassist]

👏🏾👏🏾

[@suriyamunpolsri8866]

Legend of jazz👍👍👍

[@daigreatcoat44]

I remember meeting Neil Michaud, many years ago, in London. When he told me that, in his bass-playing days, he had played with Bird, I thought he was just making it up, because he knew that I was interested in jazz. Years later, when this recording was first issued, there he was. So, belated apologies......

[@bills48321]

Too bad the guitar was recorded louder in the mix, he sounds like he's keeping up on his solos? Anyone know who the guitarist is?

[@hetmanjz]

Says Dick Garcia in the info provided above.

[@bills48321]

@@hetmanjz thanks Jan

[@JoeRestivoMusic]

Dick Garcia was an incredible musician. Look for his album A Message From Garcia

[@Brian4hand]

I think the real question is, where are these Solo Transcriptions mentioned on the cover of the album!??

[@ChromaticHarp]

I found this CD in a Las Vegas used record store and it did have the transcriptions.

[@andrewgillis8572]

Astounding Bird performance - greatest speed he ever attained, for one? And if it's the plastic horn as per the photo, and not the Conn, it's missing only a tiny touch of reverb, shame there was none, and CBC stayed away from reverb for years, probably had a booklet forbidding it, & any hint of tape slap - & OK maybe when you've got 15 ips tape and Tannoys and giant tube amps to listen through, you don't care about reverb or worry what compression at broadcast or laquering is going to do to your already dry tape. Van Gelder for one figured this out quick.

[@generalpatzer6893]

We're just lucky to have this recording. Bird is in fine form.

[@miguelleon3647]

@geo mcfet Decadence is a way of life nowadays...!

[@wynnhorn9259]

What?... 30 ips on tape...

[@WPM_in_ATL]

I wonder if the TV recording was a kinescope (film off a TV screen) rather than a straight audio recording. Videotape had a few years to go before it was developed (1956). Montreal only had one TV station at the time, sharing time between French and English audiences. It had signed on less than six months before this recording was made.

[@jamescarter4175]

Fantastic music! I wish the announcer would just shut up.

[@MarkZIMMER-m4c]

Bird could play any horn . Just work on long tones and try to play a major scale on your mouthpiece then hold a low flat and practice overtones.then listen for intonation. I just had my right lung destroyed by pnemonia but I'm bouncing back through the method I just described. Try you'll like it.

[@baileyayyy5085]

does anyone know if he actually did this one with the plastic sax? the tone sounds kinda off from what I'm used to for alto but it might just be the recording

[@georgesember9069]

Thanks for posting this wonderful music!!

[@GregZO6]

Would be great to get the personnel listing but really, who cares? Except for Bird, nothing much else happening.

[@banjobanjo-xn7lq]

I remember renting this c.d from a c.d rental shop on St. Laurent (I know, odd concept) on the plateau in Montreal in the mid 90's. Much to my surprise the liner included transcriptions of Bird's playing on all the songs!

[@ChromaticHarp]

Yes! I found this CD at a used record store here in Las Vegas and it had the transcriptions in the booklet. Now I wish I’d bought it.

[@madeofrat]

Is this the sound of a plastic saxophone? Or photos came from another footage?

[@mgconlan]

Wow! I presume this is from the same tour on which Charlie Parker gave the legendary but (to my mind) very overrated concert at Massey Hall in Toronto on May 15, 1953. But despite the no-star backing he gets here versus the all-star lineup at Massey Hall (Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach), he is in electrifying form on these recordings. Incidentally the plastic alto sax on the cover here was the same one he used at Massey Hall. This is some of the very best Bird on record, and Brew Moore is just an added bonus.

[@davidecarini6615]

Wooow, grazie per la pubblicazione del video!

[@jamesnicol3831]

Thank you for this and keeping real jazz alive

[@marianoespinola8004]

Que música increíble 🎶

[@jamesfray2137]

06:05

[@martonszanto5521]

Brilliant!!! Professional!!! Unique!!!

[@terenceconnell7290]

I was feeling lethargic today until I heard this, now I'm awake.

[@bjornjanlert1013]

jess - I agree - he makes me alive again .. lol .. from Norrbotten in Sweden !

[@TheYabasta]

Grafton saxophone met the guy that designed the keywork his name was Hecktor Somaruga nice guy came from a poor Italian family Had a go on his grafton

[@glennhenrich992]

I tried one in Australia, not a bad horn, right?

[@risboturbide9396]

Chez Parée, a mythic place in Quebec's folklore. How many people were there that night? I wonder... Anyway, Bird lives!

[@ChromaticHarp]

There was a jazz club in Montreal called Biddles. Does anyone know if it’s still open?

[@golds04]

This snd the Washington shows- recording are so underrated. Brilliant.

[@irvingstorobert973]

I LOVE U CHARLIE .👍 MUSIC.

[@bandicoot5412]

Master class

[@ferdinangenius]

The incredible thing is that parker, before the concert, lost the Saxo and he bought a plastic one to perform as you can see in the photo.

[@omniversiddhialterdestiny]

like Ornette !!!

[@menilmontant100]

.... Aunque tal vez menor.....es lamentable este hecho....Una noche de tanta inspiración..... ameritaba un instrumento a la altura de sus magistrales interpretaciones.... Mas...ni el modesto Grafton.... opacó el nivel superlativo de un músico que aportó tanto.....como lo fué Charlie Parker.....o Bird...para los amigos....

[@Riddlemewalker]

Is he really playing a plastic horn?

[@mariolongo7369]

Wuao Bird at his best🎷

[@bekagigauri1799]

Great post! Thanks!!

[@drbenway612]

I dig it

[@kathichase5569]

Am

[@imbees2]

toe tappin on this one.

[@islamicchronicles5381]

THANK YOU

[@KingJorman]

Is that Bird doing the song introductions?

[@rinahall]

yes

[@viggosimonsen]

A shame they left our Bird's solo on Bernie's tune. It was great.

[@jiyujizai]

❤️🌸🌱😃

[@anthonysteyning8032]

Chez Parée: Know the place well, saw many acts there, but arrived 10 years too late to catch Bird live in Montreal that used to be a great Jazz Mecca! All that gone, but at least we still have priceless recordings like this one!

[@risboturbide9396]

What were the best shows you've heard at Chez Parée? A mythic place in Quebec's folklore!

[@anthonysteyning8032]

I don't remember them all between Rockhead's , Silver Dollar, Rising Sun, Roland Kirk, Cannonball, Dizzy, Chet, you name them, it was part of my life and still is!

[@petersmith9152]

Quoting his famous alto break from A Night in Tunisia all over the place! damn 64th notes.

[@FranciscoPereira-px6mu]

Bird.

[@greggibsonbass]

5:41

[@kenkovar2647]

can you imagine if modern recording tech had been around??? We could actually hear the guitarist and be treated to the sonic richness of Bird and Paul Bley

[@jonathanmorrison112]

44:30

[@genesbeans]

Love this.

[@gustavopelli5992]

The versiones web talen for the film BIRD...

[@dr.brianjudedelimaphd743]

Valdo Williams really copied Powell’s style

[@JimGelcer1]

Love the "Tenderly" quote in Ornithology (~2:50)

[@trondsi]

Is this the one where he plays a plastic saxophone?

[@thinktwice4565]

The Rhythm section??? Just ok

[@HUTINAK]

holy crap I listened to the entire show.

[@martinwellborn8723]

Does anyone know what the quote is at 19:26 in Moose the Mooche?

[@calebplumley3295]

The guy playing keys on cool blues is amazing. Wow

[@CrippledNCrazy-ot2gl]

wake up , play Charlie Parker and enjoy coffee and weed.

[@youmutha]

I can dig it!

[@CrippledNCrazy-ot2gl]

@@youmutha happy holidays

[@wighatsuperreggie]

I can't believe I've never heard this... Bird is sooo clean on this recording. It's like he's super-conscious. It's absolutely astounding to me that he was a heroin addict. How is that possible? It sounds like he is operating on a higher plane of perception.

[@kenkovar2647]

paul bley is astonishing on this session!!!😎

[@luiszuluaga6575]

So smooth, so sweet! 🎶

[@jiyujizai]

🌸☺️🐤🍀

[@jiyujizai]

🍀😀

[@HUTINAK]

this is just KILLER

[@kathichase5569]

She riff

[@justindloski9129]

V.

[@nadir6661]

Egrapses Takare

[@jamsodonnelljamsodonnell7342]

Bop den scoth!

[@leetomboulian]

Valdo!

[@dirkvandehengst7957]

The.bird.chalie.parker..the.junius..one.of.A.kiend.the.naturel.perfectly.beautyJLOVE.IT

[@jaquel8380]

High quality sound.

[@olebirgerpedersen]

I never did understand why these peoble who turnes their thumbs down, never writes why.