Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection
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Artist: Charlie ParkerEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1997-03-18
Music Label: Rhino / Wea
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Groovin' High - Charlie Parker
- All the Things You Are - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Dizzy Atmosphere - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Shaw 'Nuff - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Hot House - Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker
- Now's the Time - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
- Koko - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's Re-Boppers
- Moose the Mooche - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Septet
- Yardbird Suite - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Septet
- Ornithology - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Septet
- Cool Blues - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Septet
- Relaxin' at Camarillo - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Donna Lee - Charlie Parker
- Chasin' the Bird - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Dewey Square - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Bird of Paradise - Charlie Parker
- Hymn - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Embraceable You - Charlie Parker
- Klact-Oveeseds-Tene - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Quasimodo
- Scrapple from the Apple - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Out of Nowhere - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Don't Blame Me - Charlie Parker Quintet
- Quasimodo - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Sextet
- Klaunstance - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Parker's Mood - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Bloomdido - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker & his Orchestra
- Star Eyes - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker & his Orchestra
- She Rote - Charlie Parker Quintet
- My Little Suede Shoes - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker & his Orchestra
- Confirmation - Charlie Parker
- Blue 'N' Boogie [Live] - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- 'Round Midnight [Live] - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Night in Tunisia [Live] - Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker's All Stars
- Just Friends [Live] - Charlie Parker With His Quintet & Strings
- What Is This Thing Called Love? [Live] - Charlie Parker With His Quintet & Strings
- East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) [Live] - Charlie Parker With His Quintet & Strings
- Laura [Live] - Charlie Parker With His Quintet & Strings
Free Music Notes for Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection
Free Music Review: The sound has been tweaked, for better or for worse
Hit: 4 Stars
This package is a lovely-assembled and shrewdly compiled overview of Parker's entire career, and it's the best overview to come from a U.S. record company by far.
For the intended audience, the fact that Rhino has used compression and jacked up the bass frequencies on these sides is probably either a plus or a non-issue. Rhino no doubt wanted to make it as easy as possible for listeners unaccustomed to 78-era recordings to get into Parker's music. If you are the type to care, however, you might notice, particularly on some of the Savoy cuts, these "improvements" (clean, untampered-with versions of the Savoy tracks mastered by Jack Towers have been available on CD since the late-1980s).
That caveat aside, this collection packs it in, and if the four-CD Proper Records box ("Boss Bird") sounds like too much Bird to start with, then this set should suffice. The booklet is thick, featuring many of the iconic images of bird and a few rare pics as well. There is also a biographical essay with commentary on the music that is up to Rhino's usual standards.
Ironic that the producers weren't able to licence a couple of the Verve "with strings" tracks, but were able to get pretty much every essential small-group side from the Dizzy-led Guild sessions in 1945 to the Verve-owned "Confirmation" late in his career--in other words, it's got all the classic bop compositions you'd find in a jazz fakebook in one place, which had never been done prior to this release. The three live tracks featuring Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie (and including a rare chance to hear Bird play 'Round Midnight) are a cherry on top.
Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Collection Poster
This two-CD set is an ideal introduction to the music of Charlie Parker and the bop revolution. Its 38 tracks are culled from several labels, including Savoy and Dial, with many of them recorded between 1946 and 1949, the altoist's most creative period and the years in which he was reshaping jazz. This is music of luminous vitality--whether rapid-fire and manic, witty or tender. Musical ideas and feelings spun from Parker's horn with divine ease, every newly minted phrase drenched in meaning. Parker was changing the way the best young musicians played--whether saxophonists, pianists, or drummers--and it's apparent here in the supporting work of Miles Davis, Max Roach, Bud Powell, and a host of others. --Stuart BroomerJazz Music CDs
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