Charlie Parker

Charlie Parker – Parker Plus Strings (1983/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 46:33 minutes | 824 MB | Genre: Jazz
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The legendary Charlie Parker fronts the Charlie Parker Quartet for Parker Plus Strings, recorded live at the Apollo Theatre, Aug 22nd, 23rd, 1950 & The Rockland Palace, Sept. 26, 1952. The album features jazz standards by the be-bop great with backing by orchestral strings!

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Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 24:29 minutes | 189 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed “Bird” or “Yardbird”, was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was an extremely brilliant virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker’s tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber.
Parker acquired the nickname “Yardbird” early in his career on the road with Jay McShann. This, and the shortened form “Bird”, continued to be used for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as “Yardbird Suite”, “Ornithology”, “Bird Gets the Worm”, and “Bird of Paradise”. Parker was an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat Generation, personifying the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual rather than just an entertainer.

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Charlie Parker – Bird With Strings: Live At The Apollo, Carnegie Hall & Birdland (1977/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 43:56 minutes | 894 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed “Bird” or “Yardbird”, was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was an extremely fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker’s tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber.

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Charlie Parker – A Treasure of Immortal Jazzmen (1961/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:44 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
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Sax giants Charlie Parker and Lester Young let loose on A Treasure of Immortal Jazzmen, which collects 15 tracks of the duo’s favourite jazz standards in a stunning legacy programme. This recording has been transferred from its original analog sources to high-fidelity digital formats for modern listening!

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Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker with Strings (1950/2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 39:26 minutes | 171 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker, released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name of a 1995 compilation album released by Verve Records, containing all the tracks from both the 1950 albums, as well as additional material. The sessions place Parker in the context of a small classical string section and a jazz rhythm section, rather than his standard bebop quintet. They were Parker’s most popular sellers during his lifetime, and were admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988.

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Charlie Parker – April In Paris: The Genius Of Charlie Parker, Vol. 2 (1957/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 38:53 minutes | 1,89 GB | Genre: Jazz
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This reissue combines a pair of Charlie Parker’s most popular recordings, two volumes titled Charlie Parker with Strings, recorded in 1949 and 1950. Unlike most of Parker’s other albums, for these sessions he eschewed original tunes and stuck to standards by Cole Porter, the Gershwins, Jimmy McHugh and others, reimagined for a small string ensemble.

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Charlie Parker – Night And Day: The Genius Of Charlie Parker, Vol. 1 (1957/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 30:38 minutes | 1,52 GB | Genre: Jazz
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One of several volumes in the Genius Of Charlie Parker series issued by Verve, this installment was released in 1957, two years following Parker’s death. With arrangements by Joe Lipman and production supervised by Norman Granz, the collection includes one of Parker’s signature tunes, Night And Day.

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Charlie Parker – Volume III (1972)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 33:52 minutes | 575 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed “Bird” and “Yardbird”, was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker’s tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber.

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Charlie Parker – The Savoy 10-inch LP Collection (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:18:32 minutes | 402 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Craft Recordings presents The Savoy 10-Inch LP Collection, a deluxe box set with four 10-inch LPs cut from newly restored and remastered audio. The collection highlights?Bird’s pioneering bebop recordings for Savoy Records from 1944-1948, featuring jazz legends Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, John Lewis and more. The package includes faithfully restored original album artwork, plus a booklet containing vintage photos, rare ephemera and new liner notes by GRAMMYr-winning author Neil Tesser.

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Charlie Parker – Jam Session (1952/2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:32 minutes | 507 MB | Genre: Jazz, Blues
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JAM SESSION was compiled from a 1952 jam session which brought together three of history’s greatest alto saxophonists; Parker, Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter, as well as Ben Webster and Flip Phillips on tenor sax. Orchestrated by Norman Granz to come as close to an authentic jam session as possible, this is the first of the Jazz at the Philharmonic series. The album includes an original blues tune (“Jam Blues”), a medley of ballads selected by each musician, and a mellow blues tune called “Funky Blues.”

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Charlie Parker – Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter (1957/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 55:26 minutes | 849 MB | Genre: Jazz
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This is a list of recordings by American jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker. Parker primarily recorded for three labels: Savoy, Dial, and Verve. His work with these labels has been chronicled in box sets. Charlie Parker’s Savoy and Dial Sessions have been issued on The Complete Savoy Sessions, Charlie Parker on Dial and Complete Charlie Parker on Dial and The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes. His Verve recordings are available on Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve and The Complete Verve Master Takes.

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Charlie Parker – Bird And Diz (1952/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 35:06 minutes | 232 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950, in New York City. Two tracks featured on the original pressing, “Passport” and “Visa”, were recorded by Parker, without Gillespie and with a different personnel than that of the other tracks, in March and May 1949. The album was originally issued in 1952 in 10″ format as a collection of 78 rpm singles on the Verve subsidiary label Clef Records.

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Charlie Parker – Bebop Story Live, Vol 2, 1950 & 52 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:01:21 minutes | 624 MB | Genre: Jazz
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Charles Parker Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955), nicknamed “Bird” and “Yardbird,” was an American jazz saxophonist, band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and advanced harmonies. Parker was a blazingly fast virtuoso and introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into jazz, including rapid passing chords, new variants of altered chords, and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone, Parker’s tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber.

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Charlie Parker – April In Paris (1950/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 52:01 minutes | 788 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla

Charlie Parker with Strings is a jazz album by Charlie Bird Parker. The compact disc, released in January 1995, is based on the two 10-inch long-playing records Bird with Strings (Vol. 1/2), which were recorded on November 30, 1949 and July 5, 1950 by Mercury Records in New York City and released in 1950.

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