CHARLIE PARKER & DIZZY GILLESPIE: DIZ `N´ BIRD - THE BEGINNING (2 CDS)

2-CD SET

INCLUDES 4 BONUS TRACKS


Originally released in 1959, five years after Charlie Parker’s untimely death, the two LP set Diz ‘n’ Bird –The Beginning (Roost– SK-106), which received a five-star rating on Down Beat, was a compilation of obscure early bebop recordings, taking segments from a 1947 quintet set by Parker and Gillespie at Carnegie Hall, and from a 1953 Gillespie quintet concert at Salle Pleyel, and coupling them with a handful of Bird’s 1947 Dial sides.

This 2-CD set includes the complete 1947 Carnegie Hall set, plus the entire Salle Pleyel concert, along with the Dial tracks originally selected, and adds a superb full 1951 radio show recorded at Birdland also presenting Bird and Diz as a team, with the great Bud Powell on piano.

PERSONNEL:

CD 1 [1-5]: CHARLIE PARKER (as), DIZZY GILLESPIE (tp),
JOHN LEWIS (p), AL McKIBBON (b), JOE HARRIS (d).
Carnegie Hall, New York. September 29, 1947.

CD 1 [6-14] & CD 2 [1-8]: DIZZY GILLESPIE (tp, vc, p, congas),
BILL GRAHAM (bar, vc), WADE LEGGE (p), LOU HACKNEY (b),
AL JONES (d), JOE CARROLL (vc),
SARAH VAUGHAN (vc on CD2, 3 only).
Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, February 9, 1953.

CD 2 [9-15]: CHARLIE PARKER (as), MILES DAVIS (tp),
J.J. JOHNSON (tb on 10-12 only), DUKE JORDAN (p),
TOMMY POTTER (b), MAX ROACH (d).
New York, October-December 1947.

(*) BONUS TRACKS (CD 2, 16-19):
Charlie Parker (as), Dizzy Gillespie (tp), Bud Powell (p),
Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d), Symphony Sid Torin (mc).
Birdland, New York, March 31, 1951.

INCLUDES 12-PAGE BOOKLET

CD 1 TOTAL TIME: 75:33 Min.

01. A NIGHT IN TUNISIA
02. DIZZY ATMOSPHERE
03. GROOVIN’ HIGH
04. CONFIRMATION
05. KO-KO
06. Announcement
07. THE CHAMP
08. GOOD BAIT
09. SWING LOW, SWEET CADILLAC
10. A GHOST OF A CHANCE
11. LADY BE GOOD
12. MY MAN
13. THE BLUEST BLUES
14. BIRK’S WORKS

CD 2 TOTAL TIME: 75:31 Min.

01. OOH-SHOO-BE-DOO-BE
02. THEY CAN’T TAKE THAT AWAY FROM ME
03. EMBRACEABLE YOU
04. PLAY FIDDLE PLAY
05. I CAN’T GET STARTED
06. TIN TIN DEO
07. ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
08. SCHOOL DAYS
09. BIRD FEATHERS
10. AIR CONDITIONING
11. QUASIMODO
12. CRAZEOLOGY
13. DEWEY SQUARE
14. BONGO BOP
15. KLACT-OVEESEDS-TENE
16. BLUE ‘N’ BOOGIE (*)
17. ANTHROPOLOGY (*)
18. ‘ROUND MIDNIGHT (*)
19. A NIGHT IN TUNISIA (*)