Live album · 1970
Tracklist
A1 –Charlie Parker Our Bird Speaks
Voice – Chan Parker, Charlie Parker, John Maher, Marshall Stearns
A2 –Dizzy Gillespie's Rebop Six Salt Peanuts
A3 –Charlie Parker With Strings Rocker
A4 –Charlie Parker With Strings Jumping With Symphony Sid
B1 –Charlie Parker All Stars Chasing The Bird
B2 –Charlie Parker All Stars Out Of Nowhere
B3 –Charlie Parker All Stars How High The Moon
B4 –Charlie Parker Quintet, The Embraceable You
B5 –Charlie Parker Quintet, The Little Willie Leaps/52nd Street Theme
Line-up/Musicians
A1: Private recording of interview with Marshall Stearns, John Maher. Chan Parker also speaks. Probably recorded May 1st, 1950, NYC.
A2: Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker (alto saxophone, vocals) Lucky Thompson (tenor saxophone) Milt Jackson (vibraphone) Al Haig (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Stan Levey (drums).
WEAF radio broadcast, "Billy Berg's Supper Club", Hollywood, CA, January 24, 1946.
A3-4: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone) possibly Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) possibly Teddy Kotick (bass) possibly Roy Haynes (drums) unidentified oboe and strings.
Recorded at "Birdland", NYC, March 22, 1951.
B1-3: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Miles Davis (trumpet); Al Haig (piano); Tommy Potter (bass); Max Roach (drums); Symphony Sid Torin (announcer).
Recorded at "Royal Roost", NYC, December 18, 1948
B4-5: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Fats Navarro (trumpet); Bud Powell (piano), Curley Russell (bass), Art Blakey (drums) Chubby Newsome (vocals on 'Embraceable You'). Recorded at "Birdland", NYC, June 30, 1950 (or May 15 or 17, 1950?).
About this release
Meexa Discox / La Mere D'Oiseau Disques – MEEXA 1776 (US)
Thanks to snobb for the addition