No one had ever played as intricately and yet as weightlessly as he: his innovations mark the beginning of modern jazz. The surviving live recordings in particular document his incomparable improvisational genius....
Two legendary recordings show Charlie Parker alongside the other important developer of the modern jazz style of bebop, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie: Carnegie Hall presented the saxophonist as the "King Of Bop" in 1947. Musical high tension prevailed at the brilliant concert. In Toronto's Massey Hall, the two horn players Parker and Gillespie were supported six years later by an illustrious rhythm section around pianist Bud Powell. • (WDR)
Works:
Live At Royal Roost, December 11, 1948
•Groovin' High
• Big Foot
• Ornithology
12, 1948
•Hot House
• Salt Peanuts
• Chasin' The Bird
•Out Of Nowhere
January 15, 1949
•Scrapple From The Apple
• Be Bop
• Hot House
January 22, 1949
• Oop Bop Sh'bam
• Scrapple From The Apple
• Salt Peanuts
February 5, 1949
• Scrapple From The Apple
• Barbados
• Salt Peanuts
Live At Royal Roost, February 12, 1949
•Scrapple From The Apple
• Barbados
•Be Bop
February 19, 1949
•Groovin' High
• Confirmation
•Salt Peanuts
Live At Carnegie Hall, December 24, 1949
•Ornithology
• Cheryl
• KoKo
• Bird Of Paradise
•The Time
Live At Town Hall, June 22, 1945
•Be Bop
• A Night In Tunisia
• Salt Peanuts