Charlie Parker – Ornithology: The Best Of Bird (Mono)
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COMPILATION
Saxophone – Charlie Parker [click here to see more products featuring Charlie Parker]
Trumpet – Miles Davis [click here to see more products featuring Miles Davis]
Trumpet – Kenny Dorham [click here to see more products featuring Kenny Dorham]
Piano, Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie) [click here to see more products featuring Dizzy Gillespie]
Piano – Bud Powell [click here to see more products featuring Bud Powell]
Drums – Max Roach [click here to see more products featuring Max Roach]
Bass – Charles Mingus [click here to see more products featuring Charles Mingus]
Bass – Curly Russell
Written by Charlie Parker
1 LP, Standard sleeve
Original analog Master Tape : YES
Heavy Press : 180g
Record Color : Black
Speed : 33 RPM
Size : 12’’
Mono
Live & Studio
Record Press: Record Technology Incorporated
Label : Craft Recordings
Original Label : Society
Recorded March 28, 1946, at Radio Recorders Studios, Hollywood
Mastered by Paul Blakemore
Liner Notes by Ashley Kahn
Originally released in 1946
Reissued in August 2024
Tracks :
Side A:
1. Ko-Ko
2. Now's the Time
3. Cheryl
4. Parker's Blood
5. Billie's Bounce
6. Donna Lee
7. Confirmation (Live at Carnegie Hall)
Side B:
1. Ornithology (Live at the Royal Roost)
2. Groovin' High (Live at the Royal Roost)
3. Anthropology (Live at the Royal Roost)
4. Salt Peanuts (Live at Massey Hall)
Reviews :
"OK, so this vinyl album is NOT the reissue of something recorded last century. Instead, Craft Recordings has put together a “greatest hits” of the inventor of modern jazz, alto saxist Charlie Parker, who with the other gents on this release, started a brand new sound of music that still influences just about every musician playing in front of a microphone.
The other members of Bebop’s Mount Rushmore, namely Dizzy Gillespie/tp, Bud Powell/p, Miles Davis/tp, Max Roach/dr, Kenny Clarke/dr, Duke Jordan/p, Fats Navarro/tp, are all mixed and matched here in both studio and “live” recordings, making you feel that you’re right there in New York, just after WWII. There’s the classic blues “Now’s The Time”, wild and tricky lines of “Ko-Ko” and “Donna Lee” and easy swing of “Billie’s Bounce”, with Parker’s alto crying out on “Parker’s Mood”. The horns sizzle on “Groovin’ High”, “Ornithology” and “Anthropology” from a Royal Roost remote recording, while a Carnegie Hall gig has Bird confident on “Confirmation” while a 1953 gig at Massey Hall has him and Diz having a hoot of a time on “Salt Peanuts”. Realizing in retrospect that he died at the age of 34, it seems startling how much he accomplished in his wake. If you’ve never experienced the Nike heat seeking missile of Charlie Parker, as the song says, now’s the time." Jazz Weekly review by by George W. Harris
“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” is a new collection bringing together 11 cuts from legendary jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker. It covers the legendary artists prime Savoy Records years between 1945 and 1953, with cuts including “Ko-Ko,” “Billie’s Bounce,” and “Groovin’ High”. Included on the back of the newly designed sleeve is a new essay by GRAMMY award winning writer Ashley Kahn.
One of the greatest jazz innovators of all time, Charlie Parker (1920-1955) is one of the few musicians who can be said to have permanently changed jazz.
His style was influenced by Lester Young and his love for the blues, but his ideas were far more advanced than any of his contemporaries. Parker (who picked up the lifelong nickname of Bird) also had the ability to play perfectly coherent solos at ridiculously fast tempos. By the time he met his musical soulmate, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, Bird was on his way to the top of jazz. Diz and Bird worked together in the big bands of Earl Hines and Billy Eckstine during 1943-1944 and created a sensation in 1945, both in their live performances in 52nd Street clubs and in their recordings. Due to their stunning playing, bebop replaced swing as the jazz mainstream.
Ratings :
Discogs : 4.8 / 5