Complete Charlie Parker 1940-1953

GROOVIN' HIGH - 1940-1945

“Hootie, would you like it if I came to the bandstand looking like a doctor, and played like a doctor?” Charlie Parker to Jay McShann

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

NOW'S THE TIME - 1945-1946

A lot of people didn't understand his music and when they started to do so, they still wondered how he did it. Charlie Parker remained a mystery.
Clint Eastwood

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

CD 1 : Red Norvo and his Selected Sextet (NYC, 6/6/1945) Hallelujah! • Hallelujah! • Hallelujah! • Get Happy • Get Happy • Slam Slam Blues • Slam Slam Blues • Congo Blues • Congo Blues • Congo Blues • Congo Blues • Congo Blues • Sir Charles and his All Stars (NYC, 4/9/1945) Takin’ Off • If I Had You • 20th Century Blues • The Street Beat • Charlie Parker’s Ree Boppers (NYC, 26/11/1945) Billie’s Bounce • Billie’s Bounce • Billie’s Bounce • Warming Up a Riff.
CD 2 : Charlie Parker’s Ree Boppers (NYC, 26/11/1945) Billie’s Bounce • Billie’s Bounce • Now’s the Time • Now’s The Time • Now’s The Time • Now’s The Time • Thriving On a Riff • Thriving On A Riff • Thriving On A Riff • Meandering • Koko • Koko • Dizzy Gillespie and his Rebop Six (Radio/Broadcast, Billy Berg’s Supper Club, LA, 17/12/1945) How High the Moon • 52nd Street Theme • Slim Gaillard and His Orchestra (Hollywood, 29/12/1945) Dizzy Boogie • Dizzy Boogie • Flat Foot Floogie • Flat Foot Floogie • Popity Pop • Slim’s Jam • Dizzy Gillespie and his Rebop Six (Radio/Broadcast, Afrs Jubilee, Hollywood, 29/12/1945) • Dizzy Atmosphere • Groovin’ High • Shaw ‘nuff. (Radio/Broadcast, Rudy Vallée Show, LA 24 /1/1946) Salt Peanuts Radio Transcription
CD 3 : Jazz At The Philharmonic (Philharmonic Auditorium, LA, 28/1/1946) • Sweet Georgia Brown • Blues For Norman • I Can’t Get Started • Oh! Lady be Good • After You’ve Gone • Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (Private Recording, Freddy James Home, Hollywood, 3/2/1946) Lover, come back to me • Tempo Jazzmen (Glendale, 5/2/1946) Diggin’ Diz • Charlie Parker Quintet (Radio/Broadcast, Finale Club, LA, march 1946) Billie’s Bounce • All The Things You Are • Blue ‘N’ Boogie • Anthropology • Ornithology

Rights: Frémeaux & Associés.

LOVER MAN - 1946-1947

“When Bird left New York he was a king, but out in Los Angeles he was just another broke, weird, drunken nigger playing some strange music. Los

Angeles is a city built on celebrating stars and Bird didn’t look like no star.” M. DAVIS
The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

BIRD OF PARADISE - 1947

“When Charlie Parker became popular with his be-bop tunes, everybody had to change his style – the drummer, the piano player, the singer, whoever” Anita O’Day (High Times, Hard Times)

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

PARKER’S MOOD 1947-1949

“Bird was like the sun, giving off the energy we drew from him… In any musical situation, his ideas just bounded out, and his inspired anyone who was around.” Max ROACH

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

“PASSPORT” 1949

“You really have to be blind to all the evidence if you refuse to see that Parker’s calibre was at least as prodigious as that of the greatest musicians of earlier generations.” Boris VIAN

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

JUST FRIENDS - 1949-1950

« Charlie Parker did all the things I would like to do and more – he really had a genius, see. He could do things and he could do them melodiously so that anybody, the man in the street, could hear – that’s what I haven’t reached, that’s what I’d like to reach. » John COLTRANE

LAURA - 1950

“Melody... If you were being tortured and could only keep one — even if the torture was fierce — then it would have to be Laura. Played by Charlie Parker, Laura steps through the gates of Paradise wreathed in little scrolls of pure, undiluted happiness. Nothing can spoil that moment every time I hear it.” Jean-Pierre MARIELLE (Le grand n’importe quoi, Calmann-Lévy, 2010)

MY LITTLE SUEDE SHOES - 1950-1951

“It’s true that I think of Charlie Parker as being impassable.” René URTREGER

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

BACK HOME BLUES 1951-1952

“My vote is definitely for Charlie Parker. I’ve worked with all the great names you mentioned, but Charlie Parker was the originator and innovator of the century.” Buddy de FRANCO

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts.
Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

THIS TIME THE DREAM’S ON ME - 1952

“There was something kind of inevitable about the way Bird played, and it was very direct and very melodic and it transcended the limitations of the horn.” Gerry MULLIGAN

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

“LAIRD BAIRD” 1952-1953

“Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere !” Joe LOVANO

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.

CHARLIE PARKER

“Bird would throw his genius out of every window. And then one day, his instrument. And then on another day, the instrument of that instrument, this man full of candour and enigma who talked to the birds.” Alain GERBER

The aim of 'The Complete Charlie Parker', compiled for Frémeaux & Associés by Alain Tercinet, is to present (as far as possible) every studio-recording by Parker, together with titles featured in radio-broadcasts. Private recordings have been deliberately omitted from this selection to preserve a consistency of sound and aesthetic quality equal to the genius of this artist.