Ken Burns Jazz: The Definitive Charlie Parker

by Charlie Parker

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  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 7 November 2000
  • Label: Verve
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 50:14
  • Community rating: 3.94/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A single-disc Charlie Parker anthology from the Ken Burns Jazz series, drawing on his Verve recordings. It concentrates on the 1949 to 1953 period, the strings sessions and the quartet and quintet dates that fixed his postwar sound.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisation, saxophone, virtuosic, melodic, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Sepian Bounce (3:07)
  2. Salt Peanuts (3:12)
  3. Hot House (3:09)
  4. Ko-Ko (2:53)
  5. Anthropology (2:54)
  6. Now's The Time (3:14)
  7. Ornithology (2:57)
  8. Yardbird Suite (2:53)
  9. Lover Man (3:17)
  10. Relaxin' At Camarillo (2:59)
  11. Embraceable You (3:43)
  12. Scrapple From The Apple (2:54)
  13. Parker's Mood (3:01)
  14. Just Friends (3:30)
  15. Star Eyes (3:34)
  16. Confirmation (2:57)

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