Talkin' Bird

by Charlie Parker

Talkin' Bird cover art
  • Type: Compilation
  • Released: 1999-01-01
  • Label: Unknown
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 57:13
  • Community rating: 3.73/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A collection of Charlie Parker's recordings under the title of 'Ornithology', the bebop standard built on 'How High the Moon' that gave him the nickname Bird. The selections cover his Savoy and Dial period, the core of his recorded legacy.

Genres

Descriptors: improvisational, virtuosic, saxophone, complex, melodic

Tracklist

  1. Bloomdido (3:24)
  2. K.C. Blues (3:20)
  3. Tico Tico (2:44)
  4. Lester Leaps In (Live At Carnegie Hall, New York / 1949) (12:14)
  5. La Cucaracha (3:24)
  6. My Little Suede Shoes (3:03)
  7. Confirmation (2:58)
  8. Au Privave (2:42)
  9. Okiedoke (3:02)
  10. La Paloma (2:39)
  11. Now's The Time (3:01)
  12. Jam Blues (14:42)

Credits

  • Dizzy Gillespie - accompanied by
  • Lester Young - accompanied by
  • Machito & His Afro-Cubans - accompanied by
  • Miles Davis - accompanied by

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