Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker Collection
by Charlie Parker
- Type: Compilation
- Released: March 18, 1997
- Label: Rhino
- Country: United States
- Community rating: 5/5 from 5 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
This collection presents the foundational vocabulary of bebop, pioneered by alto saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker. The material showcases his revolutionary improvisational style, characterized by blistering tempos, advanced harmonic substitutions, and a fluid, rhythmically complex approach that redefined jazz from dance music to a virtuosic art form. Key tracks, drawn from his landmark sessions, demonstrate Parker's compositional genius and his seminal role in shaping the small-group interplay that would become central to modern jazz.
Genres
Descriptors: saxophone, classic, compilation, virtuosic, fast
Tracklist
- Groovin' High
- All The Things You Are
- Dizzy Atmosphere
- Salt Peanuts
- Shaw 'Nuff
- Hot House
- Now's The Time
- Ko Ko
- Moose The Mooche
- Yardbird Suite
- Ornithology
- Cool Blues
- Relaxin' At Camarillo
- Donna Lee
- Chasing The Bird
- Dewey Square
- Bird Of Paradise
- The Hymn
- Embraceable You
- Klactoveedsedstene
- Scrapple From The Apple
- Out Of Nowhere
- Don't Blame Me
- Quasimado
- Klaunstance
- Parker's Mood
- Bloomdido
- Star Eyes
- She Rote
- My Little Suede Shoes
- Confirmation
- Blue 'N' Boogie
- 'Round Midnight
- Night In Tunisia
- Just Friends
- What Is This Thing Called Love?
- East Of The Sun
- Laura
Credits
- Charlie Parker - alto saxophone
- Miles Davis - trumpet
- Erroll Garner - piano
- Dizzy Gillespie - piano, trumpet, track performer
- Wardell Gray - tenor saxophone
- Al Haig - piano
- Duke Jordan - piano
- Barney Kessel - guitar
- Mundell Lowe - guitar
- Bud Powell - piano
- Buddy Rich - drums
- Max Roach - strings, drums
- Lucky Thompson - tenor saxophone
- Tommy Potter - bass
- Don Lamond - drums
- Howard McGhee - trumpet
- Luis Miranda - congas
- Teddy Kotick - bass
- Percy Heath - bass
- Walter Bishop - piano
- Hugh Brown - art direction, saxophone
- Red Callender - bass
- Big Sid Catlett - drums
- Roy Haynes - drums
- J.J. Johnson - trombone
- Jose Mangual - bongos
- Dodo Marmarosa - piano
- Thelonious Monk - piano
- Curly Russell - bass
- Slam Stewart - bass
- Vic McMillan - bass
- Arvin Garrison - electric guitar
- Roy Porter - drums
- Bob Porter - compilation producer
- James Austin - compilation producer
- Patrick Milligan - compilation producer
- Ross Russell - producer
- Julee Stover - booklet editor [editorial supervision]
- Steven Chean - booklet editor [editorial supervision]
- Vanessa Atkins - booklet editor [editorial supervision]