Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Jazz  »  Alto Sax
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• Release Date: January 24, 1995
• Label: Verve (USA)
• UPC: 731452398420
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105798306
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #28569 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #2111 in Jazz (See Top 100 Jazz Bestsellers)
• #44 in Alto Sax (See Top 100 Alto Sax Bestsellers)

Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone), Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone), Al Porcino (trumpet), Joseph Singer (French horn), Mitch Miller (oboe), John LaPorta (clarinet), Zelly Smirnoff (violin), Isadore Zir (viola), Maurice Brown (cello), Verley Mills (harp), Al Haig, Lou Stein, Tony Aless, Bernie Leighton (piano), Art Ryerson (guitar), Ray Brown, Tommy Potter, Bob Haggart, Curly Russell (bass), Buddy Rich, Roy Haynes, Don Lamond, Shelly Manne (drums), Diego Iborra (percussion).

Compilation producer: Michael Lang.

Recorded in New York between December 1947 and 1952. Includes liner notes by Joe Goldberg and Norman Granz.

This is an expanded version of the early-'50s album that broadened Charlie Parker's audience by focusing on the beautiful lyricism of his playing. These recordings feature Parker's alto saxophone over a gorgeous bed of strings, but perhaps an even more significant departure is the fact that he simplified his phrasing. His wondrously uncurling ribbons of notes are supplanted by the confident ease with which he embraces each of these melodies, dancing through and around them and never losing their essential character. On an album of back-to-back standouts, "April in Paris" is a towering beauty. Comprised primarily of what were--or have since become--standards, this is as fine a place as any to see exactly why Parker is perhaps the preeminent improviser in the history of jazz.

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