Bird and Dizzy Gillespie - The Genius of Charlie Parker (1981) Japanese Vinyl - #R2

Condition:

Record: E (Excellent)

Sleeve: E (Excellent)

OBI: VG+ (Very Good+, Split)

Bird And Diz – The Genius Of Charlie Parker
Label: Verve Records – 23MJ 3029
Series: The Genius Of Charlie Parker – #4, Jazztime Now!!
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Reissue, Mono
Country: Japan
Released: Apr 1981
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop

A1 Bloomdido
Written-By – Parker*
3:22
A2 An Oscar For Treadwell
Written-By – Parker*
3:18
A3 An Oscar For Treadwell (Alternate Take)
Written-By – Parker*
3:20
A4 Mohawk
Written-By – Parker*
3:45
A5 Mohawk (Alternate Take)
Written-By – Parker*
3:22
B1 My Melancholy Baby
Written-By – Burnett*, Norton*, Watson*
3:21
B2 Leap Frog
Written-By – Parker*
2:27
B3 Leap Frog (Alternate Take)
Written-By – Parker*
1:59
B4 Leap Frog (Alternate Take)
Written-By – Parker*
2:27
B5 Relaxin' With Lee
Written-By – Parker*
3:53
B6 Relaxin' With Lee (Alternate Take)
Written-By – Parker*
2:45

Charlie Parker – alto saxophone
Miles Davis – trumpet (tracks A1–A7, B1–B3)[xiv]
Jack McVea – tenor saxophone (tracks B4–B7)
Slim Gaillard – guitar, piano and vocals (tracks B4–B7)
Dizzy Gillespie – piano (tracks B1 and B3)[xiv] and trumpet (tracks B1,[xiv] B4–B7)
Sadik Hakim – piano (track B1)[xiv]
Dodo Marmarosa – piano (tracks B4–B7)
Bud Powell – piano (tracks A6–A7)
Duke Jordan – piano (tracks A1–A3)
John Lewis – piano (tracks A4–A5, B2)
Curley Russell – double bass (tracks A4–A5, B1–B3)
Bam Brown – double bass (tracks B4–B7)
Tommy Potter – double bass (tracks A1–A3, A6–A7)
Max Roach – drums (tracks A1–A7, B1–B3)
Zutty Singleton – drums (tracks B4–B7)

Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950, in New York City.[4] Two tracks featured on the original pressing, "Passport" and "Visa", were recorded by Parker, without Gillespie and with a different personnel than that of the other tracks, in March and May 1949.[5] The album was originally issued in 1952 in 10" format as a collection of 78 rpm singles on the Verve subsidiary label Clef Records.[6][7]

Although produced by Norman Granz, known for large ensembles at the time, the album contains compositions performed with the standard bebop instrumentation of saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums. In a 1952 four-star review of Bird and Diz, a DownBeat magazine columnist wrote of Granz's contribution to the album's sound, stating "Though there is no mention of bop in Norman Granz'[s] notes, we owe him a salvo for reminding us through this LP that this music is still very much alive." It is the final collaborative studio recording by Parker and Gillespie,[4] and has been reissued several times by Verve and PolyGram Records.[