Item description for Charlie Parker Bird's Best Bop CD 1995 Verve Jazz Alto Saxophone Icon Bird

Charlie Parker – Bird's Best Bop On Verve

Label: Verve Records – 314 527 452-2

Format:

CD, Compilation

Country: US

Released: 1995

Genre: Jazz

Style: Bop

1 Passport 2:59

2 Bloomdido 3:24

3 Leap Frog 2:29

4 Relaxing With Lee 2:46

5 Au Privave 2:38

6 She Rote 3:06

7 K.C. Blues 3:24

8 Star Eyes 3:34

9 Blues For Alice 2:47

10 Swedish Schnapps 3:10

11 The Song Is You 2:56

12 Laird Baird 2:44

13 Kim 2:59

14 Chi Chi 3:02

15 Now's The Time 3:01

16 Confirmation 2:58

Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Polygram Records, Inc.

Manufactured By – Verve Records

Marketed By – Verve Records

Made By – PMDC

Bass – Curly Russell (tracks: 2 to 4), Percy Heath (tracks: 14 to 16), Ray Brown (tracks: 9 to 10), Teddy Kotick (tracks: 5 to 8, 11 to 13), Tommy Potter (tracks: 1)

Compiled By – Richard Seidel

Drums – Buddy Rich (tracks: 2 to 4), Kenny Clarke (tracks: 9 to 10), Max Roach (tracks: 1, 5 to 8, 11 to 16)

Mastered By – Steve Fallone

Other [Notes Edited] – Peter Pullman

Other [Researched And Restored] – Phil Schaap

Other [Sleeve Notes] – Jon Schapiro, Phil Woods

Other [Supervised By] – Michael Lang

Piano – Al Haig (tracks: 1, 14 to 16), Hank Jones (tracks: 11 to 13), John Lewis (2) (tracks: 9 to 10), Thelonious Monk (tracks: 2 to 4), Walter Bishop, Jr. (tracks: 5 to 8)

Producer – Norman Granz

Saxophone [Alto] – Charlie Parker (tracks: 1 to 16)

Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie (tracks: 2 to 4), Kenny Dorham (tracks: 1), Miles Davis (tracks: 5 to 8), Red Rodney (tracks: 9 to 10)

Track 1 recorded May 5, 1949 in New York City. Original LP issue: The Charlie Parker Story No. 1, Verve MGV 8000

Tracks 2 to 4 recorded June 6, 1950 in New York City. Original LP issue: Bird And Diz, Mercury MGC 512

Tracks 5 to 8 recorded January 17, 1951 in New York City. Original LP issue: The Magnificent Charlie Parker, Clef MGC 646

Tracks 9, 10 recorded August 8, 1951 in New York City. Original LP issue: The Magnificent Charlie Parker, Clef MGC 646

Tracks 11 to 13 recorded late December or January 1953 in New York City. Original 10" LP issue: Charlie Parker, Clef MGC 157

Tracks 14 to 16 recorded July 30, 1953 in New York City. Original 10" LP issue: Charlie Parker, Clef MGC 157

Barcode: 7 31452 74522 4

CD is pre-owned and well maintained, plays without skipping; visual condition of disc is near-mint /

Comes in jewel case with all inserts / Packaging is VG, light cosmetic wear to case -no notches, punches, stamps or markings