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1. Crazeology
2. Slow Boat To China
3. Bluebird
4. Chasin' The
Bird
5. Yardbird Suite
6. Parker's Mood
7. Bird Of Paradise
8. Constellation
9. My Old Flame
10. Relaxin' In Camarillo
11. Moose The Mooch
12. Marmaduke |
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For the 34 short years he walked this planet, Charlie
Parker (a.k.a. Yardbird or, more often, just Bird) lived,
loved and played large. So large, in fact, that every
jazz musician who’s come along since owes him
big time. Not just one of history’s supreme saxophone
virtuosos, Parker helped create the musical vocabulary
of what would eventually be called bebop. As you can
hear on these 12 tracks, that revolutionary language—darting,
rapid-fire, harmonically expansive, rhythmically freewheeling—has
rarely had a speaker more gifted or fearless. Aspiring
jazzers, take heed: Live not as Bird lived but as he
played—free and easy.
— Mac Randall |
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