Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano - Complete Recordings
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Artist: Charlie Parker, Lennie TristanoEdition: Music CD
Audio: German (Unknown)
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-03-27
Music Label: Definitive Spain
Soundtracks:
- All Of Me
- I Can't Believe That You're In Love With Me
- Ko Ko (Theme)
- Hot House
- I Surrender Dear
- Fine And Dandy
- Ko Ko (Theme)
- On The Sunny Side Of The Street Into 52nd Street Theme
- How Deep Is The Ocean?
- Tiger Rag
- 52nd Street Theme
- 52nd Street Theme
- Donna Lee
- Everything I Have Is Yours
- Fats Flats/ Hot House
- Tea For Two
- Don't Blame Me
- Groovin' High
- Ko Ko Into Anthropology
- Overtime (Short Take)
- Overtime (Long Take)
- Victory Ball (Short Take 1 Rare)
- Victory Ball (Short Take 2)
- Victory Ball (Long Take)
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Music Review: Tristano & Bird - Tiger Rag!
Rating: 5 Stars
This album chronicles the sadly few recorded encounters between two titans of 1940s jazz, Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano. Despite the sometimes-reticence of Tristano to solo in the presence of Bird, much of the album is remarkable for the complete musical sympathy these two great musicians bring out in each other.
The first two tracks on the album are actually the last time Tristano played with Bird, an August 1951 session at Tristano's home. They chronicle the only known recorded performance by Bird of "I Can't Believe That You're in Love With Me," and the only complete performance by him of "All of Me." These tracks were used by Clint Eastwood in his filmed biography of Bird, but in that instance Tristano's chording was replaced by a digitally-applied rhythm section. Much to the disappointment of Tristano fans, Lennie does not solo at all, but merely comps behind Bird, but the chords he feeds him are quite different from those Bird usually had on record. (Of Bird's other pianists, Tristano rightly commented that "Most of the kids who played piano for Bird and played in his style, they always used the same chord progression...The right chord structure is not behind him." Exceptions to this rule, of course, were the great Al Haig (Bird's favorite pianist), Bud Powell and Thelonious Monk, none of whom recorded or played with him often enough. As good as the others were, they simply were not on the same musical wavelength as Bird.
The remainder of the album includes the famous 1949 Metronome All-Star session and three wonderful 1947 radio broadcasts. The Metronome tracks were previously issued on RCA Bluebird's "Complete Dizzy Gillespie" set, but here the sound is warmer, less shrill, the bass full and rich, and there is yet another alternate take of "Victory Ball" not previously issued. The airchecks are in miraculously good condition, and come from a time when the "Boppers" were still at "war" with the Dixieland musicians, known as "Moldy Figs." In each of the first two broadcasts, jazz critic Barry Ulanov represented the Boppers, Rudi Blesh the Moldy Figs. The "Figs" are not represented here but, to be fair to them, their number included two of the very greatest improvisers of the era, trumpeter Wild Bill Davison and clarinetist Edmond Hall, so their music could not have been nearly as anachronistic as the media-created "duel" would lead you to believe.
In the first encounter, the Boppers and Figs each chose their own material. The group of Dizzy, Bird, John LaPorta, Tristano, Billy Bauer, Ray Brown and Max Roach (talk about All-Stars!!) play their hearts out on "Hot House," "I Surrender Dear" and "Fine and Dandy." In the second, the Figs required the Boppers to play old standards, "On the Sunny Side of the Street," "How Deep is the Ocean?," and, wonder of wonders, "Tiger Rag"! You cannot imagine, without hearing it, how this group tears into Nick LaRocca's old chestnut - top speed, engines revved up to full ahead, no holds barred. Both Bird and Tristano contribute their absolute hottest solos in this track. Listeners calling in chose the Boppers as winners of this contest - small wonder. I doubt there has ever been a "Tiger Rag" like this in the entire history of recording.
As part of their "celebration," the Boppers were brought back on November 8 for a concert all by themselves, but the results are not quite as synergistic. Dizzy, Brown and Roach were unavailable; their replacements, Fats Navarro, Tommy Potter and Buddy Rich, play their hearts out, and Allen Eager is added on tenor sax for the occasion (as is Sarah Vaughan, who gets to sing one number, "Everything I Have is Yours"), but in this case the musicians are given solo spotlights rather than ensemble improvisations. Still, it IS Lennie with Bird, and Navarro is his usual brilliant self.
Highly recommended to all lovers of great jazz.
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