The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes

Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes

The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes
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Artist: Charlie Parker
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-09-24
Music Label: Savoy Jazz
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Tiny's Tempo
  2. I'll Always Love You Just The Same
  3. Romance Without Finance
  4. Red Cross
  5. Warmin' Up A Riff
  6. Billie's Bounce
  7. Now's The Time
  8. Thrivin' From A Riff
  9. Meandering
  10. Koko
  11. Diggin' Diz
  12. Moose The Mooche
  13. Yardbird Suite
  14. Ornithology
  15. A Night In Tunisia
  16. Max Making Wax
  17. Lover Man
  18. The Gypsy
  19. Bebop A
  20. This Is Always
  21. Dark Shadows
Music CD 2
  1. Bird's Nest
  2. Cool Blues
  3. Relaxin' At Camarillo
  4. Cheers
  5. Carvin' The Bird
  6. Stupendous
  7. Donna Lee
  8. Chasin' The Bird
  9. Cheryl
  10. Buzzy
  11. Milestones
  12. Little Willie Leaps
  13. Half Nelson
  14. Sippin' At Bell's
  15. Dexterity
  16. Bongo Bop
  17. Dewey Square
  18. The Hymn
  19. Bird Of Paradise
  20. Embraceable You
  21. Bird Feathers
  22. Klactoveesedstene
Music CD 3
  1. Scrapple From The Apple
  2. My Old Flame
  3. Out Of Nowhere
  4. Don't Blame Me
  5. Drifting On A Reed
  6. Quasimado
  7. Charlie's Wig
  8. Bongo Beep
  9. Crazeology
  10. How Deep Is The Ocean?
  11. Another Hair Do
  12. Bluebird
  13. Klaunstance
  14. Bird Gets The Worm
  15. Barbados
  16. Au-Leu-Cha
  17. Constellation
  18. Parker's Mood
  19. Perhaps
  20. Marmaduke
  21. Steeplechase
  22. Merry Go Round

Music reviews of The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes

Music Review: bird lives
Rating: 5 Stars

Which is the title of Russell's biography of Charlie Parker. The sound is as good as you can expect with material of this vintage. Some tracks sound better than others. They were meant to be played on limited bandwidth 78RPM equipment. How the masters were stored is the main determinant of sound quality. With few exceptions, background noise and distortion doesn't interfere with enjoying the music.

I wrote a review of the mono version of Cream's "Disraeli Gears" and remarked that it had no soundstage. Someone posted a comment to the effect that my remark was absurd because mono CAN'T have a soundstage. Of course mono can't have the wide soundstage of stereo tracks, but when you listen to some of these sides you'll agree there IS a kind of soundstage.

As for the music, Bird was in a league of his own. He didn't really play music, he intuited it from somewhere else. Someone once asked Bob Dylan how he wrote all those great classic songs, and he said they just came to him. Bird woodshedded to get the chops, and he was a technical master of the alto sax, but what he played didn't come from long hours of practice. He was his own influence.

The first thing you'll notice is how modern this music sounds. Even the guitar player and the occasional vocals (for the most part) sound modern.

These tracks may be 60 + years old, but it isn't old-timey nostalgic music, and it isn't music you listen to to learn something. There was nothing camp about Bird. This is the stuff he was putting out in his heyday, that was on the shelves of jazz fans and played for entertainment. Dial and Savoy made money off it. Bird was a commercial artist, not an obscure player supported by a boutique label, known only to a few insiders. I don't think he was ever paid anything close to what he deserved, not even in the Norman Granz days. He left the studio with a wad of greenbacks which were quickly shot into a vein. That's how he chose to live. And how he died.

So play this music not to dissect it for a scholarly treatise, but as something to enjoy, much as Bird must have enjoyed making it.
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As Ornette Coleman said, "Charlie Parker was blessed with the eternal quality of existing forever." The brief trajectory of Parker's career has directly or indirectly affected all saxophonists who have followed him. Sadly, the machinations and pressures of fame were more than this basically fragile man could bear, and he died at age 34 in 1955.

The Savoy imprint, after being acquired by an assortment of companies over the years, has been reinvigorated to celebrate its 60th anniversary. This three-disc set includes all of Parker's work for the Dial and Savoy labels (excluding alternate takes--hence the title). It starts off with his appearance as a sideman with the Tiny Grimes Quintette, at which time the 24-year-old's alto saxophone playing bears his unmistakable stamp of fluidity and daring aplomb. The stellar lights of bebop are heard throughout this set, as Parker plays with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Max Roach, creating the enduring shape of contemporary jazz. --David Greenberger

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