Tag: Charlie Parker Live Albums

Live Albums By Charlie Parker

Live albums include:

1945 Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker Town Hall New York City June 22 1945
1945 Yardbird in Lotus Land
1945-1951 Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Complete Live at Birdland
1946 Jazz at the Philharmonic
1946 At The Finale Club And More
1946-1951 Rapping with Bird
1947 Diz ‘N Bird at Carnegie Hall
1947 to 1950 Complete Live Performances on Savoy September 29 1947 to October 25 1950
1948/49 Best of the Complete Live Performances on Savoy
1948 Bird on 52nd Street
1948–1951 The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings
1948 to 1952 Liveology
1949 Jazz at the Philharmonic
1949 Charlie Parker and the Stars of Modern Jazz at Carnegie Hall Christmas
1949 Bird in Paris
1949 Bird in France
1949 Charlie Parker All Stars Live at the Royal Roost
1950 One Night in Birdland
1950 Complete Live at Birdland May 17 1950
1950 Charlie Parker Complete Live at Cafe Society
1950 Bird at St. Nick’s
1950 Bird at the Apollo Theatre and St. Nicklas Arena
1950 Apartment Jam Sessions
1950 Charlie Parker at the Pershing Ballroom Chicago
1950 Bird in Sweden
1950 1952 Complete Live At The Rockland Palace
1951 Happy Bird
1951 Summit Meeting at Birdland
1951-1954 Live with the Big Bands
1952 Bird & Chet Live at the Trade Winds
1952 1954 Boston
1952 At Jirayr Zorthian’s Ranch, 14 July 1952
1952 Live at Rockland Palace
1952 Jam Session
1952 At Jirayr Zorthian’s Ranch, July 14, 1952
1953 The Quintet Jazz At Massey Hall
1953 At Storyville
1953 Complete Bird at The Open Door
1953 Montreal
1953 One Night in Washington
1953 The Washington Concerts
1953 Bird at the High Hat
Complete Bird at The Apollo
Complete Bird at the Bandbox

Parker also played on:

1944 to 1949 The Complete Jazz At The Philharmonic On Verve 1944-1949

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Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949

Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949 is a live recording of Charlie Parker performing at the Carnegie Hall in New York in September 1949.

This is the usual loose jam session mixing bop and swing musicians. Joining Parker are trumpeter Roy Eldridge and tenor saxophonist Lester Young. Other horn players include tenor saxophonist Flip Phillips and trombonist Tommy Turk. The rhythm section is pianist Hank Jones, bassist Ray Brown and Buddy Rich on drums.

Ella Fitzgerald adds vocals to some of the tracks.

There is a very similar titled album from 1946, Charlie Parker Jazz At The Philharmonic 1946 which also features Lester Young.

Charlie Parker Jazz at the Philharmonic 1949

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What Are The Best Live Albums By Charlie Parker?

What are the best recordings of Charlie Parker performing live?

Parker died in 1955 but for the ten years prior to his death, we are blessed with some great jazz recordings as bebop was developed by Parker, his friend Dizzy Gillespie and others.

He made famous studio recordings for Savoy, Dial and Verve but when and where were the best live performances recorded?

I have the 1946 and 1949 albums he did with JATP where he played with Lester Young, One Night In Birdland from 1950 and the Jazz At Massey Hall concert from 1953.

I’m probably missing something essential.

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The Quintet Jazz At Massey Hall 1953

Jazz At Massey Hall is a live album by The Quintet. It is a recording of the concert at Massey Hall in Toronto 15 May 1953.

This begs the question “who are the Quintet?”

Just possibly the greatest assembly of jazz talent ever put together on one stage… Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Charles Mingus and Max Roach.

I understand that this was the last time that Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker ever recorded together because of bad feelings between them.

An extended recorded version of this concert has also been released with 14 songs but half of them don’t include Parker and Gillespie. The purist in me thinks that you should go straight for the longer concert but it’s live Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie that attracts me.

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