You'll be hard pressed to find a better collection
of Charlie Parker's classic work on vinyl! Bird's great recordings for Savoy have often been poorly packaged over the years, but here you get the whole batch
of seminal bop sides by the pioneering artist
of the genre! Bird's the leader on most
of these sides, but there's a nice set
of recordings under Tiny Grimes and a very young Miles Davis too, with a host
of players from the dawn
of the bebop age, including Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Sadik Hakim, John Lewis, Duke Jordan, Curly Russell, Tommy Potter and Max Roach. An as you'd expect from this kind
of set, you get loads
of multiple takes so you can hear these pioneering players creating the style that would change the face
of jazz forever. Put together in 1978, this set features 66 tracks in all, spread out over 5 LPs, with a nicely annotated
book, and includes "I'll Always
Love You Just The Same","Romance Without Finance", "Billie's Bounce", "Now's The Time", "Thriving On A Riff", "Koko", "Donna Lee", "Chasin The Bird", "Buzzy", "Milestones", "Half Nelson", "Another Hair Do", "Bird Gets The Worm", "Barbados", "Ah-Leu-Cha", "Constellation", "Parker's Mood", "Perhaps","Marmaduke", "Steeplechase" and more!
(Late 70s issue. Includes the booklet. Box has small tears and blemishes at the edges of the paste-on in back.)