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Charlie Parker With Strings – The Master Takes

CD (Item 492496) Verve, 1949/1950 — Condition: Used
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The genius of Bird and strings is hard to describe – an edgey approach that really goes far past most other "jazz with strings" projects, not a ballad-driven one, but a tensely strained one that brings out some of Parker's best soloing, almost in a moody soundtrack-type way. The tracks are a lot freer and less bop-driven than some of Bird's normal work, and it's incredible to hear him soloing with such complexity – even more proof of the genius he clearly exhibited in relation to his contemporaries.  © 1996-2024, Dusty Groove, Inc.
(1995 CD pressing.)

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