Charlie Parker Albums - Charlie Parker on Dial, Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, Complete Charlie Parker on Dial, Bird & Diz (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Charlie Parker on Dial, Bird: the Complete Charlie Parker on Verve, Complete Charlie Parker on Dial, Bird & Diz, Charlie Parker With Strings, Jazz at Massey Hall, Cool Bird, the Rise and Fall of Charlie Parker. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 51. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions is a 1993 four-disc box set collecting jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker's 1940s recordings for Dial Records. The box set, released by the English label Spotlite Records, assembled into a single package the multi-volume compilation albums the label had released on vinyl in the 1970s under the series title Charlie Parker on Dial. The box set has been critically well-received. In 1996, a different box set collecting Parker's work with Dial was assembled by Jazz Classics and released as Complete Charlie Parker on Dial. Recorded during Parker's tenure with Dial Records between Mar 28, 1946 and Dec 17, 1947, these 89 songs have been released multiple times. In addition to British Spotlite's release here and on earlier vinyl--in the mid 1970s, separately, the collection was published by label Jazz Classics in 1996 as Complete Charlie Parker on Dial and by Stash Records in 2004 as Complete Dial Sessions. (The collection was also released as a limited edition LP box set on Warner Brother Records in 1976, and as a general release two disc set in 1976.) The producers have, according to Jazz historian Scott Yanow, collected "every locatable alternate take and rejected excerpt, as well as eight sides privately recorded at a house party" and compiled them with more readily available material. The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz describes the Spotlite box set as "an essential aid in appreciating the scope of Parke...http: //booksllc.net/?id=19176377