Charlie Parker - Complete Dial Masters: Centennial Celebration Collect

• CHARLIE PARKER CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION COLLECTION• COLLECTOR'S DIGIPACK SERIES• 2-CD DIGIPACK EDITION• 16-PAGE BOOKLET• INCLUDES 6 BONUS TRACKSAlto saxophonist Charlie Parker (1920-1955) was among the most influential jazz artists ever, and one of the few indisputable geniuses of his time. This set presents the complete master takes from his recording sessions for Ross Russell’s Dial label. Included here are some of Bird’s most admired sides, such as “A Night in Tunisia”, “Cool Blues” and “All the Things You Are”, as well as the troubled “Lover Man” session, after which the saxophonist suffered a mental breakdown.The masters from a 1945 Red Norvo date (Bird’s only existing encounter with pianist Teddy Wilson, reissued on Dial) are also contained here. Also issued on Dial was the so-called “Home- Cooking” date, an amateur recording made right after Bird left the Camarillo psychiatric hospital (the session is presented here in its entirety, including the complete version of “I Got Rhythm”.As a bonus, we have added two additional complete Charlie Parker sessions from the same period, which were originally issued under the names of Sir Charles Thompson and Sarah Vaughan.PERSONNEL:CHARLIE PARKER, alto sax, on all tracks, plus:COLLECTIVE PERSONNEL:Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Howard McGhee (tp), J. J. Johnson (tb), Erroll Garner, Dodo Marmarosa, Duke Jordan, Teddy Wilson (p), Red Norvo (vib), Barney Kessel (g), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d), among others.Recorded in California and New York, 1945-47.TRACKS:CD ONE (77:24 Min)01 DIGGIN’ DIZ02 MOOSE THE MOOCHE03 YARDBIRD SUITE04 ORNITHOLOGY05 A NIGHT IN TUNISIA06 MAX IS MAKING WAX07 LOVER MAN08 THE GYPSY09 BE-BOP10 THIS IS ALWAYS11 DARK SHADOWS12 BIRD’S NEST13 COOL BLUES14 RELAXIN’ AT CAMARILLO15 CHEERS16 CARVIN’ THE BIRDv17 STUPENDOUS18 DEXTERITY19 BONGO BOP20 DEWEY SQUARE21 THE HYMN 222 ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE23 EMBRACEABLE YOU 224 BIRD FEATHERS25 KLACT-OVEESEDS-TENE26 SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLECD TWO (76:33 Min)01 MY OLD FLAME02 OUT OF NOWHERE03 DON’T BLAME ME04 DRIFTING ON A REED05 QUASIMODO06 CHARLIE’S WIG07 BONGO BEEP08 CRAZEOLOGY09 HOW DEEP IS THE OCEAN?10 HALLELUJAH11 GET HAPPY12 SLAM SLAM BLUES13 CONGO BLUES14 BLUES #115 BLUES #216 YARDBIRD SUITE17 LULLABY IN RHYTHM #118 LULLABY IN RHYTHM #219 ‘S WONDERFUL [aka HOME COOKIN’ I]20 CHEROKEE [aka HOME COOKIN’ II]21 I GOT RHYTH [aka HOME COOKIN’ III]22 TAKIN’ OFF (*)23 20TH CENTURY BLUES (*)24 THE STREET BEAT (*)25 WHAT MORE CAN A WOMAN DO? (*)26 I’D RATHER HAVE A MEMORY THAN A DREAM (*)27 MEAN TO ME (*)