Bird In LA 4-LP Box Set
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Charlie Parker spent more time in Los Angeles than anywhere outside of Kansas City and New York.
Parker’s prolific and historic first three trips to Los Angeles have been collected together as Bird In LA, a 4-LP Box Set featuring 28-tracks of mostly unreleased and incredibly rare recordings.
Highlights include “How High the Moon” from his historic 1945 engagement with Dizzy Gillespie at Billy Berg’s, previously unknown performances from a 1948 “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert at the Shrine Auditorium, & the complete recordings of the infamous 1952 “naked party” at the Altadena ranch of Jirayr Zorthian.
Bird may be gone, but to paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, “We’ll always have LA.”
Parker’s prolific and historic first three trips to Los Angeles have been collected together as Bird In LA, a 4-LP Box Set featuring 28-tracks of mostly unreleased and incredibly rare recordings.
Highlights include “How High the Moon” from his historic 1945 engagement with Dizzy Gillespie at Billy Berg’s, previously unknown performances from a 1948 “Jazz at the Philharmonic” concert at the Shrine Auditorium, & the complete recordings of the infamous 1952 “naked party” at the Altadena ranch of Jirayr Zorthian.
Bird may be gone, but to paraphrase Rick in Casablanca, “We’ll always have LA.”
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Track Listing:
Disc 1/Side A:
1. Intro over I Waited for You into How High the Moon (incomplete)
2. Intro dialogue with Gibson into Handsome Harry the Hipster (incomplete) (no Parker)
3. Cement Mixer (fragment) into Intro into Blues (fragment)
4. Dizzy Atmosphere (fragment) (no Parker improvisation)
5. Fifty-Second Street Theme into closing announcement
Possibly December 10, 17, or 29, 1945
AFRS “Jubilee,” NBC Studios, Hollywood, California
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Featuring Charlie Parker
6. Groovin’ High into announcement
Disc 1/Side B:
1. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into Shaw ‘Nuff into announcement
2. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into Dizzy Atmosphere into announcement
3. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into A Night in Tunisia into announcement
4. Intro dialogue between Vallee and Gibson into Salt Peanuts
Disc 2/Side A:
1. Billie’s Bounce
2. Ornithology
3. All The Things You Are
4. Blue 'N' Boogie
Disc 2/Side B:
1. Anthropology into announcement
Probably March or April 1946
AFRS “Jubilee,” NBC Studios, Hollywood, California
2. Intro discussion into Cherokee into announcement
November 22, 1948
Jazz At the Philharmonic, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
3. Ornithology
4. Dizzy Atmosphere
5. Out of Nowhere
Disc 3/Side A:
July 14, 1952
Party at Jirayr Zorthian’s Ranch, top of Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, California
1. Scrapple From The Apple
2. Au Privave / Dance Of The Infidels
Disc 3/Side B:
1. Night In Tunisia
2. How High The Moon / Ornithology
3. Party Chatter into Embraceable You
Disc 4/Side A:
1. Hot House
2. Cool Blues
Disc 4/Side B:
1. March Noodling/Dixie
Probably July 28, 1952 at Zorthian’s Ranch
2. Scrapple From The Apple
Probably July 1952, Unknown Location, Los Angeles, California
3. Au Privave (incomplete)
Disc 1/Side A:
1. Intro over I Waited for You into How High the Moon (incomplete)
2. Intro dialogue with Gibson into Handsome Harry the Hipster (incomplete) (no Parker)
3. Cement Mixer (fragment) into Intro into Blues (fragment)
4. Dizzy Atmosphere (fragment) (no Parker improvisation)
5. Fifty-Second Street Theme into closing announcement
Possibly December 10, 17, or 29, 1945
AFRS “Jubilee,” NBC Studios, Hollywood, California
Dizzy Gillespie and His Orchestra Featuring Charlie Parker
6. Groovin’ High into announcement
Disc 1/Side B:
1. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into Shaw ‘Nuff into announcement
2. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into Dizzy Atmosphere into announcement
3. Intro dialogue with Gillespie into A Night in Tunisia into announcement
4. Intro dialogue between Vallee and Gibson into Salt Peanuts
Disc 2/Side A:
1. Billie’s Bounce
2. Ornithology
3. All The Things You Are
4. Blue 'N' Boogie
Disc 2/Side B:
1. Anthropology into announcement
Probably March or April 1946
AFRS “Jubilee,” NBC Studios, Hollywood, California
2. Intro discussion into Cherokee into announcement
November 22, 1948
Jazz At the Philharmonic, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
3. Ornithology
4. Dizzy Atmosphere
5. Out of Nowhere
Disc 3/Side A:
July 14, 1952
Party at Jirayr Zorthian’s Ranch, top of Fair Oaks Avenue, Altadena, California
1. Scrapple From The Apple
2. Au Privave / Dance Of The Infidels
Disc 3/Side B:
1. Night In Tunisia
2. How High The Moon / Ornithology
3. Party Chatter into Embraceable You
Disc 4/Side A:
1. Hot House
2. Cool Blues
Disc 4/Side B:
1. March Noodling/Dixie
Probably July 28, 1952 at Zorthian’s Ranch
2. Scrapple From The Apple
Probably July 1952, Unknown Location, Los Angeles, California
3. Au Privave (incomplete)
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