Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Charlie Parker - Various

1950-12-08 - Birdland, NYC
1951-07-22 - Kansas City (with Woody Herman)

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Dr. Forrester said...

December 8, 1950
Birdland, NYC
WJZ radio broadcast
Reseed

Charlie Parker Quintet
Charlie Parker (as); Red Rodney (tp); Kenny Drew (p); Curly Russell (b); Art Blakey (d)

1 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid & intro
2 Anthropology
3 Embraceable You
4 Cheryl
5 Intro & Salt Peanuts
6 Jumpin' with Symphony Sid & outro
20 min.

Taken from a copy of Philology Eyes 9. No edits; speed corrected; EQ added.
A very exciting set and a good enough recording by Jimmy Knepper and Don Lanphere.

August 16, 2011 at 6:15 AM
Dr. Forrester said...

Charlie Parker Together With Woody Herman And The 3rd Herd - Mega-rare restored vinyl "Bird With The Herd 1951" - Municipal Arena, Kansas City, Missouri 1951-07-22 - speed-corrected and rejoined - A classic, one-time pairing! (mp3 sample included)

During the very early 1970's, the record chain Sam Goody distributed many jazz bootleg releases under their own Alamac label. For this, and for getting someone at a printing plant to make unlicensed extra copies of commercial releases, Steely Dan among them), Sam Goody was busted and nearly closed. The bust didn't help much as they went out of business a couple of years later. (A footnote: someone bought the rights to the name, and did reopen the chain sometime later, but that was a different operation).

Alamac Records product was a plain-white record label with bad printing, with no company name or address on it. The record jackets were plain text on the back, with a single-color front cover (green, brown, etc). The cover could just be text also, or it might have a photo of the artist. The material consisted mostly of privately-made air checks and of radio transcriptions. It's believed the material in this torrent is an air check.

According the the great jazz-research site jazzdisco.org, this is the only release of this material and no known commercial labels have reissued this show. According to Philwoods.com, the record label Alamac is counted as a bootleg. Also, the posting of this torrent has been run by Dime's Moderators in advance.


Personnel:
Roy Caton, Don Fagerquist, Johnny Macombe, Doug Mettome (tp) Jerry Dorn, Urbie Green, Fred Lewis (tb) Charlie Parker (as) Woody Herman (as, cl, cond) Dick Hafer, Bill Perkins, Kenny Pinson (ts) Sam Staff (bars) Dave McKenna (p) Lawrence "Red" Wooten (b) Sonny Igoe (d)

Setlist (run time 30 mins):

You Go To My Head
Leo The Lion, I
Cuban Holiday
The Nearness Of You
Lemon Drop
The Goof And I
Laura
Four Brothers
Leo The Lion, II

Notes from the record back cover:

A historic summit meeting of jazz took place on a scorching summer afternoon in Kansas City when Charlie Parker jined Woody Herman's Third Herd in a series of blazing solos against the background of some of the best Herman repertoire of that period.

Herman's great band serves really as a backdrop for the unique Parker talent and only brief spots by the leader on clarinet, and by Urbie Green on Laura, and Bill Perkins and Dick Hafer on Leo The Lion indicate the many fine talented musicians Herman had in this particular edition of the many Herds he fronted over the years.

Lineage: LP QSR 2442 ->Sound Forge ->Click and crackle removal, stereo to true mono to two channel mono-> Flac via TLH, level 6, sectors aligned and verified, FLAC integrity checked.


Enjoy!

A DoinkerTape

August 16, 2011 at 6:15 AM
kike said...

Thanks to Dr. F for sharing some Parker's music. Best, K.

August 16, 2011 at 3:08 PM
kike said...

Hi Doc.

any chance to get from you some Miles Davis' live recordings. Thanks in advance for your answer.
best, Kike.

August 16, 2011 at 3:10 PM

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