Bird and Diz

Occupation

Bird and Diz is a jazz album by Charlie Parker Bird, taken in New York City on June 6, 1950.

The album

It is the last studio album, collected by the two jazz greats Parker and Dizzy Gillespie Diz together and the only studio recording, on which Parker, Gillespie and Monk played together.

The album was produced by Norman Granz, the Russell compiled according Curly Russelldie band with Monk on piano, bass and Rich on drums. Parker is called first on the album title and is to be regarded as a leader of the recordings; as a band Charlie Parker and His Orchestra was specified. The compositions are, with the exception of My Melancholy Baby all of Parker. In the studio conversations contained on the CD to hear how Parker breaks off wayward shots and gives instructions to Monk.

The album with the cover drawing by David Stone Martin initially received good reviews, eg 4 stars from Downbeat. Later, however, the role of Buddy Rich was criticized as a drummer. Rich, actually in the swing at home and not a big fan of modern jazz, was accused by Max Harrison to have sabotaged the session.

Parker, who is not known to be more absorbed the title was apparently not particularly interested in the naming of his compositions. When the DJ Symphony Sid Torin asked him who was behind relaxin with Lee refer replied Parker, that he had no idea and the pieces would be named when he had already left the studio. In Mohawk is the nickname of bassist Ted Sturgis, Bloomdido was an allusion to Maury Bloom, the spokesman of a jazz program at WGR in Buffalo. "On Oscar for Treadwell " Parker turned the radio host Oscar Treadwell his reverence.

Granz, who had Parker been brought together with the Afro - Cuban big band of Machito, Parker wanted to do under his leadership to a wider audience and wanted a recording in " fresh dimensions" and " beautiful melodies, written by good songwriters ". Bird and Diz came with two Blues ( Bloomdido and Mohawk ) and standard bebop pieces (An Oscar for Treadwell, Leap Frog, Relaxin 'with Lee) and a ballad (My Melancholy Baby ) in a standard cast of bebop (saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass and drums), but exactly the opposite of the original intention of Grantz.

Album pieces

Editorial notes

In 1952 the title - released on a 10 -inch LP ( the detailed list here refers to the Verve Master Edition of 1997 ). Were on the original LP nor the pieces Passport and Visa to hear that but do not come from the Bird & Diz session, but from 1949 ( and were recorded with a different cast ). They were not published on the reissue CD.

The pieces 8, 12 and 13 were first published in The Genius of Charlie Parker, the pieces 7, 9 and 11 were first released on CD Bird & Diz, and the pieces 10 and 14 to 24 on the CD The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve.

The pieces 1-13 are complete, the piece 16 is a false start, all the other pieces were broken. All titles are in the Verve Edition Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker included on Verve.

Swell

As a source mainly served the liner notes by James Patrick Reissue CD by Verve.

Record label Genre Down Beat
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