Charlie Parker with Strings

Occupation

Charlie Parker with Strings is a jazz album by Charlie Bird Parker. The published in January 1995 compact disc is based on the two 10 - inch LPs Bird with Strings ( Vol 1/2), which publishes taken on November 30, 1949 and July 5, 1950 by Mercury Records in New York City and 1950 were.

Charlie Parker String Sessions

Norman Granz brought Parker, who was under contract since 1949 with Mercury Records, created at the end of 1947 for the recording of the piece " Repetition " with a string formation under the direction of Neal Hefti together as recordings for the recording project The Jazz Scene. Parker's attempts occurred at a stage when the Jazz no longer understood as a center of popular music. The spontaneous stint with the Hefti session in 1947 was the catalyst for Parker, which led him to prepare for the next two years, a concept for the integration of strings. The sessions from November 1949 and in July 1950 realized also " the idea of ​​Norman Granz, with the combination of bebop jazz and classical string sound to find new sounds and new statements. " Parker was for the recordings in the context of a ten- piece string ensemble and brought a jazz rhythm section, which almost matched his regular -bop quintet; instead of Thelonious Monk (as with Bird and Diz ) or Al Haig (with Bird at St. Nick's, 1950) were here largely remained unknown Stan Freeman and Bernie Leighton pianists.

With Strings recordings known jazz standards such as "Summertime ", " Out of Nowhere ", " Laura" "I'll Remember April " and " They Can not Take That Away from Me" was fulfilled for the saxophonist a long-cherished wish. The arrangements for the July session gave the orchestra leader Joe Lipman, during, Jimmy Carroll was responsible for the November meeting, in which also Oboe ( Mitch Miller) and horn were used. The recordings were made to Parker's most successful records in his lifetime and led to live performances with string accompaniment in August and September 1950 at the Apollo Theater and Carnegie Hall, and in 1952 to more sessions with strings, in which participated also the trumpeter Al Porcino and Bernie Privin.

Appreciation

The Parker researcher Phil Schaap looks at the resignation of Miles Davis from the Parker Quintet in December 1948 a turning point in the musical career Parker; with the fusion of classical and jazz music, he had then given a formula that was later repeated by many jazz musicians to express a more relaxed, pop- oriented side of their work and to expand the awareness of their music. Schaap looks in the album " a door opener that allows improvising musicians to this day to look for a lush background structure" and is reminiscent of similar projects run by Stan Getz (Focus, 1961), Johnny Hodges, Chet Baker, Harry Carney, Clifford Brown ( Clifford Brown with Strings, 1955), Billie Holiday (Lady in Satin, 1958) and Wynton Marsalis.

Since its release the strings recordings Parker at the jazz audience were highly controversial; This controversy also reflects the different valuation of the album with the critics resist; while Allmusic the album gave the highest score and the " Kollection (as ) lush, poetic, romantic as hell and the perfect antidote for someone who drives with undisciplined blower oversaturated " was, signposted praised Richard Cook and Brian Morton it only with three stars and cleared with the legend of " the (alleged) Parkers impatience with the smooth setting Page" on. In contrast, were the authors that his solo design was masterful in "Stella By Starlight ". Brian Priestley raises particular Parker's solo show in " Just Friends "; otherwise he often trying to play straight. In 1988, the recordings were included in the Grammy Hall of Fame.

Edition history

Under the production of Norman Granz, the material of the first session on 30 November 1949 at the 10 - inch LP Charlie Parker With Strings ( Mercury MG- 35010 ) was released, all six songs were standard material from the Great American Songbook. The success of the first album led to a further session on July 5, 1950, their pieces on Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 2 ) ( Mercury MGC -109 ) appeared on another eight standards. The album was released then on Granz ' Clef Records (MGC 675) in the form of a 12-inch LP, later also on Verve ( MGV 8004 ) under the title The Genius Of Charlie Parker, # 2 - April In Paris.Nach various other editions in LP form edited in 1995 Verve Records of these fourteen tracks on a compact disc, supplemented by a further ten pieces as mentioned Hefti session of 1947, five pieces of a live recording from Carnegie Hall on September 17, 1950; four of another recording session in January 1952, and finally a piece of a previous concert at Carnegie Hall in December 1947.

Pieces of the original albums and Instrumentation

  • Charlie Parker with Strings ( Mercury MG- 35010 )
  • Charlie Parker: alto sax, Mitch Miller: oboe; Bronislaw Gimpel, Max Hollander, Milton Lomask: violins; Frank Brieff: Viola; Frank Miller: Cello; Myor Rosen: harp; Stan Freeman: Piano; Ray Brown: Bass; Buddy Rich: drums; Jimmy Carroll - Arrangement and management.
  • Charlie Parker with Strings ( Mercury MGC -109 )
  • Parker: alto saxophone; Joseph Singer: French horn; Eddie Brown: Oboe; Sam Caplan, Howard Kay, Harry Melnikoff, Sam Rand, Zelly Smirnoff: violins; Isadore Zir: Viola; Maurice Brown: cello; Verley Mills: Harp; Bernie Leighton: Piano; Ray Brown: Bass; Buddy Rich: drums; Joe Lipman: Arrangement and conduction; Xylophone and tuba

CD release in 1995 and Instrumentation

All the other pieces as indicated above.

  • Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes ( Verve 314523984-2 )
  • Parker: alto saxophone; Tommy Mace: oboe; Sam Caplan, Ted Blume, Stan Karpenia: violins; Dave Uchitel: Viola; Wallace McManus: Harp; Al Haig: Piano; Tommy Potter: bass; Roy Haynes: drums; cello
  • Parker: alto saxophone; Al Porcino, Chris Griffin, Bernie Privin: trumpets; Will Bradley, Bill Harris: trombone; Murray Williams, Toots Mondello - alto saxophone; Hank Ross: tenor saxophone; Stan Webb: baritone saxophone; Artie Drelinger: woodwinds; Caplan, possibly Sylvan Shulman and Jack Zayde: violins; Mills: Harp; Lou Stein - Piano; Bob Haggart: bass; Don Lamond: drums; Joe Lipman - arranger and conductor; other woodwinds, violins, violas and cello
  • Parker: alto saxophone; Vinnie Jacobs: French horn; Porcine, Doug Mettome, Ray Wetzel: trumpets; Bill Harris, Bart Varsalona: trombones; John LaPorta: clarinet; Williams, Sonny Salad: alto saxophones; Pete Mondello, Flip Phillips: Tenor Saxophone; Manny Albam; Baritone saxophone; Caplan, Smirnoff, Gene Orloff, Fiddler Manny, Sid Harris, Harry Katzman: violins; Nat Nathanson, Fred Ruzilla: Viola; Joe Benaventi: Cello; Tony Aless: Piano; Curly Russell: Bass; Shelly Manne: Drums; Diego Iborra: percussion; Neal Hefti: arranger and conductor

Swell

  • Ian Carr, Digby Fairweather & Brian Priestley: Rough Guide Jazz, Stuttgart, Metzler 2004 ( 2nd edition), ISBN 978-3-476-01892-2
  • Richard Cook & Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz on CD, 6th Edition, London, Penguin, 2002 ISBN 0-14-017949-6.
  • Peter Niklas Wilson & Ulfert Goeman: Charlie Parker - His life, his music, his records, Schaftlach, Oreos ( Jazz Collection ), 1988, ISBN 3-923657-12-9
Record label Genre Bowed string instrument Summertime (song) Out of Nowhere (Johnny Green song) Focus (Stan Getz album) Richard Cook (journalist) Brian Morton (Scottish writer) Grammy Award John Klenner Sam M. Lewis Everything Happens to Me (song) Matt Dennis April in Paris (song) Vernon Duke Yip Harburg George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Lorenz Hart Leo Robin Arthur Schwartz Howard Dietz Johnny Green Edward Heyman David Raksin East of the Sun (and West of the Moon) Cole Porter Jimmy McHugh Dorothy Fields Don Raye Gerry Mulligan Nacio Herb Brown Arthur Freed Victor Young Ned Washington Bill Harris (musician)
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