Name: Jazz Masters 28: Charlie Parker Plays Standards
Brand: Verve
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Album: Jazz Masters 28: Charlie Parker Plays Standards
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Love For Sale	More Info...	5:37
2)	If I Should Lose You	More Info...	2:49
3)	Almost Like Being In Love	More Info...	2:36
4)	Why Do I Love You?	More Info...	3:09
5)	I Remember You	More Info...	3:06
6)	Easy To Love Live (1949/Carnegie Hall)	More Info...	2:22
7)	Old Folks	More Info...	3:37
8)	I Got Rhythm Live (1946/Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles)	More Info...	12:57
9)	Laura	More Info...	3:00
10)	Estrellita (Little Star)	More Info...	2:49
11)	What Is This Thing Called Love?	More Info...	2:39
12)	Embraceable You	More Info...	10:36
13)	I Love Paris	More Info...	5:10
14)	How High The Moon Live At Carnegie Hall	More Info...	6:22

Album: Jazz Masters 28: Charlie Parker Plays Standards
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Love For Sale	More Info...	5:37
2)	If I Should Lose You	More Info...	2:49
3)	Almost Like Being In Love	More Info...	2:36
4)	Why Do I Love You?	More Info...	3:09
5)	I Remember You	More Info...	3:06
6)	Easy To Love Live (1949/Carnegie Hall)	More Info...	2:22
7)	Old Folks	More Info...	3:37
8)	I Got Rhythm Live (1946/Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles)	More Info...	12:57
9)	Laura	More Info...	3:00
10)	Estrellita (Little Star)	More Info...	2:49
11)	What Is This Thing Called Love?	More Info...	2:39
12)	Embraceable You	More Info...	10:36
13)	I Love Paris	More Info...	5:10
14)	How High The Moon Live At Carnegie Hall	More Info...	6:22

Performer Notes

Full title: Verve Masters 28: Charlie Parker Plays Standards.
Personnel includes: Charlie Parker (alto saxophone); Ella Fitzgerald, (vocals); Willie Smith (alto saxophone); Lester Young, Coleman Hawkins, Flip Phillips (tenor saxophone); Danny Bank (baritone saxophone); Roy Eldridge, Buck Clayton (trumpet); Tommy Turk (trombone); Verley Mills (harp); Walter Bishop, Stan Freeman, Oscar Peterson, Walter Bishop Jr., Al Haig, Tony Aless, Ken Kersey, Bernie Leighton, Hank Jones (piano); Billy Bauer, Freddie Green, Irving Asby (guitar); Teddy Kotick, Ray Brown, Percy Heath, Billy Hadnott, Charles Mingus (bass); Arthur Taylor, Buddy Rich, Don Lamond, Roy Haynes, Max Roach (drums); Jose Mangual (bongos); Luis Miranda (congas).
The Dave Lambert Singers include: Dave Lambert, Butch Birdsall, Jerry Parker, Annie Ross (vocals).
Includes liner notes by Harvey Pekar.
Digitally remastered by Phil Schaap.
Recording information: Carnegie Hall, New York, NY (04/22/1946-12/10/1954); Fine Sound Studios, New York, NY (04/22/1946-12/10/1954); Fulton Recording Studio, New York, NY (04/22/1946-12/10/1954); Mercury Studios, New York, NY (04/22/1946-12/10/1954); New York, NY (04/22/1946-12/10/1954).
Standards made up one third of the trinity of Bird's repertoire, along with his own serpentine reworkings of the blues and originals consisting of new melodic statements over the chord progressions of his favorite standards. The emphasis here is on the first category, focusing on the kind of Broadway tunes jazz musicians have been remaking since the '20s.
As with most of Verve's Parker compilations, STANDARDS' material is drawn from various kinds of recording sessions, presenting a cross-section of Parker's approach to standards. More accurately, the set is a cross-section of producer Norman Granz's ideas for recording the altoist in the early '50s. Not that Bird was an unwilling participant. In Harvey Pekar's liner notes, Parker is quoted as saying: "I was looking for new ways of saying things musically...I asked for strings as far back as 1941." There are, in fact, four recordings with strings here (including a live "Easy to Love"), one with the Dave Lambert Singers (pretty goofy), three extended jams from JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC, and a handful of small group sessions-some with Latin percussion.