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The 13 discs contain none of the solos-only material surreptitiously recorded by Parker disciple Dean Benedetti (with Parker's knowledge) during club gigs, and no alternate takes and breakdowns other than the 6-second micromasterpiece known as 'The Famous Alto Break,' a fragment of an abandoned take of 'A Night In Tunisia' recorded in California in 1946 (the ensemble work was deemed too ragged for release).ĭiscs 12 and 13 are a sampling of the huge quantity of radio transcriptions and live and private recordings featuring Parker made between 1940 (four tracks recorded for radio by the Jay McShann Octet in Wichita, Kansas) and 1953, most of it only otherwise available on the international collector-to-collector network. These early tracks were made under the leaderships (some of them nominal) of Jay McShann, Tiny Grimes, Red Norvo, Clyde Hart, Slim Gaillard, Sir Charles Thompson and Dizzy Gillespie. Discs 1-11 contain all the master takes on Parker's key labelsSavoy, Dial and Verve (and its associate labels)plus others from the first phase of his documented career on Decca, Continental, Guild, Musicraft, Comet, Apollo and Bel-Tone.

The 13-CD Bird: The Complete Masters 1941-1954 is a brilliant way station. Acquiring the three boxes, however, represents a considerable financial outlayone that some Parker fans might not be able to run to. These monumental compilations add up to a completist's dream, scrupulously collecting, as they do, alternate takes and breakdowns along with master takes.

Much of Parker's output has been made available over various box sets, of which the three most comprehensive are the 8-CD The Complete Savoy And Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948 (Savoy, 2002) the 10-CD Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve (Verve, 1989) and the 7-CD The Complete Dean Benedetti Recordings Of Charlie Parker (Mosaic, 1990). Only Louis Armstrong's corpus of work is comparably important. All roads lead back to Charlie Parker, and if ever a musician's recorded output is worth collecting in its entirety, it is his.

Charlie parker complete savoy dial master takes rar