Charlie Parker Discography PDF

Charlie Parker Discography
1937 (age 17)

Charlie Parker Solo
Charlie Parker (alto sax)
Kansas City, MO, early 1937
Honeysuckle Rose
Philology (It) 214 W 5; Stash ST-CD-535
Body And Soul
* Philology (It) 214 W 5 Charlie Parker - Bird's Eyes, Vol. 1
* Stash ST-CD-535 Charlie Parker - The Complete Birth Of The Bebop
1940 (age 20)

Jay McShann And His Orchestra
Buddy Anderson, Orville Minor (trumpet) Bob Gould (trombone, violin) John Jackson,
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bob Mabane (tenor sax) Jay McShann (piano) Gene Ramey (bass)
Gus Johnson (drums)
Trocadero Ballroom, Wichita, KS, August 9, 1940
Jumping At The Woodside
Stash ST-CD-542
I Got Rhythm
* Stash ST-CD-542 Charlie Parker With Jay McShann And His Orchestra - Early Bird

Buddy Anderson, Orville Minor (trumpet) Bob Gould (trombone, violin) Charlie Parker (alto
sax) William J. Scott (tenor sax) Jay McShann (piano) Gene Ramey (bass) Gus Johnson
(drums)
Trocadero Ballroom, Wichita, KS, November 30, 1940
Spotlite (E) SPJ 120; Onyx ORI 221; Stash
I've Found A New Baby
ST-CD-542
Body And Soul
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 120 Jay McShann Orchestra Featuring Charlie Parker - Early Bird
* Onyx ORI 221 Charlie Parker First Recordings!

Buddy Anderson, Orville Minor (trumpet) Bob Gould (trombone, violin) Charlie Parker (alto
sax) Bob Mabane (tenor sax) Jay McShann (piano) Gene Ramey (bass) Gus Johnson (drums)
Trocadero Ballroom, Wichita, KS, December 2, 1940
Honeysuckle Rose
ST-CD-542
Lady Be Good
Coquette
Moten Swing
Wichita Blues
1941
Buddy Anderson, Harold Bruce, Orville Minor (trumpet) Joe Taswell Baird (trombone) John
Jackson, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Harold Ferguson, Bob Mabane (tenor sax) Jay McShann
(piano) Gene Ramey (bass) Gus Johnson (drums) Walter Brown (vocals -2)
Dallas, TX, April 30, 1941
1. 93730-A Swingmatism
Decca 8570; MCA 1338
2. 93731-A Hootie Blues
3. 93732-A Dexter Blues
* MCA 1338 Jay McShann - The Early Bird Charlie Parker, 1941-1943: Jazz Heritage
Series
* Decca 8570 Jay McShann - Swingmatism / Vine Street Boogie
* Decca 8559 Jay McShann - Hootie Blues / Confessin' The Blues
* Decca 8583 Jay McShann - Dexter Blues / Hold 'Em Hootie
Kansas City Band

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Efferge Ware (guitar) Little Phil Phillips (drums)
Vic Damon Studio, Kansas City, MO, September, 1941 & 1942
Cherokee
Stash ST-CD-535
My Heart Tells Me
I've Found A New Baby
Body And Soul
1942
Clark Monroe
unknown (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (sax) Al Tinney (piano) Ebenezer Paul
(bass) unknown (drums) Clark Monroe (vocals)
Clark Monroe's Uptown House, NYC, January-March, 1942
Cherokee
ST-CD-542

Buddy Anderson, Bob Merrill, Orville Minor (trumpet) Lawrence Anderson, Joe Taswell
Baird (trombone) John Jackson, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Fred Culliver, Bob Mabane (tenor
sax) James Coe (baritone sax) Jay McShann (piano) Leonard "Lucky" Enois (guitar) Gene
Ramey (bass) Doc West (drums) Al Hibbler (vocals -2)
"Savoy Ballroom", NYC, February 13, 1942
1.
St. Louis Mood
Stash ST-CD-542
2.
I've Got It Bad
3.
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles 4.
Hootie Blues
5.
Swingmatism
Love Don't Get You Nothing
6.
But The Blues

Buddy Anderson, Bob Merrill, Orville Minor (trumpet) Lawrence Anderson, Joe Taswell
Baird (trombone) John Jackson, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Fred Culliver, Bob Mabane (tenor
sax) James Coe (baritone sax) Jay McShann (piano) Leonard "Lucky" Enois (guitar) Gene
Ramey (bass) Doc West (drums) Walter Brown (vocals -1,3) Al Hibbler (vocals -2)
NYC, July 2, 1942
1. 70993-A Lonely Boy Blues
2. 70994-A Get Me On Your Mind
Decca 4418, ED 742; MCA 1338
3. 70995-A The Jumpin' Blues
4. 70996-A Sepian Bounce
* MCA 1338 Jay McShann - The Early Bird Charlie Parker, 1941-1943: Jazz Heritage
Series
* Decca ED 742 Jay McShann - no details
* Decca 4387 Jay McShann - Lonely Boy Blues / Sepian Bounce
* Decca 4418; Coral 60034 Jay McShann - Get Me On Your Mind / The Jumpin' Blues
1943
Billy Eckstine's Jam Session
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (tenor sax) Oscar Pettiford (bass) Shadow Wilson
(drums)
Room 305 Of Savoy Hotel, Chicago, IL, February 15, 1943
Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 1 Stash ST-260, ST-CD-535
Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 2 -
* Stash ST-260, ST-CD-260 Charlie Parker - Birth Of The Bebop: Bird On Tenor 1943
Billy Eckstine's Jam Session

Billy Eckstine (trumpet -1/3) Charlie Parker (tenor sax) unknown (sax -1,2) Hurley Ramey
(guitar) Bob Redcross (brushes -1/3)
Room 305 Of Savoy Hotel, Chicago, IL, February 28, 1943
1.
Three Guesses
Stash ST-260, ST-CD-535
2.
Shoe Woogie
Stash ST-CD-535
3.
Boggie Woogie
4.
Body And Soul
Stash ST-CD-535
Benny Goodman Trio And Quartet

Benny Goodman (clarinet, composer, leader) Charlie Parker (alto sax) and others
Chicago, IL, February, 1943
Avalon
Stash ST-CD-535
China Boy
Charlie Parker
unknown (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (bass)
Chicago, IL, February, 1943
Indiana
Lady Be Good
Stash ST-CD-535
Charlie Parker - Hazel Scott

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Hazel Scott (piano)
Chicago, IL, 1943
Embraceable You
1944
Tiny Grimes Quintette
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Clyde Hart (piano) Tiny Grimes (guitar, vocals) Jimmy Butts (bass,
vocals) Doc West (drums)
WOR Studios, Broadway, NYC, September 15, 1944
S5710-1
S5710-2
Tiny's Tempo (short-take 1)

Tiny's Tempo (short-take 2)
S5710-3
Tiny's Tempo (orig.-take 3)
S5711-1
S5711-2
S5712-1
S5712-2
S5712-3
S5712-4
I'll Always Love You Just The

Same (take 1)
I'll Always Love You Just The
Same (take 2)
Romance Without Finance
(take 1)
(take 2)
(take 3)
(take 4)
(take 5)
Red Cross (short-take 1)
Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500

Savoy MG 12001, SJL 5500
Savoy 526, 541, 45-310, XP 8000, MG 9010,
MG 12001, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
Savoy SJL 2208, SJL 5500
Savoy 526, 567, 613, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
Savoy SJL 5500
Savoy SJL 5500
Savoy 532, 613, MG 9022, SJL 2201, SJL

5500
S5713-1
Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 532, 541, 567, 45-300, XP 8000, MG
S5713-2
Red Cross (orig.-take 2)
9000, MG 12001, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
* Savoy MG 12001 The Immortal Charlie Parker
* Savoy SJL 1107 Charlie Parker - Encores
* Savoy SJL 5500 Charlie Parker - The Complete Savoy Studio Sessions
* Savoy SJL 2201 Charlie Parker - Bird: Master Takes
* Savoy SJL 2208 Various Artists - The Changing Face Of Harlem
* Savoy MG 9010 The Charlie Parker Quintet, Vol. 3
* Savoy MG 9022 Various Artists - Birth Of The Bop, Vol. 1
* Savoy XP 8000 Charlie Parker, Vol. 1
* Savoy 45-310 Charlie Parker - Milestones / Tiny's Tempo
* Savoy 45-300 Charlie Parker - Now's The Time / Red Cross
* Savoy 526 Tiny Grimes - Tiny's Tempo / I'll Always Love You Just The Same
* Savoy 541, 915, 45-600 Charlie Parker - Tiny's Tempo / Red Cross
* Savoy 567 Tiny Grimes - I'll Always Love You Just The Same / Charlie Parker - Red Cross
* Savoy 613 Tiny Grimes - I'll Always Love You Just The Same / Romance Without Finance
= Savoy 925 Charlie Parker/Tiny Grimes - I'll Always Love You Just The Same / Romance
Without Finance
* Savoy 532 Tiny Grimes - Romance Without Finance / Red Cross
S5712-5
1945
Clyde Hart's All Stars
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Trummy Young (trombone, vocals) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Don
Byas (tenor sax) Clyde Hart (piano) Mike Bryan (guitar) Al Hall (bass) Specs Powell (drums)
Rubberlegs Williams (vocals -1/5)
NYC, January 4, 1945

Continental 6013; Remington REP 84, R
1031; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D; Onyx ORI 221
Continental 6020; Remington R 1031;
2. W3302
I Want Every Bit Of It
Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D; Onyx ORI 221
Continental 6013; Remington R 1031;
3. W3303
That's The Blues
Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D; Onyx ORI 221
Remington R 1031; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D;
4. W3304
G.I. Blues
Onyx ORI 221
Continental 6020; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D;
5. G.I. Blues (4-F Blues)
Onyx ORI 221
6. W3305
Dream Of You
Remington LP 803
7. W3306
Seventh Avenue
Remington LP 803
8. W3307
Sorta Kinda
Continental 6005; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D
9. W3308
Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh
Remington LP 803
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D Charlie Parker - Every Bit Of It 1945
* Remington R 1031 Clyde Hart/Timme Rosenkrantz/Rubberlegs Williams - The Birth Of
Bebop And Blues
* Remington REP 84 Clyde Hart - What's The Matter Now / ???
* Continental 6013 Clyde Hart - What's The Matter Now / That's The Blues
* Continental 6020 Clyde Hart - I Want Every Bit Of It / G.I. Blues
* Continental 6060 Clyde Hart - Dream Of You / Ooh Ooh, My My, Ooh Ooh
* Continental 6005 Clyde Hart - Seventh Avenue / Sorta Kinda
* Remington LP 803 Clyde Hart's All Stars (no details)
1. W3301
What's The Matter Now
Clyde Bernhardt And His Kansas City Buddies

Clyde Bernhardt (trombone, vocals) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jay McShann (piano) probably
Gene Ramey (bass) probably Gus Johnson (drums)
NYC, January, 1945
Masters Of Jazz MJCD 104; Philology (It) W
Lay Your Habits Down
849.2
Triflin' Woman Blues
So Good This Mornin'
Would You Do Me A Favor
* Masters Of Jazz MJCD 104 Charlie Parker, Vol. 3 Young Bird 1945
* Philology (It) W 849.2 Charlie Parker - Bird's Eyes, Vol. 19
Cootie Williams And His Orchestra

Cootie Williams (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Sam Taylor (tenor sax) Arnold Jarvis
(piano) Carl Pruitt (bass) Sylvester "Vess" Payne (drums)
radio broadcast, "Savoy Ballroom", NYC, February 12, 1945
Floogie Boo
Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D
Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Clyde Hart (piano) Remo Palmieri (guitar)
Slam Stewart (bass) Cozy Cole (drums)
NYC, February 28, 1945
Guild 1001; Musicraft 485, MVSCD 53;
G554A-1
Groovin' High
Savoy MG 12020; Prestige PR 24030
Musicraft 488, MVSCD 53; Savoy MG
G556
All The Things You Are
12020; Prestige PR 24030
G557
Dizzy Atmosphere
* Savoy MG 12020 Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High
* Prestige PR 24030 Dizzy Gillespie - In The Beginning
* Musicraft MVSCD 53 Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff
* Guild 1001 Dizzy Gillespie - Blue 'N' Boogie / Groovin' High
* Musicraft 485 Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High / A Handfulla Gimme
* Musicraft 488 Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Atmosphere / All The Things You Are
Dizzy Gillespie And His All Stars

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Curly Russell
(bass) Sidney Catlett (drums) Sarah Vaughan (vocals -3)
NYC, May 11, 1945
1. G565A-1 Salt Peanuts
Guild 1002; Musicraft MVSCD 53; Prestige
2. G566A-1 Shaw 'Nuff
PR 24030
3. G567A-1 Lover Man
Prestige PR 24030
4. G568A-1 Hot House
* Savoy MG 12020 Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High
* Prestige PR 24030 Dizzy Gillespie - In The Beginning
* Musicraft MVSCD 53 Dizzy Gillespie - Shaw 'Nuff
* Guild 1003 Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts / Hot House
* Musicraft 518 Dizzy Gillespie - Salt Peanuts / I Waited For You
* Guild 1002; Musicraft 354 Dizzy Gillespie - Lover Man / Shaw 'Nuff
* Musicraft 499 Sarah Vaughan/George Treadwell - I'm Through With Love / Sarah
Vaughan/Dizzy Gillespie - Lover Man
* Musicraft 486 Dizzy Gillespie - Blue 'N' Boogie / Hot House
Sarah Vaughan With Dizzy Gillespie Septet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips (tenor sax) Nat Jaffe (piano 1,3) Tadd Dameron (piano -2) Bill DeArango (guitar) Curly Russell (bass) Max Roach
(drums) Sarah Vaughan (vocals)
NYC, May 25, 1945

1. W3325
What More Can A Woman Do Continental 6008; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D
I'd Rather Have A Memory
2. W3326
Than A Dream
3. W3327
Mean To Me
Continental 6024; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D
* Continental 6008 Sarah Vaughan - What More Can A Woman Do / I'd Rather Have A
Memory Than A Dream
* Continental 6024 Sarah Vaughan - Signing Off / Mean To Me
Charlie Parker Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Don Byas (tenor sax) Al Haig (piano)
Curly Russell (bass) Stan Levey (drums)
"Lincoln Square", NY, May 30, 1945
Sweet Georgia Brown
(incomplete)
Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Red Norvo (vibes) Al Haig (piano) Curly
Russell (bass) Stan Levey (drums)
"Academy Of Music", Philadelphia, PA, June 5, 1945
Blue 'N' Boogie (incomplete) Philology (It) W 847.2
Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips (tenor sax) Red Norvo (vibes)
Teddy Wilson (piano) Slam Stewart (bass) Specs Powell (drums)
WOR Studios, NYC, June 6, 1945
T8-A
Hallelujah
Dial LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 107, SPJ 127
T8-B
Dial unissued
T8-C
T8-D
T8-E
Hallelujah (Sing Hallelujah!)
Dial 1045; Spotlite (E) SPJ 105, SPJ 127
T8-F
Hallelujah
Comet T-6; Dial LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 127
T9-A
Get Happy
Dial unissued
Dial 1035, LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 107, SPJ
T9-B
127
T9-C
Dial unissued
T9-D
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips (tenor sax) Red Norvo (vibes)
Teddy Wilson (piano) Slam Stewart (bass) J.C. Heard (drums)
Dial 1045, LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 107, SPJ

127
Comet T-6; Dial LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ
T10-B
Slam Slam Blues
107, SPJ 127
T11-A
Congo Blues
Dial LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 107, SPJ 127
T11-AA
Congo Blues (uncomplete take) Dial LP 903
T11-B
Congo Blues
Dial 1035; Spotlite (E) SPJ 127
T11-BB
Congo Blues (uncomplete take) Dial LP 903
T11-C
Congo Blues
* Dial LP 903 Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 107; Zim ZM 1001 Various Artists - Lullaby In Rhythm
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 127 Red Norvo's Fabulous Jam Session
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 105 Charlie Parker On Dial, Vol. 5
* Dial 1045 Red Norvo - Bird's Blues / Sing Hallelujah!
* Comet T-6 Red Norvo - Halleluliah / Slim Slam Blues
* Dial 1035 Red Norvo - Congo Blues / Get Happy
* Comet T-7 Red Norvo - Get Happy / Congo Blues
T10-A
Slam Slam Blues (Bird's Blues)
Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Don Byas (tenor sax -1,2,6,7) Al Haig
(piano) Curly Russell (bass) Max Roach (drums -1/5) Sid Catlett (drums -6,7)
"Town Hall", NYC, June 22, 1945
1.
Intro
Uptown UPCD 27.51
2.
Bebop
3.
A Night In Tunisia
4.
Groovin' High
5.
Salt Peanuts
6.
Hot House
7.
52nd Street Theme
* Uptown UPCD 27.51 Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - Town Hall, New York City, June
22, 1945
Sir Charles Thompson And His All-Stars

Buck Clayton (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Dexter Gordon (tenor sax) Sir Charles
Thompson (piano) Danny Barker (guitar) Jimmy Butts (bass) J.C. Heard (drums)
NYC, September 4, 1945
Apollo 757, LAP 103; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D;
R1030
Takin' Off
Vogue (F) LDAP 769; Masters Of Jazz
MJCD 128
R1031
If I Had You
R1032
20th Century Blues
Vogue (F) LDAP 769

R1033
The Street Beat
Vogue (F) LDAP 769; Masters Of Jazz
MJCD 128
* Vogue (F) LDAP 769 Sir Charles Thompson - The Fabulous Apollo Sessions
* Masters Of Jazz MJCD 128 Dexter Gordon, Vol. 2 Young Dex 1944-1946
* Apollo LAP 103 Sir Charles Thompson And His All-Stars
= Vogue (E) LDE 032, (F) LD 038 Sir Charles Thompson - Sir Charles All Stars Featuring
Charlie Parker
* Apollo 757; Swing (F) SW 385 Sir Charles Thompson - Takin' Off / If I Had You
* Apollo 759; Swing (F) SW 386 Sir Charles Thompson - 20th Century Blues / The Street
Beat
Charlie Parker Rebeboppers / The Be Bop Boys

Miles Davis (trumpet -2/13) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Sadik Hakim (piano -11/13) Dizzy
Gillespie (piano -1/10,16, trumpet, piano -14,15) Curly Russell (bass) Max Roach (drums)
WOR Studios, Broadway, NYC, November 26, 1945
Warming Up A Riff (orig.-take Savoy 945, 45-302, XP 8001, MG 9000, MG
1. S5849-1
1)
12014, MG 12079, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
2. S5850-1 Billie's Bounce (new-take 1)
Savoy MG 12079, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
3. S5850-2 Billie's Bounce (short-take 2) Savoy MG 12079, SJL 5500
Savoy 573, 45-304, XP 8000, MG 9001, MG
6. S5850-5 Billie's Bounce (orig.-take 5)
12009, MG 12079, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
7. S5851-1 Now's The Time (short-take 1) Savoy MG 12079, SJL 5500
8. S5851-2 Now's The Time (short-take 2) 9. S5851-3 Now's The Time (new-take 3) Savoy MG 12079, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 573, 45-300, 4508, XP 8000, MG
10. S5851-4 Now's The Time (orig.-take 4) 9000, MG 12001, MG 12079, MG 12125,
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
Thriving On A Riff (new-take
11. S5852-1
Savoy MG 12079, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
1)
Thriving On A Riff (short-take
12. S5852-2
2)
Savoy 903, 945, 45-306, XP 8006, MG 9001,
Thriving On A Riff (orig.-take
13. S5852-3
MG 12009, MG 12079, MG 12126, SJL
3)
2201, SJL 5500
14. S5853-1 Ko-Ko (short-take 1)
Savoy 597, 45-311, 4508, XP 8001, XP 8097,
15. S5853-2 Ko-Ko (orig.-take 2) (Cocoa) MG 9000, MG 9034, MG 12014, MG 12079,
MG 12126, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
16.
Meandering (new-take 1)
Savoy MG 12079, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
* Savoy MG 12014 The Genius Of Charlie Parker
* Savoy MG 12079 Charlie Parker Story

* Savoy MG 12009 Charlie Parker Memorial, Vol. 2
* Savoy MG 12125 Various Artists - The Many Faces Of Blues
* Savoy MG 12126 Various Artists - The Jazz Hour
* Savoy MG 9034 Various Artists - Bird - Diz - Bud - Max
* Savoy XP 8097 Various Artists - Bird - Diz - Bud - Max, Vol. 1
* Savoy 45-302 Charlie Parker - Warming Up A Riff / Buzzy
* Savoy 45-304 Charlie Parker - Billie's Bounce / Klaunstance
* Savoy 45-300 Charlie Parker - Now's The Time / Red Cross
* Savoy 4508 Charlie Parker - Now's The Time / Ko-Ko
* Savoy 45-306 Charlie Parker - Thriving On A Riff / Sippin' At Bells
* Savoy 45-311 Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko / Marmaduke
* Savoy 945 Charlie Parker - Warming Up A Riff / Thriving On A Riff
* Savoy 573 Charlie Parker - Billie's Bounce / Now's The Time
= Savoy 918 Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Billie's Bounce / Now's The Time
* Savoy 903 The Be Bop Boys - Opus De Bop / Thriving On A Riff
* Savoy 597 Don Byas - How High The Moon / Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko
= Savoy 916 Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko / Don Byas - How High The Moon
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker (alto sax) and others
NYC, late 1945
52nd Street Theme
Philology (It) 214 W 18
Ornithology
Embraceable You
Dexterity
The Way You Look Tonight
Barbados
Dizzy Gillespie And His Bebop Six

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Milt Jackson (vibes) Al Haig (piano) Ray
Brown (bass) Stan Levey (drums) Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman (announcer)
AFRS Jubilee, NBC Studios, Hollywood, CA, December 29, 1945
Spotlite (E) SPJ 123; Klacto (E) MG 102;
Dizzy Atmosphere
Stash ST-CD-535
Shaw 'Nuff
Spotlite (E) SPJ 123; Stash ST-CD-535
Groovin' High
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 123 Charlie Parker - Yardbird In Lotus Land
* Klacto (E) MG 102 Charlie Parker - Bird Meets Birks
Slim Gaillard And His Orchestra

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jack McVea (tenor sax) Dodo Marmarosa
(piano) Slim Gaillard (piano, guitar, vocals) Bam Brown (bass, vocals) Zutty Singleton
(drums)
probably Hollywood, CA, December 29, 1945
BTJ38-2
Dizzy Boogie (take 2)
Savoy XP 8097, MG 12014
BTJ39-2
Flat Foot Floogie (orig.-take 2) BTJ40-2
Popity Pop (orig.-take 1)
Savoy XP 8098, MG 9034, MG 12014
BTJ41RE
Slim's Jam (new-take 2)
Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) and others
probably NYC, 1945
Donna Lee
Groovin' High
1946
Dizzy Gillespie And His Rebop Six
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker (alto sax, vocals) Luckey Tompson (tenor
sax) Milt Jackson (vibes) Al Haig (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Stan Levey (drums)
WEAF radio broadcast, "Billy Berg's Supper Club", Hollywood, CA, January 24, 1946
Meexa Discox 1776; Spotlite (E) SPJ 123;
Salt Peanuts
Phoenix Jazz LP 17
* Meexa Discox 1776 Charlie Parker - Rappin' With Bird
* Phoenix Jazz LP 17 Charlie Parker - Yardbird In Lotusland
Jazz At The Philharmonic

Dizzy Gillespie, Al Killian (trumpet) Charlie Parker, Willie Smith (alto sax) Charlie Ventura,
Lester Young (tenor sax) Mel Powell (piano) Billy Hadnott (bass) Lee Young (drums)
"Philharmonic Auditorium", Los Angeles, CA, January 28, 1946
Mercury 11040, MG 35004; Verve MG

VOL.2, VE2 2518
414 | 269
Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 2
VOL.2, VE2 2518
Al Killan, Howard McGhee (trumpet) Charlie Parker, Willie Smith (alto sax) Lester Young
(tenor sax) Arnold Ross (piano) Billy Hadnott (bass) Lee Young (drums)
241 | 260
Blues For Norman, Part 1
VOL.2, VE2 2518
242 | 261
Blues For Norman, Part 2
VOL.2, VE2 2518
243 | 262
I Can't Get Started, Part 1
VOL.2, VE2 2518, VSP 41
244 | 263
I Can't Get Started, Part 2
VOL.2, VE2 2518, VSP 41
Mercury 11075, MGC 508, MGC 608; Verve
245 | 264
Lady Be Good, Part 1
MGV 8002, V3HB 8840, VE2 2518
246 | 265
Lady Be Good, Part 2
800 | 270
After You've Gone, Part 1
VE2 2518
801 | 271
After You've Gone, Part 2
* Verve MG VOL.2 Jazz At The Philharmonic, Vol. 2
* Verve VE2 2518 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Bird And Pres - The '46 Concerts
* Verve VSP 41 Lester Young At JATP
* Mercury MGC 508 Jazz At The Philharmonic - How High The Moon
* Mercury MGC 608; Clef MGC 608 Jazz At The Philharmonic - How High The Moon
= Verve MG VOL.1 Jazz At The Philharmonic, Vol. 1
* Verve MGV 8002 The Charlie Parker Story #3
= Verve MGV 8100-3 The Charlie Parker Story
* Verve V3HB 8840 Charlie Parker - Return Engagement
* Mercury MG 35004, MG VOL.3, MG VOL.3x45; Clef MG VOL.3 Jazz At The
Philharmonic, Vol. 3
* Mercury 11040, 11040x45; Clef 11040, 11040x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Crazy
Rhythm, Part 2 / Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 1
* Mercury 11039, 11039x45; Clef 11039, 11039x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Crazy
Rhythm, Part 1 / Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 2
* Mercury 11073, 11073x45; Clef 11073, 11073x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Blues For
Norman, Part 1 / I Can't Get Started, Part 2
* Mercury 11074, 11074x45; Clef 11074, 11074x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Blues For
Norman, Part 2 / I Can't Get Started, Part 1
* Mercury 11075, 11075x45; Clef 11075, 11075x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Lady Be
Good, Part 1&2
* Mercury 11041, 11041x45; Clef 11041, 11041x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - After You've
Gone, Part 1&2
413 | 268
Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 1
Tempo Jazz Men / Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) George
Handy (piano) Arvin Garrison (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Stan Levey (drums)
Electro Broadcast Studios, Glendale, CA, February 5, 1946
Dial 1004 (alt.1), 1004 (alt.2), LP 207;
D1000
Diggin' Diz (Bongo Beep)
* Stash ST-CD-567 Charlie Parker - The Complete Dial Sessions
* Dial LP 207 Charlie Parker, Vol. 4
* Dial 1004 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Moose The Mooche / Tempo Jazz Men - Diggin' Diz
* Dial 1004 (alt.2) Dizzy Gillespie - Confirmation / Diggin' Diz

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (piano) Red Callender (bass)
Doc West (drums)
California, February, 1946
Lover Come Back To Me, Part
1
Lover Come Back To Me, Part
2
Charlie Parker Quintet

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Joe Albany (piano) Addison Farmer (bass)
Chuck Thompson (drums)
"Finale Club", Los Angeles, CA, early March, 1946
Blue 'N' Boogie
Spotlite (E) SPJ 123
Anthropology
Billie's Bounce
Ornithology
Charlie Parker Septet

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Dodo
Marmarosa (piano) Arvin Garrison (guitar -4/11) Vic McMillan (bass) Roy Porter (drums)
Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, March 28, 1946
1. D1010-1 Moose The Mooche
Dial LP 201; Spotlite (E) SPJ 101
Dial 1003 (alt.1), 1003 (alt.2), 1004, 1004
2. D1010-2 (alt.1), 1004 (alt.3), LP 905; Spotlite (E) SPJ
101
3. D1010-3 Spotlite (E) SPJ 101
4. D1011-1 Yardbird Suite
5. D1011-4
6. D1012-1
7. D1012-3
8. D1012-4
Dial 1003, 1003 (alt.1), 1003 (alt.2), 1004

(alt.3), LP 905; Spotlite (E) SPJ 101
Dial 1006, LP 905; Spotlite (E) SPJ 101
Ornithology
Ornithology (Bird Lore)
Ornithology
A Night In Tunisia (excerpt)
9. D1013-1
(The Famous Alto Break)
10. D1013-4 A Night In Tunisia
11. D1013-5 Dial 1002, LP 905; Spotlite (E) SPJ 101
* Dial LP 905 Charlie Parker - Alternate Masters, Vol. 2
* Dial LP 208 Dodo Marmarosa - Piano Moods
* Dial 1003 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite / Moose The Mooche
* Dial 1003 (alt.2) Charlie Parker - Moose The Mooche / Yardbird Suite
* Dial 1004 Charlie Parker - Moose The Mooche / Tempo Jazz Men - When I Grow Too Old
To
= Dial no numbers Charlie Parker Septet With Gabriel On Trumpet
* Dial 1004 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Moose The Mooche / Tempo Jazz Men - Diggin' Diz
* Dial 1004 (alt.3) Charlie Parker - Moose The Mooche / Yardbird Suite
* Dial 1003 Tempo Jazz Men - 'Round Midnight / Charlie Parker - Yardbird Suite
* Dial 1006 Sonny Berman - Curbstone Scuffle / Charlie Parker - Bird Lore
= Dial D 1 Various Artists - Bebop Jazz 1947
* Dial 1002 Charlie Parker - A Night In Tunisia / Ornithology
Charlie Parker With The King Cole Trio

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Benny Carter, Willie Smith (alto sax -1) Nat King Cole (piano)
Oscar Moore (guitar -1) Johnny Miller (bass -1) Buddy Rich (drums)
Los Angeles, CA, March-April, 1946
1.
Cherokee
2.
Ornithology

Buck Clayton (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Willie Smith (alto sax -5/11) Coleman
Hawkins, Lester Young (tenor sax) Kenny Kersey (piano) Irving Ashby (guitar -5/11) Billy
Hadnott (bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
"Embassy Auditorium", Los Angeles, CA, April 22, 1946
Clef 101; Mercury 11003, MG 35007; Verve
1. 1929 | 101 JATP Blues, Part 1
MG VOL.4, VE2 2518, VSP 23, VSP 43
MG VOL.4, VE2 2518, VSP 23, VSP 43

MG VOL.4, VE2 2518, VSP 23, VSP 43
5. 135
I Got Rhythm, Part 1
Clef unissued
6. 136
7. 137
8. 138
Mercury 11084, MG VOL.14; Verve MG
9. 625
VOL.4, VE2 2518
10. 626
VOL.4, VE2 2518
11. 627
VOL.4, VE2 2518
12. 1933 |
Slow Drag, Part 1
133
MG VOL.4, VSP 41
13. 1934 |
Slow Drag, Part 2
134
MG VOL.4, VSP 41
14. 142
I Surrender, Dear, Part 1
Clef unissued
15. 143
16. 628
VOL.4, VSP 41
17. 629
VOL.4, VSP 41
18. 630
VOL.4, VSP 41
* Verve VE2 2518 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Bird And Pres - The '46 Concerts
* Verve VSP 23 Charlie Parker - Bird Wings
* Verve VSP 43 Jazz At The Philharmonic - The Best Of JATP
* Mercury MG VOL.14, MG VOL.14x45; Clef MG VOL.14 Jazz At The Philharmonic, Vol.
14
* Clef 101 Jazz At The Philharmonic - JATP Blues, Part 1&2
* Mercury 11003, 11003x45; Clef 11003, 11003x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - JATP
Blues, Part 1 / Slow Drag, Part 2
Blues, Part 2 / Slow Drag, Part 1
* Clef 102 Jazz At The Philharmonic - JATP Blues, Part 3&4
Blues, Part 3&4
* Mercury 11084, 11084x45; Clef 11084, 11084x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - I Got
Rhythm, Part 1 / I Surrender, Dear, Part 3

* Clef 103 Jazz At The Philharmonic - Slow Drag, Part 1&2

Howard McGhee (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jimmy Bunn (piano) Bob Kesterson
(bass) Roy Porter (drums)
C.P. MacGregor Studios, Los Angeles, CA, July 29, 1946
D1021-A
Max Making Wax
D1022-A
Lover Man
D1023-A
The Gypsy
* Dial 1007 Howard McGhee - Be-Bop / Charlie Parker - Lover Man
* Dial 1043 Charlie Parker - Drifting On A Reed / The Gypsy
Howard McGhee Quintet

same session
C.P. MacGregor Studios, Los Angeles, CA, July 29, 1946
Dial 1007, LP 201; Spotlite (E) SPJ 101;
D1024-A
Dizzy's Fingers (Be-Bop)
Stash ST-CD-23
* Stash ST-CD-23 Charlie Parker - The Legendary Dial Sessions, Vol. 1
* Dial 1007 Howard McGhee - Be-Bop / Charlie Parker - Lover Man
1947
Melvyn Broiles, Howard McGhee, Shorty Rogers (trumpet -5) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Russ
Freeman (piano) Arnold Fishkin (bass) Jimmy Pratt (drums)
Chuck Copely's home, Hollywood, CA, February 1, 1947
1.
Blues I (On The Sofa)
Stash ST-CD-25
2.
Blues II (Kopely Plaza Blues) 3. D901
Lullaby In Rhythm I
4. D902
Lullaby In Rhythm II
5.
Yardbird Suite (incomplete)
* Stash ST-CD-25 Charlie Parker - The Legendary Dial Masters, Vol. 2
Charlie Parker Quartet

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Russ Freeman (piano) Arnold Fishkin (bass) Jimmy Pratt (drums)
Chuck Copely's home, Hollywood, CA, February 1, 1947

K903
Home Cooking III
K904
Home Cooking II
K905
Home Cooking I
Charlie Parker Quartet With Earl Coleman

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Erroll Garner (piano) Red Callender (bass) Doc West (drums) Earl
Coleman (vocals)
C.P. MacGregor Studios, Los Angeles, CA, February 19, 1947
Dial 1015 (alt.3), 1019, LP 905; Spotlite (E)
D1051-C
This Is Always
SPJ 102
D1051-D
D1052-A
Dark Shadows
Dial LP 202, LP 901; Spotlite (E) SPJ 102
D1052-B
Dial 1014, 1014 (alt.1), 1014 (alt.2); Spotlite
D1052-C
(E) SPJ 102
D1052-D
* Dial LP 901 Charlie Parker - The Bird Blows The Blues
* Dial 1015 (alt.3) Charlie Parker - This Is Always / Quasimado
* Dial 1019 Charlie Parker - Dewey Square / Charlie Parker/Earl Coleman - This Is Always
* Dial 1014 Charlie Parker - Bird's Nest / Dark Shadows
* Dial 1014 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Bird's Nest / Dark Shadows

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Erroll Garner (piano) Red Callender (bass) Doc West (drums)
Dial 1014 (alt.2), 1015, LP 905; Spotlite (E)
D1053-A
Bird's Nest
SPJ 102
Dial 1014 (alt.1), LP 905; Spotlite (E) SPJ
D1053-B
102
Dial 1014, 1015 (alt.1), LP 202; Spotlite (E)
D1053-C
SPJ 102
Cool Blues (Hot Blues)
D1054-A
(Ornithology)
D1054-B
Cool Blues (Blowtop Blues)
Dial 1015, LP 202, LP 901; Spotlite (E) SPJ
D1054-C
Cool Blues
102
D1054-CC Dial 1015 (alt.1), 1015 (alt.2)
D1054-D
* Dial 1015 Charlie Parker - Cool Blues / Bird's Nest
* Dial 1014 Charlie Parker - Bird's Nest / Dark Shadows
* Dial 1015 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Cool Blues / Bird's Nest
* Dial 1015 (alt.2) Charlie Parker - Cool Blues / Quasimado
Charlie Parker's New Stars

Howard McGhee (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Wardell Gray (tenor sax) Dodo
Marmarosa (piano) Barney Kessel (guitar) Red Callender (bass) Don Lamond (drums)
D1071-A
Relaxin' At Camarillo
D1071-C
D1071-D
D1071-E
D1072-A
Cheers
D1072-B
D1072-C
D1072-D
Dial 1013, 1013 (alt.); Spotlite (E) SPJ 103
D1073-A
Carvin' The Bird
Dial 1013 (alt.), LP 901; Spotlite (E) SPJ 103
D1073-B
103
Dial 1022, 1022 (alt.), 1030; Spotlite (E) SPJ
D1074-A
Stupendous
103; Jazztone (Eu) J 1245
D1074-B
* Jazztone (Eu) J 1245 Various Artists - Modern Jazz Festival
= Jazztone (F) J 1245 Various Artists - Festival Du Jazz Moderne
* Dial 1030 Charlie Parker - Relaxin' At Camarillo / Stupendous
* Dial 1012 Charlie Parker - Relaxin' At Camarillo / Serge Chaloff - Blue Serge
* Dial 1013 Charlie Parker - Cheers / Carving The Bird
* Dial 1013 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Cheers / Carving The Bird
* Dial 1022 Charlie Parker - Stupendous / Dexter Gordon - Bikini
* Dial 1022 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Stupendous / Serge Chaloff/Ralph Burns - Blue Serge
Howard McGhee Quintet
Howard McGhee (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Hampton Hawes (piano) Addison
Farmer (bass) Roy Porter (drums)
"Hi-De-Ho Club", Los Angeles, CA, March 9, 1947
Dee Dee's Dance I
Dee Dee's Dance II
Charlie Parker All Stars

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
Harry Smith Studios, NYC, May 8, 1947
S3420-1
Donna Lee (new-take 1)
S3420-2
S3420-3
S3420-4
Savoy 45-312, MG 12009, SJL 5500
Savoy 652, XP 8001, MG 9000, MG 12014,
S3420-5
Donna Lee (orig.-take 3)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3421-1
Chasin' The Bird (new-take 1) Savoy MG 12001, SJL 5500
S3421-2
Chasin' The Bird (short-take 2) Savoy SJL 1107, SJL 5500
S3421-3
Chasin' The Bird (new-take 3) Savoy 45-301, MG 12009, SJL 5500
Savoy 977, XP 8002, MG 9000, MG 12014,
S3421-4
Chasin' The Bird (short-take 4)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3422-1
Cheryl (short-take 1)
Savoy 952, MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 45-301, XP 8003, MG 9001, MG
S3422-2
Cheryl (orig.-take 2)
12001, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3423-1
Buzzy (new-take 1)
S3423-2
Buzzy (short-take 2)
Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
S3423-3
Buzzy (new-take 3)
S3423-4
Buzzy (short-take 4)
Savoy 652, 45-302, XP 8002, MG 9001, MG
S3423-5
Buzzy (orig.-take)
12000, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
* Savoy 45-312 Charlie Parker - Donna Lee / Steeplechase
* Savoy 45-301 Charlie Parker - Chasin' The Bird / Cheryl
* Savoy 45-302 Charlie Parker - Warming Up A Riff / Buzzy

* Savoy 652, 928 Charlie Parker - Donna Lee / Buzzy
* Savoy 977 Charlie Parker - Chasin' The Bird / Miles Davis - Little Willie Leaps
* Savoy 952 Charlie Parker - Bird Gets The Worm / Cheryl
Miles Davis' All Stars

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (tenor sax) John Lewis (piano) Nelson Boyd (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
Harry Smith Studios, NYC, August 14, 1947
S3440-1
Milestones (orig.-take 1)
Savoy 45-310, SJL 5500
Savoy 934, XP 8004, MG 9001, MG 12009,
S3440-2
Milestones (new-take 2)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3440-3
Milestones (orig.-take 3)
Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Little Willie Leaps (short-take
S3441-1
1)
S3441-2
Little Willie Leaps (new-take 2) Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 977, 45-305, 4507, XP 8006, XP 8098,
Little Willie Leaps (orig.-take
S3441-3
MG 9001, MG 9034, MG 12001, SJL 2201,
3)
SJL 5500
S3442-1
Half Nelson (new-take 1)
Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 951, 45-303, 4507, XP 8005, MG
S3442-2
Half Nelson (orig.-take 2)
9000, MG 12009, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3443-1
Sippin' At Bells (short-take 1) Savoy MG 12009, SJL 5500
Savoy 934, 45-306, XP 8004, MG 9000, MG
S3443-2
Sippin' At Bells (orig.-take 2)
12009, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
S3443-3
Sippin' At Bells (short-take 3) Savoy SJL 5500
S3443-4
Sippin' At Bells (new-take 4) Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
* Savoy 45-310 Charlie Parker - Milestones / Tiny's Tempo
* Savoy 45-305 Charlie Parker - Little Willie Leaps / Another Hair Do
* Savoy 4507 Miles Davis - Little Willie Leaps / Half Nelson
* Savoy 45-303 Charlie Parker - Half Nelson / Merry-Go-Round
* Savoy 45-306 Charlie Parker - Thriving On A Riff / Sippin' At Bells
* Savoy 934 Charlie Parker/Miles Davis - Milestones / Sippin' At Bells
* Savoy 977 Charlie Parker - Chasin' The Bird / Miles Davis - Little Willie Leaps
* Savoy 951 Fats Navarro/Leo Parker - Goin' To Minton's / Miles Davis/Charlie Parker Half Nelson
Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) John LaPorta (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lennie Tristano
(piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Max Roach (drums) Bruce Elliott, Barry
Ulanov (announcer)
radio broadcast, "Bands For Bonds", WOR Studios, NYC, September 13, 1947
Ko-Ko I
Hot House
Fine And Dandy
Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) John LaPorta (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lennie Tristano
(piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Max Roach (drums) Carl Caruso (announcer)
radio broadcast, "Bands For Bonds", WOR Studios, NYC, September 20, 1947
Ko-Ko II
On The Sunny Side Of The
Street
How Deep Is The Ocean
Tiger Rag
Spotlite (E) SPJ 107; ESP-Disk' ESP 3000
52nd Street Theme
* ESP-Disk' ESP 3000, ESPCD 3000 Charlie Parker - Live Performances

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Al McKibbon (bass)
Joe Harris (drums)
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, September 29, 1947
Black Deuce unnumbered; Birdland BLP 425;
Savoy SJL 1177; Roost RLP 2234, RLP
13000
A Night In Tunisia, Part 1
2257; Vogue (E) LAE 12252, (F) DP 08;
Charlie Parker CP 512; Natural Organic 7000
13001
A Night In Tunisia, Part 2
13002
Dizzy Atmosphere
2257; Vogue (E) LAE 12252, (F) DP 08;
Mode (F) MDINT 9161; Natural Organic
7000
13003
Groovin' High, Part 1
2257; Vogue (E) LAE 12252, (F) DP 08;
Charlie Parker CP 512; Natural Organic 7000
13004
Groovin' High, Part 2

Savoy 45-308, XP 8005, MG 9011, SJL
13005
Confirmation (Riff Warmer)
1177; Roost RLP 2234, RLP 2257; Vogue (E)
LAE 12252, (F) DP 08; Natural Organic 7000
Ko-Ko
Savoy SJL 1177; Natural Organic 7000
* Savoy SJL 1177 Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Bebop's Heartbeat
* Roost RLP 2234 Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - Diz 'N' Bird In Concert
* Roost RLP 2257 The World Of Charlie Parker
* Vogue (E) LAE 12252 Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker - Diz 'N' Bird In Concert
* Vogue (F) DP 08 Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/Dizzy Gillespie - 3 Geants Du Jazz
* Charlie Parker CP 512 Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie - Bird And Diz
* Natural Organic 7000 Various Artists - It Happened One Night
* Mode (F) MDINT 9161 Various Artists - Lullabies Of Birdland
* Birdland BLP 425 A Night At Carnegie Hall With Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie
* Savoy 45-308 Charlie Parker - Barbados / Riff Warmer
* Black Deuce unnumbered Dizzy Gillespie - A Night In Tunisia, Part 1&2
* Black Deuce unnumbered Dizzy Gillespie - Dizzy Atmosphere / Confirmation
* Black Deuce unnumbered Dizzy Gillespie - Groovin' High, Part 1&2
Original Charlie Parker Quintet

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Duke Jordan (piano) Tommy Potter (bass)
Max Roach (drums)
WOR Studios, NYC, October 28, 1947
D1101-A
Dexterity
Dial 1032, 1032 (alt.), LP 905; Spotlite (E)
D1101-B
SPJ 104
D1102-A
Bongo Bop
D1102-B
104
Dewey Square (Air
D1103-A
Conditioning) (Prezology)
D1103-B
Dewey Square
D1103-C
Dial 1056, 1056 (alt.1), 1056 (alt.2), LP 904;
D1104-A
The Hymn
D1104-B
The Hymn (Superman)
D1105-A
Bird Of Paradise
D1105-B
D1105-C
D1106-A
Embraceable You
104
Embraceable You
(Embraceable)
* Dial LP 210 Various Artists - Swinging With The Woody Herman Woodchoppers
* Dial LP 212 Various Artists - Dizzy Gillespie And Modern Trumpets
* Dial 1032 Charlie Parker - Bird Of Paradise / Dexterity
* Dial 1032 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Bird Of Paradise / Dexterity
* Dial 1024 Charlie Parker - Bongo Bop / Embraceable You
* Dial 1024 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - Bongo Bop / Embraceable You
* Dial 1056 Charlie Parker - The Hymn / Air Conditioning
* Dial 1019 Charlie Parker - Dewey Square / Charlie Parker/Earl Coleman - This Is Always
* Dial 1056 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - The Hymn / Giant Swing
* Dial 1056 (alt.2) Charlie Parker - Superman / Prezology
D1106-B

same personnel
WOR Studios, NYC, November 4, 1947
D1111-C
Bird Feathers
D1112-A
Klactoveedsedstene
D1112-B
D1113-B
Scrapple From The Apple
D1113-C
-

Dial 1058, 1058 (alt.), LP 207; Spotlite (E)
D1114-A
My Old Flame (Blue Lamp)
SPJ 105
D1115-A
Out Of Nowhere
D1115-B
Out Of Nowhere (Nowhere)
D1115-C
Out Of Nowhere
D1116-A
Don't Blame Me
105
* Dial 1058 Charlie Parker - My Old Flame / Bird Feathers
* Dial 1040 Charlie Parker - Klactoveedsedstene / Charlie's Wig
* Dial 1021 Charlie Parker - Scrapple From The Apple / Don't Blame Me
* Dial 1058 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Blue Lamp / Habanera Mambobop
Barry Ulanov And His All Star Metronome Jazzmen
Fats Navarro (trumpet) John LaPorta (clarinet -1,4/6) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Allen Eager
(tenor sax -1,4/6) Lennie Tristano (piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Tommy Potter (bass) Buddy
Rich (drums) Bruce Elliott, Barry Ulanov (announcer)
radio broadcast, "Bands For Bonds", WOR Studios, NYC, November 8, 1947
1.
52nd Street Theme
2.
Donna Lee
3.
Hot House (Fats Flats)
4.
Groovin' High
5.
Ko-Ko
6.
Anthropology
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 108; Zim ZM 1002 Various Artists - Anthropology
The Lost Milton H. Green Home Recordings

Allen Eager (alto sax -1, tenor sax -2,3) Charlie Parker (tenor sax -1, alto sax -2,3) Bud
Powell (piano) Specs Goldberg (bass) Max Roach (drums -1) Morty Yoss (drums -2)
unknown (drums -3)
"Milton H. Greene's photography studio", 480 Lexington Ave., NYC, late 1947
1.
Swapping Horns
Uptown UPCD 27.49
2.
3.
Original Horns
* Uptown UPCD 27.49 Allen Eager - In The Land Of Oo-Bla-Dee 1947-1953
Original Charlie Parker Quintet With J.J. Johnson

Miles Davis (trumpet) J.J. Johnson (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Duke Jordan (piano)
Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (drums)
WOR Studios, NYC, December 17, 1947
Drifting On A Reed (Giant
D1151-B
Swing)
106
D1151-D
Drifting On A Reed
Drifting On A Reed
Dial 1043, 1056 (alt.2), LP 207; Spotlite (E)
D1151-E
(Prezology) (Air Conditioning) SPJ 106
D1152-A
Quasimado
Dial 1015 (alt.2), 1015 (alt.3), LP 904;
D1152-B
D1153-B
Charlie's Wig
D1153-D
D1153-E
D1154-B
Bongo Beep (Dexterity)
Bongo Beep (Habanera
D1154-C
Mambobop) (Bird Feathers)
D1155-A
Crazeology (excerpt)
Crazeology II: 3 Ways Of
D1155-ABX
Dial 1034, 1034 (alt.)
Playing A Chorus
D1155-B
D1155-C
D1155-D
D1155-DDD
Crazeology (excerpt)
Crazeology
Dial 1034, LP 207
How Deep Is The Ocean (How
D1156-A
Deep)
D1156-B
How Deep Is The Ocean
* Dial LP 211 Various Artists - Mr. Saxophone......?
* Dial 1056 (alt.1) Charlie Parker - The Hymn / Giant Swing
* Dial 1043 Charlie Parker - Drifting On A Reed / The Gypsy
* Dial 1056 (alt.2) Charlie Parker - Superman / Prezology
* Dial 1015 (alt.2) Charlie Parker - Cool Blues / Quasimado
* Dial 1015 (alt.3) Charlie Parker - This Is Always / Quasimado
* Dial 1040 Charlie Parker - Klactoveedsedstene / Charlie's Wig
* Dial 1058 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Blue Lamp / Habanera Mambobop
* Dial 1034 Charlie Parker - Crazeology / Crazeology II: 3 Ways Of Playing A Chorus
* Dial 1034 (alt.) Charlie Parker - Crazeology II / Jean Germain - The Chase
* Dial 1055 Charlie Parker - How Deep Is The Ocean / Crazeology

Max Roach (drums)
United Sound Systems, Detroit, MI, December 21, 1947
D830-1
Another Hair Do (short-take 1) Savoy MG 12000, SJL 5500
D830-2
Another Hair Do (short-take 2) Savoy 961, 45-305, XP 8002, MG 9001, MG
D830-3
Another Hair Do (orig.-take 3)
12000, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
D830-4
Another Hair Do (orig.-take)
Savoy SJL 5500
D831-1
Bluebird (new-take 1)
Savoy MG 12000, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
D831-2
Bluebird (take 2)
Savoy SJL 5500
Savoy 961, 45-307, XP 8003, MG 9010, MG
D831-3
Bluebird (orig.-take 3)
12014, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
Savoy 967, 45-304, XP 8004, MG 9001, MG
D832-1
Klaunstance (orig.-take 1)
12014, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
Bird Gets The Worm (new-take
D833-1
Savoy MG 12000, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
1)
Bird Gets The Worm (orig.-take
D833-2
Savoy SJL 5500
2)
Savoy 952, 45-309, XP 8002, MG 9010, MG

Bird Gets The Worm (orig.-take
D833-3
12014, SJL 2201, SJL 5500; Metronome
3)
(Swd) B 511
* Savoy 45-305 Charlie Parker - Little Willie Leaps / Another Hair Do
* Savoy 45-307 Charlie Parker - Bluebird / Parker's Mood
* Savoy 45-304 Charlie Parker - Billie's Bounce / Klaunstance
* Savoy 45-309 Charlie Parker - Bird Gets The Worm / Perhaps
* Savoy 961 Charlie Parker - Another Hair Do / Bluebird
* Savoy 967 Charlie Parker - Klaunstance / Stan Getz - Slow
* Savoy 952 Charlie Parker - Bird Gets The Worm / Cheryl
* Metronome (Swd) B 511 James Moody - Dexterious / Charlie Parker - Bird Gets The
Worm
Charlie Parker Overdubbed On Neal Hefti's Orchestra

Doug Mettome, Al Porcino, Ray Wetzel (trumpet) Bill Harris (trombone) Bart Varsalona
(bass trombone) Vincent Jacobs (French horn) John LaPorta (clarinet) Sonny Salad, Murray
Williams (alto sax) Charlie Parker (alto sax -1) Pete Mondello, Flip Phillips (tenor sax)
Manny Albam (baritone sax) Manny Fidler, Sid Harris, Sam Kaplan, Harry Katzman, Gene
Orloff, Ziggy Smirnoff (violin) Nat Nathanson, Fred Ruzilla (viola) Joe Benaventi (cello)
Tony Aless (piano) Curly Russell (bass) Shelly Manne (drums) Diego Ibarra (congas, bongos)
Neal Hefti (arranger, conductor)
NYC, December, 1947 & fall 1948
1. 2071-5 |
Mercury Jazz Scene; Clef MGC 4007; Verve
Repetition
62VK205
VK 102, MGV 8001, VE2 2501
2. 2072
Rhumbacito
Mercury Jazz Scene; Clef MGC 4007
* Clef MGC 4007, MGC 674; Verve MGV 8060; ARS G 419 Various Artists - The Jazz
Scene
* Verve VE2 2501 Charlie Parker - The Verve Years 1948-1950
* Mercury Jazz Scene; Clef MG VOL.1 Various Artists - The Jazz Scene
* Verve VK 102 Charlie Parker - Just Friends / Repetition
1948
Max Roach (drums) Kenny Pancho Hagood (vocals -4)
"Three Deuces", NYC, March 31, 1948
1.
52nd Street Theme I
2.
Dizzy Atmosphere
3.
My Old Flame
4.
5.
Half Nelson
6.
52nd Street Theme II
7.
Drifting On A Reed (Big Foot) 8.
52nd Street Theme III
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 141 Gene Roland Band Featuring Charlie Parker - The Band That Never
Was

Max Roach (drums)
NYC, March, 1948
A Night In Tunisia
Groovin' High

Max Roach (drums) Kenny Pancho Hagood (vocals)
"Onyx Club", NYC, July 6, 1948
Debut (D) DEP 38; Jazz Workshop JWS 501;
52nd Street Theme I
Prestige PR 24009
Shaw 'Nuff
Out Of Nowhere I
Hot House
This Time The Dream's On Me
I
A Night In Tunisia
Prestige PR 24009
My Old Flame
52nd Street Theme
Debut (D) DEP 39; Prestige PR 24009
Prestige PR 24009
Out Of Nowhere II
Chasin' The Bird
Prestige PR 24009
This Time The Dream's On Me

II
Dizzy Atmosphere
Prestige PR 24009
How High The Moon
Jazz Workshop JWS 501; Prestige PR 24009
Prestige PR 24009
* Jazz Workshop JWS 501; Fantasy LP 6011, LP 86011; Original Jazz Classics OJC-114,
OJCCD-114-2; America (F) 30 AM 6061 Charlie Parker - Bird On 52nd St.
* Prestige PR 24009 Charlie Parker
* Debut (D) DEP 38 Charlie Parker - Bird On 52nd St., Vol. 1

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
"Royal Roost", NYC, September 4, 1948
MC: Symphony Sid, Bob
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Garrity
MC: Symphony Sid talking
about 52nd Street Theme
Savoy MG 12186; ESP-Disk' ESP 3001;
52nd Street Theme
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Savoy MG 12179; Everest FS 214; ESP-Disk'
Ko-Ko
ESP 3001; Savoy ZDS 4411/12
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
* Savoy MG 12186 Newly Discovered Sides By Charlie Parker
* ESP-Disk' ESP 3001, ESPCD 3001 Charlie Parker - Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2
* Savoy MG 12179 Charlie Parker - The 'Bird' Returns
* Everest FS 214 Charlie Parker On The Air, Vol. 1
* Savoy ZDS 4411/12 Charlie Parker - Bird At The Roost, Vol. 1

Miles Davis (trumpet -1/11) Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Curly Russell (bass)
Max Roach (drums)
Harry Smith Studios, NYC, September 18, 1948
1. B900-1
Barbados (new-take 1)
Savoy MG 12000, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
2. B900-2
Barbados (short-take 2)
3. B900-3
Barbados (new-take 3)
Savoy MG 12009, SJL 1107, SJL 5500
Savoy 936, 45-308, XP 8003, MG 9011, MG
4. B900-4
Barbados (orig.-take 4)
12014, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
5. B901-1
Ah-Leu-Cha (short-take 1)
Savoy 939, 45-313, XP 8005, MG 9011, MG

12000, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
7. B902-1
Constellation (new-take 1)
8. B902-2
Constellation (short-take 2)
9. B902-3
Constellation (short-take 3)
Savoy 939, 45-313, XP 8006, MG 9011, MG
10. B902-4 Constellation (orig.-take 4)
12009, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
11. B902-5 Constellation (take 5)
Savoy SJL 5500
12. B903-1 Parker's Mood (new-take 1)
13. B903-2 Parker's Mood (short-take 2)
Savoy 936, 45-307, XP 8001, MG 9010, MG
14. B903-3 Parker's Mood (orig.-take 3)
12009, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
15. B903-4 Parker's Mood (take 4)
Savoy SJL 5500
16. B903-5 Parker's Mood (take 5)
* Savoy 45-308 Charlie Parker - Barbados / Riff Warmer
* Savoy 45-313 Charlie Parker - Ah-Leu-Cha / Constellation
* Savoy 45-307 Charlie Parker - Bluebird / Parker's Mood
* Savoy 936 Charlie Parker - Parker's Mood / Barbados
* Savoy 939 Charlie Parker - Ah-Leu-Cha / Constellation
6. B901-2
Ah-Leu-Cha (orig.-take 2)

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Curly Russell (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
Harry Smith Studios, NYC, September 24, 1948
B908-1
Perhaps (new-take 1)
B908-2
Perhaps (short-take 2)
B908-3
B908-4
Perhaps (short-take 4)
Savoy SJL 5500
B908-5
Savoy 45-309, MG 12000, SJL 1107, SJL
B908-6
Perhaps (orig.-take 6)
5500
Savoy 938, XP 8003, MG 9010, MG 12000,
B908-7
Perhaps (orig.-master)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
B909-1
B909-2
B909-3
B909-4
B909-5
B909-6
B909-7
B909-8
B909-9
B909-10
Marmaduke (short-take 1)
Marmaduke (new-take 2)
Marmaduke (new-take 4)
Marmaduke (orig.-take 6)
Marmaduke (take 9)
Marmaduke (take 10)
Savoy SJL 5500

Savoy SJL 5500
Savoy 45-311, MG 12001
Savoy MG 12001
Savoy SJL 5500
Savoy 938, XP 8006, MG 9011, MG 12009,
B909-11
Marmaduke (take 11)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
B910-1
Steeplechase (orig.-take 1)
Savoy 45-312, SJL 5500
Savoy 937, XP 8005, MG 9010, MG 12000,
B910-2
Steeplechase (take 2)
SJL 2201, SJL 5500
B911-1
Merry-Go-Round (new-take 1) Savoy MG 12000, SJL 5500
Savoy 937, 45-303, XP 8004, MG 9011, MG
B911-2
Merry-Go-Round (orig.-take 2)
12014, SJL 2201, SJL 5500
* Savoy 45-309 Charlie Parker - Bird Gets The Worm / Perhaps
* Savoy 45-311 Charlie Parker - Ko-Ko / Marmaduke
* Savoy 45-312 Charlie Parker - Donna Lee / Steeplechase
* Savoy 45-303 Charlie Parker - Half Nelson / Merry-Go-Round
* Savoy 938 Charlie Parker - Marmaduke / Perhaps
* Savoy 937 Charlie Parker - Steeplechase / Merry-Go-Round

Max Roach (drums)
"Three Deuces", NYC, fall 1948
Big Foot
52nd Street Theme
How High The Moon
-
52nd Street Theme (Short

Version)
Ornithology
same session
Indiana
Out Of Nowhere
Fine And Dandy

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
"Royal Roost", NYC, December 11, 1948
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Groovin' High
ESP 3000
MC: Charlie Parker, Al Heig
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
takeing
Big Foot
ESP 3000
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Ornithology (Thriving On From Savoy MG 12179; Everest FS 214; ESP-Disk'
A Riff)
ESP 3000
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
On A Slow Boat To China
ESP-Disk' ESP 3000; Savoy ZDS 4411/12
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12

same personnel
MC
Hot House
MC
Salt Peanuts
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12

Savoy MG 12186; Everest FS 214; Savoy
ZDS 4411/12
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Everest FS 214; Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Savoy ZDS 4411/12


same personnel
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Chasin' The Bird
MC
Out Of Nowhere
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
How High The Moon
Machito And His Orchestra

Mario Bauza, Frank "Paquito" Davilla, Bob Woodlen (trumpet) Gene Johnson, Charlie
Parker, Fred Skerritt (alto sax) Jose Madera (tenor sax) Leslie Johnakins (baritone sax) Rene
Hernandez (piano) Roberto Rodriguez (bass) Luis Miranda (congas) Jose Mangual (bongos)
Ubaldo Nieto (timbales) Machito (arranger, conductor)
NYC, December 20, 1948
2155-2 | 301Mercury 11012, MGC 511; Verve MGV
No Noise, Part 2
2
2032, VE2 2522
Mercury 11017, MGC 511; Verve MGV
2157-1 | 303 Mango Mangue
8000, VE2 2522
* Verve MGV 2032 Various Artists - Potpourri Of Jazz
* Verve VE2 2522 Machito/Chico O'Farrill/Dizzy Gillespie - Afro-Cuban Jazz
* Mercury MGC 511; Clef MGC 511 Machito Jazz With Flip And Bird
* Mercury 11012; Clef 11012 Charlie Parker/Flip Phillips/Machito - No Noise, Part 1&2
* Mercury 11017; Clef 11017 Charlie Parker/Machito - Mango Mangue / Okie Doke

Kenny Dorham (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Half Nelson
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
White Christmas
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Little Willie Leaps

MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
1949
Roach (drums)
"Royal Roost", NYC, January 1, 1949
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Be-Bop
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Ornithology
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Groovin' High
MC: Symphony Sid, Charlie
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Parker
East Of The Sun
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
Cheryl
* ESP-Disk' ESP 3001, ESPCD 3001 Charlie Parker - Broadcast Performances, Vol. 2
Metronome All-Star Bands

Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro (trumpet) J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (trombone)
Buddy DeFranco (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Charlie Ventura (tenor sax) Ernie
Caceres (baritone sax) Lennie Tristano (piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Eddie Safranski (bass)
Shelly Manne (drums)
RCA Studios, NYC, January 3, 1949
RCA Victor 20-3361; RCA Camden CAL
D9VB0021-1 Overtime (shorter take)
426; Bluebird 07863 66528-2
RCA Victor LPT 3046, LPV 519; RCA
D9VC0021-2 Overtime (longer take)
Camden CAL 426; Bluebird 07863 66528-2
D9VC0022-3 Victory Ball (longer take)
D9VB0022-2 Victory Ball (alternate take)
RCA Camden CAL 339
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Kai Winding (trombone) Buddy DeFranco (clarinet) Charlie Parker
(alto sax) Charlie Ventura (tenor sax) Lennie Tristano (piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Eddie
Safranski (bass) Shelly Manne (drums)
RCA Victor 20-3361, LEJ 10; RCA Camden

CAL 426; Bluebird 07863 66528-2
* RCA Camden CAL 426, (E) CDN 112 The Metronome All-Star Bands
* RCA Victor LPV 519 Various Artists - The Be-Bop Era
* RCA Camden CAL 339 Various Artists - Great Jazz Reeds
* Bluebird 07863 66528-2 Dizzy Gillespie - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings
* RCA Victor LPT 3046 Various Artists - Crazy... And Cool
* RCA Victor LEJ 10 Various Artists - The RCA Victor Encyclopedia Of Recorded Jazz,
Album 10 Of 12 Great Albums: "Ori To Rus"
* RCA Victor 20-3361; His Master's Voice B-9818 Metronome All-Star Bands - Overtime /
Victory Ball
D9VB0022-1 Victory Ball (shorter take)
Royal Roost All Stars

Conte Candoli (trumpet) Bennie Green (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips,
Charlie Ventura (tenor sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter, Curly Rusell (bass) Joe Harris,
Shelly Manne, Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4411/12
How High The Moon
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
With Announcer

Kenny Dorham (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Joe
Harris (drums)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
MC
Be-Bop
MC
Hot House

Roach (drums)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Oop Bop Sh'bam
MC
-
MC
Salt Peanuts
With Announcer

same personnel
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Groovin' High
MC

Mario Bauza, Frank "Paquito" Davilla, Bob Woodlen (trumpet) Gene Johnson, Charlie
Parker, Fred Skerritt (alto sax) Jose Madera (tenor sax) Leslie Johnakins (baritone sax) Rene
Hernandez (piano) Roberto Rodriguez (bass) Luis Miranda (congas) Jose Mangual (bongos)
Ubaldo Nieto (timbales) Machito (arranger, conductor)
NYC, January, 1949
Okiedoke
1
8000, VE2 2522
* Mercury MGC 511; Clef MGC 511 Machito Jazz With Flip And Bird
* Mercury 11017; Clef 11017 Charlie Parker/Machito - Mango Mangue / Okie Doke

Roach (drums)
"Royal Roost", NYC, February 5, 1949
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
MC
Barbados
MC
Salt Peanuts
MC
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Shelly Manne (drums)
NYC, February 10, 1949
Mercury Jazz Scene; Clef MGC 4007; Verve
2081-5
The Bird
MGV 8001, VE2 2501
* Clef MGC 4007, MGC 674; Verve MGV 8060; ARS G 419 Various Artists - The Jazz
Scene
* Mercury Jazz Scene; Clef MG VOL.1 Various Artists - The Jazz Scene

Fats Navarro (trumpet) Tommy Turk (trombone) Sonny Criss, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip
Phillips (tenor sax) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Shelly Manne (drums)
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, February 11 or November 2, 1949
Norman Granz Introduction
Pablo PACD-5311-2
Leap Here
(Back Home Again In) Indiana Lover Come Back To Me
* Pablo PACD-5311-2 Jazz At The Philharmonic - J.A.T.P. At Carnegie Hall 1949

Roach (drums)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Savoy SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14, SVY 17028
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Savoy MG 12179, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14,
Barbados
SVY 17028
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Bebop
Savoy SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14, SVY 17028
with MC. at conculusion Sid is
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
heard briefly with Dinah
Washington
* Savoy SJL 1108 Charlie Parker - Bird At The Roost
* Savoy SVY 17028 Kenny Dorham - Blues In Bebop
Kenny Dorham (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lucky Thompson (tenor sax) Milt Jackson
(vibes) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (drums) Dave Lambert, Buddy
Stewart (vocals)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Groovin' High
Savoy SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Confirmation
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Salt Peanuts
MC: Jumpin' With Symphony
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Sid
commercial break #1
commercial break #2

Shorty Sherock (trumpet -3,4) Sidney Bechet (soprano sax -4) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Joe
Bushkin (piano) Chubby Jackson (bass) George Wettling (drums)
WPIX TV Studios, NYC, February 21, 1949
1.
Now's The Time
Stash ST-CD-21
2.
Lover
3.
I Can't Get Started
4.
Blues Jam #1
* Stash ST-CD-21 Charlie Parker - Rara Avis Avis, Rare Bird

Stewart (vocals)
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Half Nelson
Savoy MG 12179, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
A Night In Tunisia
Savoy MG 12186, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Savoy MG 12179, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Deedle


Kenny Dorham (trumpet) Tommy Turk (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano)
Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (drums) Carlos Vidal (bongos)
NYC, February-March, 1949
Norgran MGN 1035; Verve MGV 8009, VE2
2542 | 292-3 Cardboard
2501
Visa
4
8009, MGV 8000, VE2 2501
* Norgran MGN 1035; Verve MGV 8126 Various Artists - Alto Saxes
* Verve MGV 8009 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #7 - Jazz Perennial
* Mercury MGC 512; Clef MGC 512; Universal (J) UCCV-9034 Charlie Parker/Dizzy
Gillespie - Bird And Diz
* Mercury 11022; Clef 11022 Charlie Parker - Visa / Passport (common)

Miles Davis, Max Kaminsky (trumpet -2,3) Will Bradley, Kai Winding (trombone -2,3) Joe
Marsala (clarinet -2,3) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Mike Caluccio (piano) Joe Sullivan (piano 2,3) unknown (bass) Max Roach (drums) Specs Powell (drums -2,3) Ann Hathaway (vocals 2)
television broadcast, "Adventures In Jazz", CBS TV Studios, NYC, March 4, 1949
1.
Anthropology
Stash ST-CD-21
2.
I Get A Kick Out Of You
3.
Big Foot (Blues Jam #2)

Stewart (vocals)
"Royal Roost", NYC, March 5, 1949
Introduction By Dave Lambert
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
And Buddy Stewart
What's This
MC
Cheryl
MC
Anthropology
-
MC
Hurry Home
Deedle
Royal Roost Bop
MC

(vibes -2) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Waldorf-Astoria Hotel", NYC, March 5, 1949
1.
Barbados
Jazz Showcase 5003
2.
Anthropology
* Jazz Showcase 5003 Charlie Parker - Bird On The Road

Stewart (vocals)
"Royal Roost", NYC, March 12, 1949
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Cheryl
Savoy MG 12179, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
introduction By Charlie Parker Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Savoy MG 12186, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
MC
Savoy ZDS 4413/14
Chasin' The Bird
Savoy MG 12179, SJL 1108, ZDS 4413/14
Savoy ZDS 4413/14

Roach (drums)
NYC, May 5, 1949
2755-5 | 294Segment
Verve MGV 8009, VE2 2501
3
2756-2 | 295Passport (rare)
Mercury 11022x45, MGC 512
2
2756-5 | 295Mercury 11022; Verve MGV 8009, MGV
Passport (common)
5
8000, VE2 2501
2757-4 | 296Diverse (Segment)

Verve MGV 8009
3
* Mercury 11022x45; Clef 11022x45 Charlie Parker - Visa / Passport (rare)
* Mercury 11022; Clef 11022 Charlie Parker - Visa / Passport (common)

same personnel
"Salle Pleyel", Paris, France, May 8, 9 & 14 or 15, 1949
Salt Peanuts I
Bird In Paris CP 3; Spotlite (E) SPJ 118
Barbados
52nd Street Theme I
Out Of Nowhere I
Salt Peanuts II
Out Of Nowhere II
Wee (Allen's Alley)
Out Of Nowhere III
Jazz O.P. (F) OMS 7004
A Night In Tunisia
Moose The Mooche
Hot House
I Got Rhythm (Blues)
* Bird In Paris CP 3 Charlie Parker - Bird In Paris
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 118 Charlie Parker - Bird In Paris
* Jazz O.P. (F) OMS 7004 Charlie Parker In France 1949

same personnel
"Colisee Movie Theatre", Roubaix, France, May 12, 1949
Ornithology
Jazz O.P. (F) OMS 7004
Out Of Nowhere
Cheryl
52nd Street Theme
Lover Man
Groovin' High
Half Nelson
-
52nd Street Theme (alternate

take)
* Jazz O.P. (F) OMS 7004 Charlie Parker In France 1949
Festival International De Jazz All Stars

Aime Barelli, Bill Coleman, Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham, Hot Lips Page (trumpet) Big Chief,
Russell Moore (trombone) Hubert Rostaing (clarinet) Sidney Bechet, Pierre Braslavsky
(soprano sax) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Don Byas, James Moody (tenor sax) Hazy Osterwald
(vibes) Al Haig (piano) Toots Thielemans (guitar) Tommy Potter (bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Salle Pleyel", Paris, France, May 15, 1949
Farewell Blues (Blues)

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax) Hank Jones
(piano) Eddie Safranski (bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
NYC, summer 1949
Stuffy
Jazz Up (It) JUTB 3002
* Jazz Up (It) JUTB 3002 Charlie Parker - Bird Box, Vol. 2

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Tommy Turk (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips,
Lester Young (tenor sax) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
382
The Opener, Part 1
VOL.7, MGV 8230
383
The Opener, Part 2
VOL.7, MGV 8230
384
The Opener, Part 3
VOL.7, MGV 8230
Mercury 11056, MG VOL.12; Verve VK 114,
385 |
Lester Leaps In, Part 1
MG VOL.7, MGV 8398, V6 8787, VSP 23,
62VK228
VSP 41
Mercury 11055, MG VOL.12; Verve VK 114,
386 |
MG VOL.7, MGV 8398, V6 8787, VSP 23,
62VK229
VSP 41
387
VOL.7, MGV 8398, V6 8787, VSP 23, VSP
41
388
Embraceable You, Part 1
VOL.7, V6 8787, VSP 23
389
VOL.7, V6 8787, VSP 23

VOL.7, V6 8787, VSP 23
391
The Closer, Part 1
VOL.7, VSP 23
392
The Closer, Part 2
VOL.7, VSP 23
393
The Closer, Part 3
VOL.7, VSP 23
* Verve MGV 8230 Various Artists - The Anatomy Of Improvisation
* Verve MGV 8398 The Essential Lester Young
* Verve V6 8787 Charlie Parker - The Bird Set
* Verve VSP 23 Charlie Parker - Bird Wings
12
13
* Verve VK 114 Lester Young - Lester Leaps In, Part 1&2
* Mercury 11054, 11054x45; Clef 11054, 11054x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic - The
Opener, Part 1 / Lester Leaps In, Part 3
* Mercury 11062, 11062x45; Clef 11062, 11062x45 Jazz At The Philharmonic Embraceable You, Part 1 / The Closer, Part 3
390
Ella Fitzgerald At JATP

Roy Eldridge (trumpet) Tommy Turk (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip Phillips,
Lester Young (tenor sax) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy Rich (drums) Ella
Fitzgerald (vocals)
Flyin' Home
Verve 815 147-1
How High The Moon
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
Perdido
* Verve 815 147-1 Jazz At The Philharmonic - The Ella Fitzgerald Set
* Verve (J) J00J-29001/10 The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve - Bird
Charlie Parker Quartet With Jimmy Carroll Orchestra

Mitch Miller (oboe, English horn) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bronislaw Gimpel, Max
Hollander, Milton Lomask (violin) Frank Brieff (viola) Frank Miller (cello) Meyer Rosen
(harp) Stan Freeman (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy Rich (drums) Jimmy Carroll (arranger,
conductor)
Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, November 30, 1949
Mercury 11036, MG 35010; Clef MGC 675;
319-5 |
Just Friends
Verve VK 102, MGV 8000, V/V6 8409,
62VK204
V3HB 8840, V6 8787, VE2 2501
320-3
Everything Happens To Me
Verve VE2 2501
321-3
April In Paris
Verve MGV 8000, V3HB 8840, VE2 2501
322-2
Summertime
Verve VE2 2501
I Didn't Know What Time It
323-2
Was
Verve V/V6 8409, VE2 2501
324-3
If I Should Lose You
Verve V6 8787, VE2 2501
* Clef MGC 675 Charlie Parker With Strings
= Verve MGV 8004 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #2 - April In Paris
* Verve V/V6 8409 The Essential Charlie Parker
* Mercury MG 35010, MGC 101, MGC 101x45, MGC 501; Clef MGC 101, MGC 501;
Universal (J) UCCV-9033 Charlie Parker With Strings
* Verve VK 102 Charlie Parker - Just Friends / Repetition
* Mercury 11036, 11036x45; Clef 11036, 11036x45 Charlie Parker - Just Friends /
* Mercury 11037, 11037x45; Clef 11037, 11037x45 Charlie Parker - April In Paris / If I
Should Lose You
* Mercury 11038, 11038x45; Clef 11038, 11038x45 Charlie Parker - Summertime / I Didn't
Know What Time It Was

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Max
Roach (drums)
"Pershing Hotel", Chicago, IL, November, 1949
I Cover The Waterfront
Confirmation
Now's The Time
Air Conditioning (Big Foot)
Perdido
-
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (into) Ruby, My Dear

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (into) Ruby, My Dear
Wee
same session
Hot House (Short)
Hot House (Long)
Cheryl (Short)
Cheryl (Long)
I Can't Get Started (Short)
I Can't Get Started (Long)
Groovin' High (Short)
Groovin' High (Long)

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy
Haynes (drums)
"The Stars Of Modern Jazz", "Carnegie Hall", NYC, December 24, 1949
Ornithology
S.C.A.M. JPG 1
Cheryl
Ko-Ko
Bird Of Paradise
Now's The Time
* S.C.A.M. JPG 1 Charlie Parker - Dance Of The Infidels
1950 (age 30)

Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown or Al Haig (piano) unknown (bass)
Roy Haynes (drums)
"Hotel Diplomat", NYC, early 1950
Billie's Bounce
Stash ST-260
Caravan
Drifting On A Reed
Red Rodney (trumpet) J.J. Johnson (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano)
Tommy Potter (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
"Birdland", NYC, February 14, 1950
Hot House
EPM Musique (F) FDC 5710
Out Of Nowhere
Visa / 52nd Street Theme
Anthropology / Wee
What's New
Little Willie Leaps
Yesterdays / 52nd Street Theme Dizzy Atmosphere
Perdido (Wahoo)
I Can't Get Started
Wee
52nd Street Theme
Slow Boat To China
A Night In Tunisia
52nd Street Theme
* EPM Musique (F) FDC 5710 Charlie Parker Live Birdland 1950

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy
Haynes (drums)
"St. Nicholas Arena", NYC, February 18, 1950
52nd Street Theme I
Ornithology
Prestige PR 24009
Was
Embraceable You
Hot House
Prestige PR 24009
Now's The Time
Visa
Star Eyes
Confirmation
Prestige PR 24009; Impulse! ASH-9253-3
Out Of Nowhere
Prestige PR 24009
What's New
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
I Cover The Waterfront
same session
Zim ZM 1007
Perdido
I Can't Get Started
52nd Street Theme IV
Anthropology
52nd Street Theme V
Groovin' High
52nd Street Theme VI
Cheryl
* Jazz Workshop JWS 500; Fantasy LP 6012, LP 86012; Original Jazz Classics OJC-041,
OJCCD-041-2; America (F) 30 AM 6062 Charlie Parker - Bird At St. Nick's
* Prestige PR 24009 Charlie Parker
* Impulse! ASH-9253-3 Various Artists - The Saxophone
* Zim ZM 1007 Charlie Parker At The Apollo Theater And St. Nick's Arena
* Debut (D) DEP 35 Charlie Parker - Bird At St. Nick's, Vol. 1

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
NYC, March, 1950
371-4
Star Eyes
2501
372-12
Blues (Fast)
Verve MGV 8009, V3HB 8840, VE2 2501
373-2
I'm In The Mood For Love
Gene Roland And His Orchestra

Marty Bell, Don Ferrara, Neil Friez, Don Joseph, Jon Nielson, Al Porcino, Sonny Rich, Red
Rodney (trumpet) Eddie Bert, Porky Cohen, Jimmy Knepper, Paul Selden (trombone) Frank
Orchard (valve trombone) Joe Maini, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Cohn, Don Lanphere,
Tommy Makagon, Zoot Sims (tenor sax) Marty Flax, Bob Newman (baritone sax) Harry Biss
(piano) Sam Herman (guitar) Buddy Jones (bass) Phil Arabia, Freddie Gruber, Don Manning
(drums) Gene Roland (arranger, conductor)
Nola Penthouse Sound Studio, NYC, April 3, 1950
It's A Wonderful World I
Spotlite (E) SPJ 141; Philology (It) W 845.2
It's A Wonderful World II
It's A Wonderful World III
It's A Wonderful World IV
-
It's A Wonderful World V

Just You, Just Me
unknown title
Stardust I
Stardust II
Stardust III
Limehouse Blues
Philology (It) W 845.2
Down Home Blues
East Side, West Side
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 141 Gene Roland Band Featuring Charlie Parker - The Band That Never
Was

Fats Navarro (trumpet -1,2,5/15) Charlie Parker (alto sax -1/5,7/15) Bud Powell (piano) Curly
Russell (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 15 & 16, 1950
1.
52nd Street Theme I
Ozone 4
2.
Perdido (Wahoo)
Columbia JG 34808; Alamac QSR 2430
3.
'Round Midnight (incomplete) 4.
This Time The Dream's On Me Columbia JG 34808
5.
Dizzy Atmosphere
6.
A Night In Tunisia
Ozone 9; Columbia JG 34808; Alamac QSR
7.
Move (into)
2430
8.
Ozone 9; Alamac QSR 2430
(incomplete)
9.
Rifftide (The Street Beat)
10.
Out Of Nowhere
Columbia JG 34808
11.
Little Willie Leaps (into)
12.
13.
Ornithology (into)
14.
I'll Remember April (into)
15.
Fats Navarro (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) probably Tommy
Potter (bass) probably Roy Haynes (drums) probably Chubby Newsome or "Little" Jimmy
Scott (vocals -1)
1.
Embraceable You
2.
Cool Blues (into)
3.
52nd Street Theme V
* Ozone 4 Charlie Parker - Fats Navarro - Bud Powell
* Columbia JG 34808 Charlie Parker - One Night In Birdland
* Alamac QSR 2430 Charlie Parker's All Stars 1950

* Ozone 9 Charlie Parker - Bud Powell - Fats Navarro
Charlie Parker With Afro-Cuban Band

Charlie Parker (alto sax) unidentified Afro-Cuban band
NYC, May 19 & 20, 1950
Mambo
Jazz Showcase 5003
Lament For The Congo
Cafe Society Jam Sessions

Tony Scott (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Brew Moore (tenor sax) Dick Hyman (piano)
Chuck Wayne or Mundell Lowe (guitar) Leonard Gaskin (bass) Ed Shaughnessy (drums)
broadcast, "Cafe Society", NYC, May-July, 1950
Lover Come Back To Me /
S.C.A.M. JPG 4
52nd Street Theme
* S.C.A.M. JPG 4 Charlie Parker - Just Friends
Apartment Jam Sessions

Norman Carson, Jon Eardley (trumpet -1/7) Jimmy Knepper (trombone -1/7) Charlie Parker
(alto sax) Joe Maini (alto sax -1/7) Bob Newman, Gers Yowell (tenor sax -1/7) John Williams
(piano -1/7) Buddy Jones (bass -1/7) Phil Brown (drums -1/4) Frank Isola (drums -5,6) Buddy
Bridgeford (drums -7)
NYC, June 4, 11, 18 & 25, 1950
1.
Little Willie Leaps
Zim ZM 1006; Spotlite (E) SPJ 146
2.
Donna Lee
3.
Half Nelson
4.
Fine And Dandy
5.
6.
Out Of Nowhere
7.
Bernie's Tune
8.
Untitled Tune
* Zim ZM 1006 Charlie Parker - Apartment Jam Sessions
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 146 Charlie Parker - Apartment Sessions
Charlie Parker - Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Thelonious Monk (piano) Curly Russell
(bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
NYC, June 6, 1950
Mercury 11058, MGC 512; Clef MGC 639;
Verve MGV 8006, MGV 8194, MGV 8230,
410-4
Bloomdido
MGV 8341, V/V6 8409, V6 8787, V3HB
8840, VE2 2501
411-3
An Oscar For Treadwell
411-4
412-3
Mohawk
412-6
413-1
My Melancholy Baby (coda

rehearsal)
My Melancholy Baby
413-2
414-1
414-2
414-3
414-4
414-5
Leap Frog
-
414-6
414-7
414-9
414-10
415-1
415-2
Relaxin' With Lee

-
415-3
413-0
Verve MGV 8006

8006, MGV 8002, VE2 2501
Verve MGV 8006
8006, MGV 8002, V3HB 8840, VE2 2501
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
8006, V6 8787, VE2 2501
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
8006, MGV 8002, V6 8787, V3HB 8840,
VE2 2501
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
Verve MGV 8006, V3HB 8840
8006, VE2 2501
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
415-5
* Clef MGC 639 Various Artists - Our Best
* Verve MGV 8006 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #4 - Bird And Diz
* Verve MGV 8194 Various Artists - Verve Compendium Of Jazz #1
* Verve MGV 8341 Various Artists - Special College Jazz Album (complimentary record)
* Mercury 11058, 11058x45; Clef 11058, 11058x45 Charlie Parker - Bloomdido / My
Melancholy Baby
* Mercury 11082, 11082x45; Clef 11082, 11082x45 Charlie Parker - An Oscar For
Treadwell / Mohawk
* Mercury 11076, 11076x45; Clef 11076, 11076x45 Charlie Parker - Leap Frog / Relaxin'
With Lee
Miles Davis' Birdland All Stars

Miles Davis, Fats Navarro (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Curly
Russell (bass) Art Blakey (drums)
"Birdland", NYC, June 30, 1950
Alto AL 701; Jazz Music Yesterday (It) JMY
Conception/Deception (Poobah)
ME 6401
* Alto AL 701 The Persuasively Coherent Miles Davis
* Jazz Music Yesterday (It) JMY ME 6401 Miles Davis - The Last Bebop Session
Charlie Parker Quintet + Guests

Kenny Dorham, possibly Red Rodney (trumpet) Tony Scott (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto
sax) Al Haig (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
broadcast, "Cafe Society", NYC, June-July, 1950
Just Friends I
rejected
April In Paris I
52nd Street Theme I
Grotto 495
Just Friends II
Klacto (E) MG 101; Zu-Zazz (E) ZZ 1002
April In Paris II
A Night In Tunisia
Grotto 495
Grotto 495; Klacto (E) MG 101; Zu-Zazz (E)
ZZ 1002
Just Friends III
S.C.A.M. JPG 4
April In Paris III
Medley I: Bewitched /
Summertime
Medley II: I Cover The
Waterfront / Gone With The
Wind
Easy To Love
Medley III: What's New / It's
The Talk Of The Town
Moose The Mooche
S.C.A.M. JPG 4
52nd Street Theme V
* Grotto 495 Charlie Parker - Ultimate Bird 1949-50
* Klacto (E) MG 101 Charlie Parker - Ballads And Birdland
* Zu-Zazz (E) ZZ 1002 Charlie Parker, Vol. 1 - Ballads And Birdland
* S.C.A.M. JPG 4 Charlie Parker - Just Friends
Charlie Parker Quartet With Joe Lippman Orchestra
Joseph Singer (French horn) Edwin C. Brown (oboe) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Sam Kaplan,
Harry Melnikoff, Sam Rand, Ziggy Smirnoff (violin) Howard Kay, Isadore Zir (viola)
Maurice Brown (cello) Verley Mills (harp) Bernie Leighton (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy
Rich (drums) Joe Lippman (arranger, conductor)
Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, July 5, 1950
442-5
Dancing In The Dark
VE2 2512
You Came Along From Out Of Mercury 11070, MGC 109; Clef MGC 675;
443-2
Nowhere
Verve VE2 2512
444-1
Laura
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
444-3
MGV 8000, VE2 2512
445-4
East Of The Sun
Verve VE2 2512
They Can't Take That Away
446-2
From Me
Verve VE2 2512
447-4
Easy To Love
Verve VE2 2512
448-2
I'm In The Mood For Love
448-3
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
449-1
I'll Remember April
449-2
Verve V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
449-3
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
* Mercury MGC 609; Clef MGC 609 Charlie Parker Big Band
= Clef MGC 725 Charlie Parker - Night And Day
= Verve MGV 8003 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #1 - Night And Day
* Clef MGC 675 Charlie Parker With Strings
= Verve MGV 8004 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #2 - April In Paris
* Mercury MGC 109, MGC 509; Clef MGC 509; Universal (J) UCCV-9112 Charlie Parker
With Strings #2
* Mercury 11068, 11068x45; Clef 11068, 11068x45 Charlie Parker - Laura / Dancing In
The Dark
* Mercury 11070, 11070x45; Clef 11070, 11070x45 Charlie Parker - You Came Along
From Out Of Nowhere / East Of The Sun
* Mercury 11071, 11071x45; Clef 11071, 11071x45 Charlie Parker - They Can't Take That
Away From Me / I'm In The Mood For Love
* Mercury 11072, 11072x45; Clef 11072, 11072x45 Charlie Parker - Easy To Love / I'll
Remember April
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bernie Leighton (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
probably NYC, July, 1950
I Can't Get Started
S.C.A.M. JPG 1
Charlie Parker Quartet With Strings

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig or Bernie Leighton (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy
Haynes (drums) 1 oboe, 3 violins, 1 viola, 1 cello, 1 harp, Jimmy Mundy (arranger)
"Apollo Theater", NYC, August 22, 1950
Repetition I
Charlie Parker CP 513
April In Paris I
Easy To Love I
What Is This Thing Called
Love I
* Charlie Parker CP 513 Charlie Parker - Parker Plus Strings

same personnel
"Apollo Theater", NYC, August 23, 1950
Repetition II
Repetition III
April In Paris II
April In Paris III
Easy To Love II
Easy To Love III
Columbia JC 34832
Love II
Love III
* Charlie Parker CP 513 Charlie Parker - Parker Plus Strings
* Columbia JC 34832 Charlie Parker - Bird With Strings Live At The Apollo, Carnegie Hall
And Birdland

unknown (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (piano) unknown (bass) unknown
(drums)
New Brunswick, NJ, August 28, 1950
Hot House
Stash ST-CD-10
I May Be Wrong
Parker's Mood
'S Wonderful
Donna Lee
-
* Stash ST-CD-10 Charlie Parker - The Bird You Never Heard
Charlie Parker With Strings At JATP

Tommy Mace (oboe) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Ted Bloom, Sam Kaplan, Stan Karpenia
(violin) Dave Uchitel (viola) Bill Rundy (cello) Wallace McManus (harp) Al Haig (piano)
Tommy Potter (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Norgran MGN 3501-2; Verve MGV 8001,
Love
VE2 2512
April In Paris
VE2 2512, VSP 38
Repetition
VE2 2512
Easy To Love
Rocker (I'll Remember April) * Norgran MGN 3501-2, MG JC 1 Norman Granz Jazz Concert
= Verve MGV 8189-2 Various Artists - Midnight Jazz At Carnegie Hall
* Verve VSP 38 Various Artists - The Art Of The Ballad #2

Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (tenor sax -1/5) Von Freeman (tenor sax -6/13) unknown
(piano -1/5) Chris Anderson (piano -6/13) George Freeman (guitar) Leroy Jackson (bass)
Bruz Freeman (drums) unknown (vocals -11/13)
"Pershing Hotel Ballroom", Chicago, IL, October 23, 1950
1.
Indiana
Zim ZM 1003
2.
I Can't Get Started
3.
Anthology
4.
Out Of Nowhere
5.
Get Happy
6.
Hot House
7.
Cool Blues
8.
9.
Billie's Bounce
10.
Pennies From Heaven
11.
Embraceable You
12.
Body And Soul
13.
Stardust
* Zim ZM 1003 Charlie Parker At The Pershing Ballroom Chicago 1950
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Coleman Hawkins (tenor sax -2) Hank Jones (piano) Ray Brown
(bass) Buddy Rich (drums)
NYC, October, 1950
1.
Celebrity
2.
Ballade
Verve MGV 8002, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512

Rolf Ericson (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Gosta Theselius (piano) Thore Jederby (bass)
Jack Noren (drums)
"Amiralen Dance Hall", Malmo, Sweden, November 22, 1950
Anthropology
Spotlite (E) SPJ 124/25; Xanadu 122
Cheers
Lover Man
Cool Blues
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 124/25 Charlie Parker - Bird In Sweden
* Xanadu 122 Various Artists - International Jam Sessions

same personnel
Folkets Park, Helsingborg, Sweden, November 24, 1950
Anthropology
Spotlite (E) SPJ 124/25
Embraceable You
Star Eyes
Cool Blues
Strike Up The Band

Rolf Ericson, Rowland Greenberg (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Gosta Theselius (tenor
sax) Lennart Nilsson (piano) Folke Holst (bass) Jack Noren (drums)
Folkets Park, Helsingborg, Sweden, November 24, 1950
How High The Moon
Spotlite (E) SPJ 124/25
Body And Soul
Fine And Dandy
Charlie Parker With Maurice Moufflard Orchestra
Yves Alouette, Pierre Fassin, Roger Guerin, Georges Jouvin (trumpet) Maurice Gladieu,
Charles Huss, Andre Paquinet (trombone) Robert Merchez, Charlie Parker, Roger Simon (alto
sax) Marcel Pomes (tenor sax) Honore Truc (baritone sax) Robert Cambier (piano) Henri
Karen (bass) Pierre Loteguy (drums) Maurice Moufflard (arranger, conductor)
Studio Washington, Le Poste Parisien, Paris, France, November 28, 1950
Lady Bird

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Kenny Drew (piano) Curly Russell (bass) Art
Blakey (drums) Bob Garrity, "Symphony Sid" Torin (announcer)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, December 8, 1950
Royal Jazz (D) RJD 506
Anthropology
Embraceable You
Cheryl
Salt Peanuts
* Royal Jazz (D) RJD 506 Charlie Parker - More Unissued, Vol. 2

Mario Bauza, Frank "Paquito" Davilla, Harry Edison, Al Stewart, Bob Woodlen (trumpet)
unknown (clarinet) Gene Johnson, Charlie Parker, Fred Skerritt (alto sax) Jose Madera, Flip
Phillips (tenor sax) Sol Rabinowitz (tenor, baritone sax) Leslie Johnakins (baritone sax) Rene
Hernandez (piano) Roberto Rodriguez (bass) Buddy Rich (drums) Rafael Miranda, Chano
Pozo (congas) Jose Mangual (bongos) Ubaldo Nieto (timbales) Machito (maracas) Chico
O'Farrill (arranger, conductor)
NYC, December 21, 1950 or late 1948
Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite:
Mercury MGC 505; Clef MGC 689; Verve
557-4
Cancion
VE2 2522, VSP 19
558-6
Mambo, Part 1
559-4
Mambo, Part 2
560-2
Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite: 6/8
561-3
Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite: Jazz
562-4
Rhumba Abierta
* Clef MGC 689; Verve MGV 8073 Machito - Afro-Cuban Jazz
* Verve VSP 19 Chico O'Farrill/Machito - Soul Source
* Mercury MGC 505; Clef MGC 505; Universal (J) UCCV-9118 Machito - Afro-Cuban Jazz
Suite

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Claude McLin (tenor sax) Chris Anderson (piano) George Freeman
(guitar) Leroy Jackson (bass) Bruz Freeman (drums)
live at unknown dance hall, Chicago, IL, 1950
These Foolish Things
Savoy MG 12152
There's A Small Hotel
Fine And Dandy
Hot House
* Savoy MG 12152 An Evening At Home With Charlie Parker Sextet
Apartment Jam Sessions

John Nielson (trumpet) Jimmy Knepper (trombone) Joe Maini, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Don
Lanphere (tenor sax) Al Haig (piano) unknown (bass) Frank Isola (drums)
probably NYC, circa 1950
Half Nelson
Zim ZM 1006; Spotlite (E) SPJ 146
Cherokee
Star Eyes
* Zim ZM 1006 Charlie Parker - Apartment Jam Sessions
* Spotlite (E) SPJ 146 Charlie Parker - Apartment Sessions
1951
Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Teddy Kotick (bass)
Max Roach (drums)
489-2
Au Privave
Verve MGV 8010, V/V6 8409
Mercury 11087; Clef MGC 646; Verve MGV
489-3
8010, MGV 8002, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
490-3
She Rote
490-5
8010, MGV 8002, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
491-1
K.C. Blues
8010, V/V6 8409, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
492-2
Star Eyes
8010, V6 8787, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
* Verve MGV 8010 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #8 - Swedish Schnapps
* Clef MGC 646 The Magnificent Charlie Parker
= Clef MGC 733 Charlie Parker - Yardbird (not released)

* Mercury 11087, 11087x45; Clef 11087, 11087x45 Charlie Parker - Au Privave / Star Eyes
* Mercury 11101, 11101x45; Clef 11101, 11101x45 Charlie Parker - She Rote / K.C. Blues
Charlie Parker's Jazzers

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Teddy Kotick (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Luis Miranda (congas) Jose Mangual (bongos)
NYC, March 12, 1951
540-6
My Little Suede Shoes
8008, MGV 8000, VE2 2512
541-2
Up Poquito De Tu Amor
8008, VE2 2512
542-9
Tico Tico
8008, VE2 2512
543-3
Fiesta
2512
544-2
Why Do I Love You
Verve MGV 8008
544-6
544-7
Clef MGC 646; Verve MGV 8008, VE2 2512
* Verve MGV 8008 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #6 - Fiesta
* Mercury MGC 513; Clef MGC 513; Universal (J) UCCV-9043 Charlie Parker Plays
South Of The Border
* Mercury 11093, 11093x45; Clef 11093, 11093x45 Charlie Parker - My Little Suede Shoes
/ La Cucaracha
* Mercury 11092, 11092x45; Clef 11092, 11092x45 Charlie Parker - Up Poquito De Tu
Amor / Mama Inez
* Mercury 11091, 11091x45; Clef 11091, 11091x45 Charlie Parker - Tico Tico / La Paloma

Charlie Parker (alto sax) possibly Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) possibly Teddy Kotick (bass)
possibly Roy Haynes (drums) unidentified oboe and strings
"Birdland", NYC, March 22, 1951
Easy To Love
Rocker
Meexa Discox 1776
* Meexa Discox 1776 Charlie Parker - Rappin' With Bird

unidentified oboe and strings (-2/5)
1.
Columbia JC 34832
2.
Just Friends
3.
4.
East Of The Sun
5.
Laura
Dancing In The Dark / Jumpin'
6.
With Symphony Sid
And Birdland
Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker Quintet

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano) Tommy Potter (bass)
Roy Haynes (drums)
Blue 'N' Boogie
Columbia JC 34831
Anthropology
'Round Midnight
A Night In Tunisia
* Columbia JC 34831 Charlie Parker - Summit Meeting At Birdland

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Billy Taylor (piano) Tommy Potter (bass)
Roy Haynes (drums)
radio broadcast, Voice Of America, "Birdland", NYC, spring 1951
How High The Moon
Ornithology
Hot House
Embraceable You
* Zu-Zazz (E) ZZ 1003 Charlie Parker, Vol. 2 - Bird Meets Birks

unidentified oboe and strings
"Birdland", NYC, April 7, 1951
Columbia JC 34832
Love
Laura
Repetition
They Can't Take That Away
From Me
Easy To Love
And Birdland

Howard McGhee (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bill Wellington (alto sax -3) Wardell
Gray (tenor sax) Nat Pierce (piano) Jack Lawlor (bass) Joe MacDonald (drums)
"Christy's Restaurant", Framingham, MA, April 12, 1951
1.
Happy Bird Blues
Charlie Parker PLP 404
2.
Lullaby In Rhythm (I May Be
3.
Wrong)
* Charlie Parker PLP 404 Charlie Parker - The Happy "Bird"

Boston, MA or Philadelphia, PA or Brooklyn, NY, April, 1951
Perdido
Out Of Nowhere
Ornithology
Lady Bird
Little Willie Leaps
Star Eyes
* EPM Musique (F) FDC 5711 Charlie Parker Live Boston, Philadelphia, Brooklyn 1951

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Eastern Parkway Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY, June 23, 1951
Cool Blues
Ornithology
Embraceable You
Steeplechase
Now's The Time
Be My Love / April In Paris /
Dance Of The Infidels / 52nd Street Theme
Wee
This Time The Dream's On Me -

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Teddy Kotick
(bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Eastern Parkway Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY, June 23, 1951
52nd Street Theme
This Time The Dream's On Me * Philology (It) 214 W 19 Charlie Parker - Bird's Eyes, Vol. 5

Benny Harris (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Tommy Potter
(bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Boston, MA or Philadelphia, PA or Brooklyn, NY, June, 1951
Now's The Time
Out Of Nowhere

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Wardell Gray (tenor sax) Walter Bishop Jr.
(piano) Tommy Potter (bass) Roy Haynes (drums) unknown (vocals -3)
Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, June, 1951
1.
Cool Blues
2.
Out Of Nowhere
3.
This Is Always
4.
Now's The Time
5.
Woody Herman And His Orchestra

Roy Caton, Don Fagerquist, Johnny Macombe, Doug Mettome (trumpet) Jerry Dorn, Urbie
Green, Fred Lewis (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Woody Herman (alto sax, clarinet,
conductor) Dick Hafer, Bill Perkins, Kenny Pinson (tenor sax) Sam Staff (baritone sax) Dave
McKenna (piano) Red Wooten (bass) Sonny Igoe (drums)
"Municipal Arena", Kansas City, MO, July 22, 1951
You Go To My Head
Alamac QSR 2442
Leo The Lion I
Cuban Holiday
The Nearness Of You
Lemon Drop
The Goof And I
-
Laura
Four Brothers
Leo The Lion II
* Alamac QSR 2442 Charlie Parker - Bird With The Herd 1951

Red Rodney (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Ray Brown (bass) Kenny
Clarke (drums)
RCA Victor's 24th Street Studios, NYC, August 8, 1951
609-4
Blues For Alice
Clef MGC 646; Verve MGV 8010, VE2 2512
610-4
Si Si
8010, MGV 8000, VE2 2512
611-3
Swdish Schnapps
611-4
8010, V/V6 8409, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
612-1
Back Home Blues
Verve MGV 8010
612-2 |
62VK459
8010, MGV 8000, V3HB 8840, VE2 2512
613-2
Lover Man
8010, MGV 8000, VE2 2512
* Verve MGV 8010 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #8 - Swedish Schnapps
* Mercury 11103, 11103x45; Clef 11103, 11103x45 Charlie Parker - Si Si / Swdish
Schnapps
* Mercury 11095, 11095x45; Clef 11095, 11095x45 Charlie Parker - Back Home Blues /
Lover Man
Charlie Parker Trio

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Lennie Tristano (piano) Kenny Clarke (drums)
NYC, August, 1951
All Of Me
I Can't Believe That You're In
Love With Me

unknown (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Teddy Edwards (tenor sax) unknown (piano)
unknown (bass) Roy Haynes, Lawrence Marable (drums)
NYC, 1951
Embraceable You
Hot House
1952
Charlie Parker With Joe Lippman Orchestra
Chris Griffin, Al Porcino, Bernie Privin (trumpet) Will Bradley, Bill Harris (trombone)
unknown (flute, oboe) Toots Mondello, Charlie Parker, Murray Williams (alto sax) Art
Drellinger, Hank Ross (tenor sax) Stan Webb (baritone sax) Verley Mills (harp) Lou Stein
(piano) Art Ryerson (guitar) Bob Haggart (bass) Don Lamond (drums) unidentified strings,
Joe Lippman (arranger, conductor)
First Ave. & East 44th St., NYC, January 22, 1952
675-2
Temptation
Mercury 11088, MGC 609; Verve VE2 2523
676-3
Lover
8000, VE2 2523
Mercury 11088, MGC 609; Verve V3HB
677-4
Autumn In New York
8840, VE2 2523
678-4
Stella By Starlight
* Mercury 11088, 11088x45; Clef 11088, 11088x45 Charlie Parker - Autumn In New York /
Temptation
* Mercury 11089, 11089x45; Clef 11089, 11089x45 Charlie Parker - Lover / Stella By
Starlight

Benny Harris (trumpet -1/9,11) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Teddy
Kotick (bass) Max Roach (drums) possibly Jose Mangual (bongos)
1. 679-4
Mama Inez
8008, VE2 2523
2. 680-1
La Cucaracha
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
3. 680-2
4. 680-3
8008, VE2 2523
5. 680-4
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
6. 681-2
Estrellita
-
7. 681-4
8. 681-5

9. 681-6
8008, VE2 2523
10. 682-3
Begin The Beguine
8008, MGV 8002, VE2 2523
11. 683-1
La Paloma
8008, VE2 2523
* Verve MGV 8008 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #6 - Fiesta
* Mercury MGC 513; Clef MGC 513; Universal (J) UCCV-9043 Charlie Parker Plays
South Of The Border
* Mercury 11092, 11092x45; Clef 11092, 11092x45 Charlie Parker - Up Poquito De Tu
Amor / Mama Inez
* Mercury 11093, 11093x45; Clef 11093, 11093x45 Charlie Parker - My Little Suede Shoes
/ La Cucaracha
* Mercury 11094, 11094x45; Clef 11094, 11094x45 Charlie Parker - Estrellita / Begin The
Beguine
* Mercury 11091, 11091x45; Clef 11091, 11091x45 Charlie Parker - Tico Tico / La Paloma

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Dick Hyman (piano) Sandy Block (bass)
Charlie Smith (drums)
Dumont TV Studios, NYC, February 24, 1952
Hot House
Phoenix Jazz LP 12
* Phoenix Jazz LP 12 Charlie Parker - New Bird, Vol. 2

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Dick Cary (piano) Eddie Safranski (bass) Don Lamond (drums)
"Loew's Valencia Theater", Jamaica, March 24, 1952
Cool Blues
S.C.A.M. JPG 1
Charlie Parker With Joe Lippman Orchestra

Jimmy Maxwell, Carl Pool, Al Porcino, Bernie Privin (trumpet) Bill Harris, Lou McGarity
(trombone) Bart Varsalona (bass trombone) Charlie Parker, Harry Terrill, Murray Williams
(alto sax) Flip Phillips, Hank Ross (tenor sax) Danny Bank (baritone sax) Oscar Peterson
(piano) Freddie Green (guitar) Ray Brown (bass) Don Lamond (drums) Joe Lippman
(arranger, conductor)
First Ave. & East 44th St., NYC, March 25, 1952
756-5
Night And Day
757-4
Almost Like Being In Love
758-1
I Can't Get Started
759-5 |
62VK453
Love
8000, PR 2-3, VE2 2523
* Verve PR 2-3 Various Artists - Greatest Names In Jazz
* Mercury 11096, 11096x45; Clef 11096, 11096x45 Charlie Parker - Night And Day / I
Can't Get Started
* Mercury 11102, 11102x45; Clef 11102, 11102x45 Charlie Parker - Almost Like Being In
Love / What Is This Thing Called Love

Bill Harris (trumpet) Buddy DeFranco (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Dick Cary (piano)
Eddie Safranski (bass) Don Lamond (drums)
"Loew's Valencia Theater", Jamaica, March 25, 1952
Ornithology
The Harry Babasin All Stars

Chet Baker (trumpet) Sonny Criss, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano -1,2,4) Russ
Freeman (piano -3) Harry Babasin (bass, leader) Lawrence Marable (drums)
"Trade Winds", Inglewood, CA, June 16, 1952
1.
The Squirrel
Jazz Chronicles JCS-102
Irresistible You (They Didn't
2.
Believe Me)
3.
Indiana / Donna Lee (Indiana) 4.
Liza
* Jazz Chronicles JCS-102 Harry Babasin/Sonny Criss/Chet Baker/Charlie Parker/Al
Haig/Laurance Marable - Inglewood Jam 6-16-52
= Jazz Showcase 5007 Charlie Parker/Chet Baker/Sonny Criss - On The Coast
= Fresh Sound (Sp) FSR-407, FSR-CD 359 Charlie Parker/Chet Baker - Bird And Chet:
Inglewood Jam: Live At The Trade Winds 16 June 1952
Norman Granz' Jam Session

Charlie Shavers (trumpet) Benny Carter, Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Flip
Phillips, Ben Webster (tenor sax) Oscar Peterson (piano) Barney Kessel (guitar) Ray Brown
(bass) J.C. Heard (drums)
Radio Recorders, Los Angeles, CA, July, 1952
802-2
803-3
Jam Blues
Love
Mercury MGC 601; Verve VE2 2508

Mercury MGC 602; Verve VE2 2508
Mercury MGC 601; Verve MGV 8002, VE2

2508
Mercury MGC 602; Verve V/V6 8409,
805-2
Funky Blues
V3HB 8840, VE2 2508
* Mercury MGC 601; Clef MGC 4001, MGC 601, MGC 651; Verve MGV 8049 Norman
Granz' Jam Session #1
* Verve VE2 2508 Norman Granz' Jam Session - The Charlie Parker Sides
* Mercury MGC 602; Clef MGC 4002, MGC 602, MGC 652; Verve MGV 8050 Norman
Granz' Jam Session #2
= Verve V/V6 8486 Various Artists - Funky Blues
804-2
Ballad Medley

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Duke Jordan (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Phil Brown (drums)
radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, September 20, 1952
Ornithology
52nd Street Theme
Charlie Parker Quintet With Strings

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Mundell Lowe (guitar) Teddy Kotick
(bass) Max Roach (drums) unidentified strings (-1,3,5,7,10,12/14,16/19)
"Rockland Palace", NYC, September 26, 1952
1.
Rocker #1
2.
Moose The Mooche
Charlie Parker PLP 401, CP 502
3.
Just Friends #1
4.
5.
I'll Remember April
6.
Sly Mongoose
7.
Laura
8.
Star Eyes
9.
This Time The Dream's On Me 10.
Easy To Love
11.
Cool Blues
12.
Love

Was
14.
Repetition #2
15.
Lester Leaps In
16.
East Of The Sun #1
17.
April In Paris
18.
Out Of Nowhere
19.
Rocker #2
* Charlie Parker CP 502 Charlie Parker - Live At Rockland Palace September 26, 1952
* Charlie Parker PLP 401 Charlie Parker - "Bird" Is Free
13.
Charlie Parker Octet

Charlie Walp (trumpet) Earl Swope (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Zoot Sims (tenor
sax) Bill Shanahan (piano) Mert Oliver (bass) Don Lamond (drums) unknown (percussion)
"Howard Theater", Washington, DC, October 17, 1952
Out Of Nowhere
Now's The Time
52nd Street Theme
Cool Blues

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Milt Jackson (vibes) John Lewis (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Kenny
Clarke (drums)
"Birdland", NYC, November 1, 1952
How High The Moon
Embraceable You
52nd Street Theme

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Walter Yost (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
Candido (percussion) Bob Garrity (announcer) unidentified strings
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, 1st set, November 14, 1952
Just Friends I
Easy To Love I
Columbia JC 34832
Repetition I
And Birdland

same personnel
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, 2nd set, November 14, 1952
Just Friends II
S.C.A.M. JPG 2; Philology (It) 214 W 5
Easy To Love II
S.C.A.M. JPG 2
Repetition II
Strings Theme
S.C.A.M. JPG 2; Philology (It) 214 W 5
* S.C.A.M. JPG 2 Charlie Parker - Cheers

Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Walter Yost
(bass) Roy Haynes (drums) Candido (percussion) Bob Garrity (announcer)
"Carnegie Hall", NYC, November 15, 1952
A Night In Tunisia
S.C.A.M. JPG 2
52nd Street Theme
* S.C.A.M. JPG 2 Charlie Parker - Cheers

Joe Gordon (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bill Wellington (tenor sax) Dick Twardzik
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
"Hi-Hat Club", Boston, MA, December 8-12, 1952
I'll Remember April
Charlie Parker PLP 404
* Charlie Parker PLP 404 Charlie Parker - The Happy "Bird"

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Hank Jones (piano) Teddy Kotick (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Fulton Recording, NYC, December 30, 1952
The Song Is You (I Hear
Clef 89144, MGC 157; Verve MGV 8005,
1118-3
Music)
MGV 8001, VE2 2523, 825 671-2
1119-7 |
Laird Bird
MGV 8001, MGV 8230, VE2 2523, 825 67162VK440
2
Verve MGV 8005, V/V6 8409, VE2 2523,
1120-2
Kim
825 671-2
1120-4
V3HB 8840, 825 671-2
1121-2
Cosmic Rays
VE2 2523, 825 671-2
1121-5
Verve MGV 8005, V3HB 8840, 825 671-2
* Verve MGV 8005 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #3 - Now's The Time
= ARS G 441 Charlie Parker - Now's The Time

* Verve 825 671-2 The Quartet Of Charlie Parker
* Clef MGC 157; Universal (J) UCCV-9111 Charlie Parker
* Clef 89144, 89144x45 Charlie Parker - The Song Is You (I Hear Music) / Laird Bird
* Clef 89129, 89129x45 Charlie Parker - Kim / Cosmic Rays
1953
Miles Davis Sextet
Miles Davis (trumpet) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan, Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) Walter
Bishop Jr. (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Philly Joe Jones (drums)
WOR Studios, NYC, January 30, 1953
450
Compulsion
Prestige PRLP 7044, PR 7822
451-1
The Serpent's Tooth I
451-2
The Serpent's Tooth II
452
'Round Midnight
* Prestige PRLP 7044; Original Jazz Classics OJC-071, OJCCD-071-2; Prestige PR
24022 Miles Davis - Collector's Items
* Prestige PR 7822 Miles Davis - Miles Ahead

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Brew Moore (tenor sax -3) Paul Bley (piano) Dick Garcia (guitar)
Neil Michel (bass) Ted Paster (drums)
CBC TV Studios, Montreal, QC, Canada, February 5, 1953
1.
Cool Blues
Jazz Showcase 5003; Uptown UP 27.36
2.
Don't Blame Me
3.
Wahoo
* Uptown UP 27.36 Charlie Parker - Montreal 1953

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Valdo Williams (piano -1,2) Steep Wade (piano -3/5) Dick Garcia
(guitar) Hal Gaylor (bass -1,2) Bob Rudd (bass -3/5) Bill Graham (drums -1,2) Bobby Malloy
(drums -3/5)
"Chez Paree Nightclub", Montreal, QC, Canada, February 7, 1953
1.
Ornithology
2.
Cool Blues
Uptown UP 27.36
3.
Moose The Mooche
4.
Embraceable You
5.
Now's The Time
Uptown UP 27.36
* Uptown UP 27.36 Charlie Parker - Montreal 1953

Bill Harris (trombone) Charlie Mariano, Charlie Parker (alto sax) Harry Johnson (tenor sax)
Sonny Truitt (piano) Chubby Jackson (bass) Morey Feld (drums) unknown (vocals)
"Bandbox", NYC, February 16, 1953
Your Father's Moustache
Queen-disc (It) Q-002
* Queen-disc (It) Q-002 Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/Dizzy Gillespie - Bird With Miles And
Dizzy
Joe Theimer Orchestra

Bob Carey, Ed Leddy, Marky Markowitz, Charlie Walp (trumpet) Dan Spiker, Earl Swope,
Rob Swope (trombone) Charlie Parker, Jim Riley (alto sax) Ben Lary, Jim Parker, Angelo
Tompros (tenor sax) Jack Nimitz (baritone sax) Jack Holliday (piano) Merton Oliver (bass)
Joe Theimer (drums, conductor)
"Club Kavakos", Washington, DC, February 22, 1953
Fine And Dandy
Elektra Musician E1-60019
These Foolish Things
Light Green
Thou Swell
Wills
Don't Blame Me
Something To Remember You
By / The Blue Room
Roundhouse
* Elektra Musician E1-60019 Charlie Parker With The Orchestra - One Night In
Washington

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jack Holliday (piano) Mert Oliver (bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Howard Theater", Washington, DC, March 8, 1953
Cool Blues
VGM Records VGM 0009
Out Of Nowhere
Ornithology
Anthropology
* VGM Records VGM 0009 Charlie Parker - Yardbird-DC-53

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Red Garland (piano) Bernie Griggs (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
WHDH radio broadcast, "Storyville Club", Boston, MA, March 10, 1953
Moose The Mooche

Blue Note BT 85108
I'll Walk Alone
Ornithology
Out Of Nowhere
* Blue Note BT 85108, CDP 7 85108 2 Charlie Parker At Storyville

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Milt Buckner (organ) Bernie McKay (guitar) Cornelius Thomas
(drums)
"Bandbox", NYC, March 23, 1953
Groovin' High
Columbia JC 34831

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Kenny O'Brien (bass) Roy Haynes (drums)
"Bandbox", NYC, March 30, 1953
Theme: Caravan / Coool Blues Klacto (E) MG 100
Star Eyes
Ornithology
52nd Street Theme
Diggin' Diz
52nd Street Theme
Embraceable You
52nd Street Theme
* Klacto (E) MG 100 Charlie Parker - Star Eyes
Charlie Parker Nonet

Charlie Wolp (trumpet) Earl Swope (trombone) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Zoot Sims (tenor
sax) Bill Shanahan (piano) Charlie Byrd (guitar) Mert Oliver (bass) Don Lamond (drums)
unknown (percussion)
NYC, April, 1953
VGM Records VGM 0009
Out Of Nowhere / Now's The
Time
* VGM Records VGM 0009 Charlie Parker - Yardbird-DC-53

Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Curly Russell (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
Candido (percussion -3,4)
"Birdland", NYC, May 9, 1953
1.
2.
Cool Blues
Columbia JC 34831
Star Eyes
Moose The Mooche / Lullaby
3.
Of Birdland
Broadway / Lullaby Of
4.
Birdland
The Quintet
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet, vocals) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell
(piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
"Massey Hall", Toronto, ON, Canada, May 15, 1953
Perdido (undubbed version)
Debut 12DCD-4402-2
Perdido
Debut DLP 2, (D) DEP 31
Debut DEB 124; Prestige PR 24024; Debut
12DCD-4402-2
Salt Peanuts (undubbed
Debut 12DCD-4402-2
version)
Debut DLP 2, DEB 124, (D) DEP 31;
Salt Peanuts #1&2
Prestige PR 24024; Debut 12DCD-4402-2
Debut DLP 2, (D) DEP 32, 12DCD-4402-2
(undubbed version)
52nd Street Theme (undubbed
version)
Debut DEB 124; Prestige PR 24024; Debut
12DCD-4402-2
52nd Street Theme
Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker as Charlie Chan (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano)
Charles Mingus (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Allen's Alley (Wee) (undubbed
Debut 12DCD-4402-2
version)
Allen's Alley (Wee)
Hot House (undubbed version) Debut 12DCD-4402-2
Hot House #1&2
A Night In Tunisia (undubbed
Debut 12DCD-4402-2
version)
A Night In Tunisia
* Debut DEB 124; Fantasy LP 6003, LP 86003; Original Jazz Classics OJC-044, OJCCD044-2 The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall
= America (F) 30 AM 6053 Charlie Parker - Jazz At Massey Hall
* Prestige PR 24024 Various Artists - The Greatest Jazz Concert Ever
* Debut 12DCD-4402-2 Charles Mingus - The Complete Debut Recordings
* Debut DLP 2 The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 1

= Vogue (E) LDE 040; Disques Swing (F) M 33312 The Quintet Of The Year - Jazz At
Massey Hall, Vol. 1
* Debut DLP 4 The Quintet - Jazz At Massey Hall, Vol. 3
= Vogue (E) LDE 087; Disques Swing (F) M 33318 The Quintet Of The Year - Jazz At
Massey Hall, Vol. 3
* Debut (D) DEP 31 The Quintet - Jazz At Nassey Hall, Vol. 1
* Debut (D) DEP 32 The Quintet - Jazz At Nassey Hall, Vol. 2
* Debut (D) DEP 33 The Quintet/Bud Powell - Jazz At Nassey Hall, Vol. 3
* Debut (D) DEP 34 The Quintet/Bud Powell - Jazz At Nassey Hall, Vol. 4

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano) Charles Mingus (bass) Art Taylor (drums)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 22, 1953
Cool Blues
unissued
Lullaby Of Birdland
-
Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker Sextet With Miles Davis

Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Sahib Shihab (baritone sax)
Wade Legge (piano) Lou Hackney (bass) Al Jones (drums) Joe Carroll (vocals)
"Birdland", NYC, May 23, 1953
Mark Gardner (E) MG 102; Klacto (E) MG
The Bluest Blues
102; Zu-Zazz (E) ZZ 1003
On The Sunny Side Of The
Street
* Mark Gardner (E) MG 102 Charlie Parker - Bird Meets Birks
* Zu-Zazz (E) ZZ 1003 Charlie Parker, Vol. 2 - Bird Meets Birks
Charlie Parker Quartet With Gil Evans Orchestra

Junior Collins (French horn) Al Block (flute) Tommy Mace (oboe) Manny Thaler (bassoon)
Hal McKusick (clarinet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Tony Aless (piano) Charles Mingus (bass)
Max Roach (drums) The Dave Lambert Singers: including Annie Ross (vocals) Dave Lambert
(vocals, arranger) Gil Evans (arranger, conductor)
Fulton Recording, NYC, May 25, 1953
1238-1
In The Still Of The Night
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
1238-2
1238-3
1238-4
1238-5
1238-6
1238-7
8009, MGV 8000, VE2 2523
1239-1
1239-2
1239-3
1239-4
1239-5
1239-6
1239-7
1239-8
Old Folks
-
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10

1239-9
8009, MGV 8000, V6 8787, VE2 2523
1240-9
If I Love Again
* Mercury 11100, 11100x45; Clef 11100, 11100x45 Charlie Parker - In The Still Of The
Night / Old Folks

Candido (congas)
WJZ radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, May 30, 1953
Moose The Mooche
ESP-Disk' ESP 3023; Stash ST-CD-10
Cheryl
Lullaby Of Birdland
Stash ST-CD-10
* ESP-Disk' ESP 3023, ESPCD 3023 Bud Powell - Summer Broadcasts 1953

WJZ radio broadcast, NYC, May, 1953
Dance Of The Infidels
S.C.A.M. JPG 1; Queen-disc (It) Q-002
* Queen-disc (It) Q-002 Charlie Parker/Miles Davis/Dizzy Gillespie - Bird With Miles And
Dizzy

Herb Pomeroy (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Dean Erle (piano) Bernie Griggs Jr. (bass)
Bill Graham (drums)
"Hi-Hat Club", Boston, MA, June 14, 1953

Cool Blues
Stash ST-CD-21
Laura
Cheryl
Phoenix Jazz LP 10; Stash ST-CD-21
Ornithology / 52nd Street
Theme
* Phoenix Jazz LP 10 Charlie Parker - New Bird: Hi Hat Broadcasts 1953

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Al Haig (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Max Roach (drums)
Fulton Recording, NYC, July 28, 1953
1246-1
Chi-Chi
Verve MGV 8005, 825 671-2
1246-2
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10, 825 671-2
Verve MGV 8005, V/V6 8409, VE2 2523,
1246-3
825 671-2
1246-4
Chi-Chi (alternate take)
Verve 825 671-2
1246-5
Chi-Chi
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10, 825 671-2
1246-6
825 671-2
1247-1
I Remember You
VE2 2523, 825 671-2
Clef MGC 157; Verve MGV 8005, MGV
1248-1
Now's The Time
8001, V3HB 8840, VE2 2523, 825 671-2
1249-1
Confirmation
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10, 825 671-2
1249-2
Verve MGV 8005, MGV 8001, V3HB 8840,
1249-3
VE2 2523, 825 671-2
* Verve MGV 8005 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #3 - Now's The Time
= ARS G 441 Charlie Parker - Now's The Time
* Verve 825 671-2 The Quartet Of Charlie Parker
* Clef MGC 157; Universal (J) UCCV-9111 Charlie Parker
* Clef 89138, 89138x45 Charlie Parker - Chi-Chi / I Remember You

Herb Pomeroy (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Sir Charles Thompson (piano) Jimmy
Woode (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
WHDH radio broadcast, "Storyville Club", Boston, MA, September 22, 1953
Now's The Time
Blue Note BT 85108
Don't Blame Me
Dancing On The Ceiling
Cool Blues
Groovin' High
* Blue Note BT 85108, CDP 7 85108 2 Charlie Parker At Storyville
Chet Baker Quartet With Charlie Parker

Chet Baker (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jimmy Rowles (piano) Carson Smith (bass)
Shelly Manne (drums)
"University Of Oregon", OR, November 5, 1953
Ornithology
Stash ST-CD-10
Barbados
Cool Blues

Herbie Williams (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Rollins Griffith (piano) Jimmy Woode
(bass) Marquis Foster (drums)
NYC, December 19 & 20, 1953
Now's The Time
Phoenix Jazz LP 10
Ornithology
Groovin' High
* Phoenix Jazz LP 10 Charlie Parker - New Bird: Hi Hat Broadcasts 1953
Tony Fruscella Quintet

Tony Fruscella (trumpet) Davey Schildkraut or Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bill Triglia (piano)
unknown (bass) unknown (drums)
Tony Fruscella's home, NYC, 1953
You Stepped Out Of A Dream Royal Jazz (D) RJD 506
Now's The Time
Emanon
Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker (alto sax) Bud Powell (piano) and others
probably NYC, 1953?
'Round Midnight
unissued
1954
WCOP radio broadcast, "Hi-Hat Club", Boston, MA, January 18, 1954
Ornithology
Stash ST-CD-10; Uptown UPCD 27.42
Out Of Nowhere
Cool Blues
My Funny Valentine (Scrapple
From The Apple)
* Uptown UPCD 27.42 Charlie Parker - Boston 1952

Herbie Williams (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) Jay Migliori (tenor sax) Rollins Griffith
(piano) Jimmy Woode (bass) Marquis Foster (drums)
Now's The Time
Fresh Sound (Sp) FSR-303
Out Of Nowhere
* Fresh Sound (Sp) FSR-303 Hi-Hat All Stars, Guest Artists, Charlie Parker

Cool Blues
Phoenix Jazz LP 12
Ornithology
Out Of Nowhere / Jumpin' With
Symphony Sid
* Phoenix Jazz LP 12 Charlie Parker - New Bird, Vol. 2
Stan Kenton And His Orchestra With Charlie Parker

Buddy Childers, Vic Minicheli, Sam Noto, Don Smith, Stu Williamson (trumpet) Joe
Ciavardone, Milt Gold, Frank Rosolino (trombone) George Roberts (bass trombone) Charlie
Mariano, Charlie Parker, Dave Schildkraut (alto sax) Mike Cicchetti, Bill Perkins (tenor sax)
Tony Ferina (baritone sax) Stan Kenton (piano) Bob Lesher (guitar) Don Bagley (bass) Stan
Levey (drums)
"Civic Auditorium", Portland, OR, February 25, 1954
Night And Day

Jazz Supreme JS 703
My Funny Valentine
Cherokee
* Jazz Supreme JS 703 Charlie Parker - Kenton And Bird

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Jerome Darr (guitar) Teddy Kotick (bass)
Roy Haynes (drums)
Fine Sound Studios, NYC, March 31, 1954
1531-1
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Verve MGV 8007, V3HB 8840
1531-2
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
1531-3
1531-4
1531-5
1531-6
1531-7
1532-1
Just One Of Those Things
1533-1
My Heart Belongs To Daddy Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
1533-2
1534-1
I've Got You Under My Skin
* Verve MGV 8007 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #5 - Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Tommy Potter or Teddy Kotick (bass) Roy
Haynes (drums) unidentified strings
WABC radio broadcast, "Birdland", NYC, August 27, 1954
Ozone 2
Love
Repetition
Easy To Love
East Of The Sun
* Ozone 2 Charlie Parker - Miles Davis - Lee Konitz

Charlie Parker (alto sax) John Lewis (piano) Percy Heath (bass) Kenny Clarke (drums)
The Song Is You
Roulette RE-127
My Funny Valentine
Cool Blues
-
* Roulette RE-127 Various Artists - Echoes Of An Era: The Birdland All Stars Live At
Carnegie Hall

Charlie Parker (alto sax) Walter Bishop Jr. (piano) Billy Bauer (guitar) Teddy Kotick (bass)
Art Taylor (drums)
Fine Sound Studios, NYC, December 10, 1954
2115-1
Love For Sale
Verve (J) J00J-29001/10
2115-2
2115-3
2115-4
Verve MGV 8007
2115-5 |
Verve MGV 8007, MGV 8001, V3HB 8840,
62VK472
VE2 2523
2116-2
I Love Paris
Verve MGV 8007
2116-3
Verve MGV 8007, MGV 8001, VE2 2523
* Verve MGV 8007 The Genius Of Charlie Parker #5 - Charlie Parker Plays Cole Porter
Others
unknown (trumpet) Charlie Parker (alto sax) unknown (piano) unknown (bass) unknown
(drums)
NYC, unknown date
I Can't Get Started
Diggin' Diz

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1937 (age 17)

1940 (age 20)

Jay McShann And His Orchestra

Jay McShann And His Orchestra

Kansas City Band

Jay McShann And His Orchestra

Jay McShann And His Orchestra

Billy Eckstine's Jam Session

Benny Goodman Trio And Quartet

Charlie Parker - Hazel Scott

Tiny's Tempo (short-take 1)

Tiny's Tempo (orig.-take 3)

I'll Always Love You Just The

Savoy MG 12001, SJL 1107, SJL 5500

Savoy 532, 613, MG 9022, SJL 2201, SJL

NYC, January 4, 1945

What's The Matter Now

Clyde Bernhardt And His Kansas City Buddies

Cootie Williams And His Orchestra

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie And His All Stars

Sarah Vaughan With Dizzy Gillespie Septet

NYC, May 25, 1945

Charlie Parker Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Red Norvo And His Selected Sextet

Dial 1045, LP 903; Spotlite (E) SPJ 107, SPJ

Slam Slam Blues (Bird's Blues)

Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker

Sir Charles Thompson And His All-Stars

Apollo 759, LAP 103; Spotlite (E) SPJ 150D;

Charlie Parker Rebeboppers / The Be Bop Boys

* Savoy SJL 2201 Charlie Parker - Bird: Master Takes

Dizzy Gillespie And His Bebop Six

Slim Gaillard And His Orchestra

Dizzy Gillespie - Charlie Parker

Jazz At The Philharmonic

Mercury 11040, MG 35004; Verve MG

Sweet Georgia Brown, Part 1

Tempo Jazz Men / Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen

Dizzy Gillespie Quintet

Charlie Parker Quintet

Charlie Parker Septet

Dial 1003, 1003 (alt.1), 1003 (alt.2), 1004

Charlie Parker With The King Cole Trio

Jazz At The Philharmonic

Clef 102; Mercury 11005, MG 35007; Verve

Rhythm, Part 3 / I Surrender, Dear, Part 1

Charlie Parker Quintet

Howard McGhee Quintet

Charlie Parker Quartet

Chuck Copely's home, Hollywood, CA, February 1, 1947

Charlie Parker Quartet With Earl Coleman

Charlie Parker Quartet

Charlie Parker's New Stars

Howard McGhee Quintet

Charlie Parker All Stars

* Savoy 45-302 Charlie Parker - Warming Up A Riff / Buzzy

Miles Davis' All Stars

Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians

Barry Ulanov's All Star Modern Jazz Musicians