Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes

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Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes
by Charlie Parker with Strings
from Polygram Records

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• These recordings set the standard
  These recordings from 1947-49 set the standard for "jazz with strings". Parker's playing is brilliant, as usual.
  The strings add context and a luxuriant mood to Parker's sound. Only Stan Getz's "Focus" from 1961 compares in quality to "Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes". Both are pivotal in the development of the "Third Stream" genre of jazz. Both occupy special places in my collection.

• Cool !
  Strings are sometimes too sweet for Jazz lovers.But Parker's play is always stays cool. That made this album something else!

• It could be great music.
  Sweet tawdry arrangements with alike melodies. But Parker plays famous again and again. Top recording is Just Friends. It is perfect. But there are many great recordigs like Laura, Summertime, Easy to Love and other. Tracks 15-19 are from Carnegie Hall performance and this is another great live strings session with Parker on top form.
  But It is graet loss that Parker and people around him didn't have courage to arrange with strings his great compositions like Ornithology, Moose the Mooch, Dexterity,... more info

• A must have for jazz lovers!
  I understand that Parker was criticized for doing this record, but I think it is wonderful... first heard it on WBGO 88.3 FM in Newark NJ (also on the internet). Support jazz and jazz radio!

Tracks:

1. Just Friends - Charlie Parker, Klenner, John
2. Everything Happens to Me - Charlie Parker, Adair, Tom
3. April in Paris - Charlie Parker, Duke, Vernon
4. Summertime - Charlie Parker, Gershwin, George
5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Charlie Parker, Rodgers, Richard
6. If I Should Lose You - Charlie Parker, Rainger, Ralph
7. Dancing in the Dark - Charlie Parker, Schwartz, Arthur
8. Out of Nowhere - Charlie Parker, Green, Johnny
9. Laura - Charlie Parker, Raksin, David
10. East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Charlie Parker, Bowman, Brooks
11. They Can't Take That Away from Me - Charlie Parker, Gershwin, George
12. Easy to Love - Charlie Parker, Porter, Cole
13. I'm in the Mood for Love - Charlie Parker, McHugh, Jimmy
14. I'll Remember April - Charlie Parker, DePaul, Gene
15. What Is This Thing Called Love? - Charlie Parker, Porter, Cole
16. April in Paris - Charlie Parker, Duke, Vernon

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