Bird Sessions

Charlie Parker Sessions
------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Probably May-November 1940

Place: Probably Kansas City
Group: Parker plays unaccompanied
Recording: Personal acetate
Primary Source: Masters of Jazz 78 (complete, 3:40); Stash CD 535 and
Philology CD Volume 1/4 (W 5/18-2) (incomplete, 3:10)
1. Honeysuckle Rose (inc.) into
2. Body and Soul (inc.) (3:40)
Note: This is probably the earliest known recording of Parker; it is the
only example of extended unaccompanied playing. Most versions end before
the bridge and final eight bars of "Body and Soul" (at 3:11).
"Honeysuckle Rose" is also incomplete.
Some sources give 1937 as the recording date, which seems unlikely given
the quality of Parker's playing.
Date: August 9, 1940

Place: Trocadero Ballroom, Wichita, Kansas
Group: Jay McShann Orchestra with Buddy Anderson and Orville Minor
(tpt), Bob Gould (tb), John Jackson (as), Bob Mabane (ts), Jay McShann
(p), Gene Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (d)
Recording: Private paper disc
Primary Source: Stash CD 542 (items 1-2 only); Masters of Jazz 78
(item 3 only)
1. Sign Off theme (One O'Clock Jump)
2. Jumping at the Woodside
3. Walkin' and Swingin'
Note: Stash CD 542 misidentifies item 3 as "I Got Rhythm."
Date: November 30, 1940

Place: Wichita, Kansas
Group: Jay McShann Octet with Buddy Anderson and Orville Minor (tpt),
Bob Gould (tb) (vln on 6), William J. Scott (ts on 1-2), Bob Mabane (ts
on 3-7), Jay McShann (p), Gene Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (d)
Recorded: Acetates recorded at radio station KFBI
Primary Source: Stash CD 542; Masters of Jazz 78
1. I Found a New Baby (2:59)
2. Body and Soul (2:51)
3. Moten Swing (2:48)
4. Coquette (3:09)
5. Lady Be Good (2:56)
6. Wichita Blues (no solo) (3:09)
7. Honeysuckle Rose (2:58)
Note: Earlier issues identified items 3-7 as from December 2. These
recordings were discovered in the 1960s by Frank Driggs, and were long
thought to have been Parker's earliest recordings.
Date: April 30, 1941

Place: Unknown recording studio, Dallas, Texas
Group: Jay McShann Orchestra with Buddy Anderson, Orville Minor, Harold
Bruce (tpt), Joe Taswell Baird (tb), John Jackson (as), Harold Ferguson
and Bob Mabane (ts), Jay McShann (p), Gene Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (d),
item 2 arranged by Charlie Parker
Recording: Commercial for Decca Records
Primary Source: GRP CD GRD-614; Masters of Jazz 78
1. Swingmatism (2:36)
2. Hootie Blues (v-Walter Brown) (2:53)
3. Dexter Blues (2:53) (no solo)
Note: Parker's first commercial recording session.
On November 13, 1941, a McShann quintet with Walter Brown recorded "One
Woman's Blues" for Decca. Ross Russell (among others) identifies the
alto saxophonist as Parker, but it sounds like John Jackson.
BBS Session No. 6 identifies six McShann broadcast items, five with
Walter Brown, from November 18, 1941. All are available on Affinity AFS
1006; the liner notes observe that "Parker may not be in the group."

Place: Unknown recording studio, Chicago, Illinois
Group: Jay McShann Orchestra with Buddy Anderson, Orville Minor, Bob
Merrill (tpt), Joe Taswell Baird (tb), John Jackson (as), Freddie
Culliver and Bob Mabane (ts), Jay McShann (p), Leonard Enois (g), Gene
Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (d), Walter Brown (voc)
Recording: Unknown radio broadcast
Primary Source: Affinity AFS 1006; Masters of Jazz 78 (item 1)
1. One Woman's Man (v-Walter Brown)
2. 'Fore Day Rider
3. So You Won't Jump
4. New Confessin' the Blues (v-Walter Brown)
5. Red River Blues (v-Walter Brown)
6. Hootie's Ignorant Oil (v-Walter Brown)
Note: The alto saxophone accompaniment on item 1 is probably John
Jackson, pace Ross Russell and others. Items 4-6 are trio
arrangements with Brown.
Date: Early 1942

Place: Clark Monroe's Uptown House, New York
Group: Clark Monroe's Band, possibly with Allan Tinney (p)
Recording: Paper disc made by Jerry Newman
Primary Source: LP Onyx 221; CD Stash 542, Masters of Jazz 78
1. Cherokee (2:49)
Note: There is a skip at the end of the first eight measures of the
theme. Some issues have inserted a gap to maintain the tempo.
KB claims that "I Remember You" was recorded, but without a Parker solo.
Date: February 13, 1942

Place: Savoy Ballroom, New York
Merrill (tpt), Lawrence Anderson, Joe Taswell Baird (tb), John Jackson
(as), Fred Culliver, Bob Mabane (ts), James Coe (bs), Jay McShann (p),
Leonard Enois (g), Gene Ramey (b), Harold West (d)
Recording: Acetate of NBC broadcast of "Blue Network"
- Announcement by Bill Abernathy into
1. St. Louis Mood (4:42)
- Announcement into
2. I Got it Bad (and that ain't Good) (v-Al Hibbler) (4:08)
- Announcement into
3. I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (4:06)
- Announcement into
4. Hootie Blues (4:27)
- Announcement into
5. Swingmatism (4:02)
6. Love Don't Get You Nothing but the Blues (0:29)
(Closing Theme) (no solo)
Note: Parker's solo on "Hootie Blues" contains several gaps inserted to
eliminate skips and maintain tempo.
Date: July 2, 1942

Place: New York, New York
Merrill (tpt), Lawrence Anderson, Joe Taswell Baird (tb), John Jackson
(as), Fred Culliver, Bob Mabane (ts), James Coe (bs), Jay McShann (p),
Leonard Enois (g), Gene Ramey (b), Harold West (d)
Recording: Commercial for Decca
Primary Source: GRP CD GRD-614; Masters of Jazz 79
1. Lonely Boy Blues (2:54) (v-Walter Brown)
2. Get Me on Your Mind (3:01) (v-Al Hibbler) (no solo)
3. The Jumpin' Blues (2:59) (v-Walter Brown)
4. Sepian Bounce (3:06)
Note: Parker's second commercial session and his last sides with
McShann.
"Lonely Boy Blues" contains two alto saxophone choruses, the first by
Jackson, the second by Parker.
Date: September 1942 (possibly 1941)

Place: Vic Damon Studios, Kansas City, Kansas
Group: Informal trio with Efferge Ware (g), Little Phil Phillips (d)
Recording: Personal acetates
Primary Source: Stash CD 535, Masters of Jazz 79
1. Cherokee (3:09)
2. My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart) (3:17)
3. I Found a New Baby (3:39)

Place: Savoy Hotel, Room 305, Chicago, Illinois
Group: Informal trio with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Oscar Pettiford (b)
Recording: Acetate made by Bob Redcross
1. Sweet Georgia Brown (7:40)
Note: Parker plays tenor saxophone. Item 1 is the first recording of
Parker and Gillespie together. Gillespie begins by playing the theme,
then Parker solos, Gillespie solos (first side ends), the performance
picks up in the middle of another Parker solo, then Gillespie plays a
very modern solo with a closing tag along with Parker.
From February until May, Gillespie and Parker toured the U.S. as members
of the Earl Hines Orchestra. Several dates are known, but no recordings
have surfaced.
Date: February 1943

Place: Chicago, Illinois
Group: Variable, probably including Billy Eckstine, Shorty McConnell,
Benny Harris (tpt), Oscar Pettiford (b), Hurley Ramey (g), Bob Redcross
(brushes)
Recording: Acetates made by Bob Redcross
Primary Source: Stash CD 535, Masters of Jazz 79
1. Three Guesses (4:12)
2. Boogie Woogie (3:47)
- Conversation (Parker voice) into
3. Shoe Shine Swing (Yardin' with Yard) (inc.) (4:12)
4. Body and Soul (inc.) (1:52)
5. Embraceable You (Hazel Scott record) (2:39)
6. China Boy (Benny Goodman record) (2:31)
7. Avalon (Benny Goodman record) (2:40)
8. Indiana (inc.) (1:31)
9. Lady Be Good (inc.) (1:17)
Note: Only "Shoe Shine Swing" and "Body and Soul" were known to exist
until the early 1980s. Parker plays tenor on all but the Benny Goodman
items. Norman Saks claims that Goon Gardiner, not Parker, is the tenor
saxophonist on item 2.
Parker asks "What tune are we going to play?" at the beginning of item
3. This is the first recording of Parker's voice.
BBS Session No. 15 identifies unissued fragments of "I Found a New
Baby," "I Can't Give You Anything But Love," and "I Got Rhythm," and
notes that Parker "is probably not" on the first two.
Date: September 15, 1944

Place: WOR Studios, New York
Group: Tiny Grimes Quintet with Clyde Hart (p), Tiny Grimes (g), Jimmy
Butts (b), Doc West (d)
Recording: Commercial for Savoy Records
Primary Source: LP Savoy SJL-5500; CD Nippon Columbia Savoy box, disc 1
1. Tiny's Tempo I (3:01) CT
2. Tiny's Tempo II (2:59) CT
3. Tiny's Tempo III (2:53) MT
- I'll Always Love You Just the Same I (0:04) FS
4. I'll Always Love You Just the Same II (2:57) CT (v-TG)
5. I'll Always Love You Just the Same III (3:00) MT (v-TG)
6. Romance Without Finance I (3:06) CT (v-TG and JB)
7. Romance Without Finance II (1:01) IT (v-TG and JB)
8. Romance Without Finance III (3:04) CT (v-TG and JB)
9. Romance Without Finance IV (0:43) IT (v-TG and JB)
10. Romance Without Finance V (3:00) MT (v-TG, JB and CP)
11. Red Cross I (3:16) CT
12. Red Cross II (3:07) MT
Note: The first studio Parker following the 1942-44 recording ban, and
the first small group studio recordings.
Date: Probably January 1945

Place: New York
Group: Clyde Bernhardt and His Kansas City Buddies with Clyde Bernhardt
(tb, voc), Jay McShann (p), Gene Ramey (b), Gus Johnson (d)
Recording: Glass-based acetate test pressings
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 19 (W 849.2)
1. Would You Do Me a Favor? (3:07)
2. Triflin' Woman Blues (3:22)
3. Lay Your Habits Down (2:25)
4. So Good This Morning (2:12)
Note: These sides were discovered only recently. Parker plays extensive
obbligati behind the vocals, and there is a Parker solo on each take.
Date: January 4, 1945

Place: New York
Group: Clyde Hart's All-Stars with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Don Byas (ts),
Trummy Young (tb, voc on items 6-9), Clyde Hart (p), Mike Bryan (g), Al
Hall (b), Specs Powell (d), Rubberlegs Williams (voc on items 1-5)
Recording: Commercial for Continental
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 19 (W 849.2); LP Spotlite SPJ-150D
1. What's the Matter Now? (2:45)
2. I Want Every Bit of It (3:04)
3. That's the Blues (2:50)
4. G.I. Blues (2:31)
5. 4-F Blues (2:15)
6. Dream of You (2:49)
7. Seventh Avenue (2:49)
8. Sorta Kinda (2:59)
9. Oh Oh, My My, Oh Oh (2:44) (no solo)
Note: On a later taped interview (May 1, 1950), Parker tells the amusing
story how Rubberlegs Williams accidentally drank Parker's coffee, which
was spiked with benzedrine.
"4-F Blues" and "G.I. Blues" are two takes of the same tune.
These are the first commercial recordings of Parker and Gillespie.

Place: Savoy Ballroom, New York
Group: Cootie Williams Orchestra/Sextet with Harold Johnson, Emmit
Perry, George Treadwell, Cootie Williams (tpt), Eddie Bert, Bob Horton
(tb), Frank Powell (as), Lee Pope, Sam Taylor (ts), Eddie de Verteuil
(bs), Arnold Jarvis (p), Leroy Kirkland (g), Carl Pruitt (b), Sylvester
Paine (d), Tony Warren (voc)
Recording: Radio broadcast
Primary Source: LP Cootie Williams Echoes of Harlem Big Band
Archives LP 1208; Spotlite SPJ-150D; CD Masters of Jazz 104; Philology
Volume 22 (W 852.2)
1. 'Round Midnight
2. Seven Eleven
3. Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me
4. Don't Blame Me
5. Perdido
6. Nightcap
7. Saturday Night is the Loneliest Night of the Week (v-Warren)
8. Floogie Boo (3:50) into
- Announcement
9. St. Louis Blues
Note: Parker solos only on item 8.
Some discographies also mention "You Talk a Little Trash" (issued as
possibly by Parker on Philology Volume 8 (W 80.2) and Masters of Jazz 79
along with two non-solo numbers, ("Roll 'Em" and "Air Mail Special") on
Connoisseur Rarities CR 522. There is an eight-measure alto sxaophone
solo following sixteen measures of Bud Powell. The saxophonist is
probably Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson or John Jackson.

Place: New York
Group: Dizzy Gillespie Sextet with Clyde Hart (p), Remo Palmieri (g),
Slam Stewart (b), Cozy Cole (d)
Recording: Commercial for Guild Records
Primary Source: Denon-Savoy CD SV-0152; Masters of Jazz 104
1. Groovin' High (2:40)
2. All the Things You Are (2:52)
3. Dizzy Atmosphere (2:45)
Note: Guild went out of business and these masters along with those of
the following session were picked up by Musicraft, and later Savoy.
From March until July 5 "Dizzy Gillespie and His Band, featuring Charlie
Parker" were booked at the Three Deuces opposite the Don Byas Band and
the Erroll Garner Trio.
Date: May 11, 1945

Place: Unknown recording studio, New York
Group: Dizzy Gillespie and His All-Stars with Al Haig (p), Curley
Russell (b), Sid Catlett (d), Sarah Vaughan (voc)
Recording: Commercial for Guild Records
Primary Source: Denon-Savoy CD SV-0152; LP Prestige PR-24030; Musicraft
CD MVSCD-53; Masters of Jazz 104
1. Salt Peanuts (2:20) (vocal-Gillespie)
2. Shaw 'Nuff (2:57)
3. Lover Man (3:22) (vocal-Sarah Vaughan)
4. Hot House (2:27)
Note: These are the first true bebop commercial records.
Date: May 25, 1945

Group: Sarah Vaughan Octet with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Flip Phillips
(ts), Sarah Vaughan (voc), Nat Jaffe, Tadd Dameron (p), Bill DeArango
(g), Curley Russell (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Commercial for Continental
Primary Source: LP Spotlite SPJ-150D; CD Philology Volume 19 (W 849.2);
Masters of Jazz 113)
1. What More Can a Woman Do? (3:02)
2. I'd Rather Have a Memory Than a Dream (2:38)
3. Mean to Me (2:38)
Note: Produced by Leonard Feather.
Dameron replaces Jaffe on item 2. This may be his only recording with
Parker other than the September 1948 recording at the Royal Roost.
Date: May 30, 1945 (?)

Place: Lincoln Square Concert, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet with Dizzy Gillespie, possibly Don Byas
(ts), Al Haig (p), Curley Russell (b), Stan Levey (d)
Recording: Privately recorded off the air by Bob Redcross
1. Sweet Georgia Brown (inc.) (3:20)
Note: Consists of just an exchange between Parker, Gillespie and Byas.
This item was originally thought to have been recorded in Los Angeles
during February 1946, but this is probably where it belongs.
Date: June 5, 1945

Place: Academy of Music, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with Al Haig (p), Curley Russell (b),
Stan Levy (d)
Recording: Acetate recording of concert excerpt
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 17 (W 847.2); Masters of Jazz 113
1. Blue 'n' Boogie (inc.) (3:00)
Note: Low fidelity item that begins after the theme. The entire Parker
solo (five choruses) is intact. The end of the piano solo and the
closing theme are also intact, probably on side B of the original
acetate.
Date: June 6, 1945

Place: Unknown recording studio, New YorkGroup: Red Norvo and His Selected
Sextet with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt),
Teddy Wilson (p), Slam Stewart (b), Specs Powell (1-6) or J.C. Heard (712) (d)
Recording: Commercial for Comet Records
Primary Source: LP Spotlite SPJ-127; CD Philology Volume 15 (W 845.2);
Masters of Jazz 113
1. Hallelujah I (4:10)
2. Hallelujah II (4:12)
3. Hallelujah III (MT)(4:00)
4. Get Happy I (4:03)
5. Get Happy II (MT) (3:47)
6. Slam, Slam Blues I (5:05)
7. Slam, Slam Blues II (MT) (4:29)
8. Congo Blues I (inc.) (1:07)
9. Congo Blues II (inc.) (1:17)
10. Congo Blues III (4:02)
11. Congo Blues IV (3:53)
12. Congo Blues V (MT) (3:50)
Note: The first take of "Congo Blues" breaks down in the middle of
Parker's solo, the second, after he finishes his solo.

Place: New York
Group: Sir Charles Thompson and His All-Stars with Buck Clayton (tpt),
Dexter Gordon (ts), Danny Barker (g), Jimmy Butts (b), J.C. Heard (d)
Recording: Commercial for Apollo Records
Primary Source: CD Delmark DD 450; Masters of Jazz 113
1. Takin' Off (3:05)
2. If I Had You (2:58) (no Parker solo)
3. Twentieth Century Blues (2:54)
4. The Street Beat (2:33)
The only recordings of Parker and Gordon together.
Sometime in October 1945 "The Charlie Parker Combo" with Miles Davis,
Gordon, Thompson, Leonard Gaskin, and Stan Levey opened at the Spotlite
Club on 52nd Street.

Group: Charlie Parker's Reboppers with Miles Davis (tpt), Dizzy
Gillespie (tpt, p), Sadik Hakim [Argonne Thorton] (p), Curley Russell
(b), Max Roach (d)
Primary Source: LP Savoy SJL-5500; CD Nippon Columbia Savoy box, discs
1-2
1. Billie's Bounce I (2:40) CT
2. Billie's Bounce II (1:41) IT
3. Billie's Bounce III (3:03) CT
4. Warming Up a Riff (Cherokee) (2:32) (inc.)
5. Billie's Bounce IV (1:37) IT
6. Billie's Bounce V (3:09) MT
7. Now's the Time I (0:20) FS
8. Now's the Time II (0:37) FS
9. Now's the Time III (3:06) CT
10. Now's the Time IV (3:15) MT
11. Thriving from a Riff (Anthropology) I (2:59) CT
12. Thriving from a Riff (Anthropology) II (0:23) IT
13. Thriving from a Riff (Anthropology) III (2:55) MT
14. Meandering (Embraceable You) (inc.) (3:15)
15. Ko-Ko (Cherokee) I (0:38) FS
16. Ko-Ko II (2:54) MT
Note: This session is the source of much myth and legend, in large part
because of John Mehegan's inaccurate liner notes to the first Savoy LP
issue.
In December, Parker and Gillespie opened at Billy Berg's Supper Club in
Hollywood.
Date: December 29, 1945

Place: Unknown recording studio, Hollywood, California
Group: Slim Gaillard and His Orchestra with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Jack
McVea (ts), Dodo Marmarosa (p), Bam Brown (b), Zutty Singleton (d)
Recording: Commercial for Bel-Tone

Primary Source: LP Savoy SJL-5500; CD Nippon Columbia Savoy box, disc 2;
Masters of Jazz 121
1. Flat Foot Floogie I (2:45) CT
2. Flat Foot Floogie II (2:30) MT
3. Dizzy Boogie I (3:15) CT
4. Dizzy Boogie II (3:08) MT
5. Popity Pop (2:55)
6. Slim's Jam (3:14) (Gaillard patter throughout, Parker voice)
Note: These recordings were made for Bel-Tone, which promptly failed.
The masters were acquired and issued by Majestic records. The two
alternate takes are sonically inferior.

Place: Unknown recording studio, Hollywood, California
Group: Dizzy Gillespie and His Rebop Six with Al Haig (p), Milt Jackson
(vb on item 3), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d)
Recording: AFRS Jubilee
- Announcement (Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman and Dizzy Gillespie) - into
1. Shaw 'Nuff (4:52)
- Announcement into
- Announcement by Whitman and Gillespie into
Note: Some sources suggest that "Night in Tunisia" was also recorded,
and Philology even issued a purported recording, Volume 8 (W 80.2).
Robert Bregman has argued in Cadence that this was fraudulent.

Place: Billy Berg's, Hollywood, California
Group: Dizzy Gillespie and His Rebop Six with Lucky Thompson (ts), Milt
Jackson (vb), Al Haig (p), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d)
Recording: WEAF radio broadcast, possibly the Rudy Vallee Show
1. Salt Peanuts (2:08)
Note: Parker improvises only on the bridge to the opening theme.

Place: Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Group: JATP with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Al Killian (tpt), Willie Smith
(as), Lester Young (ts), Mel Powell (p), Billy Hadnott (b), Lee Young
(d)
Recording: Concert recorded for Mercury Records
Primary Source: CD Verve box, disc 1; Masters of Jazz 118 (Lester Young
Volume 7)
1. Sweet Georgia Brown (9:32)
New Group (second set?): JATP with Howard McGhee, Al Killian (tpt),
Willie Smith (as), Lester Young (ts), Arnold Ross (p), Billy Hadnott
(b), Lee Young (d)
2. Blues for Norman (8:37)
3. I Can't Get Started (9:15)
4. Lady Be Good (11:05)
5. After You've Gone (7:33)
Note: Parker arrives late; the applause for him is audible during the
piano solo. Gillespie says "Where you been?" and Parker wails.

Place: Unknown venue in Southern California
Group: Jam Session with Dizzy Gillespie
Recording: Private tape by Bob Redcross
1. Lover Come Back to Me (inc.) (3:31)
Note: Only Parker's solo is preserved from this item, along with closing
theme in counterpoint with the trumpet. One of the earliest examples of
Parker in this jam session groove.
February 4 was the closing night of the Billy Berg's gig.

Place: Electro Broadcasting Studios, Glendale, California
Group: Dizzy Gillespie Jazzmen with Lucky Thompson (ts), George Handy
(p), Arvin Garrison (g), Ray Brown (b), Stan Levey (d)
Recording: Commercial for Dial Records
Primary Source: Dial box, disc 1
1. Diggin' Diz (2:52)
Note: The only commercial recording of the Berg's band with Parker, who
failed to show for the Dial session two days later that resulted in
"Confirmation," etc. This session was originally supposed to include
Lester Young and Milt Jackson, who never showed up; Thompson and
Garrison were recruited at the last minute to take their places.
Later in February Parker signed a one-year exclusive contract with Dial.
Date: February-March 1946

Place: Finale Club, Los Angeles, California
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Joe Albany (p),
Addison Farmer (b), Chuck Thompson (d)
Recording: Acetates recorded from radio broadcast
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 18 (848.2); Masters of Jazz 121
1. Anthropology (2:46)
- Applause and fragment of announcement ("From the Finale Club,
located at the. . .")
2. Billie's Bounce (3:41)
3. Blue 'n' Boogie (5:08)
5. Ornithology (inc.) (5:01)
Note: This session took place a short time before the March 28 Dial
studio session. These were some of the first live Parker sides to
circulate among collectors, but they were not released until the 1970s.
It would be nice to know whether broadcasts were made from small venues
like the Finale Club, or whether these items were recorded on site with
an acetate cutter la Benedetti. The announcement fragment
following item 1 suggests a radio broadcast.
The first club recordings of Charlie Parker as a leader of his own
quintet, with Miles Davis on trumpet.
Date: March 28, 1946

Place: Radio Recorders Studios, Hollywood, California
Group: Charlie Parker Septet with Miles Davis (tpt), Lucky Thompson
(ts), Arvin Garrison (g), Dodo Marmarosa (p), Vic McMillan (b), Roy
Porter (d)
1. Moose the Mooche I (2:57) CT
2. Moose the Mooche II (3:02) MT
3. Moose the Mooche III (2:55) CT
4. Yardbird Suite I (2:39) CT
5. Yardbird Suite II (2:54) MT
6. Ornithology I (3:01) (no solo) CT
7. Ornithology II (Bird Lore) (3:16) CT
8. Ornithology III (2:59) MT
9. Night in Tunisia I (Famous Alto Break) (0:47) (excerpt)
10. Night in Tunisia II (3:05) CT
11. Night in Tunisia III (3:02) MT
Note: Parker's second studio session as a leader.
Date: March-April 1946

Place: Los Angeles, California
Group: Charlie Parker with the Nat King Cole Trio (Oscar Moore (g),
Johnny Miller (b)), Buddy Rich (d)
Recording: AFRS Jubilee
- Announcement by Ernie "Bubbles" Whitman, introduction of
Parker by Benny Carter; Parker says "You do, Ernie?" into
Tea for Two and Body and Soul
1. Cherokee into
- Announcement (2:59)
Note: The third part of a staged alto showdown featuring Benny Carter
(who does "Tea for Two") and Willie Smith (performing "Body and Soul").
A performance of "Ornithology" appears here in the discographies and on
the Philology and Masters of Jazz CDs. It sounds like New York 1949, so
I've placed it there.

Place: Embassy Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Group: JATP with Buck Clayton (tpt), Willie Smith (as), Coleman Hawkins,
Lester Young (ts), Ken Kersey (p), Irving Ashby (g), Billy Hadnott (b),
Buddy Rich (d)
Recording: Concert recorded live for Mercury Records
Primary Source: CD Verve box, disc 1
1. I Got Rhythm (12:54)
- Introductions by Norman Granz (2:16)
2. JATP Blues (10:56)
Note: Parker takes the short first solo on "JATP Blues."
Date: July 29, 1946

Place: C.P. MacGregor Studios, Hollywood, California
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet (except item 4 issued as Howard McGhee
Quintet) with Howard McGhee (tpt), Jimmy Bunn (p), Bob Kesterson (b),
Roy Porter (d)
Recording: Commercial for Dial
1. Max Making Wax (2:30)
2. Lover Man (3:20)
3. The Gypsy (3:02)
4. Bebop (2:53)
Note: Parker's third studio session, the infamous "Lover Man" date.
"Bebop" features a fiery two-chorus trumpet solo by McGhee and a
disintegrating Charlie Parker.
McGhee went on to finish the session as a quartet, continuing with the
exceptional passion he demonstrates on "Bebop." Parker went back to his
hotel, wound up in jail, and then off to the Camarillo State Mental
Hospital for rehabilitation.
[----------- PARKER IN CAMARILLO UNTIL END OF JANUARY 1947 ------------]

Place: Chuck Copely's apartment, Hollywood, California
Group: Jam Session including Melvin Broiles, Howard McGhee, Shorty
Rogers (tpt), Russ Freeman (p), Arnold Fishkin (b), Jimmy Pratt (d)
Recording: Privately recorded on Acetate by Ross Russell
Primary Source: Stash CD 25; Philology Volume 8 (W 80.2) (items 1-2
only)
1. Blues I (0:49)
2. Blues II (1:10)
3. Yardbird Suite (2:14)
4. Lullaby in Rhythm I (1:33)
5. Lullaby in Rhythm II (2:10)
6. Home Cookin' I ('S Wonderful with Honeysuckle Rose bridge) (2:24)
7. Home Cookin' II (Cherokee) (2:10)
8. Home Cookin' III (I Got Rhythm) (2:30)
Note: Ross Russell made these acetates at a party for Parker.
The sound quality of items 1-3 is poor. Items 1 and 2 are combined as a
single item (1:49) on Philology.

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Erroll Garner (p), Red Callender (b),
Doc West (d); Earl Coleman (voc) (items 1-6)
1. This is Always I (3:13) MT
2. This is Always II (3:09) CT
3. Dark Shadows I (4:02) CT
4. Dark Shadows II (3:10) CT

5. Dark Shadows III (3:05) MT
6. Dark Shadows IV (2:58) CT
7. Bird's Nest I (2:51) CT
8. Bird's Nest II (2:49) CT
9. Bird's Nest III (2:42) MT
10. Cool Blues I (Hot Blues) (1:58) CT
11. Cool Blues II (Blow Top Blues) (2:22) CT
12. Cool Blues III (3:07) MT
13. Cool Blues IV (2:50) CT
Note: Parker's only recordings with Erroll Garner. Although "Dark
Shadows" is credited to Coleman, Parker probably co-wrote it.

Group: Charlie Parker's New Stars with Howard McGhee (tpt), Wardell Gray
(ts), Dodo Marmarosa (p), Barney Kessel (g), Red Callender (b), Don
Lamond (d)
1. Relaxin' at Camarillo I (3:06) CT
2. Relaxin' at Camarillo II (2:49) MT
3. Relaxin' at Camarillo III (3:01) CT
4. Relaxin' at Camarillo IV (2:58) CT
5. Cheers I (3:08) CT
6. Cheers II (3:04) CT
7. Cheers III (3:00) CT
8. Cheers IV (3:04) MT
9. Carvin' the Bird I (2:44) CT
10. Carvin' the Bird II (2:44) MT
11. Stupendous I (2:53) MT
12. Stupendous II (2:53) CT
Note: The only studio recording of Parker with Wardell Gray, and the
final studio session before Parker's return to New York. According to
Dean Benedetti's records, "Relaxin' at Camarillo" was called "Past Due."
Date: February-March 1947

Place: Probably somewhere in or near Los Angeles, California
Group: Jam Session, unknown personnel
Recording: Dubbed (perhaps recorded) by Dean Benedetti
Primary Source: Mosaic Benedetti box
1. Blues in B-Flat (1:44) [4/1]
Note: This is probably not from the Hi-De-Ho, because a guitar solo
follows Parker.
The numbers in brackets indicate the location of the item in the Mosaic
box. "[4/1]" indicates that this item is on disc 4, track 1. I use this
convention throughout the Benedetti material because of the way Mosaic
decided to release it.
All Benedetti material is incomplete (mostly Parker solos only), unless
otherwise indicated.
Date: March 1, 1947

Place: Hi-De-Ho Club, Los Angeles, California
Group: Howard McGhee Quintet with Hampton Hawes (p), Addison Farmer (b),
Roy Porter (d)
Recording: Privately recorded on acetate by Dean Benedetti
1. September in the Rain (2:09) [4/39]
2. Rose Room (1:32) [1/3]
3. 52nd Street Theme (0:45) [1/5]
4. All the Things You Are (2:21) [1/4]
5. Blue 'n' Boogie (0:56) [1/1]
6. I Surrender Dear (0:57) [4/40]
7. Stardust (1:12) [1/2]
Note: Item 4 contains a lot of surface noise.
Date: March 2, 1947

Roy Porter (d)

1. Blues in F (0:22) [4/57]
2. The Man I Love (1:59) [1/9]
3. Cheers I (0:36) [4/58]
4. Byas a Drink I (2:28) [1/10]
5. Relaxin' at Camarillo (1:05) [1/8]
6. I'm in the Mood for Love I (1:05) [1/12]
7. Yardbird Suite (1:20) [1/11]
9. Sportsman's Hop (0:34) [4/52]
10. Night and Day (0:11) [4/54]
11. The Very Thought of You (0:28) [4/55]
12. Hot House (1:58) [1/6]
13. Cheers II (0:59) [4/24]
14. I Don't Stand a Ghost of A Chance (1:10) [1/7]
15. Wee (Big Noise) I (1:02) [1/13]
16. Bean Soup (2:22) [1/15]
17. Wee (Big Noise) II (0:35) [4/59]
18. I'm in the Mood for Love II (0:43) [4/2]
19. 52nd Street Theme (?) (0:43) [4/64]
20. Carvin' the Bird (1:01) [1/21]
21. Stardust (1:17) [1/14]
22. Byas a Drink II (1:56) [1/32]
23. Groovin' High (1:36) [1/20] ("Last call for alcohol")
24. It's the Talk of the Town (1:47) [1/22]
25. Ornithology (0:11) [4/60]
26. Perdido (0:59) [4/61]
27. Sweet Georgia Brown (0:53) [1/19]
28. Night in Tunisia (0:59) [1/31]
Date: March 1, 2, 4 or 5, 1947

Roy Porter (d)
1. Bean Soup (1:04) [4/15]
2. Stardust (1:05) [3/35]
3. Hot House I (1:22) [1/28]
4. The Man I Love I (1:34) (1/27)
5. 52nd Street Theme (1:02) [4/16]
6. Groovin' High (1:14) [4/14]
7. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance (1:08) (1/24)
8. Prisoner of Love (or Body and Soul?) (1:08) (1/26)
9. Indiana (0:58) (1/23)
10. Disorder at the Border (0:40) [4/13]
11. Ornithology (1:15) (1/25)
13. Wee (Big Noise) (1:07) [4/12]
14. Hot House II (0:58) [4/17]
15. Sportsman's Hop (0:46) [4/18]
16. Cool Blues (0:40) (1/18)
17. I'm in the Mood for Love (1:04) [1/17]
18. Cheers (0:41) [4/19]
19. The Man I Love II (1:18) [1/16]
20. Stuffy (0:43) (1/29)
21. Night and Day (1:12) (1/30)
22. Past Due (Relaxin' At Camarillo) (?) (0:42) [4/56]
Date: March 6, 1947

Roy Porter (d), Earl Coleman or Danny Knight (voc)
3. The Very Thought of You (1:16) -v [3/38]
4. Perdido (0:55) [3/41]
5. Now's the Time (0:53) [4/63]
6. Wee (Big Noise) (2:15) [3/39]
7. Hot House (2:06) [3/36]
8. Stuffy (0:13) [4/65]
9. Body and Soul (0:34) [4/76]
10. Ornithology (1:12) [4/25]
11. Sentimental Journey (0:26) [1/37]
12. 52nd Street Theme (1:28) [1/39]
13. Groovin' High (0:16) [4/26]

14. The Man I Love (1:41) [3/40]
15. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance (1:08) -v [4/27]
16. Past Due (Relaxin' at Camarillo) (1:38) [1/35]
17. Night and Day (1:01) [1/34]
18. Moose the Mooche (2:10) [1/33]
19. Cheers (1:06) [4/28]
Date: March 7, 1947

Roy Porter (d)
1. Rose Room (1:34) [2/7]
2. Groovin' High (1:34) [4/66]
3. Wee (Big Noise) I (1:41) [4/8]
4. Byas a Drink (1:12) [2/4]
5. Body and Soul I (1:12) [2/3]
6. Hot House I (1:09) [2/1]
7. Cheers (1:06) [4/29]
9. Now's the Time (1:52) [2/5]
12. I Surrender Dear (1:57) [1/41]
13. Dee Dee's Dance I (2:18) [1/42]
14. Stuffy (1:44) [1/40]
15. Perdido (1:48) [1/39]
16. Body and Soul II (0:30) [4/30]
17. Wee (Big Noise) II (0:32) [4/11]
19. Relaxin' at Camarillo (Past Due) (1:36) [2/11]
21. Dee Dee's Dance II (1:58) [2/13]
22. Stardust (1:06) [2/10]
23. I Don't Stand a Ghost of a Chance (unissued)
24. Ornithology (unissued)
25. The Man I Love (unissued)
26. Bean Soup (2:07) [4/53]
Note: The unissued cuts are held by a Benedetti relative who wouldn't
make them available to Mosaic.
Date: March 1-7, 1947

Roy Porter (d)
1. Hot House (2:16) [4/20]
2. The Man I Love (1:46) [4/21]
4. 'S Wonderful (Stupendous) (1:48) [4/23]
Note: These were labelled "Casa Dubs" by Benedetti. They may have been
recorded by someone else and dubbed for Benedetti's collection. Or maybe
they were recorded at someone's home rather than at the club.
Date: March 8, 1947

Roy Porter (d)
2. Dee Dee's Dance (2:11) [2/16]
3. Stuffy (1:15) [4/31]
4. Hot House (1:05) [4/67]
5. Perdido (1:32) [3/42]
7. I Surrender Dear (?) (0:07) [4/70]
8. I'm in the Mood For Love (0:57) [2/19]
9. Night and Day (0:03) [4/70]
10. Bean Stalking (2:08) [2/17]
12. Now's the Time (1:33) [2/20]
13. Wee (Big Noise) (2:16) [2/21]

14. Bean Soup (2:31) [2/22]
15. Body and Soul (0:48) [2/23]
16. Night and Day (0:08) [4/72]
17. Prisoner of Love (0:21) [4/32]
19. Byas a Drink (2:20) [2/24]
21. Stardust (?) (0:05) [4/75]
23. Ornithology (1:39) [2/15]
24. The Man I Love (1:45) [2/26]
Date: March 9, 1947
Roy Porter (d)
1. Perdido I (2:27) [2/28]
2. Indiana (2:33) [2/29]
3. Now's the Time (1:52) [2/27]
5. Sweet and Lovely (2:16) [3/31]
6. Stardust (0:11) [4/73]
7. Bean Soup (2:59) [2/31]
8. Perdido II (2:13) [2/34]
9. Moose the Mooche (1:22) [3/2]
10. Hot House (1:48) [2/32]
11. Dee Dee's Dance (3:53) [3/30]
12. Ornithology I (Bird Lore) (1:46) [2/30]
14. Body and Soul (1:26) [2/36]
15. Ornithology II (1:18) [3/4]
16. The Man I Love (1:48) [2/33]
17. Stuffy (1:15) [4/33]
18. Ornithology III (1:57) [2/35]
Note: Benedetti's recording techniques seem to be improving. Item 11
contains not only Parker's solo, but also McGhee's and some of Hawes'.

Roy Porter (d)
1. 'S Wonderful (1:27) [3/5]
4. Now's the Time (1:02) [3/8]
6. Rifftide (1:25) [3/9]
7. Dee Dee's Dance (1:30) [4/34]
8. Ornithology (1:43) [3/34]
9. Cheers (1:06) [4/35]
10. Perdido (1:27) [3/7]
11. Byas a Drink (1:56) [4/36]
12. Wee (Big Noise) (1:06) [4/9]
14. Stardust (?) (0:05) [4/74]
15. Bean Soup (1:27) [3/32]

Roy Porter (d)
1. Blues in B-Flat (1:03) [3/18]
2. Unidentified tune ending (0:05) [4/68]
3. Sweet and Lovely (1:01) [3/11]
4. Perdido (1:46) [3/15]
5. Cheers (0:15) [4/38]
7. Wee (Big Noise) I (0:20) [4/10]
8. Stuffy (0:56) [3/12]
9. Hot House I (0:45) [3/13]

10. Ornithology (0:50) [3/17]
11. Dee Dee's Dance (1:26) [4/42]
12. The Man I Love (2:10) [3/14]
15. Groovin' High (2:10) [3/19]
16. Cheers (0:53) [4/43]
17. Byas a Drink (1:30) [4/44]
18. Prisoner of Love (?) (0:06) [4/69]
19. Stardust (0:53) - v [3/16]
20. Now's the Time (0:39) [4/45]
21. Hot House II (unissued-bad sound)
22. Unidentified Tune (Stardust?) (0:03) [4/75]
23. Wee (Big Noise) II (1:14) [3/10]
Note: Unissued recordings of "Moose the Mooche" and "Past Due" are
rumored to be held by a Benedetti relative.

Roy Porter (d)
1. Groovin' High (0:43) [4/49]
3. Wee (Big Noise) (1:22) [3/21]
4. Rifftide (0:43) [3/28]
5. Perdido (1:07) [3/25]
6. These Foolish Things (0:54) [4/77]
7. Body and Soul (0:22) [4/50]
8. Disorder at the Border (?) (0:30) [4/51]
9. Hot House (1:12) [4/46]
10. Moose the Mooch (0:47) [3/23]
11. Sportsman's Hop (0:34) [4/47]
12. Blues in B-Flat (0:39) [4/48]
13. Ornithology (1:30) [3/22]
14. Stuffy (0:48) [3/26]
16. Byas a Drink (0:51) [3/20]
17. Indiana (1:27) [3/24]
Note: This session concludes the four-hour collection of Benedetti
acetates made during the first two weeks of March 1947 at the Hi-De-Ho
club. These recordings allow us to study Parker's playing set after set
during a crucial period in his career (Los Angeles after Camarillo).
There are a few additional items from the Hi-De-Ho held by Benedetti
relatives unwilling at this time to give them up.
Date: May 8, 1947

Place: Harris Smith Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Bud Powell (p),
Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Donna Lee I (0:11) FS
- studio voices
2. Donna Lee II (3:00) (CP)
3. Donna Lee III (2:31) CT
4. Donna Lee IV (2:35) CT
5. Donna Lee V (2:32) MT
6. Chasin' the Bird I (2:53) CT
7. Chasin' the Bird II (0:19) FS
- "Hold it."
8. Chasin' the Bird III (2:58) CT
9. Chasin' the Bird IV (2:44) MT
10. Cheryl I (0:04) FS
- Parker says "Hold it, hold it."
11. Cheryl II (2:58) MT
12. Buzzy I (2:59) CT
13. Buzzy II (0:35) IT
- "Hold it Charlie, Hold it."
14. Buzzy III (2:38) CT
15. Buzzy IV (0:22) IT
- "Hold it."
16. Buzzy V (2:30) MT
Note: Parker's first recordings after his return from California. The
studio is sometimes referred to as "Harry Smith Studios."

Group: Miles Davis All-Stars with Charlie Parker (ts), John Lewis (p),
Nelson Boyd (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Milestones I (0:19) FS
- "Hold it, Hold it."
2. Milestones II (2:36) MT
3. Milestones III (2:45) CT
4. Little Willie Leaps I (0:51) IT
- "Okay, you want to try it again?"
5. Little Willie Leaps II (3:09) CT
6. Little Willie Leaps III (2:50) MT
7. Half Nelson I (2:50) CT
8. Half Nelson II (2:44) MT
9. Sippin' at Bells I (0:55) IT
- "Hold it, fellas."
10. Sippin' at Bells II (2:23) MT
11. Sippin' at Bells III (0:06) (FT)
- "Okay, okay."
12. Sippin' at Bells IV (2:26) CT
Note: Parker plays tenor throughout.
The Parker Quintet was booked at the Three Deuces from August 7-20.

Place: Mutual Studios, New York
Group: Barry Ulanov and His All-Star Metronome Jazzmen with Dizzy
Gillespie (tpt), John LaPorta (cl), Lennie Tristano (p), Billy Bauer
(g), Ray Brown (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: WOR radio broadcast (U.S. Treasury for Mutual network)
Primary Source: LP Spotlite 107 and ZIM ZL 1001; CD Philology Volume 17
(W 847.2)
1. Ko-Ko (1:00) (theme) (voiceover by Bruce Elliott)
- Announcement into
2. Hot House (5:44)
- I Surrender Dear (3:21) (rhythm section only)
3. Fine and Dandy (3:41) (voiceover Barry Ulanov and Bruce Elliott)
Note: A "Bands for Bonds" radio broadcast, and the first recorded
reunion with Gillespie and Parker's first recorded collaboration with
Lennie Tristano. A battle of the bands with a group of traditionalists.

Group: Barry Ulanov and His All-Star Metronome Jazzmen with Dizzy
Gillespie (tpt), John LaPorta (cl), Lennie Tristano (p), Billy Bauer
(g), Ray Brown (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: WOR radio broadcast (U.S. Treasury for Mutual network)
Primary Source: LP Spotlite 107 and ZIM ZL 1001; CD Philology Volume 17
(W 847.2)
1. Ko-Ko (Theme with voiceover) into
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street into
3. 52nd Street Theme (tag) (3:42)
4. How Deep is the Ocean? (3:00)
5. Tiger Rag into
- Announcement (4:13) into
6. Fifty Second Street Theme (0:48) (theme with voiceover)

Place: Carnegie Hall, New York
Group: Dizzy Gillespie Quintet with John Lewis (p), Al McKibbon (b), Joe
Harris (d)
Recording: Live recordings issued first by Savoy
Primary Source: Savoy Jazz CD ZDS 1177; Bird Box Volume 1
1. Night in Tunisia (5:11)
4. Confirmation (5:37)
5. Ko-Ko (4:12)
Note: A concert featuring Gillespie's big band and Ella Fitzgerald.
Parker played as a guest star in the quintet format for one set.
Date: October 28, 1947

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Duke Jordan (p),
Recording: Commercial for Dial
1. Dexterity I (2:57)
2. Dexterity II (2:59)
3. Bongo Bop I (2:44)
4. Bongo Bop II (2:44)
5. Dewey Square I (Prezology) (3:28)
6. Dewey Square II (3:02)
7. Dewey Square III (3:07)
8. The Hymn I (2:31)
9. The Hymn II (Superman) (2:28)
10. Bird of Paradise I (All the Things You Are) (3:08)
11. Bird of Paradise II (3:10)
12. Bird of Paradise III (3:11)
13. Embraceable You I (3:47)
14. Embraceable You II (3:23)
Note: A significant session featuring ballad playing by a seasoned
working group.
In early October the American Federation of Musicians announced that a
second recording ban would begin on January 1, 1948. This accounts for
the frequency of commercial recording sessions in the closing months of
1947.

Primary Source: Dial box, discs 3-4
1. Bird Feathers (2:51)
2. Klact-oveeseds-tene I (3:05)
3. Klact-oveeseds-tene II (3:05)
4. Scrapple from the Apple I (2:39)
5. Scrapple from the Apple II (2:58)
6. My Old Flame (3:14)
7. Out of Nowhere I (4:03)
8. Out of Nowhere II (3:50)
9. Out of Nowhere III (3:05)
10. Don't Blame Me (2:47)

Group: Barry Ulanov and His All Star Metronome Jazzmen with Fats Navarro
(tpt), John LaPorta (cl), Lennie Tristano (p), Billy Bauer (g), Tommy
Potter (b), Buddy Rich (d)
Recording: U.S. Treasury radio broadcast for Mutual
Primary Source: LP Spotlite 108 and Zim ZL 1002; CD Philology Volume 17
(W 847.2)
1. 52nd Street Theme (1:40) (voiceover by Bruce Elliott)
- Announcement by Barry Ulanov (0:35)
2. Donna Lee (2:22)
- Everything I Have is Yours (3:05) (v-Sarah Vaughan)
- Announcement by Barry Ulanov into
3. Fats Flats/Hot House (2:55) (Parker plays on out chorus)
- Tea for Two (2:34)
- Don't Blame Me (3:11)
4. Groovin' High (3:35) (Parker plays on chorus)
5. Ko-Ko (5:41) (voiceover) into
6. Anthropology (0:36) (voiceover)
Note: More from the "Bands for Bonds," featuring the winners. "Fats'
Flats" was recorded as a feature for Navarro, "Everything I Have is
Yours" for Sarah Vaughan, "Groovin' High" for Allen Eager, "Tea for Two"
for John LaPorta, and "Don't Blame Me" for the Lennie Tristano Trio.
Date: November 11-23, 1947 (?)

Place: Argyle Lounge, Chicago, Illinois
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet possibly with Miles Davis (tpt), Duke
Jordan (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Private acetates (dubs of wire recordings?)
1. Unknown rhythm tune I (2:22)
2. Blues Fragment (0:28)
3. Ornithology (2:15)
4. Unknown rhythm tune II (Dizzy Atmosphere?) (2:50)
Note: Very low fidelity with Parker solos only.
The date is uncertain. The same Parker group played Chicago's Pershing
Hotel Ballroom January 3-6, 1948 (see below); it is possible that these
tunes were recorded then.
Date: Late 1947 (?)

Place: Waukegan, Illinois
Recording: Private wire recordings dubbed onto acetates
Primary Source: Philology Volumes 1/4 (W 5/18-2), 5/6 (W 19/29-2), and
14 (W 844.2); private tape
Philology Volumes 1/4:
1. Dexterity (3:29)
2. The Way You Look Tonight (3:07)
3. Barbados (2:59)
5. Embraceable You I (2:04)
6. Ornithology or How High the Moon (1:18)
7. 52nd Street Theme (1:58)
Philology CD 5/6:
8. Diggin' Diz (3:02)
Philology CD 14:
9. Embraceable You II (0:53) (fragment)
Private tape:
10. Slow Boat to China
11. 52nd Street Theme II
Note: Poor fidelity throughout. Philology dates the session during fall
1947. BBS suggests various dates and Chicago locations.
Items 10 and 11 may be from yet another Chicago session.

Group: Charlie Parker Sextet with Miles Davis (tpt), J.J. Johnson (tb),
Duke Jordan (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Drifting on a Reed I (Big Foot) (2:56) CT
2. Drifting on a Reed II (Big Foot) (2:53) CT
3. Drifting on a Reed III (Big Foot) (2:52) MT
4. Quasimodo I (2:54) CT
5. Quasimodo II (2:52) MT
6. Charlie's Wig I (2:46) CT
7. Charlie's Wig II (2:46) CT
8. Charlie's Wig III (2:42) MT
9. Bongo Beep I (Dexterity) (2:57) CT
10. Bongo Beep II (Bird Feathers) (2:57) MT
11. Crazeology I (1:00) (excerpt: theme and solo)
12. Crazeology II (0:32) (excerpt: solo)
13. Crazeology III (2:57) CT
14. Crazeology IV (2:57) MT
15. How Deep is the Ocean I (3:23) MT
16. How Deep is the Ocean II (3:07) CT
Note: Parker's final session for Dial Records.

Place: United Sound Studios, Detroit, Michigan
1. Another Hair-Do I (0:14) IT
- Parker says "Hold it, start it once more."
2. Another Hair-Do II (0:44) IT
- Parker talks again, "Let's see how it goes down this time."
3. Another Hair-Do III (1:04) IT
- Studio voices
4. Another Hair-Do IV (2:37) MT
5. Bluebird I (2:53) CT
6. Bluebird II (0:03) FS
7. Bluebird III (2:50) MT
8. Klaunstance (The Way You Look Tonight) (2:53) MT
9. Bird Gets the Worm (Lover Come Back) I (3:00) CT
10. Bird Gets the Worm II (0:10) IT
11. Bird Gets the Worm III (2:35) MT
Note: The Parker Quintet played at the El Sino in Detroit from December
19-January 1.
Date: Early December 1947

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Shelly
Manne (d)
Recording: Commercial for Mercury Records
1. The Bird (4:44)
Note: The first studio date with Norman Granz. This was long thought to
have been recorded in late 1948. The underlying tune is "Topsy."
Parker left New York on December 18 or 19.
Date: Early December 1947

Group: Neal Hefti's Orchestra
1. Repetition (2:57)
Note: It has been claimed that the big band was taped first and Parker
overdubbed at a later date, but Al Porcino, trumpeter in the Hefti
Orchestra, denies this.
This session and the one before it were recorded for a Norman Granz
anthology called The Jazz Scene.
Parker left New York on December 18 or 19.
Date: Unknown 1947 (?)

Place: Washington Music Hall, Washington, D.C.
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet possibly with Earl Swope (tb), Nat Cole or
Al Haig (p), Buddy Rich (d)
Recording: Private tape
1. Scrapple from the Apple (1:33) (inc.)
2. Bernie's Tune (1:41)
3. C Jam Blues (1:40)
4. Ko-Ko (3:40)
5. These Foolish Things (2:33)
Note: Opening themes and Parker solos only, and poor fidelity
throughout. The presence of "Bernie's Tune" suggests a later date than
the one given by Philology; so does the fact that the tape recorder,
which can be heard on "Ko-Ko," would have been very new in 1947.

Place: New Savoy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois

1. The Chase (1:39)
2. Drifting on a Reed (Big Foot) (1:41)
Note: Parker solos only, and poor fidelity throughout. "The Chase" here
is the Tadd Dameron tune, not, pace the Philology notes, the
Wardell Gray/Dexter Gordon tune.
The Parker Quintet played a four-day gig at the Pershing Hotel Ballroom
from January 3-6; on Saturday the 3rd they played a dance at the New
Savoy Ballroom opposite the Claude McLin Combo.
Date: March 1948
Place: The Three Deuces, New York
Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d); Kenny Hagood (voc)
Recording: Private tape by Dean Benedetti
1. 52nd Street Theme I (3:44) [5/7]
2. Dizzy Atmosphere (2:56) [5/9]
3. My Old Flame (0:26) [5/10] (fragment)
4. All the Things You Are (4:50) - v [5/13]
5. Half Nelson (4:36) [5/12]
6. 52nd Street Theme II (2:36) (Parker voiceover) [5/11]
7. 52nd Street Theme III (1:21) (Parker voiceover) [5/14]
8. Big Foot (Drifting on a Reed) (4:24) [5/8]
Note: Recorded on a Brush Sound Mirror paper-based tape recorder. This
session circulated on tape and then was released on Spotlite before the
Benedetti cache was issued by Mosaic. The Mosaic set is sonically
better.
The Parker Quintet played two weeks at the Deuces, March 30-April 11.
Date: July 6-11, 1948

Place: The Onyx Club, New York
Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d); Earl Coleman (voc)
1. 52nd Street Theme I (1:31) [7/26]
2. 52nd Street Theme II (1:10) [6/1]
3. Out of Nowhere I (5:40) [6/2]
4. My Old Flame I (2:22) [6/3] (odd tag)
5. Chasin' the Bird (1:39) [6/4]
6. The Way You Look Tonight I (6:19) [6/5]
7. This Time the Dream's on Me I (with Country Gardens tag (4:35)
[6/6]
8. Shaw 'Nuff (3:48) [6/7]
9. 52nd Street Theme III (few notes) into
- Announcement by Parker of pianist (0:21) [6/8]
10. 52nd Street Theme IV (1:16) [7/32]
11. Cheryl (0:21) [6/9] (fragment of head, sounds like a breakdown,
rehearsal?)
12. Ornithology (Bird Lore) (How High the Moon) (1:57) [6/10]
13. These Foolish Things (1:30) [6/11]
14. Groovin' High (2:14) [6/12]
15. Little Willie Leaps (2:05) [6/13]
- Parker introducing Earl Coleman into
16. Night and Day (2:36) [7/24] - v
17. This Time the Dream's on Me II (4:42) [6/15]
18. 52nd Street Theme V (2:23) [6/14]
19. The Way You Look Tonight II (4:10) [6/16] (Woody Woodpecker
quote)
20. Out of Nowhere II (2:25) [6/17]
21. My Old Flame II (0:31) [6/18]
22. Big Foot (?) (1:20) [6/19] (closing theme with Parker voiceover)
Note: Although they are undeniably important, Benedetti's Onyx Club
recordings are disappointing, especially compared to those made earlier
at the Three Deuces. The fidelity is quite poor throughout.
The items are all edited one way or another. Charles Mingus got a tape
of some of the Onyx items from Jimmy Knepper, and then issued Bird on
52nd Street for Debut Records. This inferior issue is available on
CD from Prestige.
The Parker Quintet was at the Onyz for a week, July 6-11; in the case of
much of this material, the exact date is a matter for speculation.
Date: July 7, 1948

1. Out of Nowhere with Country Gardens tag (0:50) [6/20]
2. How High the Moon (2:43) [6/21] into
3. 52nd Street Theme (0:08) [6/22]
Date: July 10, 1948 (afternoon rehearsal)

1. Chasin' the Bird (4:42) [6/23]
2. Don't Blame Me (0:39) [6/24]
3. Tico Tico (2:03) [6/25]
4. Out of Nowhere (2:13) [6/26]
- voices, including Parker's, someone requests Indiana
5. Indiana/Donna Lee (2:38) [6/27]
Date: July 10, 1948

Place: The Onyx Club
Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d); Carmen McRae (voc), Earl Coleman (voc)
1. 52nd Street Theme I (0:25) [7/1]
2. How High the Moon I (3:06) [7/2] (Woody Woodpecker quote)
3. I'm In the Mood for Love (1:27) [7/3]
4. This Time the Dream's on Me (3:23) [7/4] (Tico Tico quote)
5. Yesterdays (0:18) [7/5]
6. 52nd Street Theme II (0:08) [7/6] Parker voiceover
7. 52nd Street Theme III (0:02) [7/7] into
8. How High the Moon II (6:13)
9. Groovin' High (2:11) [7/8]
10. What Price Love (Yardbird Suite) I (2:37) [7/29] (voc)
11. What Price Love (Yardbird Suite) II (0:18) [7/30] (voc)
12. 52nd Street Theme IV (1:52) [7/9] (Parker introducing
Coleman)
13. Blues (2:24) [7/10] (voices, someone's hassling Benedetti?)
Note: Item 13 identified as "Cheryl" by Mosaic.
Date: July 11, 1948

Place: The Onyx Club
Thelonious Monk (p) (item 3), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d); Carmen
McRae (voc), Earl Coleman (voc)
1. All the Things You Are (2:46) [7/11] -v into
- Announcement
2. Country Garden (ballad ending) (0:07) [7/12] -v
3. Well, You Needn't (with Monk sitting in) (2:33) [7/31]
4. Big Foot (3:57) [7/13]
5. I Can't Get Started into
- Parker announcement (1:12) [7/14]
6. Dizzy Atmosphere (4:24) [7/15]
7. Spotlite (2:39) [7/16] - v into
8. 52nd Street Theme I (0:08) [7/17]
9. How High the Moon (3:57) [7/18]
10. September Song with Country Gardens tag (1:41) [7/19]
11. Hot House (3:49) [7/20]
12. 52nd Street Theme II (0:58) [7/21] with voiceover
14. My Old Flame (1:51) [7/23]
15. The Hymn (?) (1:24) [7/25]
- 52nd Street Theme III (1:31) [7/26] (no audible Parker)
- Half Nelson (1:12) [7/27] (no audible Parker)
- Little Willie Leaps (0:27) [7/28] (no audible Parker)
Note: Mosaic identifies item 15 as "The Hymn."

Place: Royal Roost, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Tadd Dameron (p),
Curley Russell (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Live off radio broadcast by unknown
Primary Source: LP Savoy ZDS-4411/2; CD Nippon Columbia Savoy box, disc
5
- Announcement by Bob Garrity and Symphony Sid (0:37) into
1. Symphony Sid talking over Theme (0:42) into
- Announcement by Symphony Sid into
3. Ko-Ko (2:30)
- Announcement by Symphony Sid into
4. 52nd Street Theme (0:32) (voiceover)
Note: The first Royal Roost broadcast. These are noteworthy for their
fidelity, completeness (including Symphony Sid Torin's inimitable
announcements), and excellent playing.

Group: Charlie Parker All-Stars with Miles Davis (tpt) (out on 12-16),
John Lewis (p), Curley Russell (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Commercial for Savoy
1. Barbados I (2:36) CT
2. Barbados II (0:43) IT
- "Hold it," Parker (?) says "Okay."
3. Barbados III (2:34) CT
4. Barbados IV (2:27) MT
5. Ah-Leu-Cha I (0:36) IT
- Parker says "Hold it, hold it."
6. Ah-Leu-Cha II (2:53) MT
7. Constellation I (0:10) IT
- "Hold it."
8. Constellation II (2:32) CT
- "Roll 'em, Ronnie."
9. Constellation III (2:23) IT
10. Constellation IV (0:22) IT
- Parker says "One more."
11. Constellation V (2:27) MT
12. Parker's Mood I (0:05) FS
- "Okay, try it again."
13. Parker's Mood II (3:23) CT
14. Parker's Mood III (0:11) FS
- "Alright, Hold it, hold it."
15. Parker's Mood IV (2:25) IT
16. Parker's Mood V (3:01) MT
Note: Parker's first studio recordings since December 1947.

Group: Charlie Parker All-Stars with Miles Davis (tpt), John Lewis (p),
Curley Russell (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Perhaps I (2:09) CT
2. Perhaps II (0:27) IT
3. Perhaps III (2:08) CT
4. Perhaps IV (0:18) IT
- "Alright, we'll cut again, Jack."
5. Perhaps V (0:34) IT
- Parker says "Once more," and "Pick it up."
6. Perhaps VI (2:24) CT
- Parker says to play it back
7. Perhaps VII (2:33) MT
8. Marmaduke I (0:03) FS
- "Alright, we'll start again."
9. Marmaduke II (1:15) IT
- Parker says "Hold it."
10. Marmaduke III (0:52) IT
11. Marmaduke IV (0:04) FS
12. Marmaduke V (2:51) CT
13. Marmaduke VI (0:06) FS

14. Marmaduke VII (0:59) IT
- "Pick them up, Jack"
15. Marmaduke VIII (0:03) FS
- Parker says "Once more."
16. Marmaduke IX (3:01) CT
- Parker says, "Play that back, please."
17. Marmaduke X (0:30) IT
- "Hold it, we'll start again, Jack."
18. Marmaduke XI (0:44) IT
- Sounds like Parker's saying "I don't know, I crashed."
19. Marmaduke XII (2:41) MT
- Parker says "Downbeat."
20. Steeplechase I (0:10) FS
- "Hold it, Jack."
21. Steeplechase II (3:03) MT
22. Merry-Go-Round I (2:17) CT
23. Merry-Go-Round II (2:24) MT
Note: Parker's last studio session for Savoy Records.
Date: September 1948 (?)

Place: Pershing Hotel Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois
Primary Source: Philology CD Volume 5/6 (W 19/29-2)
Note: This is different from item 12 from the following session, on
which a big band is clearly audible. Philology gives this date, but BBS
gives a possible date of January 3-6, 1948.

Group: Dizzy Gillespie Big Band with Miles Davis, Dave Burns, Willie
Cook, Elmon Wright (tpt); Jesse Tarrant, Andy Duryea (tb), John Brown,
Ernie Henry (as), Joe Gayles, James Moody (ts), Cecil Payne (bs), James
Foreman, Jr. (p), Nelson Boyd (b), Teddy Stewart (d), Chano Pozo (cga)
Recording: Private acetates
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 13 (W 843.2) (except 16, 19 and 21
on private tape only); Philology Volume 5/6 (W 19/29-2) (item 14 only);
Stash STB-2500 items 1 (1:28), 2.
1. Yesterdays (3:44)
2. 'Round Midnight (3:19)
3. Algo Bueno (1:39)
4. Manteca (2:12)
5. Ool ya kool I (0:48)
6. Lover Man (2:00)
7. Good Bait (1:45)
- Good Bait (no Parker) (2:25)
- Ballad Fragment (no Parker) (0:32)
- Half Nelson (no Parker) (2:50) (tape)
8. Things to Come (2:18)
9. Ooh Bop Sh' Bam (1:32)
11. What is This Thing Called Love? (0:52)
13. Ool ya Kool II (1:54) (Woody Woodpecker quote)
15. All the Things You Are (0:50) (sixteen measures)
16. Unknown Tune based on I Got Rhythm (2:26) (tape)
17. Unknown Tune based on blues (0:43)
- Cool Breeze (0:47) (no Parker)
19. Unknown Fragment (Blues?) (0:31)
21. Unknown fragment (2:59) (up-tempo rhythm -- Theme?)
Note: Poor fidelity throughout, and most titles consist of just Parker
solos. It's doubtful that all these titles come from the same session.
Some items sound like a quintet date, on the others the big band is
clearly audible.
The first issue of "I Can't Get Started" on Philology 5/6 has better
fidelity than the later one. Maybe the fidelity is low because the
source tape is a crude recording from the original acetates.
Date: Late 1948 (possibly 1949)

Place: Unknown
Group: No details, sounds like a quintet with a male singer
Recording: Private
Primary Source: Private tape; this session is unissued
1. Barbados (3:03)
2. Embraceable You (1:10) (voc)
- momentary 52nd Street Theme and vocal fragment
3. 52nd Street Theme I (2:10) (solo)
4. 52nd Street Theme II (0:37) (solo)
5. Stardust (2:19) (Country Gardens tag)
6. Slow Boat to China (3:35) into
7. 52nd Street Theme III (brief tag)
8. How High the Moon (3:07)
9. I Can't Get Started (1:10) (starts with solo on bridge, then last
eight with trumpet and Country Gardens ending)
10. Groovin' High (3:30) (ends after trumpet solo)
11. Cool Blues (3:20)
Note: Themes and Parker solos only. Items 3 and 4 may be a single
performance. These items aren't listed in BBS. The date here is very
speculative.

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Al Haig (p), Tommy
Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Live off radio broadcast
5
1. Jumping with Symphony Sid (1:04) with Symphony Sid voiceover
- Symphony Sid talks with Parker (0:36)
3. Big Foot (4:43)
- Announcement by Symphony Sid (0:30)
5. On a Slow Boat to China (5:03)
Note: The first of the weekly broadcasts from the Royal Roost.
The Parker Quintet began a four-month engagement at the Royal Roost on
December 9; the gig ran through March 12, 1949.

5
1. Hot House (4:19)
2. Salt Peanuts (3:48) (Parker vocal)

5
1. Jumping with Symphony Sid (1:24) (with Symphony Sid voiceover)
2. Chasin' the Bird (4:21)
3. Out of Nowhere (3:19)

Group: Machito and His Orchestra with Mario Bauza, Frank Davilla, Bob
Woodlen (tpt), Gene Johnson, Fred Skerritt (as), Jose Madera (ts),
Leslie Johnakins (bs), Rene Hernandez (p), Roberto Rodriguez (b), Jose
Mangual (bgo), Luis Miranda (cga), Umbaldo Nieto (timbales)
1. No Noise, Parts I and II (5:53)
2. No Noise, Part II (2:55) CT
3. Mango Mangue (2:53)
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Al Haig (p),
6
- Announcement from studio by Bob Garrity into
1. Jumping with Symphony Sid - Jingle Bells (1:39) (Symphony Sid
voiceover)
2. Half Nelson (4:27)
3. White Christmas (4:50)
- Announcement by Sid, Parker says "Right." (0:35)
4. Little Willie Leaps (3:38) into
5. 52nd Street Theme (1:45) voiceover by Symphony Sid and Garrity
Note: Davis has left the band -- he stormed off the stand two days
earlier, complaining that "Bird makes you feel about one foot high."
Parker immediately features two of Davis' compositions in his set. Davis
later wrote, "Bird died before we could get even with him."

Tommy Potter (b), Joe Harris (d)
6
1. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid - Auld Lang Syne (1:18) Symphony Sid
voiceover
2. Bebop (3:48)
- Symphony Sid and Parker talk (1:16)
6. East of the Sun (4:38)
7. Cheryl (4:21)
New Group: Large jam session including Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura
(ts), Conte Condoli (tpt), Benny Green (tb), Al Haig (p), Curley
Russell, Tommy Potter (b), Joe Harris, Shelly Manne, Ed Shaughnessy (d)
8. How High the Moon/Ornithology (4:31) into
9. Jumping with Symphony Sid (0:15) with voiceover

Group: Metronome All-Stars with Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Fats
Navarro (tpt), J.J. Johnson, Kai Winding (tb), Buddy DeFranco (cl),
Charlie Ventura (ts), Ernie Caceres (bs), Billy Bauer (g), Lennie
Tristano (p), Eddie Safranski (b), Shelly Manne (d), Pete Rugolo
(directing)
Recording: Commercial for RCA Records
Primary Source: CD RCA Bluebird 66528 (items 1-4); Philology Volume 14
(W 844.2) (item 5)
1. Overtime (long) (4:32)
2. Overtime (short) (3:07)
3. Victory Ball (long) (4:14)
4. Victory Ball (short) (2:39)

5. Victory Ball (short - alt) (2:39)
Note: A famous all-star session. Pete Rugolo arranged "Overtime." Lennie
Tristano, Billy Bauer, and Parker arranged "Victory Ball." The trumpet
chase choruses on "Overtime" are usually credited to Gillespie, Navarro,
and Davis, but this is clearly wrong. Davis can be heard soloing earlier
in the take, the exchanges are just Gillespie and Navarro.
Date: January 1949

Group: Machito and His Orchestra with Mario Bauza, Frank "Paquito"
Davilla, Bob Woodlen (tpt), Gene Johnson, Fred Skerritt (as), Jose
Madera (ts), Leslie Johnakins (bs), Rene Hernandez (p), Roberto
Rodriguez (b), Jose Mangual (bgo), Luis Miranda (cga), Umbaldo Nieto
(timbales)
1. Okiedoke (3:02)

Tommy Potter (b), Joe Harris (d)
7
1. Scrapple from the Apple (4:05)
2. Bebop (3:20)
3. Hot House (5:10)

7
1. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (1:12) with voiceover
2. Ooh Bop Sh'Bam (4:53)
4. Salt Peanuts (4:06) into
Note: Parker's only recording of "Ooh Bop Sh'Bam."

7
Note: Parker gets in a few notes and then Dorham has to finish.

7

3. Barbados (3:49)

7
2. Barbados (3:49)
3. Bebop (3:13) into
4. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (0:52) (voiceover with Symphony Sid and
Dinah Washington)
Note: The Tadd Dameron Big Ten also broadcast live from the Roost on
this date. Their tunes are included on Philology Volume 20 (W 850-2).

8
4. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (0:52) (with voiceover)
Note: The second of Parker's four live recordings of "Confirmation."
The Tadd Dameron Big Ten also broadcast live from the Roost on this
date. Their tunes are included on Philology Volume 20 (W 850-2).

Place: WPIX-TV Studios, New York
Group: Metronome Award Show with Shorty Sherrock (tpt), Sidney Bechet
(ss), Joe Bushkin (p), Chubby Jackson (b), George Wettling (d)
Recording: TV broadcast WPIX home recorded (audio only)
Primary Source: CD Stash CD-21; Philology Volume 21 (W 851-2)
- Announcements (Parker voice) into
1. Now's the Time (3:22)
- Studio chatter into
2. Lover (2:57)
- Announcement
- I Can't Get Started into
- Dixieland Blues Jam
Note: On item 2, Parker backs a tap dancer (Teddy Hale). Parker isn't
audible on the last two items.

Group: Charlie Parker Septet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Milt Jackson (vb),
Lucky Thompson (ts), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d);
vocals by Dave Lambert, Buddy Stewart
8

4. Deedle (2:01) -v
- Introductions by Dave Lambert and Buddy Stewart (0:38)
5. What's This (1:37) -v into
Note: The Tadd Dameron Big Ten also broadcast live from the Roost on
this date. Their tunes are included on Philology Volume 20 (W 850-2).
Date: March 4, 1949

Place: CBS-TV Studios, New York
Group: Impromptu with Miles Davis, Max Kaminski (tpt), Kai Winding, Will
Bradley (tb), Joe Marsala (cl), Mike Caluccio, Joe Sullivan (p), Max
Roach, Specs Powell (d), Ann Hathaway (voc)
Recording: CBS-TV "Adventures in Jazz" home recorded (audio only)
Primary Source: CD Stash CD-21
- Announcements (Parker voice)
- Announcement
- Bop City (tb-Kai Winding) (1:27)
- Announcement
2. I Get a Kick Out of You (v-Ann Hathaway) (2:59)
- Announcement
3. Blues Jam (5:53)
Note: Parker is barely audible on "I Get a Kick Out of You."
Date: March 5, 1949

Group: Charlie Parker Septet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Lucky Thompson
(ts), Milt Jackson (vb), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d),
Dave Lambert, Buddy Stewart (voc)
8
1. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (1:12) with voiceover announcement
2. Cheryl (3:39)
5. Hurry Home (2:18) vocal by Buddy Stewart
6. Deedle (2:03) -vocals
7. Royal Roost Bop (All the Things You Are) (2:10) -vocals
Date: March 5, 1949

Place: Waldorf Astoria Hotel
Group: Charlie Parker All-Stars with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Lucky Thompson
(ts), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Air check
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 1 (announcement and item 1); LP Jazz
Showcase 5003 (item 2); both items, but no announcement, on Philology
Volume 16 (W 846.2)
- Announcement
1. Barbados (3:26)
Note: Part of a "Battle of the Bands" presentation by Rudi Blesh and the
NY Herald. The bop band was Parker's quintet; the Dixieland band
included Wilbur de Paris (tb), Sidney Bechet (ss), Buster Bailey (cl),
Ralph Sutton (p), Walter Page (b), and George Wettling (d).

Group: Charlie Parker Septet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Lucky Thompson
(ts), Milt Jackson (vb), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
8
1. Cheryl (3:19)
- Introduction by Charlie Parker
- Announcement, Parker's voice, Ezzard Charles introduced (1:18)
3. Chasin' the Bird (6:27) into

4. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (0:07)
Date: Sometime in 1948-1949 (?)

Place: Unknown
Group: Nat Cole trio (?)
Recording: No details
Primary Source: Philology Volume 18 (W 848.2)
- Announcement into
1. Ornithology (inc.) (3:10)
Note: This item is often dated during spring 1946 (see above), but that
is doubtful, despite Robert Bregman's notes to Philology 18. Parker
plays the piece as he would much later, including abandoning the triplet
figures during the last four measures of the theme.
Date: Mid-March 1949

Place: Unknown midtown studio, New York
Group: Charlie Parker and His Orchestra with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Tommy
Turk (tb), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d), Carlos Vidal
(cga)
1. Cardboard (3:08)
2. Visa (2:58)
Date: March 28-April 10, 1949 (?)

Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d) (but see below)
Recording: Private acetates (dubs of wire recordings?)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 14 (W 844.2) (1-22), Volume 5/6 (W
19/29-2) (23 only)
3. Big Foot (2:51)
4. Slow Boat to China I (2:23)
5. All of Me (voc) (1:08)
6. Cheryl (2:47)
7. Home Sweet Home (0:32) into
8. Wee I (3:29)
9. Unknown Rhythm Tune (poss. theme) (0:49)
10. Little Willie Leaps (3:30)
11. Dizzy Atmosphere I (2:00)
12. Bebop I (2:23) into
13. 52nd Street Theme I (0:07)
14. Wee II (2:11)
15. All the Things You Are (1:16) - v
16. Bebop II (2:11)
17. Barbados (2:15)
19. Dizzy Atmosphere II (2:02)
20. On a Slow Boat to China II (2:02) into
21. 52nd Street Theme II (0:42) (inc.)
22. Embraceable You (1:10) (inc.)
- The Way You Look Tonight (Davis only, unissued)
Note: Very poor fidelity throughout, and only Parker. Items 11 and 19
are different source versions of the same performance; and item 21 is
fragmented and sounds like it may be two different performances.
The date and personnel are both uncertain. The Parker Quintet (with
Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Potter, and Roach) played a two-week
engagement at the Argyle, November 11-23, 1947. The recording could have
been made at any time during this period. But given the way Parker is
playing and with this lineup of tunes, the date for these titles could
be much later. This quintet played the Pershing Ballroom in Chicago for
four nights, January 3-6, 1948; these tunes may come from that date.
Alternatively, the Parker Quintet (with Dorham, Haig, Potter, and
Roach), with guest vocalist Arthur Daniels, played a two-week engagement
at Chicago's Pershing Hotel Ballroom on March 28-April 10, 1949; it may
be that these tunes were recorded during this gig. My guess, based
primarily on the titles played, is that these tunes were recorded during
the March-April 1949 Pershing Ballroom gig. Thanks to Phil Wilson for
help on this session.
BBS Session No. 65 identifies two versions of "The Way You Look
Tonight," one supposedly appearing on Philology Volume 5/6. The tune
does not appear on that CD. The only version of the tune that might be
from the Argyle that I know of is the unissued Davis-only version listed
between 22 and 23.
Date: May 5, 1949

Group: Charlie Parker and His Orchestra with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Al Haig
(p), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Segment (Tune X) (3:19)
2. Diverse (Tune X - alternate) (3:16)
3. Passport (Tune Y) (2:54)
4. Passport (Tune Z) (2:59)
Note: Items 1 and 2 are two takes of the same tune, but with different
names, while 3 and 4 are two different tunes with the same name.
Date: May 8, 9, 14, and 15, 1949

Place: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 10 (W 200.2) (items 1-4); Philology
Volume 11 (W 622.2) (5-15); CD Bird Box Volume 2 (10-15)
1. Salt Peanuts I (3:37)
2. Barbados (4:47) (plays Happy Birthday)
4. Out of Nowhere I (4:50) (plays Happy Birthday)
5. Salt Peanuts II (3:59)
7. Out of Nowhere II (4:13) inc.
8. Wee (Allen's Alley) (4:00)
9. 52nd Street Theme II (3:26)
10. Out of Nowhere III with Country Gardens Tag (5:28)
11. A Night in Tunisia (4:17)
12. Moose the Mooche (4:24)
13. Hot House (5:38)
14. I Got Rhythm Tune (mistitled Blues on Bird Box) (2:55) (inc.)
15. 52nd Street Theme III (4:41)
Note: Items 1-8 have fair sound, 9-10 very low fidelity. For the most
part these are complete performances.
Date: May 12, 1949

Place: Colise Movie Theatre, Roubaix, France
Recording: Private recordings on acetate
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 11 (W 622.2); Bird Box Volume 2
2. Out of Nowhere (3:44) (inc.)
3. Cheryl (2:46) (starts near end of Parker solo)
- Parker voice ("That's all...")
4. 52nd Street Theme I (1:12) (Dorham solo)
5. Lover Man (4:24)
7. Half Nelson (4:32) (inc.)
8. 52nd Street Theme II (2:54) (starts near end of Parker solo)
Note: Low fidelity session. Recording equipment squeaking is audible on
items 1, 2, and 7.
Date: May 15, 1949

Place: Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Group: Jam Session with Kenny Dorham, Aime Barelli, Bill Coleman, Hot
Lips Page, Miles Davis (tpt), Big Chief Russell Moore (tb), Hubert
Rostang (cl), Pierre Braslavsky, Sidney Bechet (ss), Don Byas, James
Moody (ts), Bernard Pfeiffer (p), Hazy Osterwald (vb), Toots Thielemans
(g), Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Farewell Blues (3:52) (inc.)
Note: This item starts toward the end of Don Byas' solo, then Hot Lips
Page and Sidney Bechet solo. Davis is next. The item ends during the
third chorus of Parker's solo.
Date: June 19, 1949

Group: JATP with Roy Eldridge (tpt), Coleman Hawkins (ts), Hank Jones
(p), Eddie Safranski (b), Buddy Rich (d)
Primary Source: Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2) (item 1); Philology Volume
7 (W 57-2) and CD Bird Box Volume 2 (item 2)
- Norman Granz announcement into
1. Lover Come Back to Me (Bean and the Boys) (1:45) (no solo)
2. Stuffy (7:20)
Note: Poor fidelity throughout.
Date: September 17-18, 1949

Group: JATP with Roy Eldridge (tpt), Tommy Turk (tb), Lester Young, Flip
Phillips (ts), Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown {b), Buddy Rich (d), Ella
Fitzgerald (voc)
Recording: Live concert recorded for Mercury Records
1. The Opener (12:47)
2. Lester Leaps In (12:14)
3. Embraceable You (10:33)
4. The Closer (10:57)
5. Ow (0:48) voiceover (Granz) introducing Ella Fitzgerald
6. Flyin' Home (5:31) - v Fitzgerald
7. How High the Moon (6:24) - v Fitzgerald
8. Perdido (8:34) - v Fitzgerald
Note: The concert began late Saturday night and ended Sunday morning.

Place: Bluebird Inn, Detroit, Michigan
Group: Phil Hill Quartet with Tate Houston (bs), Phil Hill (p), James
Richardson (b), Art Mardigan (d), Jack Tiant (bgo)
Primary Source: Private tape
1. Now's the Time
Note: Parker was in Detroit with JATP and had played earlier this night
at the Masonic Auditorium.
Date: Late November 1949

Place: Pershing Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Red Rodney (tpt), Al Haig (p), Tommy
Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Primary Source: Items 1-12 are on CD Philology Volume 2/3 (W 12/15-2),
except Groovin' High (long) on CD Philology Volume 5/6 (W 19/29-2);
items 13-16 are on Philology Volume 14 (W 844.2); item 17 is on
Philology Volume 18 (W 848.2)
1. Perdido (1:25)
2. Allen's Alley (Wee) (5:36) and (6:09)
3. Hot House (5:01) and (6:19)
4. Cheryl (2:34) and (4:54)
5. I Can't Get Started (2:01) and (6:27)
6. Groovin' High (3:14) and (5:32)
7. I Cover the Waterfront (1:58) and (3:01)
8. Confirmation (2:58) and (5:49)
9. Now's the Time (2:49) and (6:39)
10. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes into
11. Ruby My Dear (1:46) and (6:08)
12. Big Foot (1:29)
15. Stardust (voc) (0:56)
17. Stardust (2:14)
Note: The first recording of Charlie Parker and Red Rodney together.
Poor fidelity, generally. Short, slightly higher fidelity versions along

with longer versions of some items on the Philology CDs. Times are given
for both. Item 15 is mistitled "Embraceable You" on Philology and given
as "unidentified vocal" in BBS.
Date: Late November 1949 (?)

Place: New Savoy Ballroom, Chicago, Illinois
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet possibly with unknown (ts), Red Rodney
(tpt), Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Note: Opening theme, tenor saxophone solo edited out, Parker solos, and
the tune ends.
Date: Late November 1949 (?)

Place: Savoy Ballroom, New York (?)
Group: Unknown
Recording: No details
Primary Source: Private tape; this session is unissued
1. Stardust
2. All the Things You Are
3. Billie's Bounce
Note: If these are the same tunes that BBS lists as unissued from the
Pershing Ballroom, Chicago, late 1949, then there should then also be
"Cool Blues," "How High the Moon," and an unknown tune.

Place: Mercury Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Stan Freeman (p), Ray Brown (b),
Buddy Rich (d), Mitch Miller (oboe), string section; Myor Rosen (harp);
arranged and conducted by Jimmy Carroll
1. Just Friends (3:30)
2. Everything Happens to Me (3:15)
3. April in Paris (3:06)
4. Summertime (2:46)
5. I Didn't Know What Time It Was (3:12)
6. If I Should Lose You (2:46)
Note: A famous session, Parker's first recording with strings.

Recording: Voice of America radio broadcast
Primary Source: CD Jass JCD-16; Bird Box Volume 2
- Announcement by Symphony Sid (Parker voice) (1:02) into
2. Cheryl (4:54)
3. Ko-Ko (4:59)
Note: This set concluded a concert featuring Miles Davis, Bud Powell,
Sarah Vaughan, Lennie Tristano, and Stan Getz. (The whole concert is on
the Jass CD.) Some issues of "Cheryl," e.g., Bird Box, have a Leonard
Feather voice over on Parker's solo, with Feather commenting about "the
new school borrowing from the old."
Parker can be heard calling "Salt Peanuts" toward the end of "Now's the
Time" (at 4:26), but no recording of this item has surfaced.
Date: Maybe 1949 (or 1950)

Place: Diplomat Hotel, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis or Red Rodney (tpt),
poss. Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
(items 1-3)

2. Caravan (2:36)
5. Ornithology (2:00) into
6. 52nd Street Theme (0:02) (tag)
7. Drifting on a Reed (Big Foot) (4:48)
Note: Poor sound and Parker solos only.

Place: Birdland, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet with Red Rodney (tpt), J.J. Johnson (tb),
Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 5/6 (W 19/29-2), EPM FDC 5710
(higher fidelity); Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 1)
1. Hot House (3:34)
3. Visa into
5. Anthropology into
6. Wee I (4:22)
7. What's New (with Country Gardens tag) (2:27)
9. Yesterdays into
- voice: "Does the microphone work?"
13. Wahoo (Perdido) (4:16)
15. Wee II (3:34)
16. 52nd Street Theme IV (1:06)
17. Slow Boat to China (3:33)
18. Night in Tunisia (2:50) into
19. 52nd Street Theme V (1:34)
Note: Only themes, Parker solos, and exchanges (recorded by Jimmy
Knepper or Don Lanphere?).

Place: St. Nicholas Arena, New York
Recording: Private tape by Don Lanphere
Primary Source: LP and CD Jazz Workshop 500 (1-15); Philology Volume 20
(W 850.2) (16-25)
2. I Didn't Know What Time it Was (2:34)
5. Hot House (3:45)
7. Visa (2:57)
8. Star Eyes into
9. 52nd Street Theme I (brief tag) (3:05)
12. I Cover the Waterfront (1:44)
13. What's New (2:43)
14. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes into
17. Perdido (3:30)
21. 52nd Street Theme V (0:34)
23. 52nd Street Theme VI (0:27)
24. Cheryl into
25. 52nd Street Theme VII (2:55)
Note: Source tape contains Parker solos only. The Jazz Workshop CD
issued by Fantasy is edited and suffers from audio problems.
Date: March-April 1950

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Hank Jones (p), Ray Brown (b), Buddy
Rich (d)
1. Star Eyes (3:28)
2. Blues (Fast) (2:45)
3. I'm in the Mood for Love (2:50)
Date: April 3, 1950

Place: Nola's Studio, New York
Group: Gene Roland Orchestra with Marty Bell, Don Ferrera, Don Joseph,
Jon Neilson, Al Porcino, Sonny Rich, Red Rodney, Neil Freiz (tpt); Eddie
Bert, Porky Cohen, Jimmy Knepper, Paul Selden (tb); Frank Orchard (valve
tb); Joe Maini (as); Al Cohn, Don Lanphere, Tommy MacKagon, Zoot Sims
(ts); Bob Newman, Marty Flax (bs); Sam Herman (g); Harry Biss (p); Buddy
Jones (b); Phil Arabia, Freddie Gruber, Don Manning (d); Gene Roland
(arr, cond)
Recording: Private tapes made by Don Manning and Eddie Bert at a
rehearsal
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 15 (W 845.2) (entire session); LP
Spotlite SPJ-141 (through item 7)
- It's a Wonderful World I (1:36)
- It's a Wonderful World II (0:48)
1. It's a Wonderful World III (2:15)
2. It's a Wonderful World IV (5:49)
3. It's a Wonderful World V (0:31) (fragment of Parker solo)
- Just You, Just Me (2:18)
4. Unknown Tune (0:17)
5. Stardust I (1:00)
6. Stardust II (0:57)
7. Stardust III (3:28)
8. Downhome Blues (2:50)
9. East Side, West Side (1:06) (A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody)
10. Limehouse Blues I (3:24)
11. Limehouse Blues II ("Hey fellas!") (0:49)
12. Stardust IV (5:15)
Note: All items are incomplete and fragmentary. Few of the Parker solos
are complete. Item 3 is probably not from "It's a Wonderful World." The
Philology CD contains a conversation between Eddie Bert and Don Manning
(2:56).
Track 13 on Philology is a mess -- it begins with "East Side," and then
"Limehouse Blues" I follows. Track 14 consists of "Limehouse Blues" II.
Items 10 and 12 may consist of excerpts from separate performances of
the tunes.
Date: May 1, 1950

Place: New York
Group: Interview by Marshall Stearns and John Maher
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 4; Philology Volume 7 (W 57-2)
- Interview (20:18)
Note: This is the interview in which, among other things, Parker
describes the events of the session in January 1945 in which Rubberlegs
Williams mistakenly drank Parker's coffee which had been spiked with
benzedrine.
Date: May 15-16, 1950
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Fats Navarro (tpt), Bud Powell (p),
Curley Russell (b), Art Blakey (d)
Primary Source: LP Columbia JG-34808; CD Sony SRCS 7111/2 (except items
1, 7, 15); Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (discs 1-3); Bird Box Volumes 5-7
1. 52nd Street Theme I (1:31) (not on Sony)
2. Wahoo (Perdido) (Sony 6:24; Ember 5:56; Bird Box 6:53)
3. 'Round Midnight (Sony 5:04; Ember 5:12; Bird Box 5:19) (FN out)
4. This Time the Dream's on Me (Sony 6:10; Ember 6:19; Bird Box
6:51)
5. Dizzy Atmosphere (Sony 6:48; Ember 7:01; Bird Box 7:18)
- Night in Tunisia (Sony 5:35; Ember 5:36; Bird Box 5:40) (CP out)
6. Move (Sony 6:25; Ember 6:26; Bird Box 6:30) into
7. 52nd Street Theme II (Ember 0:22; Bird Box 0:24) (not on Sony)
8. The Street Beat (Sony 9:24; Ember 9:18; Bird Box 9:28)
9. Out of Nowhere (Sony 6:10; Ember 6:10; Bird Box 6:27) (FN out)
10. Little Willie Leaps (Sony 5:20; Ember 5:35) into
11. 52nd Street Theme III (Sony 0:16; Ember 0:16; Bird Box 5:58)
12. Ornithology (Sony 7:37; Ember 7:52; Bird Box 8:12)
13. I'll Remember April (Sony 7:49; Ember 8:00) (FN out) into
14. 52nd Street Theme IV (Sony 1:30; Ember 1:35; Bird Box 9:42)
15. 52nd Street Theme V (slow) (Ember 5:43)
New Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Fats Navarro (tpt), probably
Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d); "Little" Jimmy
Scott (voc)
15. Embraceable You (Sony 6:00; Ember 6:03; Bird Box 6:19) (v-JS)
16. Cool Blues (Ember 6:50; Bird Box 7:03)
17. 52nd Street Theme (Ember 2:05; Bird Box 2:13)
Note: On the Sony set the chatter with Symphony Sid and some of the
"52nd Street Themes" have been edited out.
Bird Box and Sony claim that this session was recorded on June 30, but
this seems unlikely given that Navarro died of tuberculosis on July 7
and that his playing on this session is quite good. Dan Morgenstern, in
the liner notes for the Sony set, acknowledges this and points out that
"Ira Gitler, who saw Fats at Birdland in 1950, recalls him as a
shrunken, pitiful figure, racked by coughing and playing feebly. But
available clues have been checked and rechecked, and June 30 is the date
that comes up."
In notes to the Ember set, Robert Bregman suggests a date of May 15-16,
1950. The varied personnel suggests a Monday night -- these were "jam
session" nights at Birdland. Parker's working quintet at the time
comprised Red Rodney or Kenny Dorham, Al Haig, Tommy Potter, and Roy
Haynes; but both Navarro and Powell were part of the Birdland house band
during this period. In Bird's Diary: The Life of Charlie Parker 19451955, Ken Vail suggests that these titles were spread over a week,
May 17-23.
Date: May 15-16, 1950

Group: All-Star jam session with Fats Navarro, Miles Davis (tpt); J. J.
Johnson (tb); Brew Moore (ts); Walter Bishop, Jr. (p); Curley Russell
(b); Art Blakey (d)
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 5; Philology Volume 7 (W 57-2); Jazz
Music Yesterday JMY ME-6401; Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 3)
1. Conception/Deception (10:56)
Note: This tune features solos by Davis (excellent), Navarro (seems
lost), and Bishop. Parker is audible only briefly during the out chorus,
and Johnson and Moore not at all. Sometimes dated June 17 or 30, but see
above.
Date: May 19, 1950

Place: Renaissance Ballroom, New York
Group: Machito's Afro-Cuban band probably with Howard McGhee, Mario
Bauza, Frank Davilla, Bob Woodlen (tpt); Gene Johnson, Fred Skerritt
(as); Jose Madera, Frank Socolow (ts); Leslie Johnakins (bs); Rene
Hernandez (p); Roberto Rodriguez (b); Jose Mangual (bgo); Luis Miranda
(cga); Umbaldo Nieto (timbales)
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 4
1. Reminiscing at Twilight
2. Mambo (5:05)
3. Lament for the Congo (5:44)
Date: June 4, 11, 18, or 25, 1950

Place: Joe Maini and Don Lanphere's home, William Henry Apartments, NYC
Group: Jam Session probably with Jon Eardley (tpt), Jimmy Knepper (tb),
Joe Maini (as), Don Lanphere (ts), John Williams (p), Buddy Jones (b),
Frank Isola (d), Buddy Bridgeford (d)
Session 1:
2. Cherokee (2:12)

4. Star Eyes (4:38)
Session 2:
7. Bernie's Tune (4:36)
8. Donna Lee (4:48)
9. Parker noodling into
11. Half Nelson II (2:40)
12. Fine and Dandy (4:40)
Note: Some of these items circulated among collectors in very low
fidelity as "136th Street jam session."
Date: June 6, 1950

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Thelonious
Monk (p), Curley Russell (b), Buddy Rich (d)
1. Bloomdido (3:24) MT
2. An Oscar for Treadwell III-alt (3:20) CT
3. An Oscar for Treadwell IV (3:22) MT
4. Mohawk III-alt (3:48) CT
5. Mohawk VI (3:34) MT
6. My Melancholy Baby I (3:16) CT
7. My Melancholy Baby (0:05) coda rehearsal
8. My Melancholy Baby II (3:23) MT
9. Leap Frog I (0:27) IT
10. Leap Frog II (0:18) IT
11. Leap Frog III (0:40) IT
12. Leap Frog IV (0:18) IT
13. Leap Frog V (2:33) CT
14. Leap Frog VI (0:23) IT
15. Leap Frog VII (0:14) IT
16. Leap Frog VIII-alt (2:02) CT
17. Leap Frog IX (2:06) CT
18. Leap Frog X (0:43) IT
19. Leap Frog XI (2:29) MT
20. Relaxin' With Lee I (0:35) IT
21. Relaxin' With Lee II (1:08) IT
22. Relaxin' With Lee III (0:08) FS
23. Relaxin' With Lee IV-alt (3:56) CT
24. Relaxin' With Lee V (0:25) IT
25. Relaxin' With Lee VI (2:46) MT
Date: June 8, 1950

Place: Caf Society, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Al Haig (p) Tommy
1. 52nd Street Theme I (short) into
- Announcement by Parker into
2. Just Friends I (4:04)
3. April in Paris I (3:17)
4. Night in Tunisia (with Kenny Dorham) into
5. 52nd Street Theme II (short) (5:22)
6. 52nd Street Theme III (short) into
7. Just Friends II (4:00)
8. April in Paris II (3:08)
9. Bewitched into
10. Summertime (4:34)
- I Cover the Waterfront (with Kenny Dorham) into
11. Gone with the Wind (4:00)
12. Easy to Love into
13. 52nd Street Theme IV (short) into
- Brief Announcement (4:43)
Note: No audible Parker. This session also includes "What's New" into
"It's the Talk of the Town," featuring trumpet and bass, released on
Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2) (6:52).
Date: June 8, 1950

Place: Caf Society, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Kenny Dorham (tpt), Al Haig (p) Tommy
Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d); jamming with Tony Scott (cl) and Brew Moore
(ts)
1. Moose the Mooche into
2. 52nd Street Theme I (short) (10:33)
3. Lover Come Back to Me into
Date: Summer 1950
Place: New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Bernie Leighton (p), Ray Brown (b),
Buddy Rich (d)
Date: Late summer 1950

Place: Possibly two different studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Strings, with Joseph Singer (frh), Edwin
Brown (oboe), string section; Bernie Leighton (p); Ray Brown (b); Buddy
Rich (d); Verley Mills (harp); arranged and conducted by Joe Lippman
Recording: Commercial for Mercury
- Orchestra tuning up and voices into
1. Dancing in the Dark (3:19)
3. Laura I (2:57) CT
4. Laura II (2:56) MT
6. They Can't Take That away from Me (3:17)
7. Easy to Love (3:29)
8. I'm in the Mood for Love II (3:33) MT
9. I'm in the Mood for Love III-alt (3:27) CT
10. I'll Remember April I (3:09) CT
11. I'll Remember April II (0:10) FS
12. I'll Remember April III (3:02) MT
Note: Chimes and xylopohone audible on item 1. According to Phil Schaap,
"the master ledgers of the recording company have no date, but tend to
indicate that the first five titles were done at one session, the
balance at a second."
Date: August 17-23, 1950

Place: Apollo Theater, New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Tommy Mace (oboe), string
section, Billy Taylor (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d), Sarah
Vaughan (voc), Symphony Sid Torin (ann)
Recording: Private tape by Al Porcino, Don Lanphere and Jimmy Knepper
Primary Source: Philology Volume 10 (W 200.2) (except item 5); Philology
Volume 9 (W 120.2) (item 5)
First Show:
4. What is This Thing Called Love into
5. I Cried for You (2:00) (inc.) (v-Sarah Vaughan)
Second Show:
Third Show:
13. What is This Thing Called Love (2:10)
Fourth Show:
Fifth Show:
Sixth Show:
Note: The tunes are listed here in the order that they appear on
Philology Volume 10. There is no performance of "Easy to Love" in the
sixth set, although one is listed. Bird Box Volume 7 contains 12 of
these 23 items.
Date: Late summer 1950

Place: Unknown venue (Apollo Theater?), New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Strings
Recording: Sounds like a broadcast
- Interview with Charlie Parker into
Note: This is the brief interview where Parker credits Cole Porter's
"Easy to Love" to his arranger, the "inimitable Jimmy Mundy." This item
may belong among the August 17-23 Apollo items taped by Jimmy Knepper et
al., but it sounds different.

Place: New Brunswick, New Jersey
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with possibly Jimmy Knepper (tb), Al Haig
(p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Primary Source: CD Stash ST CD-10
1. Hot House - What is This Thing Called Love? (3:50)
2. I May Be Wrong (3:02)
3. Parker's Mood (3:23)
4. 'S Wonderful (3:11)
5. Indiana (4:31)
Note: The only version of "I May Be Wrong", and Parker's only
performance on the changes of "'S Wonderful" since leaving California in
1947. A trumpet is audible on the out chorus of "Indiana."
Date: Fall 1950

Place: Gjon Mili's Studio, New York
Group: Charlie Parker and Coleman Hawkins (ts) (on 1) with Hank Jones
(p), Ray Brown (b), Buddy Rich (d)
Recording: JATP film soundtrack
1. Ballade (I Got It Bad, and That Ain't Good) (2:55)
2. Celebrity (1:33)
Note: Excerpts from the film, without sound, appear in the film Bird:
The Legend of Charlie Parker. There is also sound footage of Lester
Young.
The footage is now available on videotape and laser disc: Norman
Granz Presents Improvisation (Toshiba TOLW 3258). Unfortunately, the
music was pre-recorded by Granz and in Mili's studio the musicians are
just playing in sync with it; but the tunes from this session are as
follows:
1. Ballade (2:48)
2. Celebrity (1:33)
- Ad Lib (1:51) - rhythm section only
- Introduction (0:18) - rhythm section only into
- Pennies from Heaven (3:08) - add Lester Young (ts), Bill Harris
(tb)
- Blues for Greasy (4:08) - add Harry Edison (tpt), Flip Phillips
(ts), Ella Fitzgerald (voc)
Date: September 16-17, 1950

Group: Charlie Parker with Strings (featured with JATP) with Tommy Mace
(oboe), string section, Al Haig (p), Tommy Potter (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Recording: Live concert recording issued by Verve
5. Rocker (3:10)
Note: The concert began late Saturday night and ended Sunday morning.

Group: Charlie Parker with a local quintet with Von Freeman (ts), George
Freeman (g), Chris Anderson (p), Leroy Jackson (b), Bruz Freeman (d);
unknown Earl Coleman style vocalist
Recording: Private tape by Donald Coy
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 8 (items 1-13); Stash CD STB-2500
(item 14)
1. Indiana (5:57)
2. I Can't Get Started (with Country Gardens tag) (2:49)
5. Get Happy (5:36)
6. Hot House (5:06)
10. Stardust (0:57) -v
11. All the Things You Are (3:08) -v
13. Pennies from Heaven (3:21)
14. Pennies from Heaven (2:55) (tb-unknown)
Note: Edited to Parker solos. Inferior sound because the tape was
recorded off a dressing room speaker, and some items are marred by
conversation. It is unlikely that all of these titles from this session
and the next one are from the same session, but they are probably from
the same gig.
Item 14 was recently discovered; it isn't listed in the discographies.
It ends after the Parker solo, and an unknown trombone can be heard.
This is a different version than item 13.

Group: Charlie Parker with a local quintet with Von Freeman (ts), George
Freeman (g), Chris Anderson (p), Leroy Jackson (b), Bruz Freeman (d)
Primary Source: LP Savoy SJL-1132, One Night in Chicago. This set
was issued in edited form in 1960 by Savoy (MG 12152, An Evening at
Home with the Bird), which has been reissued on CD by Denon and
includes items 1-4 with some editing and duplicating.
1. There's a Small Hotel (10:09)
3. Keen and Peachy (4:53)
4. Hot House (9:00)
5. Bird, Bass and Out (rhythm tune) (3:34)
6. Goodbye (with voiceover) (3:08)
Note: On the original issue, the tenor saxophone solo was repeated on
"Small Hotel," as was Parker's solo on "Foolish Things," and the closing
"Keen and Peachy" theme was grafted onto the beginning. Other solos are
edited out, and applause is added. The later LP issue uses the complete
source tape undoctored. The tenor saxophonist may be Claude McLin.
"Bird, Bass and Out" starts at the Parker solo, and there is a riff head
played by the tenor saxophone.

Place: Broadway Open House TV show on Channel 5 in New York
Group: Studio band with accordion (Milton DeLugg), tap dancer (Ray
Malone), Jerry and Buddy Lester hosting
Primary Source: Philology Volume 21 (W 851-2)
- Patter including Parker's voice into
- Patter into
2. Donna Lee (1:40)
- Patter into
3. Untitled Blues (2:05) (Buddy Lester vocalizing about Parker)
- Patter into
4. Almost Like Being in Love (1:00) (Closing theme for show)

Place: Konserthuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Group: Charlie Parker and His Swedish All-Stars with Rolf Ericson (tpt),
Yngve kerberg (p), Gunnar Svensson (b), Jack Noren (d)
Primary Source: unissued?
1. Anthropology
2. Cool Blues
3. Cheers
4. Lover Man
5. Stupendous
Note: Parker and Roy Eldridge began a one-week tour of Sweden on
November 19, 1950.

Place: Amiralen Dance Hall, Malm, Sweden
Gsta Theselius (p), Thore Jederby (b), Jack Noren (d)
2. Cheers (6:40)
3. Lover Man (1:50)

Place: Folkets Park, Helsingborg, Sweden
Gsta Theselius (p), Thore Jederby (b), Jack Noren (d)
5. Star Eyes (2:09)
7. Strike Up the Band (4:39)

Place: Unknown Restaurant, Helsingborg, Sweden
Group: Jam session with Rolf Ericson, Rowland Greenberg (tpt),
Gsta Theselius (ts), Lennart Nilsson (p), Folke Holst (b), Jack
Noren (d)
1. How High the Moon into Ornithology (3:40)

Place: Studio Washington, Le Poste Parisien, Paris, France
Group: Charlie Parker with the Maurice Moufflard Orchestra with Roger
Guerin, Georges Jouvin, Pierre Fassin, Yves Alouette (tpt); Andre
Paquinet, Maurice Gladieu, Charles Huss (tb); Robert Merchez, Roger
Simon (as); Marcel Pomes (ts); Honore Truc (bs); Robert Cambier (p);
Henri Karen (b); Pierre Loteguy (d)
Recording: O.R.T.F radio broadcast

1. Ladybird (2:46)
Note: Soon after this session Parker flew home to New York, where he was
diagnosed with a peptic ulcer.

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Red Rodney (tpt), Kenny Drew (p),
Curley Russell (b), Art Blakey (d)
Recording: WJZ radio broadcast
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2); Royal Jazz RJD-506;
Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 3)
1. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (with Bob Garrity announcement) (0:50)
2. Anthropology (4:08) into
4. Cheryl (4:10)
- Symphony Sid announcement (0:05) into
5. Salt Peanuts (4:36) (v-Parker) into
6. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (very brief) (0:35)
Note: Complete performances, but poor fidelity which gets worse as set
progresses.

Place: New York
Group: Machito and His Orchestra with Mario Bauza, Harry Edison, Al
Stewart, Frank "Paquito" Davilla, Bob Woodlen (tpt); Gene Johnson, Fred
Skerritt (as); Jose Madera, Flip Phillips, Sol Rabinowitz (ts); Leslie
Johnakins (bs); Rene Hernandez (p); Roberto Rodriguez (b); Buddy Rich
(d); Jose Mangual (bgo); Luis Miranda, Chano Pozo (cga); Umbaldo Nieto
(timbales); Machito (maracas); Chico O'Farrell (arr, cond)
Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite (17:11):
1. Cancion
2. Mambo part 1
3. Mambo part 2
4. Rhumba Abierta
5. 6/8
6. Jazz
Note: According to Phil Schaap, "at least one reed doubles clarinet."
Date: Unknown (possibly 1950)

Place: No details
Group: No details
Primary Source: Private tape; this show is unissued
1. Ornithology
2. Unknown Tune (I Got Rhythm?)
3. Medium Blues
Note: The date for these items is very speculative.

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Miles Davis (tpt), Walter Bishop,
Jr., (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Max Roach (d)
1. Au Privave II-alt (2:38) CT
2. Au Privave III (2:43) MT
3. She Rote III-alt (3:09) CT
4. She Rote V (3:06) MT
5. K.C. Blues (3:24)
6. Star Eyes (3:34)

Group: Charlie Parker Jazzers with Walter Bishop, Jr., (p), Teddy Kotick
(b), Roy Haynes (d), Luis Miranda (cga), Jose Mangual (bgo)
1. My Little Suede Shoes (3:03)
2. Un Poquito de tu Amor (2:40)
3. Tico Tico (2:44)
4. Fiesta (2:49)
5. Why Do I Love You? II-alt (2:58) CT
6. Why Do I Love You? VI-alt (2:58) CT
7. Why Do I Love You? VII (3:05) MT

Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Teddy
Kotick (b), Roy Haynes (d), unknown string section
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 17 (W 847.2); LP Meexa Discox 1776
(items 2-3); Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 3)
2. Rocker (2:33)
3. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid into

Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 10; Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (discs 3-4)
1. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (theme) (voiceover) into
- Announcement by Symphony Sid
3. Everything Happens to Me (2:38)
5. Laura (2:58)
6. Dancing in the Dark into
7. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (theme) (voiceover) (4:16)
xxx Date: March 31, 1951

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Bud Powell
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 10; additional announcements found on
LP Saga 10; Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 4)
- Introductions by Symphony Sid (1:41)
- Announcement (0:07) into
1. Blue 'n' Boogie (6:28) into
- Announcement by Symphony Sid (0:02) into
- Announcement by Symphony Sid and Parker (0:35)
4. Night in Tunisia (4:49) into
5. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (voiceover announcement) (0:41)
Date: April 7, 1951

Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 10; Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 4)
1. What is This Thing Called Love? (2:02) (inc.)
2. Laura (3:19)
- Symphony Sid chats with Parker (2:58)
4. They Can't Take That away from Me (2:58)

Place: Christy's Restaurant, Framingham, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker jamming with Bill Wellington (as) (item 1 only),
Wardell Gray (ts), Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Roy Haynes
(d)
1. Lullaby in Rhythm (12:28)
3. Happy Bird Blues (2:49)
Note: First issued by as The Happy Bird. "Lullaby in Rhythm"
incorrectly listed as "I May Be Wrong."
A fourth title, "I Remember April," is usually included, but it is
clearly from another (later) session. See below at December 8-14, 1952.
Date: April 21, 1951 (?)

Place: Christy's Restaurant, Framingham, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet possibly with Benny Harris (tpt), Al Haig
(p), Teddy Kotick (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Primary Source: CD EPM FDC 5711 and Philology Volume 8 (W 80.2) (items
2-7 only); Philology Volume 16 (W 846.2) (1, 8, 9-12)
1. 52nd Street Theme I (with Parker announcement) (3:58)
2. Perdido (4:05)
3. Out of Nowhere with Country Gardens tag (3:30)
5. Ladybird (3:20)
7. Star Eyes (3:40)
8. 52nd Street Theme II (2:50) into
BBS Session No. 158 lists the following additional tunes from this
session, which are unissued:
13. The Way You Look Tonight
14. 52nd Street Theme V
15. Parker noodling
16. Groovin' High
Date: Spring 1951

Group: Charlie Parker interviewed by Leonard Feather
Recording: VOA radio broadcast, "Jazz Club U.S.A."
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2); Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901
(disc 4)
- Interview with Leonard Feather (5:58)
Note: This is the interview in which Parker takes umbrage at the piece
in Ebony written by Cab Calloway on the use of narcotics by jazz
musicians ("I'd say that it was poorly written, poorly expressed. . .
and poorly meant. It was just poor.")
The interview may have been conducted at Birdland during the next
session, since Feather is the master of ceremonies.
Date: Spring 1951

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Billy Taylor
Recording: VOA radio broadcast, "Jazz Club U.S.A."
Primary Source: CD Bird Box volume 11; Ember/Fat Boy FBB-901 (disc 4)
(without first announcement)
- Announcement by Leonard Feather (Parker voice)
1. Hot House (4:12)
- Announcement by Leonard Feather (0:15) into
- Announcement by Leonard Feather (0:06)
3. How High the Moon/Ornithology (5:14)
Note: The first announcement, which includes Parker's voice, is included
in some copies of this session.
Date: June 1951

Place: Veterans Administration Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet possibly with Red Rodney or Benny Harris
(tpt), Wardell Gray (ts), Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Roy
Haynes (d)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 5/6 (W 19/29-2); EPM FDC 5711 (items
2, 4, 5)
1. Cool Blues (opening theme missing) (3:37)
2. Out of Nowhere (1:42) (inc.)
3. This Is Always (voc-Sarah Vaughan) (3:20)
Note: Poor fidelity and Parker solos only, except for the vocal on "This
is Always." The tenor saxophonist doesn't sound like Wardell Gray,
although Philology and BBS identify him as a possibility.
The only live performance of "This is Always" with Sarah Vaughan.
Recordings of "Anthropology" and "Blue 'n' Boogie" are rumored to exist.
Date: June 23, 1951

Place: Eastern Parkway Ballroom, Brooklyn, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with unknown (tpt), Al Haig (p), Teddy
Kotick (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Primary Source: CD EPM FDC 5711, except items 1, 5, 13-15, and 17, which
are on CD Philology Volume 16 (W 846.2); items 2-4, 6-10, and 12 on CD
Philology Volume 1/4 (W 5/18-2)
4. Steeplechase (Merry-Go-Round) (5:00)
7. Be My Love (2:45) into
8. April in Paris (1:04) into
9. Dance of the Infidels into
11. Wee (4:14)
12. This Time the Dream's on Me (4:33)
Note: Parker solo excerpts throughout.
Date: July 22, 1951

Place: Municipal Arena, Kansas City
Group: Woody Herman Orchestra, including Roy Caton, Don Fagerquist,
Johnny Macombe, Doug Mettomb (tpt); Jerry Dorn, Urbie Green, Fred Lewis
(tb); Woody Herman (as, cl); Dick Hafer, Bill Perkins, Kenny Pinson
(ts); Sam Staff (bs); Dave McKenna (p); Red Wootten (b); Sonny Igoe (d)
Primary Source: Bird Box Volume 12 (items 1-9 only); Philology Volume 23
(W 853.2)
1. You Go To My Head (3:02)
2. Leo the Lion I (3:01)
3. Cuban Holiday (3:00)
4. The Nearness of You (3:28)
5. Lemon Drop (3:37)
6. The Goof and I (3:37)
7. Laura (2:51)
8. Four Brothers (3:44)
9. Leo the Lion II (3:04)
10. More Moon
Date: August 1951

Place: Lenny Tristano's House, New York
Group: Charlie Parker, Lennie Tristano (p), Kenny Clarke (brushes on
paper)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 1/4 (W 5/18-2), Royal CD RJD 505
1. All of Me (3:17)
2. I Can't Believe that You're in Love with Me (4:23)

Note: These two items were released relatively recently; they were
included in the movie Bird.

Place: Possibly RCA 24th Street Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker and His Orchestra with Red Rodney (tpt), John
Lewis (p), Ray Brown (b), Kenny Clarke (d)
1. Blues for Alice (2:46)
2. Si Si (2:38)
3. Swedish Schnapps III-alt (3:13) CT
4. Swedish Schnapps IV (3:10) MT
5. Back Home Blues I-alt (2:35) CT
6. Back Home Blues II (2:46) MT
7. Lover Man (3:21)
Date: January 22-23, 1952

Place: Recording studio at First Ave. and East 44th St., New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Chris Griffin, Al Porcino,
Bernie Privin (tpt); Will Bradley, Bill Harris (tb); Toots Mondello,
Murray Williams (as); Hank Ross, Art Drelinger (ts); Stanley Webb (bs);
Verley Mills (harp); Lou Stein (p); Art Ryerson (g); Bob Haggart (b);
Don Lamond (d); unknown string section and oboe; Joe Lippman (arr, cond)
1. Temptation (3:31)
2. Lover (3:06)
3. Autumn in New York (3:29)
4. Stella by Starlight (2:56)

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet [sic] with Benny Harris (tpt),
Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Max Roach (d), Jose Mangual
(bgo), Luis Miranda (cga)
1. Mama Inez (2:50)
2. La Cucaracha I (3:24) CT
3. La Cucaracha II (0:49) IT
4. La Cucaracha III (0:10) FS
5. La Cucaracha IV (2:43) MT
6. Estrellita II (1:57) IT
7. Estrellita IV (2:46) CT
8. Estrellita V (0:04) FS
9. Estrellita VI (2:44) MT
10. Begin the Beguine (3:12)
11. La Paloma (2:39)
Note: The last of the Parker Latin sessions. Benny Harris does not play
on item 10.

Place: Dumont TV Network, New York
Group: Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie with Dick Hyman (p), Sandy
Block (b), Charlie Smith (d)
Recording: TV broadcast on Channel 5
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2); and videotape (Bird:
The Legend of Charlie Parker)
- Announcement (Earl Wilson, Leonard Feather and Parker) into
1. Hot House (4:34)
Note: One of the two surviving sound films of Parker.

Place: Recording studio at First Ave. and East 44th St., New York
Group: Charlie Parker and His Orchestra with Jimmy Maxwell, Carl Poole,
Al Porcino, Bernie Privin (tpt); Bill Harris, Lou McGarity, Bart
Varsalona (tb); Harry Terrill, Murray Williams (as); Flip Phillips, Hank
Ross (ts); Danny Bank (bs); Oscar Peterson (p); Freddie Green (g); Ray
Brown (b); Don Lamond (d); Joe Lippman (arr, cond)

1. Night and Day (2:50)
2. Almost Like Being in Love (2:33)

Place: Loew's Valencia Theater, Jamaica, New York
Group: Jerry Jerome Jazz Concert with Bill Harris (tb), Buddy DeFranco
(cl), Dick Cary (p), Eddie Safranski (b), Don Lamond (d)
New Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Teddy Wilson (p), Eddie Safranski
(b), Don Lamond (d)
Note: Item 1 is complete; item 2 contains only the theme and Parker's
solo.
Date: First half of June, 1952

Place: Radio Recorders Studio, Hollywood, California
Group: Norman Granz Jam Session with Charlie Shavers (tpt); Benny
Carter, Johnny Hodges (as); Flip Phillips, Ben Webster (ts); Oscar
Peterson (p); Barney Kessel (g); Ray Brown (b); J.C. Heard (d)
1. Jam Blues (14:42)
3. Ballad Medley (Parker featured on Dearly Beloved)
4. Funky Blues (13:27)
Note: Item 3 is part of a lengthy (17:23) ballad medley; each soloist is
featured on a separate ballad.
Date: June 16, 1952

Place: Trade Winds Club, Inglewood, California
Group: Harry Babasin All-Stars with Sonny Criss (as), Chet Baker (tpt),
Al Haig (p) (except 3), Russ Freeman (p -3), Harry Babasin (b), Lawrence
Marable (d)
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volumes 12-13, Fresh Sounds FSR-CD 17
1. The Squirrel (15:00)
2. Irresistible You (6:21)
3. Indiana/Donna Lee (11:25)
4. Liza (10:13)
Note: One of Chet Baker's first recordings, and the only recording of
Sonny Criss with Parker.
Date: July 8, 1952

Place: Jirahr Zorthian's ranch at the end of Fair Oaks Avenue in
Altadena, California
Group: Jam session with Frank Morgan (as), Don Wilkerson (ts), Amos
Trice (p), Dave Bryant (b), Lawrence Marable (d)
1. Scrapple from the Apple I
2. Au Privave/Dance of the Infidels
Note: Item 2 is complete.
Date: July 14, 1952

Trice (p), Dave Bailey (b), Lawrence Marable (d)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 8 (80.2), Royal Jazz RJD-505 (items
3 and 4); entire session on private tape
1. Night in Tunisia
2. How High the Moon/Ornithology
4. Hot House (3:46)
Note: A wild party where most of the participants, including Parker,
took off their clothes. You can hear cries of "take it off" during the
striptease performed to "Embraceable You," one of the two issued takes.
Date: July 28, 1952

Trice (p), Dave Bailey (b), Lawrence Marable (d), Chet Baker (tpt on
item 4).
1. Untitled Blues
2. Cool Blues
3. Weird March into I Got Rhythm changes
4. Scrapple from the Apple II

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Duke Jordan (p), Charles Mingus (b),
Phil Brown (d)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2), Bird Box Volume 13
- Announcement into
1. Ornithology (5:52) into
2. 52nd Street Theme (with announcement) (4:54)
Note: Good fidelity complete items.

Place: Rockland Palace, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Groups with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Mundell Lowe
(g), Teddy Kotick (b), Max Roach (d); unknown string section, unknown
oboe player (s)
Primary Source: Bird Box Volumes 13-14; Jazz Classics JZCL-5014
1. East of the Sun (3:32) (s) (not listed in KB)
2. What is this thing called love? (2:24) (s)
3. Stardust (4:07) (s)
4. Ornithology (3:09) (s)
5. Easy to Love (1:53) (s)
6. Just Friends (2:33) (s)
7. Dancing in the Dark (3:44) (s)
8. Gold Rush [a.k.a. Turnstile] (4:17) (s)
10. April in Paris (3:10) (s)
11. Repetition (2:51) (s)
12. Everything Happens to Me (2:08) (inc.) (s)
13. Sly Mongoose (3:43)
14. Sly Mongoose (1:17) (inc.)
15. Rocker (4:26) (s)
16. Laura (3:28) (s)
17. Lester Leaps In (4:28)
18. Out of Nowhere (3:06) (s)
19. I Didn't Know What Time it Was (2:57) (s)
20. I'll Remember April (2:26) (s)
22. East of the Sun #2 (3:28) (s)
23. Just Friends #2 (2:33) (s)
24. My Little Suede Shoes (5:31) (s)
25. What is this thing called love? #2 (2:20) (s)
26. Repetition #2 (2:57) (s)
28. Moose the Mooche (4:06) (inc.)
29. Star Eyes (2:08) (inc.)
30. Rocker #2 (5:41) (s)
31. Easy to Love #2 (2:05) (inc.) (s)
Bird Box contains these items not on Jazz Classics:
- Strings theme (s) (no Parker)
32. Parker warming up
33. Parker noodling between tunes

Missing from both Private tape and all issued recordings, but rumored to
exist:
34. Moose the Mooche II
35. 52nd Street Theme
Note: A famous session recorded at a benefit for the East Coast Smith
Act defendant leaders of the Communist Party. The drill seems to have
been to alternate between strings and the quartet or quintet format.
There were two tape recorders present. The private tape, which was made
by Chan Parker, was first issued on Jazz Classics.

Place: Howard Theater, Washington, D.C.
Group: Jazz at Midnight jam session with Charlie Walp (tpt), Rob Swope,
Earl Swope (tb); Zoot Sims (ts); Bill Shanahan (p); Charlie Byrd (g);
Merton Oliver (b); Don Lamond (d); unknown (bgo)
Primary Source: LP VGM 0009 (except item 6, which is on CD Royal 505);
CD Bird Box Volume 14 (items 1-4)
3. Now's the Time (8:18) (tpt-CW, tb-RS) into
4. 52nd Street Theme (very faint tag) (8:26)
5. Cool Blues I (4:28) (tpt-CW, tb-RS)
6. Cool Blues II (fragment of Parker solo)
Note: Given the much poorer fidelity, item 5 seems to be from a
different source.

Group: Charlie Parker with the Modern Jazz Quartet: Milt Jackson (vb),
John Lewis (p), Percy Heath (b), Kenny Clarke (d)
2. Embraceable You into

Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Walter
Yost (b), Roy Haynes (d), Candido (cga), Teddy Blume (vln), unknown
string section; Bob Garrity (mc)
Recording: WNBC radio broadcast, 8:30 p.m. broadcast
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 1/4 (W 5/18-2) (item 1 with theme
and announcement); Bird Box Volume 15 (2-3)
1. Just Friends (3:02) into
- Strings theme with announcement (0:17)

Group: Charlie Parker with Strings with Dizzy Gillespie (tpt); Walter
Bishop, Jr. (p), Walter Yost (b), Roy Haynes (d), Candido (cga), Teddy
Blume (vln), unknown string section; Bob Garrity (mc)
Recording: WNBC radio broadcast, midnight concert
Primary Source: CD Bird Box Volume 15; Philology Volume 1/4 (W 5/18-2)
(item 1), Zu-Zazz LP (4-5)
3. Repetition into
- Strings Theme (5:42)
4. Night in Tunisia (8:43) (tpt-DG)
5. 52nd Street Theme (2:28) (tpt-DG)
Date: December 1952

Place: Apollo Theater, New York
Group: Charlie Parker with Dizzy Gillespie backing Billie Holiday (?)

1. Mop Mop (with announcements) into
2. Tenderly (v-Billie Holiday) (2:54)
Note: This session is questionable. There is no Parker solo; he may be
audible briefly (in unison with trumpet) on "Mop Mop," but he isn't at
all on "Tenderly."
Date: December 8-14, 1952 (exact date unknown)

Place: Hi-Hat Club, Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker Sextet with possibly Joe Gordon (tpt), Bill
Wellington (ts), Dick Twardzik (p), Charles Mingus (b), Roy Haynes (d)
1. I Remember April (10:24)
Note: The liner notes for Uptown 27.42 suggest the December 1952 date.
The session is sometimes dated (e.g. by BK, and by H. Lucas Lindenmaier
and Horst J. Salewski, The Man Who Never Sleeps: The Charles Mingus
Discography 1945-1978) April 1951, but this can't be right.
Many discographies list the location as Christy's in Framingham, but
Parker was booked from December 8-14 at the Hi-Hat Club in Boston.
Thanks to Larry Hancock for help on this date.

Group: Charlie Parker and His All-Stars with Joe Gordon (tpt), Dick
Twardzik (p), Charles Mingus (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Recording: WCOP radio broadcast
Primary Source: CD Uptown UPCD 27.42
- Symphony Sid introduces next number (0:05)
- Symphony Sid introduces the All-Stars (0:53)
6. Cheryl (5:21)
7. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (with voiceover) (2:17)
Note: The notes to the Uptown CD include a nice documentary history of
Parker in Boston.
Date: Late December 1952-early January 1953

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Hank Jones (p), Teddy Kotick (b), Max
Roach (d)
1. The Song is You (2:56)
2. Laird Baird (2:44)
3. Kim II-alt (2:58) CT
4. Kim IV (2:58) MT
5. Cosmic Rays II (3:05) MT
6. Cosmic Rays V (3:16) CT

Group: Miles Davis Sextet with Sonny Rollins (ts), Walter Bishop, Jr.
(p), Percy Heath (b), Philly Joe Jones (d)
Recording: Commercial for Prestige
Primary Source: Collectors' Items (Prestige 7044); (OJCCD-071)
1. Compulsion (5:44)
2. The Serpent's Tooth I (7:00)
3. The Serpent's Tooth II (6:16)
Note: Parker (listed as "Charlie Chan") plays tenor saxophone.

Place: Jazz Workshop Program, CBC-TV, Montreal, Canada
Group: Charlie Parker with Brew Moore (ts), Paul Bley (p), Niel Michaud
(b), Ted Paskert (d), Dick Garcia (g)
Recording: TV broadcast
Primary Source: CD Uptown UPCD 27.36; Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2)
(without announcements)
- Bernie's Tune (with Brew Moore) (3:13)
3. Wahoo/Perdido (3:28)
Note: The Uptown issue includes detailed background about the recording,
transcriptions of the solos, and biographies of the musicians.

Place: Chez Paree Nightclub, Montreal, Canada
Group: Charlie Parker with Valdo Williams or Steep Wade (p), Hal Gaylor
or Bob Rudd (b), Dick Garcia (g), Billy Graham or Bobby Malloy (d)
Primary Source: CD Uptown UPCD 27.36; Philology Volume 9 (W 120.2)
(items 1 and 4)
- Announcements (0:52)
- I'll Remember April (5:39)
- Charlie Parker announcement into
Note: The Uptown issue is sonically much better than Philology.

Place: Bandbox, New York
Group: Bill Harris/Chubby Jackson Herd with Charlie Mariano (as), Harry
Johnson (ts), Sonny Truitt (p), Morey Feld (d); announcement by Leonard
Feather during tune
1. Your Father's Mustache (5:10)
Note: Poor fidelity.

Place: Club Kavakos, Washington, D.C.
Group: Joe Theimer Orchestra, including Ed Leddy, Marky Markowitz,
Charlie Walp, Bob Carey, Jon Eardley (tpt); Earl Swope, Rob Swope, Don
Spiker (tb); Jim Riley (as); Angelo Tompros, Ben Lary (ts); Jack Nimitz
(bs); Jack Holliday (p); Merton Oliver (b); Joe Theimer (d)
Primary Source: Elektra Musician E1-60019; Philology Volume 22 (W 852-2)
2. Thou Swell (3:48)
3. Round House (3:08)
4. Light Green (3:31)
5. Willis (5:18)
6. Don't Blame Me (2:12) (inc.)
8. Something to Remember You By into
9. Blue Room and back and forth (3:11)
Note: The Elektra issue includes an interview with Red Rodney. The
Philology disc adds the previously missing 1/2 chorus on "Don't Blame
Me," but does not include the interview.
Date: Sometime in 1952-1953

Place: Unknown location, New York
Group: Unknown sextet including some other alto player
Recording: Privately issued records
Primary Source: Philology Volume 20 (W 850.2)

2. The Great Lie (4:17)
3. Unnamed Blues (3:59)
Note: Recently discovered and issued. This doesn't sound like a jam
session.
Date: Sometime in 1953

Place: Tony Fruscella's apartment, New York
Group: Tony Fruscella (tpt); possibly Bill Triglia (p); unknown
bass and drums
Primary Source: CD Royal Jazz RJD 506
1. You Stepped out of a Dream (9:46)
3. Emanon (11:09)

Place: Howard Theater, Washington, D.C.
Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with John Lewis (p), Curley Russell (b),
Kenny Clarke (d)
Primary Source: LP VGM 0009; CD Philology Volume 18 (W 848.2)
2. Ornithology (4:39) (head missing)
Note: Poor fidelity (levels too high).
Date: March 8, 1953

Place: Storyville, Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker with Red Garland (p), Bernie Griggs (b), Roy
Haynes (d)
Recording: WHDH radio broadcast
Primary Source: Blue Note BT-85108
2. I'll Walk Alone (4:53)
Parker was booked at Storyville for nine days, March 7-15. These items
are from the Sunday matinee.

Group: Charlie Parker with the Milt Buckner Trio (Buckner (org), Bernie
McKay (g), Cornelius Thomas (d))
- Conversation between Leonard Feather and Parker

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Kenny O'Brien
(b), Roy Haynes (d); Leonard Feather (mc); Bob Garrity (ann)
1. Caravan (with voiceover) into
2. Cool Blues (with Leonard Feather voiceover) into
3. Star Eyes (6:13)
4. My Little Suede Shoes (with voiceover) into
- Leonard Feather introduction into
6. 52nd Street Theme I (with voiceovers) into
- Conversation between Feather and Parker into
7. Dynamo A (Diggin' Diz)
8. 52nd Street Theme II (5:25) into
- Feather requests tune, Parker says he'll comply into
9. Embraceable You (with Country Gardens tag) into
10. 52nd Street Theme III (3:35) (with voiceover)
Note: "Dynamo A" and "Dynamo B" were the working titles of GillespieParker tunes from the forties. The latter sounds like "Confirmation."
Date: May 9, 1953

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with John Lewis (p), Curley Russell (b),
Kenny Clarke (d)
- Announcement, Bob Garrity asks Parker about his plastic alto,
into
- Announcement, Garrity introduces the band into
2. Star Eyes (5:19)
3. Moose the Mooche into
4. Lullaby of Birdland (6:00)
5. Broadway into
6. Lullaby of Birdland (3:34)
Date: May 15, 1953

Place: Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada
Group: Quintet of the Year: Dizzy Gillespie (tpt), Bud Powell (p),
Charles Mingus (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording: Privately taped by Charles Mingus
Primary Source: CD version of Debut VDJ-1567
First set:
1. Perdido (7:53)
- Parker announces Gillespie as "My worthy constituent" into
3. All the Things You Are into
Second set:
- Drum Conversation (Roach solo)
- Cherokee
- Embraceable you
- Jubilee
- Sure Thing
- Bassically Speaking
- Lullaby of Birdland
- I've Got You under My Skin
5. Wee (6:45)
- Gillespie announces
6. Hot House (9:18)
- Gillespie announces title in French
8. 52nd Street Theme
Note: The concert was opened by a sixteen piece band led by Graham
Topping. After their opening act, the Parker-Gillespie quintet played
three numbers before an intermission. During the (45 minute!)
intermission the band watched the Rocky Marciano-Jersey Joe Walcott
heavyweight boxing match. Marciano knocked out Walcott in the first
round, and the second set begins with only Roach in the hall. The
quartet plays several numbers, then is joined by Parker. The Topping
band returns and then Parker, Gillespie, Mingus and Roach join the band
for the finale, an unknown blues.
These titles are also on The Complete Debut Recordings of Charles
Mingus, in two versions -- one without later bass overdubs by
Mingus.
Date: May 22, 1953

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Bud Powell (p), Charlie Mingus (b),
Art Taylor (d)
Primary Source: Private tape (Chan Parker's collection?)
1. Cool Blues
2. All the Things You Are
3. Lullaby of Birdland
Note: Has anyone actually heard this session?
Date: May 23, 1953

Group: Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars with Miles Davis (tpt), Sahib Shihab
(bs), Wade Legge (p), Louis Hackney (b), Al Jones (d), Joe Carroll (voc)
Primary Source: LP Klacto MG-102
1. The Bluest Blues (6:28) (v-Dizzy Gillespie)
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street (2:49) (v-Joe Carroll)
Note: Some discographies place this on June 30. It may belong on May 30,
along with the session listed below.
Date: May 25, 1953
Place: Fulton Recording Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker and His Orchestra with Junior Collins (frh), Hal
McKusick (cl), Tommy Mace (oboe), Manny Thaler (bassoon), Tony Aless
(p), Charles Mingus (b), Max Roach (d); Dave Lambert Singers; Gil Evans
(arr, cond)
1. In the Still of the Night I (0:32) FS
2. In the Still of the Night II (0:53) IT
3. In the Still of the Night III (3:46) CT
4. In the Still of the Night IV (3:21) CT
5. In the Still of the Night V (0:45) FS
6. In the Still of the Night VI (3:26) CT
7. In the Still of the Night VII (3:22) MT
8. Old Folks I (0:26) IT
9. Old Folks II (0:09) FS
10. Old Folks III (4:04) CT
11. Old Folks IV IT
12. Old Folks V (0:21) FS
13. Old Folks VI (3:28) CT
14. Old Folks VII (0:26) IT
15. Old Folks VIII (3:39) CT
16. Old Folks IX (3:24) MT
17. If I Love Again (2:31)
Date: May 30, 1953

Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Bud Powell (p), Charlie Mingus (b),
Art Taylor (d), Candido (cga)
Primary Source: CD Stash STCD 10, Bird Box Volume 16
- Garrity talks to Parker
1. Moose the Mooche (with conga solo) (6:00)
- Announcement (Parker voice, barely audible) into
2. Cheryl (with conga solo) into
3. Lullaby of Birdland (brief theme with voiceover) (8:15)
Note: Poor fidelity throughout.
Date: May 1953 (?)

Place: Unknown
Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Bud Powell (p), Charles Mingus (b),
Max Roach (d)
1. Dance of the Infidels (5:30)
Date: June 13, 1953

Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Interview with John McLellan (a.k.a. John T. Fitch)
1. Interview with Parker (17:24)
Note: Parker talks about modern classical music and the founding of
modern jazz, "trade name -- bebop."
Date: June 14, 1953

Group: Charlie Parker and His All-Stars with Herb Pomeroy (tpt), Dean
Earl (p), Bernie Griggs (b), Bill "Baggy" Grant (d)

Primary Source: Stash STCD 21, Fresh Sounds FSCD-1006
- Introduction by Symphony Sid (0:40) into
- Symphony Sid and Parker introduce the All-Stars (0:52)
3. Laura (6:35)
4. Cheryl (5:41)
6. 52nd Street Theme (voiceover announcement) (1:27)
Note: The drummer is usually misidentified (as on Fresh Sound) as Bill
Graham.
Date: June 1953 (exact date unknown)

Group: Charlie Parker and His All-Stars with Herb Pomeroy (tpt), Dean
Earl (p), Bernie Griggs (b), Bill "Baggy" Grant (d)
Primary Source: Fresh Sounds FSCD-1007, Stash STCD 10 (1 and 3)
1. Cool Blues (6:45) (inc.)
3. My Funny Valentine (6:31)
Note: Poor fidelity throughout. No introductions or announcements
between titles. The Stash CD (The Bird You Never Heard) lists "My
Funny Valentine" and "Cool Blues" as being recorded January 18, 1954,
but given the personnel this can't be right. See below.
The drummer is usually misidentified (as on Fresh Sound) as Bill Graham.
Date: July 26, 1953

Place: Open Door, New York
Group: Jam Session with Benny Harris (tpt), Bud Powell or Al Haig (p),
Charles Mingus (b), Art Taylor (d)
Recording: Private tape, probably recorded by Chan Parker
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 23 (W 854-2) (items 1-10); Philology
Volume 24 (W 855-2) (11-20)
2. Star Eyes (3:40)
11. I Remember You (2:57)
13. Just You, Just Me (2:12)
14. I'll Remember April I (4:14)
15. Hot House (3:14)
17. I Cover the Waterfront (Country Gardens tag) (2:20)
19. I'll Remember April II into
20. 52nd Street Theme III (very brief) into
- Parker Announcement over Theme (3:11)
Note: The tape is edited to some themes and Parker solos only. There are
no Bud Powell solos, although Parker can be heard announcing him.
BBS lists a second take of "Ornithology" and a fourth take of "52nd
Street Theme."
Date: July 30, 1953

Place: Fulton Recording Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with Al Haig (p), Percy Heath (b), Max
Roach (d)
Recording: Commercial for Mercury

- Voices into
1. Chi-Chi I-alt (3:09) CT
2. Chi-Chi II (0:27) FS
3. Chi-Chi III (2:42) CT
4. Chi-Chi IV (2:37) CT
5. Chi-Chi V (0:17) FS
6. Chi-Chi VI (3:02) MT
7. I Remember You (3:03)
9. Confirmation I (0:14) FS
10. Confirmation II (0:09) FS
11. Confirmation III (2:58) MT
Note: Parker's last bebop session.
Date: Late summer 1953 (?)

Group: Max Roach Sextet with Sonny Stitt (as), Hank Mobley (ts), unknown
(p), George Duvivier (b), unknown (d)
Primary Source: Private tape (Chan Parker collection?)
1. Star Eyes
2. On the Sunny Side of the Street
3. Ornithology
Note: Has anybody heard this session?

Place: Storyville, Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker with Herb Pomeroy (tpt), Sir Charles Thompson (p),
Jimmy Woode (b), Kenny Clarke (d)
Primary Source: Blue Note BT 85108
- Voiceover introduction by John McLellan (0:26)
3. Dancing on the Ceiling (2:29) (inc.)
5. Groovin' High (5:04) (inc.)
- Voiceover announcement by John McLellan (0:38)
Note: The master tape of item 3 is incomplete (including only Garland's
solo and the out chorus). According to the liner notes, "WHDH was owned
by The Boston Herald-Traveller and the ownership was quite
conservative. Boston, a very political town, had a primary election that
day and the Herald had endorsed a slate of candidates. Despite the fact
that the next newscast was only a few minutes away, station management
had no hesitation about interrupting Charlie Parker to describe the
election results!"

Place: University of Oregon
Group: Charlie Parker with the Chet Baker Quartet with Jimmy Rowles (p),
Carson Smith (b), Shelly Manne (d)
Primary Source: CD Stash STCD-10, Bird Box Volume 17
1. Ornithology (two segments) (2:47)
2. Barbados (starts with drum solo) (3:48)
Note: Baker's solos have been edited out.

Place: Hi-Hat, Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Charlie Parker and His All-Stars with Herbie Williams (tpt),
Rollins Griffith (p), Jimmy Woode (b), Marquis Foster (d)
Primary Source: CD Uptown UPCD 27.42
- Symphony Sid and Parker introduce next number (0:21)
- Symphony Sid and Parker introduce next number (0:29)

The Uptown disc includes a nice documentary history of Parker in Boston.
Date: January 1954 (exact date unknown)

Primary Source: CD Fresh Sound FSCD-1006
- Symphony Sid introduces Parker (0:14) into
- Symphony Sid and Parker chat (0:31)
- Parker introduces next number (0:29)
- Symphony Sid introduces previous number (0:05)
Note: Fresh Sound and Uptown both place this date as January 1954. The
fidelity is much worse than the Uptown issue of the previous session.
Date: January 1954 (exact date unknown)

Group: Charlie Parker and His All-Stars with Herbie Williams (tpt), Jay
Migliori (ts), Rollins Griffith (p), Jimmy Woode (b), George Solano (d)
- Symphony Sid and Parker introduce the band (0:52)
3. My Little Suede Shoes (4:42) into
4. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (voiceover announcements) (1:03)

- Symphony Sid introduction (0:10) (inc.)
4. Out of Nowhere (4:22) into
5. Jumpin' with Symphony Sid (voiceover announcement) (2:33)
Note: Stash STCD-10 (The Bird You Never Heard) contains four
titles ("Ornithology," "Out of Nowhere," "My Funny Valentine," and "Cool
Blues") purportedly recorded on this date with Herb Pomeroy on trumpet.
The first two titles were recorded on January 18 (see above); the latter
are from June 14, 1953 (see above under this date).
The sound on this date is much worse than on the Uptown CD.
Date: Early 1954

Place: Boston, Massachusetts
Group: Interview by Paul Desmond and John McLellan with Parker
- Interview (Parker voice) (13:32)
Note: Parker claims to have practiced 11-15 hours a day when he lived
with his mother in Kansas City!

Place: Civic Auditorium, Portland, Oregon
Group: Stan Kenton Big Band with Sam Noto, Vic Minichelli, Buddy
Childers, Don Smith, Stu Williamson (tpt); Milt Gold, Joe Ciavardone,
Bob Fitzpatrick, Frank Rosolino (tb); George Roberts (bass tb); Charlie
Mariano, Dave Schildkraut (as); Mike Ciccheti, Bill Perkins (ts); Tony
Ferina (bs); Bob Lesher (g); Don Bagley (b); Stan Levey (d)
Primary Source: CD Philology Volume 8 (W.80.2); Bird Box Volume 18
- Announcement by Stan Kenton into
1. Night and Day (2:55)
3. Cherokee (2:52)
Note: Gene Norman has some additional Kenton material, but has no plans
to release it. Philology gives the date of this session as the 28th, but
on that date the Kenton band played the Shrine Auditorium in Los
Angeles.

Place: Fine Sounds Studios, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Jerome Darr
(g), Teddy Kotick (b), Roy Haynes (d)
Recording: Commercial for Verve Records
1. I Get a Kick out of You I-alt (4:55) CT
2. I Get a Kick out of You II (0:32) FS and rehearsal
3. I Get a Kick out of You III (0:16) FS and rehearsal
4. I Get a Kick out of You IV (1:05) IT
5. I Get a Kick out of You V (0:17) FS
6. I Get a Kick out of You VI (1:08) IT
7. I Get a Kick out of You VII (3:34) MT
8. Just One of Those Things (2:46)
9. My Heart Belongs to Daddy I (0:36) FS and rehearsal
10. My Heart Belongs to Daddy II (3:18) MT
11. I've Got You under My Skin (3:38)

Kotick or Tommy Potter (d), Roy Haynes (d); Teddy Blume (vln), unknown
oboe, string section
Recording: WABC radio broadcast
1. Theme into
5. East of the Sun into
6. Theme (3:32)
Note: After this gig Parker fired the band, went home and attempted
suicide.

Group: Charlie Parker Quartet with John Lewis (p), Percy Heath (b),
Kenny Clarke (d)
Recording: Concert recorded for Roulette Records

Place: Fine Sounds Studio, New York
Group: Charlie Parker Quintet with Walter Bishop, Jr. (p), Billy Bauer
(g), Teddy Kotick (b), Art Taylor (d)
Recording: Commercial for Verve Records
Primary Source: Verve Box, disc 10
1. Love for Sale I (0:17) FS
2. Love for Sale II (5:47) CT
3. Love for Sale III (1:03) IT
4. Love for Sale IV-alt (5:32) CT
5. Love for Sale V (5:35) MT

6. I Love Paris II-alt (5:07) CT
7. I Love Paris III (5:07) MT
Note: Parker's last studio session.
Date: Late 1954 (possibly early 1955)

Place: Dick Meldonian's Apartment, New York
Group: Charlie Parker playing scales and talking
1. Parker playing scales and talking about music (9:17)

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------------------------------------------------------------------------Date: Probably May-November 1940

Date: August 9, 1940

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Recording: Commercial for Bel-Tone

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February 4 was the closing night of the Billy Berg's gig.

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4. Dark Shadows II (3:10) CT

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Recording: Privately recorded on acetate by Dean Benedetti

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13. Groovin' High (0:16) [4/26]

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