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Charlie Parker ‎– Charlie Parker: The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection - New 5x 10" LP Record Box Set 2021 Verve USA Vinyl - Jazz / Bop / Swing
Charlie Parker ‎– Charlie Parker: The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection - New 5x 10" LP Record Box Set 2021 Verve USA Vinyl - Jazz / Bop / Swing
Charlie Parker ‎– Charlie Parker: The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection - New 5x 10" LP Record Box Set 2021 Verve USA Vinyl - Jazz / Bop / Swing

Charlie Parker ‎– Charlie Parker: The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection - New 5x 10" LP Record Box Set 2021 Verve USA Vinyl - Jazz / Bop / Swing

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Charlie Parker ‎– Charlie Parker: The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection

Label:
Verve Records ‎– B0031988-01
Format:
5 × Vinyl, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM, Compilation, Reissue, Remastered, Box Set
Country:
USA
Released:
05 Feb 2021
Genre:
Jazz
Style:
Bop, Swing

Tracklist  

Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 1) / (MG 35010)
A1 April In Paris
Alto Saxophone – Charlie ParkerArranged By – Jimmy CarrollBass – Ray BrownConductor – Jimmy CarrollDrums – Buddy RichOboe – Mitch MillerPiano – Stan FreemanSongwriter – E.Y. Harburg, Vernon Duke
A2 Summertime
Songwriter – DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin
A3 If I Should Lose You
Songwriter – Leo Robin, Ralph Rainger
B1 I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Songwriter – Rodgers & Hart
B2 Everything Happens To Me
Songwriter – Matt Dennis, Tom Adair
B3 Just Friends
Songwriter – John Klenner, Sam Lewis
Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 2) / (MG C-509)
C1 Laura
Alto Saxophone – Charlie ParkerBass – Ray BrownCello – Maurice BrownDrums – Buddy RichFrench Horn – Joseph SingerHarp – Verlye MillsOboe – Edwin C. BrownSongwriter – David Raksin, Edward HeymanViola – Isadore ZirViolin – Harry Melnikoff, Howard Key, Sam Caplan, Sam Rand, Zelly Smirnoff
C2 They Can't Take That Away From Me
Songwriter – George & Ira Gershwin
C3 Out Of Nowhere
Songwriter – Edward Heyman, Johnny Green
C4 East Of The Sun
Songwriter – Brooks Bowman
D1 Dancing In The Dark
Songwriter – Schwartz & Dietz
D2 Easy To Love
Songwriter – Cole Porter
D3 I'm In The Mood For Love
Songwriter – Jimmy McHugh & Dorothy Fields
D4 I'll Remember April
Songwriter – Don Raye, Gene DePaul, Patricia Johnson (4)
Bird And Diz / (MG C-512)
E1 Bloomdido
Alto Saxophone – Charlie ParkerSongwriter – Charlie ParkerTrumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
E2 Melancholy Baby
Songwriter – Ernie Burnett, George A. Norton
E3 Relaxing With Lee
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
E4 Passport
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
F1 Leap Frog
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
F2 An Oscar For Treadwell
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
F3 Mohawk
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
F4 Visa
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker South Of The Border / (MG C-513)
G1 Tico Tico
Alto Saxophone – Charlie ParkerSongwriter – Aloysio De Oliveira, Zequinha Abreu
G2 Un Poquito De Tu Amor
Songwriter – Julio Guitierrez
G3 My Little Suede Shoes
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
G4 Estrellita
Songwriter – Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar
H1 Begin The Beguine
Songwriter – Cole Porter
H2 La Paloma
Songwriter – Traditional
H3 La Cucaracha
Songwriter – Traditional
H4 Mama Inez
Songwriter – Eliseo Grenet, Wolfe Gilbert
Charlie Parker / (MG C-157)
I1 Now's The Time
Alto Saxophone – Charlie ParkerBass – Percy HeathDrums – Max RoachPiano – Al HaigSongwriter – Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker
I2 I Remember You
Songwriter – Johnny Mercer, Victor Schertzinger
I3 Confirmation
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
I4 Chi Chi
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
J1 I Hear Music (a.k.a. The Song Is You)
Songwriter – Hammerstein-Kern
J2 Laird Baird
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
J3 Kim
Songwriter – Charlie Parker
J4 Cosmic Rays
Songwriter – Charlie Parker

Companies, etc.

  • Record Company – UMG Recordings, Inc.
  • Distributed By – Universal Music Enterprises
  • Phonographic Copyright (p) – UMG Recordings, Inc.
  • Copyright (c) – UMG Recordings, Inc.
  • Mastered At – AA Mastering

Credits

  • Art Direction – Vartan (4)
  • Compilation Producer – Harry Weinger
  • Legal – Jonas E. Herbsman, Sean Roderick
  • Management – JAM, Inc., Jeffrey Jampol, Jesse Nicita, Kenny Nemes
  • Mastered By – Alex Abrash
  • Production Manager – Annette Zuzio
  • Supervised By – Norman Granz

Notes

The Mercury & Clef 10-inch LP Collection is some of the greatest - and best selling - bebop of all time. Box set includes 10-inch LP cuts of:

1) Charlie Parker With Strings
2) Charlie Parker With Strings #2
3) Bird & Diz
4) Charlie Parker South of the Border
5) Charlie Parker

Also inside the collector’s slipcase is a 10” x 10” book featuring exclusive liner notes by Ethan Iverson, an essay by author David Ritz, and full track-by-track session notes.

Five extraordinary Charlie Parker 10” records are packaged together as a new vinyl box set, The Mercury & Clef 10-inch LP Collection, and set for release by Verve/UMe on December 18. They will be available exclusively via uDiscover and the official Charlie Parker webstore. All five records have been newly remastered, pressed to 10” black vinyl, and housed in faithful reproductions of the original packaging.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Barcode (Scanned): 0602508868764
  • Barcode (Text): 6 02508 86876 4