Bird Symbols

Charlie Parker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 21, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B000000922
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #377,180 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Moose the Mooche

2. Yardbird Suite

3. Ornithology

4. A Night in Tunisia

5. Bird's Nest

6. Cool Blues

7. Bird of Paradise

8. Embraceable You

9. My Old Flame

10. Scrapple from the Apple

11. Out of Nowhere

12. Don't Blame Me

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exceptional early Parker- Charlie at his best!, April 17, 1999

By 

Robert McLuckie (Michigan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Bird Symbols (Audio CD)

Great tunes from the early septet, quartet and quintet. Has that wonderful "genuine" scratchy production. This is the real thing! Some of Parker's best early work. Features Miles Davis.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Ballad Playing ever, January 12, 2005

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Jan R. Klincewicz "Phillyjazz" (Philly) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bird Symbols (Audio CD)

This disk (on vinyl) was the first Parker album I ever owned. Although the up-tempo stuff (Moose the Mooche, Yardbird Suite etc.) are classic Bird, the ballads on here (Don't Blame Me, Embraceable You, etc.)have never, in my opinion, been excelled by Parker himself or anyone else for pure melodic beauty. The improvisations on these ballads are crystalline elegance, each note utterly perfect. This disk changed ny life forever. Well worth replacing the old vinyl copy.

4.0 out of 5 stars almost, but not quite, May 10, 2010

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Chalez - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Bird Symbols (Audio CD)

With hindsight the answer is always obvious. I should have gone back to the original album I have owned for over 30 years and bought a new record player and speakers if I had wanted to enjoy this album at its best. With help I could possibly even have made my own CD.

The digital re-mastering has done its best to numb the life out of this very vital album. In the car, turn it up, it gets me to work OK. However, what was supposed to be a starter gift for my daughter Ella, failed to hit the mark.

The beautiful black and white artwork of the original album has also been replaced by an artists impression of somebody I can only presume to be Charlie Parker. This artwork is so bad I just can't stop smiling. So well worth the $$$$ spent.

Don't let me put you off. You must buy this album at some point in your life. This CD, a similar CD or even an internet donwload will keep you going and get you to work OK while you continue to search for the original vinyl.

But unfortunately you can't have mine as it now belongs to Ella.