On Dial Complete Box (24bt) [Import, Original recording remastered]

Charlie Parker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Import, Original recording remastered
• Label: Toshiba EMI Japan
• ASIN: B0000C4GKR
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #613,701 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Diggin' Diz

2. Moose the Mooche

3. Moose the Mooche

4. Moose the Mooche

5. Yardbird Suite

See all 24 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. This Is Always

2. Relaxin' at Camarillo

3. Cool Blues

4. This Is Always

5. Dark Shadows

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Embraceable You

2. The Hymn

3. Bird of Paradise

4. Bongo Bop

5. Dexterity

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. My Old Flame

2. Crazeology (Excerpt)

3. Quasimado

4. Drifting on a Reed

5. Bongo Beep (Bird Feathers)

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars THIS is your Jazz education ! ! !, November 4, 2009

By 

Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Dial Complete Box (24bt) (Audio CD)

Considering how cheap the digital version of this package is, there is only one thing I can say:
You have no choice - - get it.
This is Jazz...
Classical music had its Beethoven and Mozart...
The Jews Moses, the Christians Peter and Paul, the Buddhists... the Buddha guy...
We had CHARLIE PARKER...
what sets us apart from all others is that fact, that recording technology existed at the time our Saint walked the world...
and the miracles and substance of his legend were documented... HERE.... this is it:
This is history in the making.
Few people other than Ross Russell gave a good cahoot about the Bird... but Ross got some recording equipment together... did a surprisingly great job capturing Parker's sound (especially considering that this was before high fidelity and multi tracking) and documented the evolution of the music in its pivotal years.
It wouldn't be until 10 years later -- 1956, that a larger label would get around to recording Parker, and by then the bebop era was pretty much over...
but if you listen here, not only do you have access to the same SOURCE MATERIAL that the geniuses of Jazz who would follow would study, breakdown and learn note for note, but you have the ALT takes too... and trust me, nothing is better for getting into the mind of an improvisor than comparing three different takes of the same tune (suggested reading: Paul Berliner's THINKING IN JAZZ!)

Oh, and there's something even more amazing: We're going back well over 50 years ago... the engineering is interesting: Though some of the tracks sound scratchy, the sound is full and enjoyable, yet not digitally butchered and the music actually retains the fresh and cutting edge feel that it had even the first time I listened to it... I'm really serious... Its one thing to be edgy in your own time... but to still retain that feeling a half a century later really says something...
Furthermore though almost 90 tracks were collected for the production (including excerpts of a recording made at a private house party) all the recordings were made in the span of only a year and a half... Mar 28, 1946 and Dec 17, 1947 - - talk about being creatively vibrant and revolutionary...

Without going any further, let me just list some of the personnel and then make a final statement...

Melvin Broiles--Trumpet
Jimmy Bunn--Piano
Red Callender--Sax (Baritone)
Earl Coleman --Vocals
Miles Davis--Trumpet
Arnold Fishkind--Sax (Baritone)
Russ Freeman--Piano
Erroll Garner--Piano
Arv Garrison--Guitar (Electric)
Dizzy Gillespie--Trumpet
Wardell Gray Sax (Tenor)
George Hand--Piano
J.J. Johnson--Trombone
Duke Jordan--Piano
Barney Kessel--Guitar (Electric)
Bob "Dingbod" Kesterson--Sax (Baritone)
Don Lamond--Drums
Stan Levey--Drums
Dodo Marmarosa--Piano
Howard McGhee--Trumpet
Vic McMillan--Sax (Baritone)
Roy Porter--Drums
Tommy Potter--Sax (Baritone)
Jimmy Pratt--Piano
Max Roach--Drums
Shorty Rogers--Trumpet
Lucky Thompson--Sax (Tenor)

final statement: If you don't own this collection (or one similar to it... it has been in and out-of-print even on LP for years) and you don't find yourself HUNGRY to get it consider yourself LIGHT... This is the real deal - - get it ! ! !
And if you're some Berklee U. alto hot head of the moment wanna be, get out the pencil and manuscript paper and start scribbling away, this is the REAL source !