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Bird on 52nd St.
Live album by
Charlie Parker
ReleasedDecember 1957 (LP)[1]
October 21, 1994 (CD)
RecordedJuly 6, 1948
Onyx Club, New York
GenreJazz
Length40:01
LabelJazz Workshop
JWS 501
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[3]

Bird on 52nd St. is a live album by the saxophonist Charlie Parker.[4] It was recorded in July 1948 at the Onyx Club on a non-professional tape recorder and first released in 1957 on the Jazz Workshop label as JWS 501.[5][6] Several tracks are incomplete. AllMusic reviewer Scott Yanow wrote that Parker "plays quite brilliantly on this live set", but because of seriously deficient sound quality which "sometimes borders on the unlistenable" the album can be considered as being "for true Charlie Parker completists only."[2]

Track listing

  1. "52nd Street Theme" (Thelonious Monk) - 2:19
  2. "Shaw 'Nuff" (Ray Brown, Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie) - 1:33
  3. "Out of Nowhere" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) - 3:05
  4. "Hot House" (Tadd Dameron) - 2:15
  5. "This Time the Dream's on Me" (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer) - 2:21
  6. "A Night in Tunisia" (Dizzy Gillespie) - 3:29
  7. "My Old Flame" (Sam Coslow, Arthur Johnston) - 3:24
  8. "52nd Street Theme" - 1:05
  9. "The Way You Look Tonight" (Jerome Kern, Dorothy Fields) - 4:42
  10. "Out of Nowhere" - 2:35
  11. "Chasin' the Bird" (Parker) - 1:47
  12. "This Time the Dreams's on Me" - 3:29
  13. "Dizzy at Atmosphere" (Gillespie) - 2:59
  14. "How High the Moon" (Nancy Hamilton, Morgan Lewis) - 3:38
  15. "52nd Street Theme" - 1:14

Personnel

References

  1. ^ "Reviews and Ratings of New Jazz Albums". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. December 23, 1957 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ a b "Bird on 52nd St. - Charlie Parker – Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved September 12, 2021.
  3. ^ The Rolling Stone Album Guide. Random House. 1992. pp. 528, 530.
  4. ^ Priestley, Brian (June 6, 2006). Chasin' the Bird: The Life and Legacy of Charlie Parker. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-532709-0.
  5. ^ "Charlie Parker Catalog". JAZZDISCO.org. Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  6. ^ Original liner notes
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