In yesterday's post, I looked at Ken Peplowski's new album, Unheard Bird, featuring arrangements for Charlie “Bird" Parker with strings that were never recorded by the alto saxophonist.
The natural followup for today's Backgrounder is the complete Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes. This album gathers together all of the master takes of Bird's string sessions, which are still are remarkably beautiful and sensual. They also became the template that producer Norman Granz would use for his American songbook albums with jazz musicians and vocalists on Verve in the 1950s.
Here's Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes without ad interruptions:
The natural followup for today's Backgrounder is the complete Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes. This album gathers together all of the master takes of Bird's string sessions, which are still are remarkably beautiful and sensual. They also became the template that producer Norman Granz would use for his American songbook albums with jazz musicians and vocalists on Verve in the 1950s.
Here's Charlie Parker With Strings: The Master Takes without ad interruptions:
This story appears courtesy of JazzWax by Marc Myers.
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