Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes | 
 enlarge | Artist: Charlie Parker With Strings
Label: Polygram Records
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 19555
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 523984
UPC: 731452398420
EAN: 0731452398420
ASIN: B0000046WK
Release Date: January 24, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Just Friends - Charlie Parker, Klenner, John | | • | Everything Happens to Me - Charlie Parker, Adair, Tom | | • | April in Paris - Charlie Parker, Duke, Vernon | | • | Summertime - Charlie Parker, Gershwin, George | | • | I Didn't Know What Time It Was - Charlie Parker, Rodgers, Richard | | • | If I Should Lose You - Charlie Parker, Rainger, Ralph | | • | Dancing in the Dark - Charlie Parker, Schwartz, Arthur | | • | Out of Nowhere - Charlie Parker, Green, Johnny | | • | Laura - Charlie Parker, Raksin, David | | • | East of the Sun (And West of the Moon) - Charlie Parker, Bowman, Brooks | | • | They Can't Take That Away from Me - Charlie Parker, Gershwin, George | | • | Easy to Love - Charlie Parker, Porter, Cole | | • | I'm in the Mood for Love - Charlie Parker, McHugh, Jimmy | | • | I'll Remember April - Charlie Parker, DePaul, Gene | | • | What Is This Thing Called Love? - Charlie Parker, Porter, Cole | | • | April in Paris - Charlie Parker, Duke, Vernon | | • | Repetition - Charlie Parker, Hefti, Neal | | • | Easy to Love - Charlie Parker, Porter, Cole | | • | Rocker - Charlie Parker, Mulligan, Gerry | | • | Temptation - Charlie Parker, Brown, Nacio Herb | | • | Lover - Charlie Parker, Rodgers, Richard | | • | Autumn in New York - Charlie Parker, Duke, Vernon | | • | Stella by Starlight - Charlie Parker, Young, Victor | | • | Repetition - Charlie Parker, Hefti, Neal |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com essential recording
Charlie Parker welcomed the opportunity to record standards with a small string ensemble in 1949, and the results are stunning, his liquid alto soaring over the tuneful and only occasionally stiff arrangements. Along the way, he invests tunes like "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" and "Laura" with a unique blend of bluesy realism and mercurial improvisation. The CD adds live versions from a Carnegie Hall concert, and there are also two brilliant versions of Neal Hefti's "Repetition." The 1947 version has Bird flying spontaneously over the dense orchestration of horns, strings, and Latin percussion. --Stuart Broomer
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| Customer Reviews: Read 24 more reviews...
 These recordings set the standard September 12, 2008
These recordings from 1947-49 set the standard for "jazz with strings". Parker's playing is brilliant, as usual.
The strings add context and a luxuriant mood to Parker's sound. Only Stan Getz's "Focus" from 1961 compares in quality to "Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes". Both are pivotal in the development of the "Third Stream" genre of jazz. Both occupy special places in my collection.
 Cool ! January 27, 2008
Strings are sometimes too sweet for Jazz lovers.But Parker's play is always stays cool. That made this album something else!
It could be great music. August 30, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Sweet tawdry arrangements with alike melodies. But Parker plays famous again and again. Top recording is Just Friends. It is perfect. But there are many great recordigs like Laura, Summertime, Easy to Love and other. Tracks 15-19 are from Carnegie Hall performance and this is another great live strings session with Parker on top form.
But It is graet loss that Parker and people around him didn't have courage to arrange with strings his great compositions like Ornithology, Moose the Mooch, Dexterity, or Donna Lee. It could be first class avantgarde.
Now for me are interesting Parker's solos only.
A must have for jazz lovers! February 21, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I understand that Parker was criticized for doing this record, but I think it is wonderful... first heard it on WBGO 88.3 FM in Newark NJ (also on the internet). Support jazz and jazz radio!
Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master Takes January 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely mesmerizing! It's a wonderful marriage of classical music and jazz. It's Parker at his peak!
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