Bird - The Original Recordings Of Charlie Parker

The record

Session personnel

• Charlie Parker — alto saxophone
• Percy Heath — bass
• Max Roach — drums
• Al Haig — piano
• Ray Brown — bass
• Maurice Brown — cello
• Buddy Rich — drums
• Joseph Singer — french horn
• Verlye Mills — harp
• Edwin C. Brown — oboe
• Bernie Leighton — piano
• Isadore Zir — viola
• Harry Melnikoff — violin
• Howard Kay — violin
• Sam Caplan — violin
• Sam Rand — violin
• Zelly Smirnoff — violin
• Curly Russell — bass
• Thelonious Monk — piano
• Dizzy Gillespie — trumpet
• Teddy Kotick — bass
• Hank Jones — piano
• Kenny Clarke — drums
• John Lewis — piano
• Red Rodney — trumpet
• Walter Bishop, Jr. — piano
• Miles Davis — trumpet
• Frank Miller — cello
• Myor Rosen — harp
• Mitch Miller — oboe
• Stan Freeman — piano
• Frank Brieff — viola
• Bronislaw Gimpel — violin
• Max Hollander — violin
• Milt Lomask — violin
• Shelly Manne — drums
• Flip Phillips — tenor saxophone
• Lester Young — tenor saxophone
• Tommy Turk — trombone
• Roy Eldridge — trumpet

Contemporary reception

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Pressings

Showing the first pressing, audiophile reissues and copies carrying a collector marker, out of 26 pressings on file.

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