The Jazzprint
Released
1961 — Verve V-8409
Style
Bebop
The Lineup
Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges — alto saxophone
Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, Red Rodney — trumpet
Ben Webster, Flip Phillips — tenor saxophone
Barney Kessell — guitar
Hank Jones, Thelonious Monk, Walter Bishop, Oscar Peterson, Al Haig, John Lewis — piano
Teddy Kotick, Curley Russell, Ray Brown, Percy Heath — bass
Max Roach, Buddy Rich, J.C. Heard, Kenny Clarke — drums
With strings
Track of the Day
Just Friends (click to listen)
This Album’s Flavour
Fast Lane Swing: dazzling, high-energy bebop that moves quickly, thinks quickly, and brims with invention.
One Thought
“Well, that night (in December 1939) I found that by using the higher interval of a chord as a melody line and backing them with appropriately related changes I could play the thing I’d been hearing.”
— Charlie Parker
Tell Me Something
How did Parker make such complex improvisations sound so natural and melodic?