CHARLIE PARKER AND HIS ORCHESTRA - Swedish Schnapps (1952-2014) RM / MONO / FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

 

Musicians like to observe that for all his notoriety as the wellspring of bebop, Charlie "Bird" Parker's music was loaded with the blues. SWEDISH SCHNAPPS is as good a place as any to make that connection with Parker's music, including as it does two of his most enduring bop heads based on the blues, "Au Privave" and "Blues For Alice." While you wouldn't mistake either composition for a Muddy Waters tune, both relate Bird's off-kilter accents and serpentine melodicism at walking tempos that let you hear what's actually going by, instead of leaving you astonished but bemused. To really drive the point home, there's "K.C. Blues," which finds the altoist at his hollerin' best, and "Lover Man," certainly one of the bluesiest 32-bar standards around. allmusic

Tracklist:

1    Si Si 2:40 
Charlie Parker
2    Swedish Schnapps (Alternate Take) 3:15 
Charlie Parker / Charlie Shavers
3    Swedish Schnapps 3:12
Charlie Parker / Charlie Shavers
4    Back Home Blues (Alternate Take) 2:37

 Charlie Parker

5    Back Home Blues 2:48

 Charlie Parker

6    Lover Man 3:23 
Jimmie Davis / Roger "Ram" Ramirez / Jimmy Sherman

7    Blues For Alice  2:50    

 Charlie Parker

8    Au Privave (Alternate Take) 2:40  

 Charlie Parker

9    Au Privave 2:45    

 Charlie Parker

10    She Rote (Alternate Take) 3:10  

 Charlie Parker

11    She Rote 3:08      

Charlie Parker
12    K. C. Blues 3:26     

Charlie Parker
13    Star Eyes 3:38      
Gene DePaul / Don Raye
14    Segment 3:22    

Charlie Parker
15    Diverse 3:18    

Charlie Parker  
16    Passport (rare) 2:57    

  Charlie Parker
17    Passport (common) 2:58

 Charlie Parker

Personnel:

[# 1-7]

Charlie Parker - alto saxophone

Red Rodney - trumpet

John Lewis - piano

Ray Brown - bass

Kenny Clarke - drums

Recorded at RCA Victor's 24th Street Studios, 

New York City ; August 8, 1951

[# 8-13]

Charlie Parker - alto saxophone

Miles Davis - trumpet

Walter Bishop, Jr. - piano

Teddy Kotick - bass

Max Roach - drums

Recorded in New York City ; January 17, 1951

[# 14-17]

Charlie Parker - alto saxophone

Kenny Dorham - trumpet

Al Haig - piano

Tommy Potter - bass

Max Roach - drums

Recorded in New York City ; May 5, 1949