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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0731452398420 Label: Polygram Records Manufacturer: Polygram Records MPN: 523984 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Polygram Records Release Date: January 24, 1995 Studio: Polygram Records Editorial Review: 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 Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Cool !Strings are sometimes too sweet for Jazz lovers.But Parker's play is always stays cool. That made this album something else! Rating: - It could be great music.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, ... Read More Rating:  - A must have for jazz lovers!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! Rating: - Charlie Parker with Strings: The Master TakesAbsolutely mesmerizing! It's a wonderful marriage of classical music and jazz. It's Parker at his peak! Rating:  - Good Idea- bad executionI had been wanting this collection for quite awhile, thought a strings backing would be interesting, a nice juxtaposition...This recording is barely listenable...the string arrangements are pretentious, overwrought, and what one would imagine hearing in a 1940's/50's hollywood melodrama fraught with a bad script and acting.....It coulda worked if the string arrangements had been subtle, straight background for some decent pop tunes...this is really bad. Because Bird's playing is great, someone ought to rerecord ... Read More |
