Date
Venue
City
State
Add
Sources
Set 1
Set 2
Set 3
Comment
Loew's Kings Theater
Brooklyn
NY
Cool Blues
Charlie Parker - as
Teddy Wilson - p
Eddie Safranski - b
Don Lamond -d
Dumont TV Studios
New York
NY
Hot House
Charlie Parker - as
Dizzy Gillespie - tpt
Dick Hyman - p
Sandy Block - b
Charlie Smith - d
Earl Wilson - mc
Bird's only TV appearance.
Alto Summit
Unknown
Unknown
Studio session featuring Benny Carter & many more
The Trade Winds
Inglewood
CA
The Squirrel (Tadd Dameron)
Irresistable You (Gene DePaul)
Indiana (James Frederick Hanley, Ballard MacDonald) /
Donna Lee (Miles Davis)
Liza (George & Ira Gershwin, Gus Kahn)
Chet Baker (tpt)
William Sonny Criss, Charlie Parker (as)
Russ Freeman (p)
Harry Babasin (b)
Lawrence Marable (dr)
Jirayr Zorthian's Ranch
Altadena
CA
A Night In Tunisia
Ornithology
Embraceable You
Hot House
Scrapple From The Apple
Cool Blues
Dixie/Yankee Doodle March
Scrapple From The Apple No. 2
Au Privave
Personnel:
Charlie Parker, as
Frank Morgan, as
Don Wilkerson, ts
Amos Trice, p
Dave Bryant, b
Lawrence Marable, d
Guest Star:
Chet Baker, tp (on Track 5)
Norman Granz Jam Sessions 1 & 2
Unknown
CA
Jam Blues
What Is This Thing Called Love
Ballad Medley:
- All The Things You Are
- Dearly Beloved
- The Nearness Of You
- I'll Get By
- Everything Happens To Me
- The Man I Love
- What's New
- Someone to Watch Over Me
- Isn't It Romantic?
Funky Blues
Charlie Parker; Johnny Hodges; Benny Carter - as
Ben Webster; Flip Phillips - ts
Charlie Shaver - tp
Oscar Peterson - p
Barney Kessel - g
Ray Brown - b
J.C. Heard - d
Birdland
New York
NY
Ornithology
52nd Street Theme
Charlie Parker - as
Duke Jordan - p
Charles Mingus - b
Phil Brown - d
Rockland Palace
Harlem
NY
Sly Mongoose
My Little Suede Shoes
Cool Blues
Lester Leaps In
Moose The Mooche
This Time The Dream's On Me
The Rocker (1)
The Rocker (2)
Just Friends
I'll Remember April
Repetition
East Of The Sun
Star Eyes
What Is This Thing Called Love
I Didn't Know What Time It Was
Easy To Love
April In Paris
Laura
The Rocker (3)
tracks 1 - 6 : With Walter Bishop (piano), Mundell Lowe (guitar), Teddy Kotick (bass) and MAx Roach (drums)
tracks 7 - 19 : Add strings to the above
Howard Theater
Washington
DC
Scrapple from the Apple, Medley: Out of Nowhere/Now's the Time
"The Washington Concerts". Midnight concert. Charlie Parker (alto sax), Bill Shanahan (piano), Charlie Byrd (guitar), Mert Oliver (bass), Don Lamond (drums), unidentified (congas), Zoot Sims (tenor sax), Charlie Walp (trumpet). Kai Winding and Earl Swope (trombones) featured only on the medley.
Birdland
New York
NY
How High The Moon
Embraceable You
52nd Street Theme
Charlie Parker with The Milt Jackson Quartet
Charlie Parker - as
Milt Jackson - vibes
John Lewis - p
Percy Heath - b
Kenny Clarke - d
Bob Garretty - mc
Carnegie Hall
New York
NY
Just Friends
Easy To Love
Repetition
Strings Theme (Unknown)
A Night In Tunisia
52nd Street Theme
Carnegie Hall
New York
NY
w/ Dizzy Gillespie
The Hi-Hat
Boston
MA
introduction
Ornithology
Cool Blues
Groovin' High
Don't Blame Me
Scrapple From The Apple
Cheryl
Jumpin' With Symphony Sid
Charlie Parker - as
Joe Gordon - tpt
Dick Twardzik - p
Charles Mingus - b
Roy Haynes - d
Sid "Symphony Sid" Torin - mc