MILES DAVIS & CHARLIE PARKER ~ 2 x CD Lot ~ A KIND OF BLUE & THE BEST OF ~ New / Used
Two CD's, innovative and groundbreaking Jazz being the order of the day, whether it's BeBop or Post-Bop, there's 18 tracks of it to nod appreciatively along to...
- Two CD albums.
- The Charlie Parker set is new, unopened and still in the original shrinkwrap.
- The Miles Davis album is in excellent condition.
- Various pictures uploaded, all taken from the actual item, what you see is what you get...check them over carefully, they are part of the description, too...
- The jewel case for the Parker, as far as I can tell, appears to be unblemished and in good working order. The Miles Davis has no issues.
- Check all the details listed below carefully, make sure this is the one you want.
Miles Davis ~ Kind of Blue
'Long-established 1950's jazz classic, available here with Super Bit Mapping and a bonus track, an alternate version of Flamenco Sketches...Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles Davis, it's an album that towers above its peers, a record generally considered as the definitive jazz album. . It's the pinnacle of modal jazz - tonality and solos build from chords, not the overall key, giving the music a subtly shifting quality. All of this doesn't quite explain why seasoned jazz fans return to this record even after they've memorized every nuance. They return because this is an exceptional band - Miles, Coltrane, Bill Evans, Cannonball Adderly, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and Wynton Kelly - one of the greatest in history, playing at the peak of its power. Few albums of any genre manage to work on so many different levels, but Kind of Blue does. It can be played as background music, yet it amply rewards close listening. It is advanced music that is extraordinarily enjoyable. It may be a stretch to say that if you don't like Kind of Blue, you don't like jazz - but it's hard to imagine it as anything other than a cornerstone of any jazz collection...'
6 tracks and 56 minutes.
On Columbia / Legacy, catalog number Ck 64935
1997 CD album release, with bonus track and Super Bit Mapping of 1959 original.
Tracklisting -
- See picture of the rear of the case for details.
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The Best of Charlie Parker / The Millennium Collection.
'Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker was instrumental in tipping jazz over from the swing genre, which was predominantly a dance music, to bop, which aspired to art, an intellectual dance if you will, and consequently Parker was a huge purveyor of the mid-'40's sea change that began to alter the way audiences approached jazz, and pop music in general. This brief, concise overview of his peak years includes "The Bird" (an update of the old swing standard "Topsy"), recorded for Norman Granz's monumental The Jazz Scene project in 1947, and 1950's wonderful "Bloomdido," which reunited Parker with trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and boasted a for-the-ages rhythm section of Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell and Buddy Rich. Another highlight is "K.C. Blues," tracked in 1951 and featuring extended blues improvisations from both Parker and a young Miles Davis. Bird died in 1955, and that it has been nearly 70 years since his passing is unfathomable, since his influence is still so pervasive in jazz and is likely to remain that way, whatever the millennium. This disc is a bare-bones, basic introduction to Parker, but it is only the beginning, and you'll find yourself wanting more almost immediately...'
12 tracks.
New and still sealed.
On Hip-O / Verve, catalog number 800002990-02
CD album release.
Tracklisting -
- See picture of the rear of the case for details.
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$13.50
Postage - USA - Free shipping....nice!
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