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Yes, a truly great solo. I've had a Verve LP from the 1960s which combines the two greatest (IMHO) Parker studio quartet sessions from the Verve years: "Now's the Time", "Confirmation", "Chi Chi" and "I'll Remember You" with Al Haig, Percy Heath and Max Roach and "Laird Baird", "Kim", "Cosmic Rays" and "The Song Is You" with Hank Jones, Teddy Kotick and Max Roach. And if I recall correctly, both of these sessions were recorded in 1954, when he was supposedly in decline. Some decline! 1953 ("Now's the Time") and 1952 ("Laird Baird").

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Yes, a truly great solo. I've had a Verve LP from the 1960s which combines the two greatest (IMHO) Parker studio quartet sessions from the Verve years: "Now's the Time", "Confirmation", "Chi Chi" and "I'll Remember You" with Al Haig, Percy Heath and Max Roach and "Laird Baird", "Kim", "Cosmic Rays" and "The Song Is You" with Hank Jones, Teddy Kotick and Max Roach.

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Yes, no one has mentioned Bird and Diz yet. A wonderful album - and a very formative one where I'm concerned, as I bought it on 10" LP in 1958 at the age of 18. Super compositions and totally inspired solos by the two leaders. And I agree with British Parker enthusiast, altoist Peter King, who said on air that he's entirely happy - as most people are not - with Buddy Rich's presence on this date.

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Re some of your gaps, Paul, I strongly recommend Art Farmer & the Hal McCusick Quintet: Complete Studio Recordings on Lonehill. McCusick participates in a roarin' session on the first eleven tracks. I wasn't too impressed by the one Lalama leader album I heard, but think he plays marvelously on Soft Lights and Sweet Music by the Mel Lewis Orchestra on Limelight. I was lucky enough to hear him solo with this band at its appearance at the Wigan Jazz Festival in 1989.

This is a great site, I am ordering more and more from them (among others "Tentatives" by René Urtreger just about a week ago). Yes, it's indeed a great site! A couple of weeks ago I ordered half a dozen Stephan Oliva discs from there, the first one arrived a day after I sent in the order! Just to be correct: two of the Emarcys I ordered from French Amazon. Yes, I'm all for priceminister, having found the Basie/Carter Kansas City Suite for 10 euros at a time when amazon.uk was asking £55 for it! Mind you, you do need a working knowledge of French to negotiate the site.

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Agree with you. That fragmented melody line in "Camarillo" is great!

Love the altered blues changes of "Blues for Alice"

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Caiman's prices used to be normally the lowest on amazon.uk, but now they are often undercut by other US suppliers to the UK, so I don't use them any more. I found Caiman often very slow to deliver and, as they sent CDs in thin card packs, the postman put them through my letter box, often causing some of the plastic prongs holding the CD in place to break when the unpadded package hit the floor.

Yes, that's a great track

Like Paul, you certainly have the knack of picking overlooked items! These records are very much drawn from the area I like listening to, but I only have three of them: Barney Kessel, Let's Cook, Meet Oliver Nelson and Tadd Dameron, The Magic Touch. If the standard of the others can be judged from these three, then they're a good bunch!

Very pleased to see this thread, as Bird has always been the ultimate master for me. I have both the Savoy and Dial sides on vinyl and, if I had to make a choice, I think it would be the Savoys, as I first learned the language of modern jazz fifty years ago through them. If I had to cut it down to a single three-minute track, it would be "Warming Up a Riff", a rehearsal piece on "Cherokee" changes from the 1945 "Ko-Ko"/"Now's the Time" session.

It's had some media coverage here, but hasn't been given headline treatment.

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Bebop Spoken Here from KBCS. Now playing: "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid" from Jaws Strikes Again.