Subtitle in booklet:
Including: Jazz At The Philharmonic, The Norman Granz Jam Session, Solo Recordings (With Alternate Takes).
Japanese import, originally released in Japan in 1983; this import version was released in 1984.
Box set includes 28-page booklet (catalog number OOMJ 3968 77) in English and Japanese containing extensive discography and recording information.
Also includes 12"x12" insert sheets, one with the tracklisting for this box set and one that contains a simplified discography of Charlie Parker Verve recordings.
The original package featured an OBI/banner and a 6"x4" hype sticker.
Hype sticker:
The Complete Charlie Parker On Verve 10 Record Set
Includes: All JATP, Jam Session, and Solo Recordings (with alternate takes).
Bird with Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Lester Young, Ben Webster, and many others.
And 28 page booklet featuring complete Parker Discography.
OOMJ 396877
Imported from Japan
On box back with price code:
Manufactured by Polydor, K.K., Japan KA 8312
On labels:
Manufactured by Polydor K.K., Japan
In booklet:
© 1984 Polygram Records, Inc.
LP labels are black Verve® Records with silver printing, with title in English and Japanese.
Sessions location and date from booklet:
# A1: Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, January 29, 1946.
# A2 to B2: Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles, March 25, 1946.
# C1, C2: Los Angeles, April 22, 1946.
# H1: NYC, Autumn, 1948.
# H2, H3: NYC, December 20, 1948.
# H4: NYC, January, 1949.
# H5: NYC, February 10, 1949.
# H6, H7: NYC, April, 1949.
# H8 to I3: NYC, May 5, 1949.
# D1 to E2: Carnegie Hall, NYC, September 18, 1949.
# I4 to I9: NYC, November 30, 1949.
# J1 to J3: NYC, March-April, 1950.
# J4 to K7: NYC, June 6, 1950.
# L1 to L8: NYC, July 5, 1950.
# M1 to M5: Carnegie Hall, NYC, September 16, 1950.
# N1, N2: NYC, December 21, 1950.
# N3 to N8: NYC, January 17, 1951.
# O1 to O7: NYC, March 12, 1951.
# O8 to P5: NYC, August 8, 1951.
# P6 to P9: NYC, January 22, 1952.
# Q1 to Q5: NYC, January 23, 1952.
# Q6 to Q9: NYC, March 25, 1952.
# F1 to G2: Hollywood, between July 17 and 22, 1952.
# R1 to R6: NYC, December 30, 1952.
# R7 to R9: NYC, May 22, 1953.
# S1 to S6: NYC, August 4, 1953.
# S7 to T3: NYC, March 31, 1954.
# T4 to T7: NYC, December 10, 1954.
Note to sessions from booklet:
# A1: Parker does not play on "The Man I Love" and "Crazy Rhythm" which were the same session.
# C1, C2: Parker does not play on "I Surrender Dear" and "Slow Drag" which were the same session.
# H1: Al Porcino has stated that Parker was not present but that his solo was dubbed in Autumn 1948. It is possible that the recording, without Parker's solo, was made sometime in 1947.
# H8 to I3: "Segment" and "Diverse" are alternate takes of the same tune. "Passport": the two versions are different tunes, I1 is a blues, I2 is based on "I Got Rhythm".
# J1 to J3: "Blues (fast)": that 12 takes had to be cut before a satisfactory one was made seems extremely doubtful.
# M12 to M5: "Rocker" issued as "I'll Remember April" on all issues. This mistake probably occurred because Parker played a bit of the beginning melody of "I'll Remember April" when his adlibbed this part.
# F1 to G2: According to Ross Russell in "Bird Lives!", this session took place in Los Angeles on June 5, 1952.
Track title variations on labels:
D1: The Openr
G1e: Everything Happen To Me
I9: If I Shuld Lose You
N2: 6/8-Jazz
Tracks O2, Q2, Q3, Q5: P.D. (Public Domain).
Box has light edge wear, vinyl is NM
