Complete Savoy & Dial Studio Recordings 1944-1948

Words can hardly describe the revolutionary effect of these seminal recordings;collected here on eight full-length CDs, with a comprehensive 93-page booklet with original essays, photos, and detailed discographical information. Charlie Parker's vision, spectacular technique, and style helped to transform the world of jazz in the 1940s, and it has never been the same. As with the efforts of creative visionaries, his early innovations were at first resisted by some as too radical, but with time, Bird became universally recognized for the genius he was. It is impossible to imagine any serious collection of 20th century music not containing at least some of the tracks collected on this splendid compilation. These disks collect all of Parker's studio sessions on Dial and Savoy, the two labels that assiduously chronicled his career during the decade. The set excludes four CDs of live material and most sessions recorded by amateurs, but includes outtakes, Birds recordings as a sideman, and tracks cut or issued under the Savoy and Dial labels, including the Spotlite, Stash, Guild, Musicraft, Bel-Tone, and the Comet lines. So many great musicians performed with Bird that part of the thrill is not only the scintillating work of Parker, but also the opportunity to revisit seminal performances by Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Bud Powell, and a host of others. The sound is, for the most part, remarkably good, making this an indispensable collection for any lover of jazz.

The material here is undoubtably excellent. But what on earth possessed them to issue it in its abslutely ridiculous packaging???? Absurd!!! It's oversize, so it doesn't fit in any standard CD collect shelf/rack/drawer - it has a RINGBOUND set of sleeves which are sloppily put together and hang outside the boundary of the open-ended box in which it comes. Just stupid! What dumb product executive made such decision?? Just ridiculous. I'm now selling it and buying separate Savoy and Dial sets that are put together by some that cares about the music instead of ridiculous packaging that's just flimsy, clumsy and a waste of space.....

arrived in perfect condition.

La edición vale la pena en un sentido casi académico porque tiene varias tomas de las mismas piezas. Esta etapa en la carrera de Bird se distingue por contener los clásicos del bebop en donde lo acompañan Gillespie, Roach y hasta un joven Miles Davis. Bud Powell también anda por ahí. Es difícil de escuchar de corrido, pero todo el material es invaluable. Y la edición en vinyl es memorable.

What a great collection! It includes great notes and is in a spiral bound book-type form. Very classy. Oh yeah, How can you beat Mr. Parker? !

Lo compramos para un regalo y triunfamos , la verdad. Te tiene que gustar esta música pero si es así dice que es espectacular la colección

Excessive noise reduction ruins this set. The packaging is awful as well.