Charlie Parker – The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection 5x10" Box Set

Charlie Parker – The Mercury & Clef 10-Inch LP Collection

Verve/UMe IS releasing a vinyl box set of Parker’s complete Clef 10” albums featuring David Stone Martin’s iconic illustrated covers. Charlie Parker: The Clef 10” Albums Collection will include five extraordinary albums Parker recorded for Norman Granz’s Clef Records: Bird and Diz, Charlie Parker, Charlie Parker Plays South Of The Border, Charlie Parker With Strings and Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 2). The LPs will feature newly remastered audio from the original analog tapes and will include faithful reproductions of the classic artwork and packaging for the first time in more than six decades. The albums will be pressed on 180-gram black 10” vinyl and will be housed in a custom slipcase. Representing Bird’s fruitful late ‘40s to mid-50s Clef period, the albums have never been released together, and all but Bird and Diz have been out of print on vinyl since their original releases.

Tracklist:
Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 1)
A1 April In Paris
A2 Summertime
A3 If I Should Lose You

B1 I Didn't Know What Time It Was
B2 Everything Happens To Me
B3 Just Friends

Charlie Parker With Strings (Vol. 2)
C1 Laura
C2 They Can't Take That Away From Me
C3 Out Of Nowhere
C4 East Of The Sun

D1 Dancing In The Dark
D2 Easy To Love
D3 I'm In The Mood For Love
D4 I'll Remember April

Bird And Diz
E1 Bloomdido
E2 Melancholy Baby
E3 Relaxing With Lee
E4 Passport

F1 Leap Frog
F2 An Oscar For Treadwell
F3 Mohawk
F4 Visa

Charlie Parker South Of The Border
G1 Tico Tico
G2 Un Poquito De Tu Amor
G3 My Little Suede Shoes
G4 Estrellita

H1 Begin The Beguine
H2 La Paloma
H3 La Cucaracha
H4 Mama Inez

Charlie Parker
I1 Now's The Time
I2 I Remember You
I3 Confirmation
I4 Chi Chi

J1 I Hear Music (a.k.a. The Song Is You)
J2 Laird Baird
J3 Kim
J4 Cosmic Rays

Label: Verve Records
Released: 2021