Charlie Parker: BIRD 100th Anniversary (10 CDs)

This 10 CD box set celebrates Charlie Parker and his timeless music on the occasion of his 100th birthday in 2020 - with his essential, original recordings, featuring such friends and colleagues as Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Lucky Thompson, Dodo Marmarosa, Dexter Gordon, Erroll Garner, Bud Powell, Max Roach, Ben Webster, Oscar Peterson, Thelonious Monk, Kenny Dorham, and Charlie Mingus. "Bird lives!" - musically that is, and especially now around his 100th birthday. 2020 finds the Jazz world full of tributes to the Bebop pioneer, who died in New York at only 24 years of age in 1955. This goes to show the ongoing influence of Charles Parker Jr., better known as Charlie Parker or Bird, on Jazz music and especially the alto saxophone. As a dazzlingly fast virtuoso, Parker introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas into Jazz. With a truly original tone that ranged from biting to melancholy, the man from Kansas City could have easily earned the nickname 8222;Bird" for the quality of his ho