Norman Granz was an American jazz record producer and concert promoter. He founded the record labels Clef,Norgran,Down Home,Verve,and Pablo. Granz was acknowledged as "the most successful impresario in the history of jazz". He was also a champion of racial equality,insisting,for example,on integrating audiences at concerts he promoted.
Charles Parker Jr.,nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird",was an American jazz saxophonist,band leader and composer. Parker was a highly influential soloist and leading figure in the development of bebop,a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos,virtuosic technique,and advanced harmonies. He was a virtuoso and introduced revolutionary rhythmic and harmonic ideas into jazz,including rapid passing chords,new variants of altered chords,and chord substitutions. Primarily a player of the alto saxophone,Parker's tone ranged from clean and penetrating to sweet and somber.
Verve Records is an active American record label owned by Universal Music Group (UMG). Founded in 1956 by Norman Granz,the label is home to the world's largest jazz catalogue,which includes recordings by artists such as Ella Fitzgerald,Nina Simone,Stan Getz,Bill Evans,Billie Holiday,Oscar Peterson,Jon Batiste,and Diana Krall among others as well as a diverse mix of other recordings that fall outside of jazz including albums from disparate artists like the Velvet Underground,Kurt Vile,Arooj Aftab,Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention and many more. It absorbed the catalogues of Granz's earlier label,Clef Records,founded in 1946;Norgran Records,founded in 1953;and material which was previously licensed to Mercury Records.
Mitchell Herbert Ellis was an American jazz guitarist. During the 1950s,he was in a trio with pianist Oscar Peterson.
Ella at Duke's Place is a 1965 studio album by Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington,accompanied by his Orchestra. While it was the second studio album made by Fitzgerald and Ellington,following the 1957 song book recording,a live double album Ella and Duke at the Cote D'Azur was recorded in 1966. Ella at Duke’s Place was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance at the 1967 Grammy Awards.
This is a list of recordings by American jazz alto saxophonist Charlie Parker ("Bird"). Parker primarily recorded for three labels:Savoy,Dial,and Verve. His work with these labels has been chronicled in box sets. Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions have been issued on The Complete Savoy Sessions,Charlie Parker on Dial and Complete Charlie Parker on Dial and The Complete Savoy &Dial Master Takes. His Verve recordings are available on Bird:The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve and The Complete Verve Master Takes.
Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker,released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name of a 1995 compilation album released by Verve Records,containing all the tracks from both the 1950 albums,as well as additional material. The sessions place Parker in the context of a small classical string section and a jazz rhythm section,rather than his standard bebop quintet. They were Parker's most popular sellers during his lifetime,and were admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988.
Bird:The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve is a 1990 box-set by jazz musician Charlie Parker. It features every extant note Parker recorded for labels controlled by Norman Granz as well as his appearances at Jazz at the Philharmonic. Parker recorded for Granz primarily in the last five years of his life,a period during which,besides playing with his famous quintet,he experimented with strings,Afro-Cuban jazz and mixed chorus. Among the albums produced during Parker’s Verve years were Bird &Diz,Charlie Parker with Strings,and Swedish Schnapps.
Complete Charlie Parker on Dial is a 1996 box set release of jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker's 1946–47 recordings for Dial Records. The box set,released by Jazz Classics,features 89 songs,including alternate takes and notes composed by jazz historian and Parker biographer Ira Gitler. John Genarri,author of the book Blowin' Hot and Cool:Jazz and Its Critics singles out the recording of "Lover Man" on this album,noting that "[t]his wrenching,anguished version...has been called Parker's most poetic statement on record" though,says Gennari,Parker himself viewed it as substandard and threatened physical violence against Ross Russell,a Dial records producer,for including it. Gennari also indicates that other tracks included on this CD—"Relaxin' at Camarillo","Cheers","Stupendous" and "Carvin' the Bird"—"have struck many listeners as his most joyous and optimistic."
Charlie Parker on Dial:The Complete Sessions is a 1993 four-disc box set collecting jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker's 1940s recordings for Dial Records. The box set,released by the English label Spotlite Records,assembled into a single package the multi-volume compilation albums the label had released by Spotlite on vinyl in the 1970s under the series title Charlie Parker on Dial. The box set has been critically well received. In 1996,a different box set collecting Parker's work with Dial was assembled by Jazz Classics and released as Complete Charlie Parker on Dial.
The Modern Jazz Sextet is a jazz album featuring the combined talents of Dizzy Gillespie,Sonny Stitt,John Lewis,Percy Heath,Skeeter Best and Charlie Persip. The album was conceived by producer Norman Granz for his own label,Norgran Records. Although no single album artist is credited as a bandleader for this album,Verve Records - which owns the Norgran catalogue - files it as a Dizzy Gillespie album.
Krupa and Rich is a 1956 studio album by jazz drummers Gene Krupa and Buddy Rich,released on Norman Granz' Clef Records. Krupa and Rich play on two different tracks each and play together only on "Bernie's Tune." Krupa and Rich would record again for Verve Records;their album Burnin' Beat was released in 1962.
Sonny Side Up is an album by trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie,and the tenor saxophonists Sonny Stitt and Sonny Rollins,recorded in December 1957 in New York City. It was released in 1959 on producer Norman Granz's newly launched Verve label.
Bird Songs:The Final Recordings is a live album trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie with an array of guest stars recorded at the Blue Note Jazz Club,New York City in 1992 and released on the Telarc label. The album,along with To Bird with Love and To Diz with Love,represent the last recordings made by the legendary trumpeter before his death in 1993.
Dance Bash is a studio album by Charlie Barnet and his Orchestra released on Verve Records LP record MGV-2007 in 1956.
The Immortal Charlie Parker is an LP record by Charlie Parker,released posthumously by Savoy Records. Several tracks on this album had been previously released on other formats,but is the first 12-inch release of these master takes. It contains selections from five sessions recorded between 1944 and 1948,and contains several previously unreleased alternate takes from these sessions.
The Genius of Charlie Parker is an LP record by Charlie Parker,released posthumously by Savoy Records. All but one of tracks on this album had been previously released on other formats,but is the first 12-inch release of these master takes. It contains selections from six sessions recorded between 1944 and 1948,and contains a previously unreleased alternate take from one these sessions.
Eric Miller was an American jazz record producer.
West Coast Jazz is a 1955 album by Stan Getz accompanied by a quartet including trumpeter Conte Candoli. Getz recorded the album in California,where he was filming parts for The Benny Goodman Story,and appearing for a week at the nightclub Zardi's Jazzland. The musicians that accompanied him at Zardi's were chosen by Getz to make this album with him.
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