I Remember Charlie Parker

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I Remember Charlie Parker
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Studio album by
Released1979
RecordedFebruary 17, 1979
StudioGroup lV Studios, Hollywood
Genre Jazz
Length48:30
Label Pablo Today
Producer Norman Granz
Joe Pass chronology
Chops
(1979)
I Remember Charlie Parker
(1979)
Northsea Nights
(1980)
Professional ratings
Review scores
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I Remember Charlie Parker is a 1979 album by American jazz guitarist Joe Pass. [4] A solo-guitar tribute to jazz musician Charlie Parker, it was re-issued in 1991 on CD by Original Jazz Classics.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 4:26
  2. "Easy to Love" (Cole Porter) – 4:00
  3. "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:09
  4. "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) – 4:05
  5. "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) – 4:32
  6. "Laura" (Johnny Mercer, David Raksin) – 4:10
  7. "They Can't Take That Away from Me" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 4:43
  8. "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 4:40
  9. "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) – 4:34
  10. "Out of Nowhere (Concept I)" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 5:19
  11. "Out of Nowhere (Concept II)" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman) – 3:52

Personnel

Chart positions

YearChartPosition
1980Billboard Jazz Albums31

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