Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2019
Label: Verve
180-gram mono pressing
Mastered from the original session tape
Originally released in 1952
Track List
Side A
- Bloomdido
- Melancholy Baby
- Relaxing With Lee
- Passport
Side B
- Leap Frog
- An Oscar For Treadwell
- Mohawk
- Visa
Personnel
Alto Saxophone – Charlie Parker
Bass – Curly Russell
Drums – Buddy Rich
Liner Notes – Norman Granz
Piano – Thelonious Monk
Trumpet – Dizzy Gillespie
Notes
The complete original LP Bird and Diz consisting of a quintet session which marked Parker and Gillespie’s last studio date ever as a team. This session was also Parker’s only studio encounter with the great Thelonious Monk. Part of the Vital Vinyl reissue series celebrating essential jazz LPs from Verve and Impulse!
Tracks A1-A3 & B1-B3 recorded 6th June 1950.
Tracks A4 & B4 recorded 2nd March & 5th May 1949.
