Charlie Parker – Bird In Kansas City (CD) artist-stephen-bloch and Giles Martin's new mix

and Giles Martin's new mix honors that unvarnished immediacy

This vinyl release is the way to experience one of the greatest albums ever made

drummer Charlie Hall and multi-instrumentalists Anthony LaMarca and Jon Natchez -- continuously throughout the process

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Charlie Parker – Bird In Kansas City (CD) artist-stephen-bloch and Giles Martin's new mixParker's Kansas City years were foundational, the period when a teenage prodigy was absorbing blues, swing, and the competitive cutting session culture of 18th and Vine before taking that vocabulary to New York and reinventing jazz entirely. Hearing him in informal settings, away from the studio pressure of his landmark Savoy and Dial sessions, reveals just how deeply rooted his revolutionary language was in the Missouri soil where it first grew.