チャーリー・パーカーが1951年に録音した2作のセッションを完全な形でまとめ上げ、1958年Verveでリリースされた音源。当初は78rpmのシングルとしてリリースされたもの。若き日のマイルス・ディヴィス、マックス・ローチ等が参加している。ボーナストラックは1952年と53年にニューヨークで録音された音源。カラーレコードの盤面はブルー。
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Musicians like to observe that for all his notoriety as the wellspring of bebop, Charlie "Bird" Parker's music was loaded with the blues. SWEDISH SCHNAPPS is as good a place as any to make that connection with Parker's music, including as it does two of his most enduring bop heads based on the blues, "Au Privave" and "Blues For Alice." While you wouldn't mistake either composition for a Muddy Waters tune, both relate Bird's off-kilter accents and serpentine melodicism at walking tempos that let you hear what's actually going by, instead of leaving you astonished but bemused. To really drive the point home, there's "K.C. Blues," which finds the altoist at his hollerin' best, and "Lover Man," certainly one of the bluesiest 32-bar standards around.
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