Bird and Diz

Studio album by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Released

1952

Recorded

February–May 5, 1949; and June 6, 1950; in New York City

Genre

Bebop

Length

24:58

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie chronology

Diz 'N' Bird In Concert
(1947)

Bird and Diz
(1952)

Jazz at Massey Hall
(1953)

Alternate cover

1986 Verve vinyl reissue

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Down Beat	^[2]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	^[3]
Penguin Guide to Jazz	^[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	^[3]

Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950 in New York City.^[4] Two tracks featured on the original pressing, "Passport" and "Visa", were recorded by Parker, without Gillespie and with a different personnel than that of the other tracks, in March and May 1949.^[5] The album was originally issued in 1952 in 10" format as a collection of 78 rpm singles on the Verve subsidiary label Clef Records.^[6]^[7]

Although produced by Norman Granz, known for large ensembles at the time,^[8] the album contains compositions performed with the standard bebop instrumentation of saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums.^[9] In a 1952 four-star review of Bird and Diz, a Down Beat magazine columnist wrote of Granz's contribution to the album's sound, stating "Though there is no mention of bop in Norman Granz'[s] notes, we owe him a salvo for reminding us through this LP that this music is still very much alive."^[2] It is the final collaborative studio recording by Parker and Gillespie,^[4] and has been reissued several times by Verve and PolyGram Records.^[9]

Track listing

Included on the original LP, "Passport" and "Visa" were omitted from the reissue because they were not recorded during the 1950 Bird and Diz session.

Side one

Track	Recorded	Song Number	Song Title	Writer(s)	Time
1.	6/6/50	C 410-4	Bloomdido	Charlie Parker	3:25
2.	6/6/50	C 413-2	My Melancholy Baby	Ernie M. Burnett and George A. Norton	3:24
3.	6/6/50	C 415-4	Relaxin' with Lee	Charlie Parker	2:47
4.	5/5/49	C 295-2	Passport	Charlie Parker	3:00

Side two

Track	Recorded	Song Number	Song Title	Writer	Time
1.	6/6/50	C 414-11	Leap Frog	Benny Harris and Charlie Parker	2:29
2.	6/6/50	C 411-4	An Oscar for Treadwell	Charlie Parker	3:23
3.	6/6/50	C 412-6	Mohawk	Charlie Parker	3:35
4.	2/3/49	C 293-4	Visa	Charlie Parker	2:55

CD reissue

The Verve/PolyGram remaster editions feature 18 additional takes and liner notes by music scholar James Patrick and producer Norman Granz.

"Bloomdido" – 3:25
"My Melancholy Baby" – 3:24
"Relaxin' with Lee" – 2:47
"Leap Frog" – 2:29
"An Oscar for Treadwell" – 3:23
"Mohawk" – 3:35
"My Melancholy Baby (Complete Take)" – 3:17
"Relaxin' With Lee (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:56
"Leap Frog (Take 11 Complete Take)" – 2:34
"Leap Frog (Take 8 Complete Take)" – 2:02
"Leap Frog (Take 9 Complete Take)" – 2:06
"An Oscar for Treadwell (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:21
"Mohawk (Take 3 Complete Take)" – 3:48
"Relaxin' With Lee (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:17
"Relaxin' With Lee (Take 2 Breakdown Take)" – 1:08
"Relaxin' With Lee (Take 3 False Start)" – 0:04
"Relaxin' With Lee (Take 5 Breakdown Take)" – 0:24
"Leap Frog (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:26
"Leap Frog (Take 7 Breakdown Take)" – 0:14
"Leap Frog (Take 10 Breakdown Take)" – 0:40
"Leap Frog (Take 2 Breakdown Take)" – 0:18
"Leap Frog (Take 6 Breakdown Take)" – 0:20
"Leap Frog (Take 4 Breakdown Take)" – 0:13
"Leap Frog (Take 3 Breakdown Take)" – 0:41

Personnel

Musicians

Charlie Parker - saxophone
Curley Russell - bass (except on tracks A4 & B4)
Buddy Rich - drums (except tracks A4 & B4)
Thelonious Monk - piano (except tracks A4 & B4)
Dizzy Gillespie - trumpet (except tracks A4 & B4)
Tommy Potter - bass (on tracks A4 & B4)
Carlos Vidal - bongo (on track B4)
Max Roach - drums (tracks A4 & B4)
Al Haig - piano (tracks 4 & 8)
Tommy Turk - trombone (track B4)
Kenny Dorham - trumpet (tracks 4 & 8)

Production

References

Footnotes

↑ Allmusic review
1 2 Columnist. "Review of Bird & Diz". Down Beat: March 1952.
1 2 3 Acclaimed Music
1 2 Patrick, James (1997), pp. 1–3.
↑ Mercury Records Collection - Numerical Listing of Mercury Analogue LPs: MG C-512 Bird & Diz. Microgroove. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
↑ Chell, Samuel. Review of Bird & Diz. All About Jazz. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
↑ Clef Records Catalog - The Jazz Scene, JATP, 100, 500 series: MGC 512 Bird And Diz. Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
↑ Anderson, Rick. Review: Bird and Diz. Allmusic. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
1 2 Patrick, James (1997), pp. 5–6.

Bibliography

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
Michel Ruppli, Ed Novitsky (1993). The Mercury Labels — A Discography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-27371-5.
Bird and Diz album liner notes by James Patrick, Norman Granz. PolyGram Records Inc.

External links

Bird and Diz at Discogs (list of releases)

Dizzy Gillespie

Studio albums	Bird and Diz (1952) Afro (1954) Diz and Getz (1955) Dizzy and Strings (1954) Roy and Diz (1954) Jazz Recital (1956) The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956) World Statesman (1956) Dizzy in Greece (1956) For Musicians Only (1956) Birks' Works (1957) Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957) Sittin' In (1957) Duets (1957) The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957) Sonny Side Up (1957) The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959) Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959) A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960) Gillespiana (1960) Perceptions (1961) The New Continent (1962) New Wave (1963) Something Old, Something New (1963) Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964) Jambo Caribe (1964) Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965) The Melody Lingers On (1966) It's My Way (1969) Cornucopia (1969) The Real Thing (1970) Portrait of Jenny (1970) Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974) The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974) Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974) Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974) The Bop Session (1975) Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975) Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975) Bahiana (1975) Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976) Dizzy's Party (1976) Free Ride (1977) The Gifted Ones (1977) The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980) The Alternate Blues (1980) To a Finland Station (1981) Closer to the Source (1984) New Faces (1985) Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986) Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)

Live albums	Jazz at Massey Hall (1953) Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957) An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961) Carnegie Hall Concert (1961) Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962) Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963) Live at the Village Vanguard (1967) Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967) The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968) Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971) Giants (1971) The Giants of Jazz (1971) The Giant (1973) The Source (1973) The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975) The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975) Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977) Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980) Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981) One Night in Washington (1983) Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989) Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989) Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992) To Bird with Love (1992) To Diz with Love (1992)

Compilation albums	Groovin' High (1955) Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976) The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995) The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952-1953 (2004) Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)

Soundtrack albums	The Cool World (1964) The Winter in Lisbon (1990)

Books	To Be or Not to Bop (1979)

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Charlie Parker

Discography

Live recordings	Jazz at the Philharmonic Bird on 52nd St. Jazz at Massey Hall

Box sets	Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve Complete Charlie Parker on Dial Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions

Compositions	"Ah-Leu-Cha" "Anthropology" "Au Privave" "Big Foot" aka "Driftin' on a Reed" "Barbados" "Billie's Bounce" "Bird Gets the Worm" "Bloomdido" "Blues for Alice" "Cheryl" "Confirmation" "Constellation " "Ko-Ko" "Moose the Mooche" "Ornithology" "Scrapple from the Apple" "Swingmatism" "Yardbird Suite"

Related	Bebop Dizzy Gillespie Charlie Parker with Strings Charlie Parker Omnibook

Book Category

Thelonious Monk

Discography

Selected solo albums	Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1 Wizard of the Vibes Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2 Thelonious Monk Trio Monk Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington The Unique Thelonious Monk Brilliant Corners Thelonious Himself Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane Monk's Music Mulligan Meets Monk Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk Thelonious in Action Misterioso The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall 5 by Monk by 5 Thelonious Alone in San Francisco Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk Monk in France Thelonious Monk in Italy Monk's Dream Criss-Cross Monk in Tokyo Miles & Monk at Newport Big Band and Quartet in Concert It's Monk's Time Monk Solo Monk Live at the It Club Live at the Jazz Workshop Misterioso (Recorded on Tour) Straight, No Chaser Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967 Underground Monk's Blues

As sideman	Midnight at Minton's Bird and Diz Bags' Groove Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants Moving Out Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2 Nica's Tempo In Orbit

Compositions	"Ask Me Now" "Bemsha Swing" "Blue Monk" "Epistrophy" "In Walked Bud" "Rhythm-a-Ning" "'Round Midnight" "Ruby, My Dear" "Straight, No Chaser" "Well, You Needn't"

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