Charlie Parker discography

This is a list of Charlie Parker's recordings. Parker recorded extensively for three labels: Savoy, Dial, and Verve. His work with these labels has been chronicled in box sets. Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial Sessions have been issued on The Complete Savoy Sessions, Charlie Parker on Dial and Complete Charlie Parker on Dial and The Complete Savoy & Dial Master Takes. His Verve recordings are available on Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve and The Complete Verve Master Takes.

The listing below is in the form of a sessionography as opposed to a discography. Although organized chronologically the release titles listed refer to compilations of Parker material appearing decades after the recording sessions. In general they do not refer to records in the formats actually issued during Parker's lifetime, so with a few exceptions technically they should all come under the heading of compilations. For instance, no record label in 1944 would have issued an album of 78s entitled The Immortal Charlie Parker to describe a relative unknown at that time, and in 1948 there would never have been a record entitled Newly Discovered Sides by Charlie Parker as if an unearthed archeological artifact - anything by Bird in 1948 would have been fairly new. It is also worth noting that a significant proportion of the listings outside of the live list are in fact live recordings.

Savoy

1944

1945

1947

1948

1949

1950

Dial

1945

1946

1947

Verve

1946

1948

1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

1957

Compilations

1940

1941

1943

1945

1946

1947

1948

1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954

Live

Compositions

  • "Cheryl"
  • "Chi Chi"
  • "Confirmation"
  • "Constellation"
  • "Cosmic Rays"
  • "Dewey Square"
  • "Dexterity"
  • "Diverse"
  • "Donna Lee"
  • "Kim"
  • "K.C. Blues"
  • "Klaun Stance"
  • "Ko-Ko"
  • "Laird Baird"
  • "Leap Frog"
  • "Marmaduke"
  • "Merry-Go-Round"
  • "Moose the Mooche"
  • "Mohawk"
  • "My Little Suede Shoes"

As sideman

With Dizzy Gillespie

External links

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