Charlie Parker Quintet – Chicago, IL (11/xx/47)

Charlie Parker Quintet
11-XX-1947
Argyle Show Lounge
Chicago, Illinois

Project ID – 83

Source: Audience Recording
Lineage: AUdience Recording > ?? > Philology Volume 14/62 > ripped with soundforge >
wave > Unknown editing (possible re-indexing, noise reduction, EQ, normalization,
speed-correction by Peter Losin as needed) > cd (Peter Losin’s Archive) > cd duplicated
(burner to burner) > eac > wave > flac (lvl 8 )

Miles Davis (tpt); Charlie Parker (as); Irving “Duke” Jordan (p);
Tommy Potter (b); Max Roach (d)

disc 1

d1t01. I Got Rhythm/
d1t02. /Cool Blues/
d1t03. /Ornithology/
d1t04. Dizzy Atmosphere/
d1t05. /Wahoo/ >
d1t06. /Wahoo/
d1t07. Groovin’ High/
d1t08. /I Can’t Get Started/
d1t09. /I Can’t Get Started/

Notes:

• d1t01 is cut at the end
• d1t02 is a fragment missing both the start and end
• d1t03 is cut at the beginning and the end.
• d1t04 is cut at the end
• d1t05 is a fragment missing the start and finish
• d1t06 is an additional fragment for “Wahoo” missing the start and finish
• d1t07 is cut at the end
• d1t08 is a fragment missing both the start and finish
• d1t09 is an additional fragment of “I can’t get started” missing the start and finish
• This recording not for the casual listener. This is one of those that is definetely
  for completists only. There are more flaws to this than I can list, but it is a
  piece of history and is worth preserving none the less.
• Thanks to Peter Losin for contributing this source source. http://www.plosin.com/
• “Very fragmentary — edited to Parker solos for the most part. These may be dubs of
  wire recordings; fidelity is very poor throughout.”- Credit to Peter Losin,
  http://www.plosin.com/
• “Philology W 844 contains 22 titles purporting to be from this date, but I’m skeptical.
  First, the trumpet player sounds like Kenny Dorham, not Davis. Second, Frank Loesser’s
  tune “On a Slow Boat to China” was not copyrighted until 1948, and Parker’s “Barbados”
  was not recorded in the studio until the Savoy date on September 18, 1948. It’s very
  unusual for a Parker original to appear in the live repertoire before it has been
  recorded. Third, Parker’s quotations and his playing (especially during his solo on the
  second “Slow Boat to China”) sound like 1949, not 1947. The Parker Quintet (with Dorham,
  Haig, Potter, and Roach, and guest vocalist Arthur Daniels) were booked for two weeks
  at Chicago’s Pershing Hotel Ballroom (March 28-April 10, 1949), and my guess is that
  those 22 tunes were recorded during this gig. If so, Davis was half a country away in
  New York at the Royal Roost and Capitol Recording Studios.” – Credit to Peter Losin,
  http://www.plosin.com/
• QC done by Bgreen