Charlie Parker With Strings LP compilation 1955 NEAR MINT vinyl

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Charlie Parker

with Strings

 Clef Records MG C-675  Vinyl, LP, Compilation 1955 (USA) 

Charlie Parker with Strings is the name of two separate albums by jazz musician Charlie Parker, released in 1950 on Mercury Records. It is also the name of a 1955 compilation album released by Clef Records. The sessions place Parker in the context of a small classical string section and a jazz rhythm section, rather than his standard bebop quintet. They were Parker's most popular sellers during his lifetime, and were admitted to the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1988.

Under the auspices of producer Norman Granz, Parker fulfilled a long-held desire to record in a string setting. Plans were made to release the results of the sessions as a ten-inch LP. Sessions from November 30, 1949, yielded the first Charlie Parker With Strings album (Mercury MG-35010), consisting of six songs total, all of which were standards.

The success of the first album led to additional sessions on July 5, 1950, resulting in another long-playing album also entitled Charlie Parker With Strings (Mercury MGC-109), consisting of eight tracks, also all standards.

There is some controversy regarding the impetus for Parker to record standards, rather than his original compositions, in settings of this kind as a bid for greater commercial exposure. Certainly Mercury Records did not object to this idea, although biographical sources indicate Parker himself instigated the sessions. However, they were instrumental in creating a vogue among jazz musicians for recording in a similar fashion: see Clifford Brown with Strings in 1955, and Focus by Stan Getz in 1961, among others.

The history of the vinyl releases is a complex one. Other early vinyl releases besides those on Mercury were on Clef Records (Norman Granz's label, later absorbed into Verve) and Verve Records (also founded by Norman Granz, and the predecessor of Mercury). Besides the 10" 33 RPM records, there were releases on 10" 78 RPM (box set) and on 7" 45 RPM records.

Clef Records MGC 675 was an early (or the earliest) 12" release and had the same cover as MG-35010 but different content.

Tracklist

A1 April In Paris

A2 Summertime

A3 If I Should Lose You

A4 I Didn't Know What Time It Was

A5 Everything Happens To Me

A6 Just Friends

B1 They Can't Take That Away From Me

B2 You Came Along (From Out Of Nowhere)

B3 East Of The Sun (West Of The Moon)

B4 Easy To Love

B5 I'm In The Mood For Love

B6 I'll Remember April

Condition:  Vinyl VG++ (no spindle marks, no surface marks) plastic inner sleeve,  hard card picture sleeve VG+  40$