Charlie Parker - Jam Session 1952 torrent

“Jam Session” was compiled from a 1952 session which brought together three of history's greatest alto saxophonists; Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges and Benny Carter, as well as Ben Webster and Flip Phillips on tenor sax, Barney Kessel on guitar and Charlie Shavers on trumpet. Oscar Peterson, Ray Brown and J. C. Heard form a solid rhythm section, which provides a fabulous swing machine.

Part cutting contest, “Jam Session” utilizes blues-based riffs, jazz standards, and ballad medleys to serve not only as jousting platforms between the era's top instrumentalists but also as spotlight features, yielding some of the most memorable, undiluted (all being first takes with no edits), and extended solos in many of these musicians' careers. You get to hear serious and immediately identifiable instrumental voices right next to one another, even back to back as distinguishing foils.
The since classic thirteen-plus minute "Funky Blues” is exemplary, featuring opening solos by three of the alto saxophone's prime architects: Hodges followed by Bird followed by Carter!
About the best jazz jamming, a landmark session.


Charlie Parker

Jam Session

1952


CD / 1990 / Remastered / 320Kbps


Tracklist:

1. Jam Blues

2. What is This Thing Called Love

3. Ballad Medley:

- All The Things You Are
- Dearly Beloved
- The Nearness Of You
- I'll Get By (As Long As I Have You)
- Everything Happens To Me
- The Man I Love
- What's New?
- Someone To Watch Over Me
- Isn't It Romantic

4. Funky Blues

Recorded in Los Angeles in June 1952


Personnel :

Alto Saxophone – Benny Carter, Charlie Parker, Johnny Hodges

Tenor Saxophone – Ben Webster, Flip Phillips

Trumpet – Charlie Shavers

Piano – Oscar Peterson

Guitar – Barney Kessel

Bass – Ray Brown

Drums – J.C. Heard


Charlie Parker / Jam Session / 1952