Charlie Parker: Live at Birdland 1950

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Radio broadcast, Birdland, NYC, May 15 and 16, 1950

Charlie Parker, alto sax; Fats Navarro, trumpet;  Bud Powell, piano; Curly Russell, bass; Art Blakey, drums.

  1. Wahoo
  2. 'Round Midnight
  3. This Time the Dream's On Me
  4. Dizzy Atmosphere
  5. Night In Tunisia
  6. Move
  7. The Street Beat
  8. Out of Nowhere
  9. Little Willie Leaps / 52nd Street Theme
  10. Ornithology
  11. I'll Remember April / 52nd Street Theme
  12. Embraceable You
  13. Cool Blues / 52nd Street Theme
Note on the remastering: The sound on this live recording from the 1950s, released many times before, the sound was not too great. I took advantage of Zynaptiq Unchirp's ability to restore "lost" high frequencies with very natural-sounding results. Izotope RX11, Ozone 11 and Acoustica were used, too. The volume of Art Blakey's drums had to be reduced significantly. To my ears, the result has much better sound than all previous releases.

Addendum: 
According to the Jazz Discography Project, the personnel on tracks 12-13 is:
Fats Navarro, trumpet; Charlie Parker, alto sax; Walter Bishop Jr., piano; probably Tommy Potter, bass; probably Roy Haynes, drums; probably Chubby Newsome or "Little" Jimmy Scott, vocal #12.

Comments

  1. AnonymousJuly 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM

    https://mega.nz/file/RQ11TCqA#si75YIi29l3GOVng0HChPBE6N6NU6d1g71uPLjOXq6c

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  2. AnonymousDecember 29, 2024 at 10:00 AM

    First of all, thank you for your efforts and love you invest for the music.
    In my desktop system, this recording (Charlie Parker...) sounds unbalanced with regard to loudness, that is the scene seems almost entirely on the right half. About 70% to 80% of the sound "quantity" comes from the right speaker. This is not the case with eg the Gieseking - Debussy disk, so it is not a fault of my system. It does not happen with other recordings of music either. I have to lower the volume of the right speaker compared to the left to achieve a quasi center stage. The sound is nice to my ears, if I do the above manipulation.
    I may come back, commenting on other remasterings of yours. (I had already listened to the Smetana Qt Beethoven disk you uploaded on mimic some time ago, it was fantastic)
    anamesa

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  3. recordingsremasteredDecember 29, 2024 at 12:17 PM

    Very strange. I downloaded the files and checked the L/R balance through listening and with my audio software. I can't hear any imbalance and the RMS levels differ by plus or minus 2 dB for L and R (actually for most of the tracks, L is a bit louder, but this shouldn't be discernible). Im the remastering, I did a stem separation and moved the drums a little to the right and the piano a little to the left, quite moderately. But probably this does not explain what you hear? Just in case: If the polarity of your speakers is reversed with respect to each other, strange effects may occur. To test this, listen to a true mono recording (not this one). If you hear the sound right in the middle between the two speakers, everything is ok. If it sounds dispersed, you have to check.

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  4. recordingsremasteredDecember 29, 2024 at 12:18 PM

    BTW: Thank you for the nice words on my other remasterings.

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    1. AnonymousDecember 30, 2024 at 2:01 PM

      Now, I did the following: I changed the distro (Linux) I was listening to, to another (archlinux based), and the problem I encountered in the former was not present, the stage was defined right, with saxophone in the middle. Drums a bit to the right and piano a bit to the left. So make no worries, this must have been a problem of the specific distro I was using for the first listening, which I'm going to tackle at a later time. It must have been the left right balance at system level. For now I'm just going to enjoy your remasterings. I use audacious mostly for listening and foobar2k when in windows. You can delete my comments, if they do harm to your effort and I apologize for writing the comment without doublechecking.
      Keep up your nice work,
      anamesa

      PS. Thanks for your advice about speaker polarity, but this is not the case here. Now I'm listening to your remastering again, enjoying it.
      PS2. Melante has done a very nice LP remastering of Quartet Vegh Beethoven, String Quartets and it is at Susato, at Melante's Corner. They are more detailed and natural than the CDs I own.

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  5. recordingsremasteredDecember 30, 2024 at 10:35 PM

    No problem. Good to hear that the problem has been solved

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