Charlie Parker: Bird In Kansas City LP JAZZ-218 Cosmic Rays

Cosmic Rays

Backed by the Oscar Peterson Trio - bassist Ray Brown

complete with horns and strings

Charlie Haden and Ed Blackwell came together to celebrate the work of mentor Ornette Coleman

Noted for a distinctive voice

Charlie Parker: Bird In Kansas City LP JAZZ-218 Cosmic RaysCharlie Parker had a complicated relationship with his hometown of Kansas City, MO owing both to its history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. This new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941 1951most of them never having been heard before and some never even having been known to existchronicle Birds evolution from a blossoming soloist with the Jay McShann Band into a brilliant improviser who