Bird and Diz

1952 studio album by Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Bird and Diz

Studio album by

Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie

Released| July/August 1952[1]
Recorded| February–May 5, 1949; and June 6, 1950; in New York City
Genre| Bebop
Length| 24:58
Label| Clef/Verve
Producer| Norman Granz
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie chronology
| Diz 'N' Bird In Concert
(1947)  | Bird and Diz
(1952)  | Jazz at Massey Hall
(1953)

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Charlie Parker chronology
|  | Bird and Diz
(1952)  | South of the Border
(1952)

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Alternate cover

1986 Verve vinyl reissue

Professional ratingsReview scores

Source| Rating
AllMusic| [2]
DownBeat| [3]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music| [4]
The Penguin Guide to Jazz| [5]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide| [6]

Bird and Diz is a studio album by jazz saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie. It was recorded primarily on June 6, 1950, in New York City.[7] Two tracks featured on the original pressing, "Passport" and "Visa", were recorded by Parker, without Gillespie and with different personnel than the other tracks, in March and May 1949.[8] The album was originally issued in 1952 in 10" format as a collection of 78 rpm singles on the Verve subsidiary label Clef Records.[9][10]

Although produced by Norman Granz, known for large ensembles at the time,[2] the album contains compositions performed with the standard bebop instrumentation of saxophone, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums.[11] In a 1952 four-star review of Bird and Diz, a DownBeat magazine columnist wrote of Granz's contribution to the album's sound, stating "Though there is no mention of bop in Norman Granz'[s] notes, we owe him a salvo for reminding us through this LP that this music is still very much alive."[3] It is the final collaborative studio recording by Parker and Gillespie,[7] and has been reissued several times by Verve and PolyGram Records.[11]

## Track listing

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Included on the original LP, "Passport" and "Visa" were omitted from the reissue because they were not recorded during the 1950 Bird and Diz session.

### Side one

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Track | Recorded | Song Number | Song Title | Writer(s) | Time

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1. | 6/6/50 | C 410-4 | Bloomdido | Charlie Parker | 3:25
2. | 6/6/50 | C 413-2 | My Melancholy Baby | Ernie M. Burnett and George A. Norton | 3:24
3. | 6/6/50 | C 415-4 | Relaxin' with Lee | Charlie Parker | 2:47
4. | 5/5/49 | C 295-2 | Passport | Charlie Parker | 3:00

### Side two

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Track | Recorded | Song Number | Song Title | Writer | Time

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1. | 6/6/50 | C 414–11 | Leap Frog | Benny Harris and Charlie Parker | 2:29
2. | 6/6/50 | C 411-4 | An Oscar for Treadwell | Charlie Parker | 3:23
3. | 6/6/50 | C 412-6 | Mohawk | Charlie Parker | 3:35
4. | 2/3/49 | C 293-4 | Visa | Charlie Parker | 2:55

### CD reissue

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The Verve/PolyGram remaster editions feature 18 additional takes and liner notes by music scholar James Patrick and producer Norman Granz.

1. "Bloomdido" – 3:25
2. "My Melancholy Baby" – 3:24
3. "Relaxin' with Lee" – 2:47
4. "Leap Frog" – 2:29
5. "An Oscar for Treadwell" – 3:23
6. "Mohawk" – 3:36
7. "My Melancholy Baby (Complete Take)" – 3:17
8. "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:56
9. "Leap Frog (Take 11 Complete Take)" – 2:34
10. "Leap Frog (Take 8 Complete Take)" – 2:02
11. "Leap Frog (Take 9 Complete Take)" – 2:06
12. "An Oscar for Treadwell (Take 4 Complete Take)" – 3:21
13. "Mohawk (Take 3 Complete Take)" – 3:48
14. "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:17
15. "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 2 Breakdown Take)" – 1:08
16. "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 3 False Start)" – 0:04
17. "Relaxin' With Lee (Take 5 Breakdown Take)" – 0:24
18. "Leap Frog (Take 1 Breakdown Take)" – 0:26
19. "Leap Frog (Take 7 Breakdown Take)" – 0:14
20. "Leap Frog (Take 10 Breakdown Take)" – 0:40
21. "Leap Frog (Take 2 Breakdown Take)" – 0:18
22. "Leap Frog (Take 6 Breakdown Take)" – 0:20
23. "Leap Frog (Take 4 Breakdown Take)" – 0:13
24. "Leap Frog (Take 3 Breakdown Take)" – 0:41

## Personnel

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### Musicians

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* Charlie Parker \- saxophone (Complete Album)
* Dizzy Gillespie \- trumpet (except tracks A4 & B4)
* Curley Russell \- bass (except on tracks A4 & B4)
* Buddy Rich \- drums (except tracks A4 & B4)
* Thelonious Monk \- piano (except tracks A4 & B4)
* Tommy Potter \- bass (on tracks A4 & B4)
* Carlos Vidal \- bongo (on track B4)
* Max Roach \- drums (tracks A4 & B4)
* Al Haig \- piano (tracks A4 & B4)
* Tommy Turk \- trombone (track B4)
* Kenny Dorham \- trumpet (tracks A4 & B4)

### Production

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* Norman Granz \- producer
* Dennis Drake - mastering
* David Stone Martin \- cover design

## References

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Footnotes

1. ^ Billboard August 16, 1952
2. ^ a b AllMusic review
3. ^ a b Columnist. "Review of Bird & Diz". DownBeat: March 1952.
4. ^ Larkin, Colin, ed. (2006). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Oxford University Press. p. 416.
5. ^ Cook, Richard; Morton, Brian (2006). The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. Penguin Books. p. 1018.
6. ^ Swenson, John, ed. (1999). The Rolling Stone Jazz & Blues Album Guide. Random House. p. 529.
7. ^ a b Patrick, James (1997), pp. 1–3.
8. ^ Mercury Records Collection - Numerical Listing of Mercury Analogue LPs: MG C-512 Bird & Diz Archived 2011-09-26 at the Wayback Machine. Microgroove. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
9. ^ Chell, Samuel. Review of Bird & Diz. All About Jazz. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
10. ^ Clef Records Catalog - The Jazz Scene, JATP, 100, 500 series: MGC 512 Bird And Diz. Jazz Discography Project. Retrieved on 2009-06-22.
11. ^ a b Patrick, James (1997), pp. 5–6.

Bibliography

* Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
Michel Ruppli, Ed Novitsky (1993). The Mercury Labels — A Discography. Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-27371-5.
* Bird and Diz album liner notes by James Patrick, Norman Granz. PolyGram Records Inc.

## External links

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* Bird and Diz at Discogs (list of releases)

* v
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Dizzy Gillespie

Studio albums|

* Bird and Diz (1952)
* Afro (1954)
* Diz and Getz (1955)
* Dizzy and Strings (1954)
* Roy and Diz (1954)
* Jazz Recital (1956)
* The Modern Jazz Sextet (1956)
* World Statesman (1956)
* Dizzy in Greece (1956)
* For Musicians Only (1956)
* Birks' Works (1957)
* Dizzy Gillespie and Stuff Smith (1957)
* Sittin' In (1957)
* Duets (1957)
* The Greatest Trumpet of Them All (1957)
* Sonny Side Up (1959)
* The Ebullient Mr. Gillespie (1959)
* Have Trumpet, Will Excite! (1959)
* A Portrait of Duke Ellington (1960)
* Gillespiana (1960)
* Perceptions (1961)
* The New Continent (1962)
* New Wave (1963)
* Something Old, Something New (1963)
* Dizzy Goes Hollywood (1964)
* Jambo Caribe (1964)
* I/We Had a Ball (1965)
* Gil Fuller & the Monterey Jazz Festival Orchestra featuring Dizzy Gillespie (1965)
* The Melody Lingers On (1966)
* It's My Way (1969)
* Cornucopia (1969)
* The Real Thing (1970)
* Portrait of Jenny (1970)
* Dizzy Gillespie's Big 4 (1974)
* The Trumpet Kings Meet Joe Turner (1974)
* Oscar Peterson and Dizzy Gillespie (1974)
* Oscar Peterson and the Trumpet Kings – Jousts (1974)
* The Bop Session (1975)
* Jazz Maturity...Where It's Coming From (1975)
* Afro-Cuban Jazz Moods (1975)
* Bahiana (1975)
* Carter, Gillespie Inc. (1976)
* Dizzy's Party (1976)
* Free Ride (1977)
* The Gifted Ones (1977)
* The Trumpet Summit Meets the Oscar Peterson Big 4 (1980)
* The Alternate Blues (1980)
* To a Finland Station (1983)
* Closer to the Source (1984)
* New Faces (1985)
* Dizzy Gillespie Meets Phil Woods Quintet (1986)
* Endlessly (1988)
* Oop-Pop-A-Da (1988)

Live albums|

* Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
* Dizzy Gillespie at Newport (1957)
* An Electrifying Evening with the Dizzy Gillespie Quintet (1961)
* Carnegie Hall Concert (1961)
* Dizzy on the French Riviera (1962)
* Dizzy Gillespie and the Double Six of Paris (1963)
* Live at the Village Vanguard (1967)
* Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac (1967)
* The Dizzy Gillespie Reunion Big Band (1968)
* Dizzy Gillespie and the Mitchell Ruff Duo in Concert (1971)
* Giants (1971)
* The Giants of Jazz (1971)
* The Giant (1973)
* The Source (1973)
* The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (1975)
* The Trumpet Kings at Montreux '75 (1975)
* Dizzy Gillespie Jam (1977)
* Digital at Montreux, 1980 (1980)
* Musician, Composer, Raconteur (1981)
* One Night in Washington (1983)
* Live at the Royal Festival Hall (1989)
* Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (1989)
* Bird Songs: The Final Recordings (1992)
* To Bird with Love (1992)
* To Diz with Love (1992)

Compilation
albums|

* Modern Jazz Trumpets (1951)
* Groovin' High (1955)
* Dee Gee Days: The Savoy Sessions (1976)
* The Complete RCA Victor Recordings (1995)
* The Great Blue Star Sessions 1952–1953 (2004)
* Dizzy Digs Paris (2006)

Soundtracks|

* The Cool World (1964)
* The Winter in Lisbon (1990)

Compositions|

* "Anthropology"
* "Birks' Works"
* "Blue 'n' Boogie"
* "Con Alma"
* "Dizzy Atmosphere"
* "Groovin' High"
* "Manteca"
* "A Night in Tunisia"
* "Oop Bop Sh'Bam"
* "Salt Peanuts"
* "Woody 'n' You"

Books|

* To Be or Not to Bop (1979)

Related articles|

* List of works
* Bird (1988 film)

* v
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Charlie Parker

Discography

Studio albums|

* Bird and Diz (1952)
* South of the Border (1952)
* Big Band (1954)
* Charlie Parker Memorial, Vol. 1 (1956)
* The Immortal Charlie Parker (1956)
* Charlie Parker Memorial, Vol. 2 (1956)
* The Genius of Charlie Parker (1956)
* The Charlie Parker Story (1956)
* Now's the Time: the Quartet of Charlie Parker (1956)
* The Cole Porter Songbook (1956)
* Swedish Schnapps (1958)

Live albums|

* Jazz at Massey Hall (1953)
* Bird on 52nd St. (1958)
* Bird at St. Nick's (1958)
* Bird Is Free (1961)
* One Night in Birdland (1977)
* Summit Meeting at Birdland (1977)
* Inglewood Jam (1978)
* The Washington Concerts (1983)
* Live at Rockland Palace (1997)

Box sets|

* Charlie Parker's Savoy and Dial sessions
* Complete Charlie Parker on Dial
* Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions
* Bird: The Complete Charlie Parker on Verve

Compositions|

* "Ah-Leu-Cha"
* "Anthropology"
* "Au Privave"
* "Big Foot" aka "Driftin' on a Reed"
* "Barbados"
* "Billie's Bounce"
* "Bird Gets the Worm"
* "Bloomdido"
* "Blues for Alice"
* "Chasin' the Bird"
* "Cheryl"
* "Confirmation"
* "Constellation "
* "Dexterity"
* "Donna Lee"
* "Ko-Ko"
* "Moose the Mooche"
* "Now's the Time"
* "Ornithology"
* "Parker's Mood"
* "Relaxin' at Camarillo"
* "Scrapple from the Apple"
* "Swingmatism"
* "Yardbird Suite"

Related|

* Bebop
* Dizzy Gillespie
* Charlie Parker with Strings
* Charlie Parker Omnibook
* Bird (1988 film)
* Bird and Diz

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Thelonious Monk

* Discography
* Compositions

As leader|

* Genius of Modern Music: Volume 1
* Wizard of the Vibes
* Genius of Modern Music: Volume 2
* Thelonious Monk Trio
* Monk
* Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins
* Piano Solo
* Thelonious Monk Plays Duke Ellington
* The Unique Thelonious Monk
* Brilliant Corners
* Thelonious Himself
* Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk
* Monk's Music
* Thelonious Monk with John Coltrane
* Mulligan Meets Monk
* Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane at Carnegie Hall
* The Complete 1957 Riverside Recordings
* Thelonious in Action
* Misterioso
* The Thelonious Monk Orchestra at Town Hall
* 5 by Monk by 5
* Thelonious Alone in San Francisco
* Thelonious Monk at the Blackhawk
* Monk in France
* Thelonious Monk in Italy
* Monk's Dream
* Criss-Cross
* Monk in Tokyo
* Miles & Monk at Newport
* Big Band and Quartet in Concert
* It's Monk's Time
* Monk
* Solo Monk
* Live at the It Club
* Live at the Jazz Workshop
* Misterioso (Recorded on Tour)
* Straight, No Chaser
* Thelonious Monk Nonet Live in Paris 1967
* Underground
* Monk's Blues

With others|

* Midnight at Minton's
* Bird and Diz
* Bags' Groove
* Miles Davis and the Modern Jazz Giants
* Moving Out
* Sonny Rollins, Vol. 2
* Nica's Tempo
* In Orbit

Compositions|

* "In Walked Bud"
* "'Round Midnight"

Related articles|

* Blue Note Sessions
* Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
* Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
* Rewind & Play

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