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Bird In Paris



PARIS SESSION NO. 1:

Date:  May 8, 9, 14 and 15, 1949.
Place:  Sale Pleyel, Paris, France
Group:  Charlie Parker Quintet with Kenny Dorham (t), Al Haig (p), 
	Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording:  Live Recording
Primary Source:  CD Philology Vol. 10 Iems 1-4; Philology Vol. 11 Items 5-15;
	CD Birdbox Vol. 2 10-15          

	  1.   Salt Peanuts I (3:37)
          2.   Barbados (4:47)
          3.   Fifty-Second Street Theme I (3:25)
          4.   Out of Nowhere I (4:50) 
          5.   Salt Peanuts II (3:59)
          6.   Scrapple From the Apple (5:06)
          7.   Out of Nowhere II (4:13) inc.
          8.   Wee (Allen's Alley) (4:00)
          9.   Fifty-Second Street Theme II (3:26)
          10.  Out of Nowhere III with Country Gardens Tag (5:28)
          11.  A Night In Tunisia (4:17)          
	  12.  Moose the Mooche (4:24)
          13.  Hot House (5:38)
          14.  I Got Rhythm Tune (mistitled "Blues" on Birdbox) (2:55) (inc.)
          15.  Fifty-Second Street Theme III (4:41)
       

PARIS SESSION NO. 2:

Date:  May 12, 1949
Place:  Colisee Movie Theatre, Roubaix, France
Group:  Charlie Parker Quintet with Kenny Dorham (t), Al Haig (p), 
	Tommy Potter (b), Max Roach (d)
Recording:  Private Recordings on Acetate
Primary Source:  CD Philology Vol. 11  Birdbox Vol. 2

          1.   Ornithology (4:24)           
	  2.   Out of Nowhere (3:44)
          3.   Cheryl (2:46) 
          4.   Fifty-Second Street Theme I (1:12) (Dorham solo)
          5.   Lover Man (4:24)          
	  6.   Groovin' High (4:31)
          7.   Half Nelson (4:32) (inc.)
          8.   Fifty-Second Street Theme II (2:54) 


PARIS SESSION NO. 3:

Date:  May 15, 1949
Place:  Salle Pleyel, Paris, France
Group:  Jam Session feat. Kenny Dorham, Hot Lips Page and Miles Davis (t), 
	Sidney Bechet (ss), Don Byas and James Moody (ts), Al Haig (p), 
	Toots Thielemans (g), Tommy Potter (b) and Max Roach (d)
Recording:  Private Recording
Primary Source:  CD Philology Vol. 12

          1.   Farewell Blues (3:52) 
     

   




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