Symbols (Led Zeppelin 4)

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Also known as the "rune" album or Zoso because of the medieval symbols adorning the inner sleeve, Led Zeppelin's fourth album, released in 1971, turned them from mere superstars into giant behemoths of the rock world. On tracks like "Black Dog," "Misty Mountain Hop," and "Rock and Roll," the combination of Robert Plant's banshee wails and Jimmy Page's frenetic guitar playing forever altered the stylistic bent of hard rock music. And the foreboding "When the Levee Breaks" demonstrated that Zeppelin could indeed play the blues fairly straight if they so desired. Still, everything here ultimately took a back seat to the album's (and, ultimately, the band's) magnum opus--the expertly constructed and deftly executed classic, "Stairway to Heaven." --Billy Altman --This text refers to the LP Record edition.

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Jimmy Page was a top London studio guitarist before he got rich and famous as the musical leader of Led Zeppelin. The group's fourth--and arguably their finest--album is as much a tribute to his technique as a monument to his versatility. Page produced the album, co-wrote all eight songs, and played mandolin as well as all the guitars. Musically, this 1971 disc ranges from acoustic English folke ("Goin' to California" and "The Battle of Evermore," the latter featuring the... read more --This text refers to the LP Record edition.

Symbols (Led Zeppelin 4)

Symbols (Led Zeppelin 4), Music, Led Zeppelin, Rock

An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
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Ring introduction critique

FASCINATING STUDY FOR NOVICES AND AFFICIONADOS ALIKE

Welcome back to a classic analysis

Essential for Understanding Wagner's Ring Cycle

Very Functional

An Introduction to Der Ring des Nibelungen
Deryck Cooke , Georg Solti , Wiener Philharmoniker , Anita Valkki , Berit Lindholm , Birgit Nilsson , Brigitte Fassbaender , Christa Ludwig , Claire Watson , Claudia Hellmann , Dame Gwyneth Jones , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau , Eberhard Wächter , George London , Gerhard Stolze , Gottlob Frick , Grace Hoffmann , Gustav Neidlinger , Hans Hotter , Helen Watts , Helga Dernesch , Hetty Plumacher , Ira Malaniuk , James King , Jean Madeira , Joan Sutherland , Kirsten Flagstad , Kurt Böhme , Lucia Popp , Marga Höffgen , Marilyn Tyler , Maureen Guy , Oda Balsborg , Paul Kuen , Régine Crespin , Set Svanholm , Vera Little , Vera Schlosser , Waldemar Kmentt , Walter Kreppel , and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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Of All Great Musical Compositions... (Examples 1-4)
The Fundamental Symbol... (Examples 5-11)
Returning Now To The Nature Motive... (Examples 6, 12-16)
A Number Of Further Motives... (Examples 5, 17-21)
A Second, Much Smaller Family... (Examples 22-25)
So Much For Nature. (Examples 26-38)
The Cause Of The Deterioration... (Examples 39-44)
The Other Transformation... (Examples 45-48)
Several Other Motives... (Examples 49-52)
Two Further Motives... (Examples 41, 53-61)
The Basic Motive Associated With The Spear... (Examples 62-68)
Along Another, More Complex Line... (Examples 69-72)
In Act Two Of Walkure... (Examples 69, 73-75)
Returning Now To Act Two Of Walkure... (Examples 76-79)
Love Is Another Of The Central Symbols... (Examples 80-83)
Later In The Same Scene... (Examples 84-87)
Freia's Motive Has Two Independent Segments... (Examples 88-91)
The Label 'Flight'... (Example 92)
When Fasolt, In Scene Two Of Rhinegold... (Examples 93-98)
A Little Later In The Interlude... (Examples 99-103)

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The Other New Motive... (Examples 104-109)
There Are Several Independent Love-Motives... (Examples 110-114)
The Characters In Whose Lives... (Examples 115-120)
One Further Motive Belongs... (Example 121)
The Sword Motive Recurs... (Examples 122-130)
Ironically, This Phrase... (Examples 131-135)
Closely Associated With Gutrune's Motive... (Examples 136-140)
Here We Come To The End... (Examples 141-146)
Complemtary To This Symbol... (Examples 147-149)
One Last Central Symbol... (Examples 150-157)
One Further Motive Connected... (Examples 158-161)
There Are One Or Two Motives... (Examples 162-168)
These Motives Of Alberich And Mime... (Examples 169-171)
Quite A Number Of The Subsidiary Motives... (Examples 172-176)
Besides This Family Of Motives... (Examples 177-180)
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Even More Masterly... (Examples 184-188)
Now If We Return... (Examples 189-191)
This Masterly Way... (Examples 192, 193)

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When Wagner set the Ring to music, he intended the orchestra to act in the fashion of a chorus from a classic Greek tragedy--setting the mood and commenting on the action. In order to allow a nonverbal musical line to reflect on the plot, Wagner developed a psychologically and musically complex symbology to communicate his thoughts to the listener. From the beginning the Ring has spawned numerous written commentaries on the relationships of the motif structure, but by using examples from the Decca Ring recording, Deryck Cooke's thoughtful spoken commentary is by far the most accessible guide for either the fledgling Ring enthusiast or the seasoned veteran. --Christian C. Rix

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Ring introduction critique.......2006-11-04

This is very worthwhile, at the same time it requires time, patience and attention, but it does provide some keys to better enjoyment of a sensational piece of music.

FASCINATING STUDY FOR NOVICES AND AFFICIONADOS ALIKE.......2006-08-16

This may look an intimidating, daunting and dull prospect - a 2+ hour lecture on the motifs in the Ring. Don't be put off. Whether you're a relative novice to the Ring and want to find out what it's all about, more experienced with a desire to understand the composer's methods better or an afficionado who thinks he knows it all inside out, there is great pleasure as well as elucidation to be had from this set. Originally made to accompany the Decca Solti Ring, it contains a multitude of musical illustrations taken from those recordings as well as some specially recorded by Solti just for this Introduction.

It wasn't the first time this has been tried. The famous HMV sets from the late 20's also included recorded examples of over 100 motifs. (These, by the way, are available as part of the Pearl reissue of those wonderful HMV recordings). What that set lacked was the wonderful insights as well as the approachability of the talk by Deryck Cooke. Cooke was a great and much missed musicologist - a Mahler expert responsible for the performing edition of the Tenth Symphony still most played today, a fascinating explorer into the nature of music's basic building-blocks in his excellent book, The Language of Music, and an inspiring and elucidating critic of Wagner's work as shown by the fascinating book he left unfinished at his death, I Saw the World End.

On these CDs he does much more than list the leitmotifs and identify them as calling-cards. He shows the amazingly integrated and organic growth of the musical material that Wagner uses throughout his vast work. He demonstrates how motifs can change their sense and meaning as they evolve through the drama. And he shows how the complex combinations of motifs can radically advance both the musical and the dramatic narrative of the piece. There are even places where he corrects the misinterpretation of some of the motifs that had become ingrained from early commentators' false labels.

This set should engage and enlighten anyone with an interest in Wagner's huge and inexhaustible tetralogy. Do give it a try - no matter how far down the road to Wagnerianism you are.

Welcome back to a classic analysis.......2006-05-28

Deryck Cooke's lecture series upon THE RING is almost as much a classic by now as the Solti RING cycle, with which it was originally issued on LP, and from which it derives its musical examples. The difference is that whereas the Solti RING has been continuously in print ever since it was completed, and was among the first opera sets to benefit from the CD revolution, the Cooke analysis was for long almost totally unobtainable. Now we have it back. It should be welcomed: it is a classic. Cooke's mellow, deep voice with the hint of a Celtic burr - which made him ideal on BBC radio - patiently explains Wagner's melodic, rhythmic, and harmonic metamorphoses to such good effect that if you own this recording, you really require no other RING analysis. (A pity about the abrupt beginnings and endings of too many vocal and orchestral illustrations, though.) Musicology lost a fine, sensitive thinker with Cooke's premature death in 1976.

If all you want is dilettantish baby food, there are plenty of dumbed-down Wagner commentaries on the market, stretching from Anna Russell's famous monologue (which doesn't pretend to be anything other than a parody aimed at morons) to the latest standard-issue "Wagner-was-a-Nazi-boo-hiss" feuilleton (which, unfortunately, does). Without reasonable score-reading skill you will find Cooke useless, however diligently you have ploughed through Marx, Jung, Freud, or other gurus purportedly relevant to THE RING. Cooke expects you to use your brains and your musical sense. Quelle horreur. At today's BBC his "elitism" would render him unemployable.

Essential for Understanding Wagner's Ring Cycle.......2006-05-15

I originally bought this set on vinyl in the early 70s when I discovered the Ring in college. I studied the records and booklet assiduously, and after about three run-throughs I finally started getting it. Wow! Thirty-five years later, I still remember Mr. Cooke's analyses of various motive families, and I don't know how I could have mastered and loved the Ring without him. I now own this set on CD and listen again on the rare occasion of attending a Ring performance. My wife calls me a "Ring nut," but of course I'm nuts about many other things as well.

Bottom line, buy this set and study it if the Ring has captivated you as it has countless others. The presentation is dry, but sticking with it brings measureless and longlasting rewards.

Very Functional.......2006-03-19

This CD set is excellent for what it sets out to do: present the leitmotives of the Ring according to their relationship to one another and their role in developing both characters and plotlines. Deryck Cooke's lectures on each motive are very insightful, very helpful at cueing the listener into the semantic aspect of Wagner's orchestral writing. The one drawback is that the musical examples are a bit jarring. Without fade-ins or -outs, the engineering is quite barbaric. And though the orchestra was, I believe, conducted by Solti, and is beautifully done, the vocal performances can be quite unpleasant. Point being: this is not background music, but in accomplishing what it sets out to do, it is very successful, and I don't know of anything else like it.

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real rhythms meet humor, cutting satire and social commentary
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real rhythms meet humor, cutting satire and social commentary.......2007-06-18

mind bending, construct destroying, hyper exalted but attenuated industrial symphonies from some of the visionaries in the bunch. Their tongue in cheek approach stays refreshing as the beats never bore and frequently surprise. Indulge your craving for electronic rhythms by snapping off a piece of this intelligent and foot tapping soul candy. KMFDM is doin it again!

BEST KMFDM ALBUM!.......2007-05-29

f you like KMFDM..than you allready know that this is the best KMFDM album. Dah? This is the remastered version...even better!

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unbalanced compilation.......2007-01-11

this compilation disappointed. I like a lot of Planet Mu artists and was psyched to get this release but it didn't deliver. I feel like this double CD had enough good cuts for a single CD and then was padded with a lot of left-field odd ball tracks and throw-away b-side tracks. It certainly didn't live up to the concept album sounding title. There was no common ground to tie all the tracks together.

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KMFDM's previous album, Xtort, was a corrosive industrial metalfest that burned as deeply as most anything by Ministry or Nine Inch Nails. But fans expecting more gut-pounding, head-smashing euphoria are in for a surprise. The band's self-titled successor is light on the metal, heavy on the electronic--which isn't to say KMFDM are hopping on some Chemical Brothers/Prodigy bandwagon. They were futzing around with samplers and keyboards over a decade ago. It's just that diehard metalheads might find KMFDM's skittering beats and blipping keyboards a little too left-field. But for open-minded souls who like to dance and destroy, KMFDM should prove to be a hedonistic cauldron of carnal delight. --Jon Wiederhorn

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Don't Pay Premium Price for old KMFDM cd's!!!!!!!.......2006-10-10

I bought this cd long before it became "out of print". This album is great, definitely one of the bands best. I can't wait to get my hands on the re-issue, the sound is going to be even better. KMFDM fans know the bands reissuing their back catalogue on Metropolis (you know, those out of print KMFDM releases on Wax Trax that these blood suckers are selling for outrageous prices), the packaging is even better with more pics and extensive liner notes. So, think about it, why would you want to pay premium for an old Wax Trax copy when you can get the reissue which is ten times better and has been digitally remastered?

TRUE FANS SHOULD WAIT AND BUY THE REISSUES INSTEAD, AND THEY'RE COMING OUT SOON, YOU'LL BE HELPING THE BAND, DON'T BUY THOSE EXPENSIVE OLD USED COPIES, SHOW THESE BLOOD SUCKERS KMFDM FANS ARE NOT STUPID PEOPLE!

Whatever the price you have to pay...........2006-06-01

....it is worth the money. Luckily, I paid 'bout $14 dollars for it. Still worth the money. I now need to invest in getting a CD burner because I know I'm gonna wear out this CD once I get a set of wheels.

It's a good CD, but..........2006-05-08

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sticks in one's cd layer.......2006-03-30

kmfdm are a hard band to pick and choose favorites with.since every album of thiers differs in style very much. this album is amazing. especially when listened to in the car and loud bass. every old person looks at you and thinks "wtf?" upon first listen, this album may seem a bit boring and will make you want to skip on to the next track,but that is HARDLY what it is. over a period of 2 days, i have gotten used to every song on this album except maybe one or two of them. guess what? they are all awesome!! this is a definate worthy follow up to the almighty xtort. if you have any interest in goth techno clubs or good music in general, then this is your album.

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One of their best.......2005-07-31

This was the last truly great KMFDM album, and one of the band's best. It's pretty unanimous among fans new and old that Symbols is not to be missed. In general, KMFDM's sound sways between hard rock and techno from album to album--this particular release slants heavily toward techno. In general, everything that makes KMFDM good is present on this CD: Ray Watts, En Esch, Skold, Ogre, and Guenter provide a perfect sampling of KMFDM's major players on rotation throughout its existence to this point. Abby Travis is also one of the most stand-out guest female vocalists in the bunch. I could go through the tracklist, but must simply state that every song is top-notch, though a couple of 'em took me a bit longer to really notice. This is Sascha and co. at one of their peaks. Quit reading this and buy it.

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Sounds, Shapes, and Symbols

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ASTONISHING.
Vastly satisfying
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Layered sound
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The strings and sax format has been utilized by a number of jazz greats, from Charlie Parker to Stan Getz and now alto and soprano saxophonist Greg Osby. He's working with a combo featuring the young piano whiz Jason Moran, augmented by a string quartet, which complements the leader's atmospheric and snaky sax lines. The compositions exhibit a beautiful blend of the compositional and improvisational genius of Eric Dolphy, Andrew Hill, Henry Threadgill, Wayne Shorter, and Muhal Richard Abrams. That blend is heard on the evocative, impressionistic expressions of "M" and the anthemic "Repay in Kind." The standard "Wild Is the Wind" is reborn with a darker harmonic hue. The strings supply Osby's songs with ethereal, classically tinged textured expressions. Osby plays, arranges, and composes with imagination and ingenuity--and the best is yet to come. --Eugene Holley Jr.

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ASTONISHING........2006-08-22

This might be the most amazing thing I've ever heard. It's innovative in every aspect. The instruments fuse so tightly and take you for a ride on every tune. This is some of the most fierce, focused, inspriringly intense, and lyrically satisfying playing I've ever heard. I've never seen Osby live, but I could imagine it's amazing. It's truly magical how everything clicks. Marlon Browden and Scott Colley loosely cradle the group. These men and women believe in the music and play as if they knew death would take each one immediately after the session. One Room is a highlight as it's form evokes a scattered urgency shared by everyone present. Northbound is simply terrifying. Every tune has so many specific emotional layers. Probably the best fusion of strings and a jazz combo I've ever heard. Well-arranged and performed. This record is reckless, relentless, and flawless. I need to stop writing about it and listen to absorb it again. The music grows on you. I'll be back.

Vastly satisfying.......2004-09-17

Wow! I was afraid this was another syrupy sax and strings album, but I was so wrong! This is tough, uncompromising, soulful jazz, complemented by a string quartet of considerable jazz imporvisational skill. Great compositions, great arrangements, and great improvising, from all the members, and especially Greg Osby, one of the most important jazz musicians alive today.

The Best Contemporary Jazz Album of the Year.......2002-07-11

The title says for itself. The best album of the year.

Layered sound.......2002-02-04

I bought this, my first Osby, because I needed something to get me out of a listening rut. I'm no musician and I have no idea what I'm talking about but here's what I heard. There are two separate tunes layered over the percussion. Tune 1: Melodic, expressive, vocal qualities, often flute or alto. No obvious key signature. Unresolved wandering. Well phrased. Tune 2: A different set of keys. Often synthesizer. Different phrasing patterns from tune 2. The two tunes are not obviously related but they are somehow complementary. Underneath both tunes, the rhythm is on a different wavelength entirely. Drums and bass. The three layers are just not traditionally blended but get along remarkably well. Overall then, you get three experiences for the price of one, the way I see it. While listening I am actively moving among all three layers, as if constantly changing focus from microstructure to macrostructure. Like looking at a city from a high observation deck then being in that city in a taxi. It is endlessly fascinating but but not background music. I play it for a few hours about once a month and enjoy it every time.

For a New Generation, A Kind of Blue.......2001-12-16

Invoke Kind of Blue and I suppose you've aroused a distinct category of expectations. EVERYone knows (and owns) Miles' masterwork (even if it's the only jazz disc in his/her collection). But apart from jazz devotees, who knows Greg Osby? If everything were right in the world, EVERYone would know Greg Osby as well.

How tired are you of hearing Kind of Blue is "the most beautiful jazz recording ever made"? I surmise we all have candidates for that claim (and several by Davis sidemen from the Blue sessions). But listeners with ears trained for music of the year 2001 have Symbols of Light (A Solution), an adventurously ambitious, achingly beautiful jazz recording that is surely the loveliest I've heard this year (and I can think of few rivals from earlier years). Although I emphasize "jazz"-for it is such--all the references I want to make are to classical performance. Osby's music here contains passages of almost Mendelssohnian lyricism-or Mendelssohn in American dress, as in Barber's Adagio or Violin Concerto. It has agitated passages that are reminiscent of early and late Stravinsky (see track two, pianist Jason Moran's "Repay in Kind.") Its individual tracks have a shapeliness, an architectonic pleasingness, that I find rare in most contemporary jazz (that's not merely of the neo-bop, hard bop variety) or contemporary "classical" composition.

Symbols of Light (A Solution)-and what IS it with this title? Osby tours this music as Greg Osby and Symbols of Light, so is the quartet Symbols of Light and the album title (A Solution)? We get no help from the liner notes-fits my colloquial understanding of "American Classical Music." It is idiomatically All American. It is serious without being self conscious. It is music to live with, to revisit and explore, and it rewards upon relistening, in different ways each time. It is deep, and contemporary-Osby makes few concessions to those who crave the sounds of yore--but accessible. It evokes "higher sensibilities." The players perform with uncanny precision-even in blistering improvisation, all the notes sound "just so," inevitable, perfect. And even as Osby and company swing like a (...)--thank you for that, too, Miles-"A Solution" brings to mind a range of classical references (I defy anyone who has ever listened to the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra to listen to Osby's "Northbound" (track 8) and not hear Bartok's opening paraphrased in jazz idiom.) A Solution would be as perfectly at home in a concert hall as in a jazz club (overpriced drinks, bad tables, condescending servers, and all).

Above all, this for me is New York City music, which in the last month of 2001 has a very particular meaning. In my ears, it is Osby's sensuous vibrato, which seems to echo down empty rain-slicked, neon-reflecting streets, that most draws me into the sounds of the Great City. Osby seems to catche the complexity-the turbulence and peacefulness, beauty and brutality, the richness and, yes, the pain-of New York. The first track in particular, "3 for Civility"-which begins with the marvelous Moran, hesitant, picking his way tentatively through opening chords and bringing to mind the daybreak stirrings of the city-has in places a dirge-like quality, with strings moving powerfully through slow sequences of dissolving chords, but also moments of soaring lyricism, speaking to me of Great City's inexorable triumph over its inevitable sorrows.

I suspect some may lose their way hereon a single unfocused listening, but I'll guess the first three tracks will convince most listeners they have something rare and beautiful in their possession, something that deserves respectful attention. The quality of musicianship alone is compelling: the players are all superb. Osby and Moran interact as though they share a mind-listen in particular to track 4, "The Keep." Both have the knack of mining inside of chordal structures and finding notes that seem not to have existed before their moment of discovery. And some of bassist Scott Colley's work reminded me of Scott La Faro's intuitive, technically brilliant runs against Bill Evans' piano. Marlon Bowden is a perfect complement and the most tasteful of percussionists (listen to his sweet cymbal work in the opening bars of track 6, "This is Bliss." Bliss indeed.)

God, I love this record. I hope many, many others will as well.

The Best Part of the Symbols: The President Recordings 1966-1968
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The Best Part of the Symbols: The President Recordings 1966-1968
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I Live
I Will See You There
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Look Over the Hill and Far Away [#][Demo Version]
Rainbow [#]
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Silence Is Golden [#][Demo Version]

Customer Reviews:

Harmonic mid-60s Pop Sound.......2007-06-18

The reviewer who cites this as a "pre-Beatles"-sounding group is mistaken. The Symbols have an obvious Beatles-Hollies influence in their vocals, with a bit of The Association thrown in. If you like strong group harmonies with a late-60s production sound... here's your album. P.S. anybody who buys a disc because the cover shows the group dressed in psychedelic fashion expecting to hear something like Pink Floyd needs to learn how to audition before buying! Dear child of the 90s: EVERY group dressed like that in 1967!

The Symbols.......2006-08-22

I have to say that I have spent a long time looking for an album of the hits of The Symbols. I am very pleased that I now have a copy of their music; it is second to none and reminds me of my youth.

Brilliant.

R. Bond

Don't let the cover fool you.......2005-12-15

Ok this cd I really felt gipped on...I saw the cover and they looked like a really heavy Psych group, and they really sounds liek a pre-British Invasion group, they did a few 4 season covers and those were good, but seeing the cover I was expecting more of a Psychedelic sound, but this is far from it. If you like Psych music I wouldn't recomend this. But it's and ok group for pre-beatle fans.

Average customer rating:

Best Ballad Playing ever
There are better deals
Exceptional early Parker- Charlie at his best!

Bird Symbols
Charlie Parker
Manufacturer: Collectables
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000000922
Release Date: 1997-10-21

Tracks:

Moose The Mooche
Yardbird Suite
Ornithology
A Night In Tunisia
Birds Nest
Cool Blues
Bird Of Paradise
Embraceable You
My Old Flame
Scrapple From The Apple
Out Of Nowhere
Don't Blame Me

Customer Reviews:

Best Ballad Playing ever.......2005-01-13

This disk (on vinyl) was the first Parker album I ever owned. Although the up-tempo stuff (Moose the Mooche, Yardbird Suite etc.) are classic Bird, the ballads on here (Don't Blame Me, Embraceable You, etc.)have never, in my opinion, been excelled by Parker himself or anyone else for pure melodic beauty. The improvisations on these ballads are crystalline elegance, each note utterly perfect. This disk changed ny life forever. Well worth replacing the old vinyl copy.

There are better deals.......2002-03-24

The playing of Parker and his groups here, from his early years as a leader (1946-1947) deserves 5 stars - there's no argument here !
BUT, why settle for 12 songs when there is "In a soulful mood" which contains all 12 plus 6 extra tunes with great sound quality - and at a lower price. If this is not available than there is the Ken Burns collection which is awesome.
If you bought this one you bought the greatest music - but there's no reason to make such a short CD unless it's a real bargain price - which it's not.

Exceptional early Parker- Charlie at his best!.......1999-04-17

Great tunes from the early septet, quartet and quintet. Has that wonderful "genuine" scratchy production. This is the real thing! Some of Parker's best early work. Features Miles Davis.

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