Bird Is Free

Bird is Free
By Special Permission of the Estate of Charles C. Parker Jr.
Live album by Charlie Parker
Released 1961 (1961)
Recorded 26 September 1952
Rockland Palace, New York City
Genre Jazz
Length 36:39

Bird Is Free is a live album by Charlie Parker that documents a concert given at Rockland Palace, New York City, on 26 September 1952.

Track listing

Side 1
  1. Rocker (Gerry Mulligan)
  2. Sly Mongoose (Jamaican trad.)
  3. Moose the Mooche (Parker)
  4. Star Eyes (Gene de Paul, Don Raye)
Side 2
  1. This Time the Dream's on Me (Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer)
  2. Cool Blues (Parker)
  3. My Little Suede Shoes (Parker)
  4. Lester Leaps In (Lester Young)
  5. Laura (Raksin, Mercer)

Charlie Parker, alto sax; Mundell Lowe, guitar; Walter Bishop, Jr., piano; Teddy Kotick, bass; Max Roach, drums; unidentified strings on "Rocker" and "Laura".

Total time approximately 36 minutes.

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