The Very Best of Bird

Tracklist

• 12" Vinyl 1
• 1
  Bird of Paradise
  3:09
• 2
  Embraceable You
  3:41
• 3
  How Deep Is the Ocean
  3:24
• 4
  Out of Nowhere
  3:46
• 5
  Don't Blame Me
  2:43
• 6
  My Old Flame
  3:05
• 7
  Moose the Mooche
  2:56
• 8
  Yardbird Suite
  2:52
• 9
  Ornithology
  3:13
• 10
  Famous Alto Break
  0:47
• 11
  Night in Tunisia
  3:00
• 12
  Max Making Wax
  2:28
• 13
  Bird's Nest
  2:42
• 12" Vinyl 2
• 1
  Cool Blues (Hot Blues)
  3:05
• 2
  Relaxin' at Camarillo
  2:54
• 3
  Cheers
  3:00
• 4
  Carvin' the Bird
  2:42
• 5
  Stupendous
  2:50
• 6
  Dexterity
  2:56
• 7
  Bongo Bop
  2:42
• 8
  Dewey Square
  3:04
• 9
  The Hymn
  2:29
• 10
  Bird Feathers
  2:47
• 11
  Klact-Oveeseds-Tene
  2:58
• 12
  Scrapple From the Apple
  2:36
• 13
  Drifting on a Reed
  2:55
• 14
  Charlie's Wig
  2:40

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Right On Time

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Bird's Nest

Bird's Nest 2009

East of the Sun

East of the Sun 2004

Dancing in the Dark

Dancing in the Dark 2004

Release credits

• Barney Kessel
  guitar [4]
• Charlie Parker
  alto saxophone [2.4, 2.8-9, 1.1, 1.4-5, 1.10, 1.13]
• Charlie Parker Quartet
  performing orchestra [13]
• Charlie Parker Quintet
  performing orchestra [2.9, 1.4]
• Dodo Marmarosa
  piano [4]
• Don Lamond
  drums (drum set) [4]
• Doug Hawkins
  recording [2.8-9, 1.1, 1.4-5]
• Duke Jordan
  piano [2.8-9, 1.1, 1.4-5]
• Erroll Garner
  piano [13]
• Howard McGhee
  trumpet [4]
• Max Roach
  drums (drum set) [1.1, 1.4-5, 2.8-9]
• Miles Davis
  trumpet [1.1, 1.4-5, 2.8-9]
• Red Callender
  double bass [1.13, 2.4]
• Ross Russell
  producer [1.1, 1.4-5, 1.13, 2.4, 2.8-9]
• Tommy Potter
  double bass [1.1, 1.4-5, 2.8-9]
• Wardell Gray
  tenor saxophone [4]
• ‘Doc’ West
  drums (drum set) [13]
• Show all credits (17)

Issues

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  The Very Best of Bird

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1977