{"product_id":"charlie-parker-bird-in-kansas-city-1","title":"Charlie Parker - Bird in Kansas City","description":"\u003cp\u003eCharlie Parker comes home on Bird in Kansas City, a 2024 collection of rare recordings made in the city where he learned his craft, spanning 1941 to 1951.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKansas City shaped Parker as a musician, and though he left in 1941 he kept returning to see family and friends. This set gathers material from those ties: two previously unreleased 78s cut with Jay McShann's band, a private session at Vic Damon's transcription studio, probably from 1944, and informal recordings made at the home of Phil Baxter in 1951. Jazz historian Chuck Haddix, author of a Parker biography, produced the release.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Phil Baxter tapes find Parker stretching out with a local rhythm section, tearing through \"Cherokee,\" one of his favourite tunes. \"Honeysuckle Rose\" and \"Perdido\" swing loose and joyful, while the earlier Vic Damon session offers \"My Heart Tells Me\" and a searching \"Body and Soul\" with guitarist Efferge Ware.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe sound is exactly what you would expect from private discs and home recordings, but the playing cuts right through. You hear a young genius working things out and a mature master having fun with old friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor jazz lovers, this is a rare glimpse of Bird off the clock and among his own people, a missing piece of the story finally brought to light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57499332411697,"sku":"602468047346","price":31.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/2026\/7313\/files\/Charlie_Parker-Bird_in_Kansas_City.jpg?v=1794506328","url":"https:\/\/vinyl.com\/products\/charlie-parker-bird-in-kansas-city-1","provider":"Vinyl.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}