Now’s The Time: The Genius of Charlie Parker (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Blue Note this recording transports the listener

this recording transports the listener to a prime seat for piece of musical history

The album is an opportunity for the pianist to look back at and expand upon his own musical history as he revisits the pop/rock influenced jazz style of The Bad Plus

Come As You Are (Side B)

bassist Noriko Ueda

Exactly Like You

Now’s The Time: The Genius of Charlie Parker (Verve By Request): Vinyl LP Blue Note this recording transports the listenerThis 1957 release, the third in a series of albums expanding on Birds 10 Clef releases from the early 1950s, Nows The Time boasts some of Parkers purest recordings and strongest playing, featuring two different quartets. His lyrical and fluid improvisations on cuts like The Song Is You and Laird Baird are on full display, prime examples of his unmatched genius. This Verve By Request title is pressed on 180 gram vinyl at Third Man in Detroit.