INSPIRED BY THE MOTION PICTURE BIRD
                  (Giants of Jazz CD 53069; TT = 73:08)


(1)  Now's The Time  (Parker)                                 8.4.53     2:59
(2)  Parker's Mood  (Parker)                                 9.18.48     3:00
(3)  Cool Blues  (Parker)                                    2.19.47     2:19
(4)  Laura  (Mercer - Raskin)                                 7.5.50     2:54
(5)  Night In Tunesia  (Gillespie - Paparelli)               3.28.46     3:05
(6)  Lover Man (1946)  (Ramirez - Davis)                     7.29.46     3:16
(7)  Lover Man (1951)  (Ramirez - Davis)                      8.8.51     3:20
(5)  Ornithology  (Benny - Harris)                           3.28.46     2:58
(5)  Moose The Mooche  (Parker)                              3.28.46     3:01
(8)  Ko Ko  (Parker)                                        11.26.45     2:52
(9)  April In Paris  (Harburg - Duke)                       11.30.49     3:04
(10) Relaxin With Lee  (Parker)                               6.6.50     3:51
(11) Overtime  (P.Rugolo)                                     1.3.49     4:31
(11) Victory Ball  (L.Tristano - B.Bauer - C.Parker)          1.3.49     4:11
(12) Bird Of Paradise  (Parker)                             10.28.47     3:09
(13) Chasin' The Bird  (Parker)                               5.8.47     2:43
(14) Sepian Bounce  (Hall - McShann)                          7.2.42     3:11
(15) Relaxin' At Camarillo  (Parker)                         2.26.47     2:59
(7)  Back Home Blues  (Parker)                                8.8.51     2:34
(16) Blue Bird  (Parker)                                    12.21.47     2:54
(5)  Yardbird Suite  (Parker)                                3.28.46     2:39
(17) Lester Leaps In  (L.Young)                              9.18.49     6:50


(1)  Charlie Parker Quartet, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as
     Al Haig  p
     Percy Heath  b
     Max Roach  d

(2)  Charlie Parker All Stars, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as
     John Lewis  p
     Curley Russell  b
     Max Roach  d

(3)  Charlie Parker Quartet, Hollywood
     Charlie Parker  as
     Erroll Garner  p
     Red Callender  b
     Harold 'Doc' West  d

(4)  Charlie Parker with Strings, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as
     Joseph Singer  frh
     Edwin C. Brown  oboe
     Sam Caplan  v
     Howard A. Kay  v
     Harry Melnikoff  v
     Sam Rand  v
     Ziggy Smirnoff  v
     Isadore Zir  viola
     Maurice Brown  cello
     Verley Mills  harp
     Bernie  Leighton  p
     Ray Brown  b
     Buddy Rich  d
     Joe Lippman  arr, cond

(5)  Charlie Parker Septet, Hollywood
     Charlie Parker  as
     Miles Davis  tp
     Lucky Thompson  ts
     Dodo Marmarosa  p
     Arvin Garrison  g (except Moose...)
     Vic McMillan  b
     Roy Porter  d

(6)  Charlie Parker Quintet, Hollywood
     Charlie Parker  as 
     Howard McGhee  tp
     Jimmy Bunn  p
     Bob Kesterson  b
     Roy Porter  d

(7)  Charlie Parker Quintet, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as 
     Red Rodney  tp
     John Lewis  p
     Ray Brown  b
     Kenny Clarke  d

(8)  Charlie Parker's Reboppers, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as 
     Dizzy  Gillespie  tp, p
     Sadik Hakim  p
     Curley Russell  b
     Max Roach  d
   
(9)  Charlie Parker with Strings, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as 
     Mitch Miller  oboe, eng. horn
     Meyer Rosen  harp
     Bronislaw Gimpel  v
     Max Hollander  v
     Milton Lomask  v
     Frank Brieff  viola
     Frank Miller  cello
     Stan Freeman  p
     Ray Brown  b
     Buddy Rich  d
     Jimmy Carroll  arr, cond

(10) Charlie Parker and his Orchestra, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as 
     Dizzy  Gillespie  tp
     Thelonious Monk  p
     Curley Russell  b
     Buddy Rich  d

(11) Metronome All Stars
     Miles Davis  tp
     Dizzy Gillespie  tp
     Fats Navarro  tp
     J.J. Johnson  tb
     Kai Winding  tb
     Buddy De Franco  cl
     Charlie Parker  as
     Charlie Ventura  ts
     Ernie Cacares  bs
     Lennie Tristano  p
     Billy Bauer  g
     Eddie Safranski  b
     Shelly Manne  d

(12) Charlie Parker Quintet, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as
     Miles Davis  tp
     Duke Jordan  p
     Tommy Potter  b
     Max Roach  d

(13) Charlie Parker All Stars, NYC
     Charlie Parker  as
     Miles Davis  tp
     Bud Powell  p
     Tommy Potter  b
     Max Roach  d

(14) Jay McShann and His Orchestra, NYC
     Orville Minor  tp
     Bernard Anderson  tp
     Bob Merrill  tp
     Lawrence Anderson  b
     Taswell 'Little Joe' Baird  b
     John Jackson  as
     Charlie Parker  as
     Fred Culliver  ts
     Bob Mabane  ts
     James Coe  bs
     Jay McShann  p
     Leonard 'Lucky' Enois  g
     Gene Ramey  b
     Gus Johnson  d(?)
     Harold 'Doc' West d(?)

(15) Charlie Parker's New Stars, Hollywood
     Charlie Parker  as
     Howard McGhee  tp
     Wardell Gray  ts
     Dodo Marmarosa  p
     Barney Kessel  g
     Red Callender  b
     Don Lamond  d

(16) Charlie Parker All Stars, Detroit
     same personnel as on (12)

(17) JATP, NYC, Carnegie Hall
     Roy Eldridge  tp
     Tommy Turk  tb
     Charlie Parker  as
     Flip Phillips  ts
     Lester Young  ts
     Hank Jones  p
     Ray Brown  b
     Buddy Rich  d