Charlie Parker on Dial
| Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions | |
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| Box set by Charlie Parker | |
| Released | May 26, 1993 |
| Recorded | Feb 5, 1946 – Dec 17, 1947 |
| Genre | Jazz, bebop |
| Label | Spotlite Jazz |
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| Charlie Parker on Dial, Vols. 1 – 8 | |
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| Compilation album by Charlie Parker | |
| Recorded | June 6, 1945 – September, 1948 |
| Genre | Jazz, bebop |
| Label | Spotlite Records |
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| Volume 1: Allmusic |
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| Volume 2: Allmusic |
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| Volume 3: Allmusic |
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| Volume 4: Allmusic |
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| Volume 5: Allmusic |
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| Volume 6: Allmusic |
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| Volume 7: Allmusic |
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| Volume 8: Allmusic |
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Charlie Parker on Dial: The Complete Sessions is a 1993 four-disc box set collecting jazz saxophonist and composer Charlie Parker's 1940s recordings for Dial Records. The box set, released by the English label Spotlite Records, assembled into a single package the multi-volume compilation albums the label had released by Spotlite on vinyl in the 1970s under the series title Charlie Parker on Dial. The box set has been critically well received. In 1996, a different box set collecting Parker's work with Dial was assembled by Jazz Classics and released as Complete Charlie Parker on Dial.
Recorded during Parker's tenure with Dial Records between March 28, 1946, and December 17, 1947, these 89 songs have been released multiple times.
In addition to British Spotlite's release in Britain and the United States on vinyl, in the mid 1970s, separately, the collection was published by label Jazz Classics in 1996 as Complete Charlie Parker on Dial and by Stash Records in 2004 as Complete Dial Sessions. (The collection was also released as a limited edition LP box set on Warner Brother Records in 1977, and as a general release two-disc set in 1977.)
The producers have, according to jazz historian Scott Yanow, collected "every locatable alternate take and rejected excerpt, as well as eight sides privately recorded at a house party" and compiled them with more readily available material.The Blackwell Guide to Recorded Jazz describes the Spotlite box set as "an essential aid in appreciating the scope of Parker's invention from take to take", concluding that "[t]his brilliant body of work is indispensable."The Guardian also describes the recordings as "essential". The UK publication selected the Spotlite box set to represent Parker in its 2007 series on "1000 albums to hear before you die", noting that "timeless themes..., inspired improvising and radical vision make these epochal episodes in modern music". In his review, Yanow notes several problems with the collection, including a "glaring" inaccuracy regarding Parker's medical history in the liner notes and "scratchy surface noise" on some of the tracks, but praises the collection for its informativeness and comprehensiveness, indicating that "those who truly love Charlie Parker will cherish these artifacts, warts and all."
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