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Collectors’ Items
Collectors’ Items
Release Date:
Dec, 1956
Recording Period:
Jan 1953 - Mar 1956
Label:
Prestige
Tracklist
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1. The Serpent’s Tooth – Take 1
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2. The Serpent’s Tooth – Take 2
00:30
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3. ‘Round Midnight
00:30
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4. Compulsion
00:30
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5. No Line
00:30
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6. Vierd Blues
00:30
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7. In Your Own Sweet Way
00:30
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From the new liner notes: The session of March 16, 1956 is one of most beautiful, laid-back, floating-on-a-cloud experiences one can have. The first time I listened to it, I replayed it three times. Side note: “Vierd Blues” is the same piece that appears on Miles’ “Trane’s Blues,” and there credited to John Coltrane, as it was when Trane first recorded it on a Kenny Drew session, years before. Until it was combined with the 1956 date, the Miles-Bird-Sonny session lay in the vaults. Meanwhile, on May 15, 1953 Bird and Dizzy Gillespie recorded their famed Massey Hall concert in Toronto. When that record was issued ‘Charlie Chan’ was used as Bird’s pseudonym. That’s how it came to be used for Collectors’ Items. – Ira Gitler

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