Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker at Carnegie Hall NYC 1947

A number of artists contributed to the invention of Bebop. But whenever I dream of a band to play this music, Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker are always my first pick as trumpet player and saxophonist. There always seemed to be magic created when they were together. It did not hurt that they were appearing together in one of the finest performance spaces in North America - Carnegie Hall.
And on this very fine live recording from 1947, they had been performed together quite a bit, and they play simultaneously with intensity and ease. John is an excellent musician who had and would play with them a lot, including in Dizzy’s adventurous big band. And Al McKibbon not only played with everybody on the scene, but did it for decades.
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Co-producer Mark Cantor
Executive Producer Steve Holmgren
Associate Producer Franny Alfano
Podcast Producers Kian Vaziri and Franny Alfano
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[@c00lguy94_]

God, bird is unreal on this.. so good you can hardly believe it lol

[@bjornjanlert1013]

yesss .. WONDERFUL .. say a Swede from Roslagen .. named Björn !

[@LaurenaLaCroix]

freedom, 2024, bird fly

[@surfercrow]

00:01 “A Night In Tunisia”
05:08 “Dizzy Atmosphere”
09:11 “Groovin’ High”
14:28 “Confirmation”
20:07 “Ko Ko”

[@greyhorse1211]

Wow Bird was in amazing form for these recordings.

[@auprivave2996]

The date was actually September 29, not September 19

[@ggonzalez9254]

¡Esto todavía no se ha superado!

[@88esquire]

Typo? September 29, 1947 was the concert date.

[@olebirgerpedersen]

An extremly inpired Bird with a lot of branf new ideas.