CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS (VINYL)

When producer Norman Granz decided to let Charlie Parker record standards with a full string section (featuring Mitch Miller on oboe!), the purists cried sellout, but nothing could be further from the truth, There's a real sense of involvement from Bird on these sides...The music on this collection is lush, poetic, romantic as hell, and the perfect antidote to a surfeit of jazz records featuring undisciplined blowing, There's a lot of jazz, but there's only one Bird.