CHARLIE PARKER WITH STRINGS MERCURY 10 INCH LP DAVID STONE MARTIN EX/EX
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CHARLIE PARKER~WITH STRINGS~MERCURY 10 INCH LP~DAVID STONE MARTIN~EX/EX!!
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CHARLIE PARKER~WITH STRINGS~MERCURY 10 INCH LP~AMAZING CONDITION~VERY RARE!! CHARLIE PARKER "WITH STRINGS" MERCURY MG-C-501 EXCEPTIONAL COPY OF THIS GREAT 10" JAZZ RARITY!! LAMINATED COVER IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ONLY LIGHT WEAR! COVER ART BY THE CELEBRATED ARTIST DAVID STONE MARTION! VINYL IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION WITH ONLY VERY LIGHT WEAR!! SPOTS VISIBLE ON THE VINYL ARE FROM THE SCAN GLASS AND ARE NOT PART OF THE VINYL. Under the auspices of producer Norman Granz, Parker fulfilled a long-held desire to record in a string setting. Plans were made to release the results of the sessions as a ten-inch LP. Sessions from November 30, 1949, yielded the first Charlie Parker With Strings album (Mercury MG-C-501), consisting of six songs total, all of which were standards. There is some controversy regarding the impetus for Parker to record standards, rather than his original compositions, in these kind of settings as a bid for greater commercial exposure. Certainly Mercury Records did not object to this idea, although biographical sources indicate Parker himself instigated the sessions. However, they were instrumental in creating a vogue among jazz musicians for recording in a similar fashion: see Clifford Brown with Strings in 1955, Lady in Satin by Billie Holiday in 1958, and Focus by Stan Getz in 1961, among others. Charlie Parker - alto saxophone; Mitch Miller - oboe; Bronislaw Gimpel, Max Hollander, Milton Lomask - violins; Frank Brieff - viola; Frank Miller - cello; Myor Rosen - harp; Stan Freeman - piano; Ray Brown - double bass; Buddy Rich - drums; Jimmy Carroll - arranger and conductor "Just Friends" (John Klenner, Sam M. Lewis) – 3:30 "Everything Happens to Me" (Tom Adair, Matt Dennis) - 3:15 "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E.Y. Harburg) – 3:12 "Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 2:46 "I Didn't Know What Time It Was" (Richard Rodgers, Lorenz Hart) – 3:12 "If I Should Lose You" (Ralph Rainger, Leo Robin) - 2:46The image included with the auction is a scan of the actual item but, due to size limitations of the scanner, the edges of the item may have been cropped.
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MINT = like new or near new with only one or two small insignificant defects, a 9 or better on a 1-10 scale
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