<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=32Vlmw_0wCyrDaB00" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=32Vlmw_0wCyrDaB00" width="1200" height="1200" ></figure><p><b>VIA PRESS RELEASE</b> | <b>On modern jazz pioneer Charlie Parker’s heavenly birthday: August 29, 2024, Verve Records announced</b> <b><i>Bird in Kansas City</i></b><b>, an album featuring a new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941–1951, to be released globally on October 25, 2024 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. Much of this collection has never been heard before and some recordings have never even been known to exist—</b><b><i>Bird in Kansas City</i></b> <b>chronicles Charlie Parker’s evolution from a blossoming soloist with the Jay McShann Band into a brilliant improviser who changed the genre forever.</b></p><div style="position:relative;width:100%; height:0; padding-bottom: 56.25%;"><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ojNjHO15Yv0?si=WvW6Gpl9tJeW8tFB" allowfullscreen frameborder="0" style="width:100%; height:100%;top:0; left:0; position:absolute"></iframe></div><p>In addition to two unreleased 78s with the McShann band, <i>Bird in Kansas City</i> offers two sets of private recordings—at the home of Parker’s friend Phil Baxter and at Vic Damon’s studio—made with local musicians and a very relaxed-sounding Parker who has the room to stretch out and show us the shape of jazz that was to come in his wake.</p><p>Central to these recordings is Parker’s relationship to his hometown of Kansas City, a place he never lived again once he left in 1941 but remained deeply important to him; his mixed emotions owed to the city’s history of racial segregation and to his strong ties to his family and friends there. Though he never returned permanently, he frequently came home during breaks in his travels, and it is during those times that these recordings were made.</p></div></body>

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VIA PRESS RELEASE | On modern jazz pioneer Charlie Parker’s heavenly birthday: August 29, 2024, Verve Records announced Bird in Kansas City, an album featuring a new set of rare recordings dating from between 1941–1951, to be released globally on October 25, 2024 on vinyl, CD, and digitally. Much of this collection has never been heard before and some recordings have never even been known to exist—Bird in Kansas City chronicles Charlie Parker’s evolution from a blossoming soloist with the Jay McShann Band into a brilliant improviser who changed the genre forever.