"The Quintets 1945 - 1951"/"Collaborations - Bird Meets The Jazz Giants"

The history and development of the small Jazz ensemble can be charted by the work of several key groups: Louis Armstrong's Hot Fives and Hot Sevens, the Kansas City Seven, Benny Goodman's Trios and Quartets, Lennie Tristano's Sextet, Miles Davis' various Quintets and Sextets from the late Fifties to the mid-Sixties, The Jazz Messengers, Gerry Mulligan's piano-less Quartet, Ornette Coleman's group, and the Quartet led by John Coltrane amongst them. Central in this chronology are the Quintets led by Charlie Parker during the saxophonist's most prolific years of 1945-1951.

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Disc One
1. BILLIE'S BOUNCE
2. NOW'S THE TIME
3. KO KO
4. CHERYL
5. CONFIRMATION
6. DEWEY SQUARE
7. ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE
8. KLACTOVEEDSEDTENE
9. SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE
10. DONNA LEE
11. ANOTHER HAIR-DO
12. KLAUNSTANCE
13. BIRD GETS THE WORM
14. AH-LEU-CHA
15. CONSTELLATION
16. PASSPORT
17. BLOOMDIDO
18. AU PRIVAVE
19. K.C. BLUES
20. LOVER MAN
21. BLUES FOR ALICE

Disc Two
1. SHAW 'NUFF
2. LOVER MAN
3. CONGO BLUES
4. THE STREET BEAT
5. SLIM'S JAM
6. MILESTONES
7. KO KO
8. VICTORY BALL
9. LESTER LEAPS IN
10. MY MELANCHOLY BABY
11. BALLADE
12. SCRAPPLE FROM THE APPLE
13. BACK HOME IN INDIANA / DONNA LEE