Savoy sessions three, four, and five

These are CBS Realm numbers 52122, 52123, and 52131, Charlie Parker Memorial Album Volumes Three, Four, and Five. What is there to say? Every take is revelatory. Miles Davis has plenty of prominence of course. Max Roach is no showboat; I think it would be possible to listen to his work with no accompaniment and Think Deep Thoughts. John Lewis is on some of these tracks. Maybe I'll move on to MJQ albums. There are a couple of pops in the first version of Parker's Mood. This has always been a favorite. Anyhow, I'm sure glad that I did keep these Savoy sessions. Most of the material is so complex as to repay listening over and over and, as is so often very definitely not the case on projects of this sort, the alternate takes are worth listening to, each and every one. And it's not a chore.