The Complete Verve Master Takes CD3

While it is a great thing to have all of the Charlie Parker master takes of his Verve period on one disc, including a complete duplication of Complete Verve Masters With Strings, which was issued a year earlier, it seems more than excessive and more and more like Universal's stock motive: to get the loyal listener to buy the same product over and again.In a remarkably short span of time, Charlie Parker rewrote the rules of jazz and established himself as one of the most important musicians of the twentieth century. Parker made his mark in many ways,as a virtuoso saxophonist, and innovative composer, a trend-setting bandleader, and a galvanizing force in the development of modern jazz. He was on this earth for only thirty-four years, but he left behind several lifetimes' worth of immortal music.