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Charlie Parker: Bird on Verve Vols 1-8

Richard Cook, NME, 21 April 1984

RETURNING TO Parker, after any kind of sabbatical, is electrifying. The memory always recalls the timbre of that cutting wall, that matchless tone; what can be forgotten is the superabundance of qualities that went with it.

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