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Charlie Parker: Bird on Verve Vols 1-8

Richard Cook, New Musical Express, 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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