A legendary set, no matter how or when or where it's issued.
This iconic album is part of the new Yellow Vinyl Collection Hermitage series available in music store online: 18 New Wonderful Jazz and Soul titles reprinted on Yellow Vinyl with renewed packaging!
In October 1917, more precisely the 21, the great Dizzy Gillespie was born. 35 years later the great trumpeter (called Diz) would have made with Charlie Parker (called Bird) "Bird and Diz", the album of the legendary collaboration between the two great jazz giants, key figures in the development of bebop. Their collaboration was instrumental in shaping the sound and direction of the bebop, and the recordings they made together are considered some of the most influential in jazz history.
This album contains the complete original LP Record Bird and Diz, consisting of a quintet session which marked Parker and Gillespie’s last studio date ever (although they would later be recorded together live on numerous occasions, including the celebrated 1953 Massey Hall concert).
Album: Charlie Parker And Dizzy Gillespie - Bird And Diz
Label: VNL22687
Genre: Jazz
Style: Bop
Ermitage’s catalogue includes titles from luminaries such as the aforementioned Miles Davis, John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, plus Bill Evans, Dave Brubeck, Chet Baker, Ornette Colman, Sonny Rollins, Billie Holiday, etc.
The label’s first classical music releases were several vinyl records by the legendary Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, which were then followed by many and varied releases on LP Records with a focus on opera, symphonic and chamber music. But the part that interests us here is Ermitage/Opera Leader Ltd, which is the company’s music distribution and re-issue department. Somehow or other (I’ve yet to find out exactly how – watch this space!), Ermitage’s owner, Gianni Salvioni, managed to negotiate with the relevant labels to acquire the rights to re-release, on 180g vinyl, a raft of seminal jazz albums. This process began in the late 1990s /early 2000s and resulted in Salvioni amassing an enviable archive of production copies and production masters. Most of these tapes are ‘flat’, in other words, unequalised and uncompressed production copies. From there, he produced Ermitage’s various vinyl releases that are already on the market. The tapes were then subsequently placed in his very well-maintained tape archive.
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