Episode 874 is coming once again from Radio Free Amsterdam’s Detroit headquarters in the Cass Corridor where I’m featuring an hour of music by Charlie Parker in honor of the 100^th aniversary of his birth in Kansas City on August 29, 1920. Our first hour of Bird some time ago featured his early sides for Savoy and Dial Records in the mid-1940s; this week we’ll hear music recorded by Norman Granz for Bird’s releases on the Clef, Norgran, and Mercury labels in the late 1940s.

The John Sinclair Foundation Presents

HOW HIGH THE MOON

JOHN SINCLAIR RADIO SHOW 874

Cass Corridor, Detroit, August 21, 2020 [20495]

Yusef Lateef: Happyology

Charlie Parker: Lady Be Good (JATP, January 28, 1946)

Charlie Parker: Repetition (Neal Hefti, December 1947)

Charlie Parker: No Noise (Machito, December 20, 1948)

Charlie Parker: Mango Mangue (Machito, December 20, 1948

Charlie Parker: Okiedoke (Machito, January 1949)

Charlie Parker: Cardboard (Feb-March 1949)

Charlie Parker: Segment (May 5, 1949)

Charlie Parker: Embraceable You (JATP, September 18, 1949)

Charlie Parker & Ella Fitzgerald: How High The Moon (JATP, 1949)

Charlie Parker: Everything Happens To Me (November 30, 1949)

Charlie Parker: April In Paris (November 30, 1949)

Charlie Parker: Ballade (October 1950)

Charlie Parker: They Can’t Take That Away From Me (July 9, 1950)

A JOINT PRODUCTION

Hosted by John Sinclair for Radio Free Amsterdam

Program produced, edited, assembled & annotated by John Sinclair

Executive Producer: Steve Pratt