The Charlie Parker Story on all of the tracks. According to the booklet accompanying "Charlie Parker: The Complete Savoy Sessions" (which consults "documents from the Savoy files and the recollections of Teddy Reig, who produced this session") this was to be "a standard three hours/four side session [that] was scheduled for November 26, 1945, at the WOR studios in New York for which Parker wourd supply original compositions. A Union contract was arranged the preceding week and Parker; Miles Davis, trumpet; Thelonious Monk, piano; Curly Russell, bass; and Max Roach, drums were booked for the date. On the 26th Reig went to Parker's apartment
Skopje Jazz Festival Skopje Jazz Festival The Skopje Jazz Festival is a jazz festival held in Skopje, Macedonia, since 1982. Although the festival promotes a genre which seems distant from its own culture and traditions, it attracts large audiences and receives attention in the Balkans and the rest of Europe. Musicians who have performed at the festival include Marshall Allen, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Brazilian Girls, Ray Charles, Zoran Madzirov, Stanley Clarke, Ornette Coleman, Chick Corea, Al Di Meola, Gotan Project, Charlie Haden, Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, Maria Joao, D. D. Jackson, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Vlatko Stefanovski, Theodosii Spassov, Simon Kiselicki, John