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
TD Edmonton International Jazz Festival kinds of performers. The traditional concert halls host big-name acts, while the smaller jazz clubs tend to host local and niche artists. The TD Edmonton International Jazz Festival began in 2005, when local musicians and business owners teamed up with the Jazz Society of the Yardbird Suite to produce the 60-event “Yardbird Jazz Festival,” which sought to promote Edmonton’s vibrant jazz scene, as well as to offer young people the chance to learn from experienced musicians in a workshop setting. This festival was planned in a hurry, after it was revealed that the long-running "Jazz City" festival would be shutting