Session details: Band Box (March 23, 1953)

Charlie Parker session details

March 23, 1953 (2 items; TT = 4:25)

Band Box, New York NY

WMGM-AM radio broadcast (B)

Show chatter

Charlie Parker (as); Milt Buckner (org); Bernie McKay (g); Cornelius Thomas (d)

1	Interview (Leonard Feather, Charlie Parker)	0:52
	CP: "Thank you, thank you, thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you Leonard. I mean..." LF: "Charlie..." CP: "...you forgot to mention this alto sax, yes, this is a gift from an Englishman, over three years ago..." LF: "Yes, I heard these things started in England. Do you think they're gonna become popular in this country?" CP: "Well, I couldn't say that. I have no comment that way..." LF: (laughs) Well, it's certainly wonderful to hear you play it anyway, Charlie. Maybe later on, everybody'd be playing it just because you started the plastic saxophone." CP: "I don't know about that, Leonard..." LF: "No. Tell us what you're gonna play with it anyway." CP: "Oh, well, at first I thought maybe it might be nice, since Dizzy and I are both working here on 52nd Street and Broadway, between 52nd and 53rd, places right next door to one another, that we play a tune that was first devised by the two of us years ago." LF: "Oh, I..." CP: "An old 52nd..." LF: "...think I know which one you mean." CP: "Which one? 'Groovin''..." LF: 'Groovin' High'?" CP: "High'", that's right." LF: "OK, let's go. And with the Milt Buckner trio..." Incomplete (0:22) on Philology
2	Groovin' High (D. Gillespie-F. Paparelli)	3:33


1 Interview (Leonard Feather, Charlie Parker) CD: Philology Volume 21 (W 851), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88667
2 Groovin' High 12" LP: Bird Box 01-22 LP 19, Columbia JC-34831 CD: New Sound Planet JUTB 3015, Sound Hills SSCD 8031, Philology Volume 21 (W 851), Rare Live Recordings RLR 88667, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1342

This is from a Jazz Caravan broadcast. Buckner and Parker play well together; Thomas is very heavy-handed, especially in the exchanges with Parker before the closing theme.

Thanks to Wasaburo Miura for supplying me with the interview, which is sometimes combined with another interview from February 16. But it belongs here. Thanks to Dean Chambers and James Accardi for help with this session.