1 Cherokee
12" LP: Verve 6804734
CD: Stash STCD 535, Masters of Jazz MJCD 79, Philology Volume 43 (W 874), Volume 56 (W 887), ESP-Disk 4050, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1331, Verve 6804735

2 My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)
12" LP: Verve 6804734
CD: Stash STCD 535, Masters of Jazz MJCD 79, Philology Volume 56 (W 887), ESP-Disk 4050, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1331, Verve 6804735

3 I Found a New Baby
12" LP: Verve 6804734
CD: Stash STCD 535, Masters of Jazz MJCD 79, Philology Volume 56 (W 887), ESP-Disk 4050, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1331, Verve 6804735

4 Body and Soul
12" LP: Verve 6804734
CD: Stash STCD 535, Masters of Jazz MJCD 79, Philology Volume 56 (W 887), ESP-Disk 4050, Frémeaux & Associés FA 1331, Verve 6804735

These titles are sometimes listed as from September 1942, but this is unlikely. As Carl Woideck notes (Charlie Parker: His Music and Life, pp. 86-87), Mack Gordon and Harry Warren's "My Heart Tells Me" was not copyrighted until September 1943. It was first recorded by Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra in mid-1943, and was featured in the Irving Cummings film Sweet Rosie O'Grady, released in October of the same year. Larry Koch (Yardbird Suite, p. 42) observes that Parker worked extensively in Kansas City in late 1943 with a group that included Leonard "Lucky" Enois and Phillips, and argues that these tunes were recorded during that time. In the notes to Verve 6804735 Chuck Haddix argues that these tunes were recorded during Parker's appearance in Kansas City with the Billy Eckstine Band in June 1944: "[Tenor saxophonist Charlie] White arranged for a recording session at Vic Damon's Transcription Studios at 1221 Baltimore. Damon, a pioneering engineer, established his recording studio in 1933. He soon emerged as the top recording engineer in town."

For a measure of Parker's development, compare this version of "Cherokee" with the version recorded at Clark Monroe's in early 1942.