Bird on 52nd St.
| Bird on 52nd St. | ||||
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| Live album by | ||||
| Released | December 1957 (LP) October 21, 1994 (CD) | |||
| Recorded | July 6, 1948 | |||
| Venue | Onyx Club, NYC | |||
| Genre | Jazz | |||
| Length | 40:01 | |||
| Label | Jazz Workshop JWS 501 | |||
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Bird on 52nd St. is a live album by the saxophonist Charlie Parker. It was recorded in July 1948 at the Onyx Club (though the album's liner notes suggest it might have been recorded at the nearby Three Deuces club) on a non-professional tape recorder by trombonist Jimmy Knepper, a fan of Parker who also made the recording released as Bird at St. Nick's. It was first released in 1957 on Charles Mingus' Jazz Workshop label as JWS 501. Several tracks are incomplete; Knepper was focused on capturing Parker's solos to conserve audiotape.