Now's The Time - Jazz Reference Series
Charlie Parker modified the bearing of jazz as much as Louis Armstrong had done two decades previously. He stepped forward as the greatest soloist in the new music for which he invented the rules and vocabulary in the early 1940's. He had a genius for disengaging himself from traditional harmonies and rhythms, renewing melodies through use of unexpected accentuations. The Jazz Reference series was started by music publisher and producer Francis Dreyfus in 2000. Dreyfus stated that Jazz Reference is “a collection of the most beautiful tracks ever recorded before 1960 by the biggest and most renowned creators of the lively and flawless language of jazz.” Restored and remastered by Dreyfus and sound engineer Rene Ameline, Jazz Reference is known for its excellent sound quality of some of the genre’s finest recordings. Each LP features new original artwork from Seb Jarnot.
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