Charlie Parker - The Best of Charlie Parker - The Millennium Collection

2004 release

This collection includes tracks with small and big bands as well as several from his famed sessions with strings. Chronological sequenced, from 1947's "The Bird" from the Mercury album The Jazz Scene through "My Little Suede Shoes" and "Loverman" to his 1953 reprise of his classic "Now's the Time," all twelve tracks are classics from one of the greatest.