#196: coordinate system 002 /:Ushers at New God's Funeral (Patreon)

Dr. Hubbard then began to prod manically at the parlor spinet piano, as though he were not quite alone.

(Plot reveal – SPOILERS: I have long been a Minotaur.)

P.S. Cos I've been asked a lot already – Charlie Parker was recording when the reigning format was still the 78 rpm single, so his music is a little hard to track down "album"-wise. 

The small-group stuff is the most important, and that can largely be found in two places, The Complete Savoy and Dial Masters or Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker, which overlap a lot.

Then you gotta hear Bird stretching without the 3-minute time constraint of a single, and for that, I recommend Jazz at Massey Hall, which is credited to "The Quintet" and doesn't mention Bird because it violated one of his many record deals.

And, finally, both the albums called Charlie Parker with Strings, which a lot of beboppers back then abhorred as easy-listening music but which, in retrospect, give us some small glimpse of where Bird would've gone if he'd lived long enough to study, as planned, with Igor Stravinsky and Edgard Varèse.