Charlie Parker tapes

[brownie]

Robert Bregman, one of the authorities on all things Charlie Parker, has some 60 tapes of rare Bird material up for auction on eBay.

Rare music of Charlie Parker tapes

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

if hes such an authority whys he sellin em off like this. he better not sell them to an idiot

[DMP]

Hopefully the folks at "Lonehill" will pick them up. (Or maybe "Collectables" - they could be paired with Chris Connor.)

[(BB)]

Any pre-auction estimates?

More than $10,000 ?

[Dan Gould]

Do we even know if these are complete performances or Bird solos only? If I were the seller I'd give more details or else use an image hoster to show more of the backs of these tape boxes.

[medjuck]

Does it anywhere state that these are unreleased or are we all just inferring it? BTW Bregman wrote the liner notes for the excellent Charlie Parker at Birdland Ember 4 cd set.

[brownie]

Don't think there is any unreleased music. Trust it would have been mentioned if there was.

These tapes are the original ones that were used when those rare Charlie Parker appearances made it to record albums on various official and non-official releases.

And a number of people realize the value of these original tapes. The current top bid is over 3K by now!

[John L]

Hopefully the folks at "Lonehill" will pick them up. (Or maybe "Collectables" - they could be paired with Chris Connor.)

Lonehill never pays anything for the music that it releases as a matter of principle.

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i have a 2 cd set of birdland w/ notes by him-on one of the 52ndthemes bird goes completely crazy in his solo

[JohnBlutarski]

if hes such an authority whys he sellin em off like this. he better not sell them to an idiot

or to a museum?

[Spontooneous]

eBay says:

MANY OF THESE TAPES ARE EITHER SECOND GENERATION COPIES FROM THE ORIGINAL OR ARE THE ACTUAL TAPE USED TO RECORD BIRD LIVE!

The photo looks like a bunch of 3M and Radio Shack reels from the '70s.

[Rooster_Ties]

Lonehill never pays anything for the music that it releases as a matter of principle.

Thank god at least someone still has some principles in this day and age.

[(BB)]

"The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale."

Hmmmm.

[JohnBlutarski]

"The seller ended this listing early because the item is no longer available for sale."

Hmmmm.

that makes me curious....

[RDK]

eBay says:

MANY OF THESE TAPES ARE EITHER SECOND GENERATION COPIES FROM THE ORIGINAL OR ARE THE ACTUAL TAPE USED TO RECORD BIRD LIVE!

The photo looks like a bunch of 3M and Radio Shack reels from the '70s.

Hey, I've got some old cassettes of shit I recorded off the radio back in the 70's if anyone's interested...

[catesta]

eBay says:

MANY OF THESE TAPES ARE EITHER SECOND GENERATION COPIES FROM THE ORIGINAL OR ARE THE ACTUAL TAPE USED TO RECORD BIRD LIVE!

The photo looks like a bunch of 3M and Radio Shack reels from the '70s.

Hey, I've got some old cassettes of shit I recorded off the radio back in the 70's if anyone's interested...

Any Supertramp in there?

[JohnBlutarski]

eBay says:

MANY OF THESE TAPES ARE EITHER SECOND GENERATION COPIES FROM THE ORIGINAL OR ARE THE ACTUAL TAPE USED TO RECORD BIRD LIVE!

The photo looks like a bunch of 3M and Radio Shack reels from the '70s.

Hey, I've got some old cassettes of shit I recorded off the radio back in the 70's if anyone's interested...

Any Supertramp in there?

OM....

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

man Supertramp and Bird- what a great combo-- i thought ***I*** was the only one who can listen to Charlie Parker w/ Strings live radio b'cast bootleg followed by Supertramps "Brother Where You Bound"

[Spontooneous]

Those Charlie Parker with Mellotron sides were so hip.