Are Segment & Diverse the same tune? Why two names?

[Hardbopjazz]

Segment & Diverse are one in the same. Did Charlie Parker rename the tune? If so, which was the original title? 

[Big Beat Steve]

Just a wild shot ...:

According to various discgraphies and  liner notes the tunes were listed as

- Segment
- Diverse (Segment)

According to these as well as the "Bird Lore" discography by Piet Koster, the matrix numbers are 294-3 for "Segment"
and
296-3 for "Diverse (Segment)"

This looks to me like "Segment" was recorded first and "Diverse aka Segment" later. So "Segment" is likely to have been the original title.

As to who renamed "Diverse" - no idea, sorry ...
But ... According to the "BIrd Lore" discography, only one of the two tracks called "Passport" from that session was originally released on 78 and on a 10" LP predating the 12" LPs. But both "Segment" and "Diverse (Segment)" were first released on a Verve 12" LP (MGV 8009). Wouldn't this indicate that whoever named these tunes, it very likely wasn't Bird?

 

[John L]

This is evidently a mistake made by Mercury records at the time.  Bird recorded three tunes at the session.  So it makes sense that there were three different names for the tunes:  Segment, Diverse, and Passport.  They then made the mistake of issuing Segment and Diverse as two takes of the same tune.  Alternatively, two different tunes were issued under the title of "Passport."  The tune issued as Passport in 1952 was a different tune than the alternate take of Passport that appeared on a number of reissues after that time.  Verve issued the three different tracks together for the first time when they released the complete Charlie Parker on Verve box.  

Discographies now usually refer to these tunes as tune X, tune Y, and tune Z.   The 2-CD set The Unheard Bird issued the complete session for the first time that has multiple takes and breakdowns for all three tunes.  

 

Edited October 1 by John L

[Big Beat Steve]

3 hours ago, John L said:

Discographies now usually refer to these tunes as tune X, tune Y, and tune Z.   The 2-CD set The Unheard Bird issued the complete session for the first time that has multiple takes and breakdowns for all three tunes. 

Yes - this is how this session looks in the "Bird Lore" discography:

And this is what the booklet of the "Unheard Bird" 2-CD set says about that session. (I had totally forgotten I own this set. I really ought to have checked there first )

 

Edited October 1 by Big Beat Steve