For listeners who take Charlie Parker seriously, whether you are working through the studio sessions, hunting live documents, or filling gaps in a collection that spans decades of Bird on wax and disc.
The fourteen titles here cover a wide stretch of the Parker catalog across both vinyl and CD. On the vinyl side, Bird at St. Nick's (Craft Recordings LP) captures a live Parker set, and Bird in Kansas City arrives on a Verve LP alongside its CD counterpart. The RSD 2xLP of Afro Cuban Bop: The Long Lost Bird Live Recordings (Rockbeat Records) is pressed for Record Store Day. On the CD side, the Fremeaux box sets go deep: V3: C. Parker 1946-47 is a 3xCD and Complete Vol. 13 I Remember You 1953-1954 stretches across four discs. Ornithology: The Best Of Bird (Craft Recordings CD) works as an entry point, while Ken Burns Jazz (Polygram Records CD) ties Parker to the documentary that introduced him to a new generation. The Naxos import series adds Vol. 2-Bird On The Side and Vol. 3-Mellow Bird for collectors chasing that imprint. Live documents include Afro Cuban Bop: The Long Lost Bird Live Recordings on CD (Rockbeat Records), Bird Live! (Essential Media Group CD), Radio Bird (Good Time CD), and In Sweden 1950 (Storyville Records CD).
Why buy from Relix
Relix has covered jazz, improvisation, and the music that lives between genres since 1974. That history shapes what ends up in the store. We stock titles that hold up under repeated listening and serious attention, not just whatever is moving units. The store also carries the Relix Sessions series, live recordings produced by Relix and pressed to vinyl on the Relix Vinyl label, alongside titles from established labels like Craft Recordings, Verve, Fremeaux, Naxos, and Storyville. If a record or disc belongs in a working collection, it belongs here.
All titles are new and sealed. Pre-order titles display a street date and ship when the label releases them. CDs ship in protective packaging.
If this page has you thinking about the broader catalog, the Jazz Vinyl Records and Jazz CDs collections go well beyond Parker. For live recordings on wax, Live Vinyl Albums and Records is worth a look, and Colored Vinyl Records and Limited Variants covers the RSD and limited pressings side of things.