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Title: Beauty is a rare thing
Review: If this four-disc set were still available at its original retail price, it would be a steal, compiling all of the albums Charlie Parker and Strings (Disc Two) and Jam Session (Disc Three), plus Bird and Diz and masses of other small group recordings from the Verve vaults (Discs One and Four), plus a handful of big band sides Parker recorded with Lennie Tristano and arranger Don Lipman. Own this and the Studio Chronicle 1940-48 (or a Savoy and Dial recordings set) and you've got the essential core of a Parker collection. And I love the packaging of these Quadromania sets, and all the masters sound terrific, better than I've heard them before. That said, now that this has gone out of print and its after-market price has apparently neared the $50 mark, it suddenly seems more worthwile to pick up this music elsewhere. In any form you have it, it's fantastic, essential stuff.
