Max Roach, Charlie Parker

condition (record/cover): NM / NM (in shrink)

Max Roach honors his old boss with a full program of Charlie Parker repertoire - and this is no ordinary tribute, because Roach was there: the drummer on the original bebop records, the man who helped build these tunes their first engines. Kenny Dorham and Hank Mobley handle the front line with fluency and fire, but the fascination is in the drums - hearing Roach revisit the material with a decade of additional mastery, total authority and obvious love. Repertory jazz before the concept existed, done by a primary source. Original US Mercury, and a record that belongs in any serious bebop-lineage collection.