Questa raccolta di 4 CD in edizione limitata, contiene le registrazioni complete di “Bird” alla mitica Carnegie Hall, comprese sessioni rare, tre brani inediti e bonus track e un libretto di 20 pagine. Charlie Parker (sax alto) si esibisce con
Dizzy Gillespie, Fats Navarro, Roy Eldridge, Red Rodney, Sonny Criss, Coleman Hawkins, Lester Young, Flip Phillips, John Lewis, Hank Jones, Ray Brown, Roy Haynes, Buddy Rich, Ella Fitzgerald e molti altri. Tutti i brani sono stati registrati alla Carnegie Hall di New York tra il 1947 e il 1954.
CD 1
01 A Night in Tunisia
02 Dizzy Atmosphere
03 Groovin’ High
04 Confirmation
05 Ko-Ko
06 The Bird
07 Repetition
08 Introduction by Norman Granz
09 Leap Here
10 Indiana (Back Home Again In)
11 Lover Come Back to Me
CD 2
01 The Opener
02 Lester Leaps In
03 Embraceable You
04 The Closer
05 Ow/voice-over introducing Ella Fitzgerald
06 Flyin’ Home
07 How High the Moon
08 Perdido
CD 3
01 Ornithology
02 Cheryl
03 Ko-Ko
04 All the Things You Are
05 Now’s the Time
06 What Is This Thing Called Love?
07 April in Paris
08 Repetition
09 Easy to Love
10 Rocker
11 Just Friends (1st Concert)
12 Easy to Love (1st Concert)
13 Repetition into Strings Theme (1st Concert)
14 Just Friends (2nd Concert)
15 Easy to Love (2nd Concert)
16 Announcement by Charlie Parker/ Repetition into Strings Theme (2nd Concert)
CD 4
01 Announcement
02 A Night in Tunisia
03 52nd Street Theme
04 The Song Is You
05 My Funny Valentine
06 Cool Blues
07 No Noise (*)
08 Mango Mangue (*)
09 Tanga (*)
10 Bean and the Boys
11 Stuffy
12 Mambo (**)
13 Lament for the Congo (**)
14 I Can’t Get Started (**)
(*) Brani inediti
(**) Bonus tracks