Detroit Bop Quintet

Detroit Bop Quintet: Two Birds

by Mark Corroto
February 24, 2015

On December 21st 1947 Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Duke Jordan, Tommy Potter, and Max Roach recorded four Parker compositions for Savoy at United Sound Systems recording studio in Detroit, Michigan. Parker's Quintet was in town for two weeks, performing and backing Sarah Vaughan at the El Sino Club. It appears that Parker hustled to lay down four sides before the 1948 recording ban was to go into effect. This is the same studio that would later record John Lee Hooker, ...