| "Let's bring up Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura, the Bird, Curley Russell, Al Haig, Shelly Manne, Joe Harris, Mr. O'Shaughnessy, Conte Candoli, and Benny Green. Let's blow one. Come on, fellas, let's all get up here and really break it up, doing a lot of wonderful things to the wonderful tune that's got a lot of meat in it -- how about a little bit of 'How High the Moon' for the next, ah, eight or ten minutes? Come on, fellas, let's get the thing jumpin'... We got, ah, Flip Phillips coming up, Charlie Ventura, the Bird, Curley Russell, Al Haig, Shelly Manne, Joe Harris, and Shaughnessy. We got three, three horns, we got three ah, oh we'll go way over four o'clock this morning, who cares? The boss pays for it, what do we care? All right fellas, let's go, this is gonna be an All-Star, All-Star session, remember once again it's Flip on tenor, Ventura on tenor, Bird on alto, Curley Russell on bass, Al Haig on piano, Shelly Manne on drums, Joe Harris on drums, O'Shaughnessy on drums, Conte Candoli on trumpet, and Benny Green on trombone. Come on fellas, let's start off with 'How High the Moon' -- let's go..." Someone hollers, "Lead off!" |
| Parker takes the first solo (0:41-1:18), encouraged by Sid: "And the first of our horns, ladies and gentlemen, the Bird, Charlie Parker. Go ahead boy, blow, Bird!" The other soloists (also announced by Sid) are Phillips (ts), Green (tb), and Ventura (ts). The closing theme is "Ornithology." |
| And so, ladies and gentlemen, we've done the gratest, we've brought Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura, the Bird, Curley Russell, Al Haig, Shelly Manne, Joe Harris, Shaughnessy, Conte Candoli, Benny Green -- we've had everybody here on our broadcast. I hope you've had a lot of fun." |
