# CD review: Miłosz Konarski – Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova (what if) 2021: Video, CD cover

- Link: https://jazzblues.eu/2021/04/08/cd-review-milosz-konarski-charlie-parker-plays-bossa-nova-what-if-2021-video-cd-cover/
- Published: 2021-04-08T18:31:07+01:00
- Author: https://JazzBlues.EU

**On April 6, 2021, an album based on an interesting concept will be available for
sale. Two Polish musicians inspired by Haruki Murakami’s idea described in one of
the stories decided to imagine what Charlie Parker’s album would sound like if this
famous jazz musician started playing bossa nova.**

Murakami’s latest collection, The First Person Singular, includes the short story
Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova. The narrator of the story mentioned how, during
his studies, he got the editor-in-chief of a university magazine by writing a review
of the non-existent album “Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova” supposedly from 1963.
In fact, the musician died eight years earlier, when no one had heard of bossa nova.
And the narrator simply made up what such an album could sound like, which caused
quite a stir on campus. Years later, he was surprised to discover the CD he had 
described in a music store. However, he did not have time to buy it and he did not
know if someone had made a joke or if he had actually created an unknown work by
force of subconsciousness.

If the narrator of Murakami’s story really existed, he would soon be able to hear
the album he was writing about, thanks to two Polish musicians who recorded such
an album. “Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova (what if)” is an attempt to answer the
question asked by the Japanese writer, what could Charlie Parker’s album sound like
if he had not died in 1955 as a result of drug and alcohol exhaustion, but after
several years of convalescence, he returned to playing for saxophone and in 1963
he released an album with the then popular bosses.

 1. A Hortelã-verde (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 2. Paixão vermelha (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 3. Violeta aveludada (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 4. Azul como o mar (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 5. Lindos olhos castanhos (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 6. O marfim branco (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 7. A paz cor de lavanda (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)
 8. Felicidade de damasco (feat. Wojtek Rejdych)

**Composer, arranger, producer: Miłosz Konarski**
 **Tenor Saxophone: Wojtek Rejdych**

![Charlie Parker Plays Bossa Nova (what if) - Album by Miłosz Konarski |  Spotify](
https://i.scdn.co/image/ab67616d0000b27336d6511e5080b285db25826f)

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