Bloomdido

Buddy was also on a great Mercury recording of the very early fifties--worked out by Norman who had an agreement with the Mercury folks, whose jazz label became Emarcy--a play on the letters in Mercury--it was simply called "Bird and Diz" and featured a rhythm section of Thelonious Monk, Curly Russell, and Buddy Rich backing Dizzy and Bird and doing Bird flights of his composition, like "Bloomdido"--the greatest.

Now That the Hoopla Is Over The Daily Growler 2006

Likewise, the trio's read of Charlie Parker's "Bloomdido," is more expressionistic than the original, but at the same time, Copland's own cascading skeins of notes in scalar succession from the tonic through the resolution of a re-harmonization is a remarkable display of chromatic invention.

AvaxHome RSS: Basil21 2009

He resumed performing, usually in a duo with bassist Bill Takas, in American and European clubs, and recorded more frequently, though on obscure, hard-to-find independent labels: 52 Rue Est, Bloomdido, Pinnacle, Orange Blue and the Dorough / Sharf-run Laissez-Faire.

Articles - JazzTimes Joel Siegel 2009