by Bird | Sep 21, 2019 | Bebop, Bird And Diz, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz
https://znne58.a2cdn1.secureserver.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CP_BirdAndDiz_004_001_SEPT19.mp4 AVAILABLE NOW! This collection of 78 rpm singles, recorded on June 6, 1950 in New York City, while Parker was still working with producer Norman Granz, is one of bebop’s key...
by Bird | Sep 9, 2019 | Charlie Parker
In the early 1950s, bebop pioneer Charlie Parker lived in a townhouse on Manhattan’s Avenue B, bordering Tompkins Square Park in Alphabet City. These days, that stretch of Avenue B is known as Charlie Parker Place, and the park hosts the annual Charlie Parker Jazz...
by Bird | Sep 9, 2019 | Charlie Parker
His name is synonymous with Kansas City and the sweet sounds of his saxophone are historical. https://www.kctv5.com/news/local_news/celebrating-kansas-city-icon-charlie-parker/video_ed36af8d-dbea-52e2-9321-3018f417cdf6.html
by Bird | Sep 3, 2019 | Bebop, Bird And Diz, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Jazz
The final instalment of titles in Verve and Impulse! Records’ Vital Vinyl series, in conjunction with UMe, are released today (23). The new batch of albums complete the celebration of essential jazz LPs from the catalogues of these two great jazz labels. Both Verve...
by Bird | Jul 17, 2019 | Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker was one of the most important figures in the development of jazz and in particular Bop. His was a thoughtful kind of jazz, a saxophonist unrestricted by arrangements made him the master of improvisation. A troubled man, with drugs and drink at the heart...
by Bird | Jul 17, 2019 | Charlie Parker, Miles Davis
It was perhaps easier for the new jazz listener to come to bebop than for the one already steeped in Armstrong and Ellington. There were several methods to help the latter. One was to use as a key the contemporary work of Coleman Hawkins, Don Byas and Buck Clayton,...