#charlie parker

[kinsey3furry300]

An extremely dumb guid to “Which famous 60’s/70's Jazz man is that?”

1, Is it Piano lead or Brass lead? If piano go to question two. If brass question three.

2, Does the Pianist sound like he’s taken all the acid, or is there a guy making love to a clarinet?

Oh yeah: he’s taken all the acid alight. Is… is he okay? Thelonious Monk.

Oh yeah, some guy is going ham on a clarinet. Dave Burkbeck Quartet.

Neither of the above: Duke Ellington.

3, If brass lead: is it Louis Armstrong? If Yes, it’s Louis Armstrong. If no, question four.

4, Does the Trumpet player make you feel sad? Even, dare I say, Blue?

Almost? Chet Barker

Kind of? Miles Davies.

If no, question five.

5, Is the trumpet player trying to blow your face clean off? Like, actively trying to kill the first row of the audience? Dizzy Gillespie.

It’s brass led, but Sax not Trumpet.  

Okay, question 6, isolate the stings: is Charles Mingus doing what he’s actually paid to do in the back of the ensemble, or is he dicking around and seeing how far a man can take a double bass before his band-mates kill him?

Seems to be playing normally: Charlie Parker

He’s fucking around in F minor, and also that Bari sax is filthy! The Mingus Big band, with Ronnie Cuber on the Sax.

[cosmonautroger]

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes

[oldschoolfrp]

Perched atop the tower is a feywing, a 3-headed dragon with blue-black scales and sharp horns (Charlie Parker for D&D adventure "Elexa's Endeavor" by Chris Perkins, Dungeon 53, May/June 1995)

[oldmanpeace]

Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus and Roy Haynes playing a New York jazz club, 1953.

[lascitasdelashoras]

CHARLIE PARKER - Bird and Diz. Mercury Records, 1950

[musickickztoo]

Charlie Parker *August 29, 1920

[jazzandother-blog]

Charlie Parker, Mercury recording session 1949

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Song of the Day - “April in Paris” Today marks the 75th anniversary of the recording session which produced this album “Charlie Parker with Strings”, or at least the first album titled that way…November 30th, 1949 Two complete albums of Bird with strings got recorded over a nine month period and both batches of tracks were made into two albums with the exact same title… I always find these tracks a bit overproduced by the classical string section, and thought they must’ve been forced upon Bird by some record label exec, but I’ve since learned that to record with a string section like this was a long-held dream of Parker’s… go figure… The tracks still feel a bit much to me, but they are undeniably gorgeous… The batch from this first of the two sessions was “Just Friends”, “Everything Happens To Me”, “April in Paris”, “Summertime”, “I Didn’t Know What Time It Was”, and “If I Should Lose you” …. In addition to the superb stringfolk, the other regular jazz sidemen on this session with Charlie are Mitch Miller on the oboe, Stan Freeman on piano, Ray Brown on bass and Buddy Rich on drums… This is the most gorgeous version of “April in Paris”, at least instrumentally… and always just tweaks me into a calm and contented place.

[Mary Elaine LeBey]

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[davidhudson]

Charlie Parker, August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955.

[didierleclair]

Yes!

[coolthingsguyslike]

[cosmonautroger]

Charles Mingus, Roy Haynes, Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, 1949

[garadinervi]

Jazz Concert at Town Hall: 'Great Moderns in Jazz', New York, NY, 1954 [Recordmecca]

Feat.: Charlie Parker, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, Art Farmer, and Horace Silver, with Jimmy Raney and Hall Overton

[guy60660]

Charlie Parker | Red Rodney | William P. Gottlieb

[lascitasdelashoras]

Charlie Parker with Max Roach in front of the Chistera club, Marseille, France. May, 1949

[pavel-1975]

Charlie Parker by Herman Leonard, 1949