Charlie Parker

Source: www.independent.co.uk --- 4 days ago
The alto saxophonist Arne Domnérus was one of the Swedish jazz greats. We have to be honest and admit that the Swedes left the British out of sight when it came to adapting to bebop, the new music that Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie introduced in the mid-1940s. Sure, Tubby Hayes, our tenor player, was a sensation when he played in the land of the cool, but they had half a dozen tenor players who were almost as good, and as far as the other instruments were concerned, they trumped us at every turn. ...

Source: www.overheardinnewyork.com --- 35 days ago
Four-year-old girl : I'm dizzy! Two-year-old girl : I'm dizzy! Four-year-old girl : No, I'm dizzy! Two-year-old girl : I'm dizzy! Four-year-old girl : Well, I'm dizzy too! --90th & Columbus Overheard by: Now I'M dizzy too Alsome | Thumbs up | Thumbs down | Link · Email · Quote this! · Del.icio.us · Posted 2008-09-06 ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 18 days ago
Embattled Rep. Charles Rangel's Mercedes-Benz was towed yesterday from the House of Representatives parking space he had been using for years in violation of congressional rules. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 40 days ago
Uptown Records has announced the release of two new additions to its Flashback Series, featuring two of the jazz worlds most immortal figures: Charlie Parker, Washington, D.C., May 23, 1948 and Dizzy Gillespie ... ...

Source: www.jazzandbeyond.com --- 34 days ago
Yesterday would have been the 88th birthday of Charlie "Bird" Parker. This great alto player is often considered the founder of Be-Bop music. Before Bird in the 1940's, Jazz was primarily big-band music, dance music that was perhaps the most popular genre of it's time. Bird featured a hard driving quartet and quintet format with an emphasis on improvisation, freeing the soloist to stretch out. As I listen to the 2 Bird originals on this set, each under 3 minutes, it amazes me how much music is packed into these tracks. The rest of the set features modern day jazz artists that have covered Bird's compositions as well as artists that have been influenced by his music. Actually, every great jazz artist that has played this idium since Bird, has taken some of his chops from Charlie Parker. Playlist Track * Artist * Album Now's the Time * Charlie Parker * Original Recordings of CP Donna Lee * Charlie Parker * Bird/The Savoy Recording Yardbird Suite * Dwight West * Tribute to the Masters Dewey Square * Barbara Dennerlein * Tribute to Charlie Ornithology * Barbara Dennerlein * Tribute to Charlie This I Dig Of You * Greg Abate Quintet * Bop Lives Bop Lives * Greg Abate Quintet * Bop Lives Arriving Soon * Cannonball Adderley * Plus Confirmation * Jackie McLean * 4, 5, And 6 Scrapple From The Apple * Keith Jarrett * Up For It Time's Lie * Joe Farrell * Moon Germs ...

Source: bryantmanning.typepad.com --- 24 days ago
Business first. Frank Scheffer's absorbing documentary on Stockhausen's Helicopter String Quartet is now on DVD. I also checked in on the progress of the CSO's in-house label, Resound, and things over there are rolling along nicely. Lastly, my older sis,... ...

Source: acedtect.jaiku.com --- 25 days ago
Charlie Parker – Now's the Time Fetched from acedtect's Recently Played Tracks 3 days, 21 hours ago. ...

Source: www.music-download.cc --- 8 days ago
Musicos Charlie Parker (saxo alto) Dizzy Gillespie (trompeta) Thelonious Monk (piano) Curly Russell (bajo) Buddy Rich (bateria) Tracks: 1. Bloomdido 2. Oscar For Treadwell [Alternate Take] 3. Oscar... Music download rapidshare, megaupload and more the best site of the world!!!!!! ...

Source: clubfileman.seo-blog.org --- 38 days ago
It was the musical Mecca for African Americans, a conservatory of jam, and here, parallel to its gestation in New Orleans and Harlem, was born jazz. Like so many of his peers became a bebop devotee, influenced both on and off the bandstand by fellow saxophonist Charlie Parker, who played alto rather then tenor, [...] ...

Source: www.seattledrumschoolgeorgetown.com --- 41 days ago
Charles Parker, Jr. ( August 29 , 1920 – March 12 , 1955 ) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer . Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington . Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career, [2] and the shortened form "Bird" remained Parker's sobriquet for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as " Yardbird Suite " and " Ornithology ." Parker played a leading role in the development of bebop , a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuoso technique, and improvisation based on harmonic structure. Parker's innovative approaches to melody , rhythm , and harmony exercised enormous influence on his contemporaries. Several of Parker's songs have become standards , including "Billie's Bounce," "Anthropology," "Ornithology," and "Confirmation". He introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including a tonal vocabulary employing 9ths, 11ths and 13ths of chords, rapidly implied passing chords, and new variants of altered chords and chord substitutions. His tone was clean and penetrating, but sweet and plaintive on ballads. Although many Parker recordings demonstrate dazzling virtuoso technique and complex melodic lines — such as " Koko ," "Kim," and "Leap Frog" — he was also one of the great blues players. His themeless blues improvisation "Parker's Mood" represents one of the most deeply affecting ...

Source: www.pegasusnews.com --- 26 days ago
When: Saturday, Sept. 20, 2008, 10 p.m. Where: Andy's Basement Bar & Grill, 122 North Locust Street, Denton Cost: Not available Age limit: 17+ ...

Source: clubfileman.seo-blog.org --- 38 days ago
Cadet kingdom united Rees Williams Trio jazz it up. Mike McCoy made two or three really big plays. Bird is to improvisers what Bach is to classical composers. Review The Reapers sets the standard in noir. Starting tailback Antone Smith spent the latter part of Saturday’s practice in the ice tub after La mano de [...] ...

Source: hakpaksak.wordpress.com --- 24 days ago
I’ll begin with a 1930s New York joke. An immigrant couple from New York takes a boat cruise to Hawaii. They argue: Is Hawaii pronounced “ha-wah-yee” or “ha-vah-yee”? To settle their dispute, they approach the first passerby they see after docking. ”Is it “hah-way-yee” or “hah-vay-yee,” they ask. Hah-vay-yee” the passerby tells them. “Thank you” [...] ...

Source: www.freep.com --- 40 days ago
Though it wasn't billed as such, closing night at the Detroit International Jazz Festival morphed into a de facto celebration of bebop, the modern jazz movement of the �40s spearheaded by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell and a few others. ...

Source: blogs.orlandosentinel.com --- 4 days ago
Oscar winner Forest Whitaker, one of the finest actors of his generation thanks to his acclaim from two biographical turns, as Charlie "Bird" Parker and Idi Amin, will add another famous feather to his cap when he directs and stars... ...

Source: forum.dvdtalk.com --- 2 days ago
From Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117993615.html?categoryid=13&cs=1&nid=2564): ---Quote--- Forest Whitaker will direct and star in Louis Armstrong biopic "What a Wonderful World" for Paris-based Legende, the company behind "La Vie en rose." Legende’s Alain Goldman is producing alongside Edward R. Pressman. Ron Bass, who will pen the original script, is exec producing with Oscar Cohen, executive of the Armstrong estate and the Louis Armstrong Educational Foundation. Film, the first bigscreen project to be authorized by the Armstrong estate, will kick off during the musician’s impoverished early years in New Orleans and primarily chronicle his career as a trumpet virtuoso and improvisational singer. "Armstrong left a monumental mark on our lives and our culture," said Whitaker, who portrayed jazz great Charlie Parker in "Bird." "He lived an amazing life and, through his art, shifted the way music was played and would be heard after him, not just here in the U.S. but all over the world." "What a Wonderful World" will begin shooting in the summer in Louisiana. Cohen, who began working for the musician in the late ’40s as his road manager, is granting the filmmakers exclusive access to his personal accounts as well as to letters and other material in the Armstrong archives. In addition to his role as a pioneering musician, Armstrong appeared in more than 30 films. ---End Quote--- ...

Source: www.blogdecine.com --- 4 days ago
Y más biopics de músicos importantes. Decía el otro día que las únicas películas que pueden tratar sobre artistas y estar dirigidas a todos los públicos, incluso a los no seguidores, son las biografías filmadas. Pero, claro, para eso el film tiene que ir a lo obvio y lo comercial, como se demuestra con el título que llevará la película sobre la vida de Louis Armstrong , ‘What a Wonderful World’ , una canción muy bonita, pero tan utilizada que ya cansa. Entiendo que no es sólo un título con gancho, también la posibilidad de darle mucha ironía; sé que cualquier montaje de imágenes hecho con este tema de fondo arranca la lagrimita y, por supuesto, comprendo que hay que esperar a ver que se hace para saber si realmente se caerá o no en el tópico. El actor Forest Whitaker , quien ya ha toreado en estas plazas pues interpretó a Charlie Parker en ‘Bird’ de Clint Eastwood; no sólo dará vida a Armstrong , sino que también dirigirá la película. Ron Bass escribirá el guión original. Aquí llega lo de la ironía que decía: ‘What aWonderful World’ se centrará en los años que pasó Armstrong en Nueva Orleáns sumido en la pobreza para luego dar paso a su carrera como cantante trompetista. Whitaker ya había dirigido ’First Daughter’ , pero en este caso el proyecto le llega más al alma: “ Armstrong dejó una marca monumental en nuestras vidas y en nuestra cultura. Llevó una vida increíble y, a través de su arte, cambió la forma en la que se tocaba mús ...