Charlie Parker
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Watch: Return Sessions – Charlie Parker Centenary with Gilad Atzmon & the Sigamos Quartet – 27/08/20
The reaction to the performance was astonishing. Many people were watching us live and shared their thoughts. For the musicians this was a very unique experience. We played in an empty club, yet communicated in real time with so many people around the world. Continue reading
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Video: Happy Birthday Max Roach 'Live at Blues Alley'
Maxwell Lemuel Roach was born on January 10, 1924 in the Township of Newland, North Carolina and moved to Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn when he was four years old. Max began playing bugle at a young age and was playing drums with gospel groups by the time he was ten years old. Continue reading
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Charlie Parker & Dizzy Gillespie – 'Hothouse'
Charlie Parker, alto sax; Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet; Dick Hyman, piano; Sandy Block, bass; Charles Smith, drums. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday Miles – ‘So What’ with John Coltrane
Miles Dewey Davis III was born on May 26, 1926 in Alton, Illinois. Miles’ mother was a blues pianist though she kept this hidden from him and his father a dentist. Davis began studying trumpet at the age of thirteen with local musician Elwood Buchanan and Buchanan would always stress to Miles to play without… Continue reading
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Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie ‘ Hot House’
This 1952 performance on columnist Earl Wilson’s television show is the only real performance footage of Parker. Pianist Dick Hyman, bassist Sandy Block and left-handed drummer Charlie Smith back them up on “Hot House.” http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/Clp9AeBdgL0&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0 Continue reading
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Jazz at the Philharmonic (sort of)
Classic live session emulating the amazing Jazz at the Philharmonic sessions produced by Norman Granz. Charlie Parker – Saxophone, Coleman Hawkins – Tenor saxophone, Hank Jones – Piano, Ray Brown – Double bass, Buddy Rich – Drums, Bill Harris – Trombone, Lester Young – Tenor saxophone, Harry Edison – Trumpet, Flip Phillips – Tenor saxophone, Continue reading
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Celerity – Charlie Parker
Rare studio footage of Charlie Parker with his rhythm section; Hank Jones-piano, Ray Brown-bass, and Buddy Rich-drums. 1st collector for Celerity – Charlie Parker Follow my videos on vodpod Continue reading
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Jazzwise feature article – Gilad Atzmon: The Ornithologist By Andy Robson
For Atzmon, his music, his art, his philosophy, his ethics, whether you agree with them or not, constantly return you by the paths of beauty, humour and passion to the world that is outside us. Continue reading
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