View Poll Results: How many Charlie Parker tunes do you know?
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I don't know any
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A couple
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A half dozen or so
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At least a dozen, probably a few more
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Twenty, easy, probably more
4 5.33%
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Originally Posted by HighSpeedSpoon
Parker's later recordings for Verve sound better. I must admit, I never found his sound harsh, just very powerful and direct.
Anyway here's something which shows his lyrical side, maybe a more appealing sound:
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03-26-2015 03:57 PM
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03-26-2015, 04:15 PM #252destinytot GuestAnyway here's something which shows his lyrical side, maybe a more appealing sound:
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nyway here's something which shows his lyrical side, maybe a more appealing sound:
Since there's April in Paris let there be also Autumn in New York
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Thanks for posting this! One of my favorite albums every recording here seems to be an example of how to do amazing things with the head of a tune. Lot of restraint, but every phrase is perfect, and he always weaves it around the head, never loses track of it.
This has been a weird thread.. I'm definitely a rank beginner compared to most of the guys here - - - but it seems rather odd to me that there would even be a discussion on a jazz forum about Charlie Parkers relevance. I first heard his music when I was a 'shredder', and even then it seemed scary on so many levels, technically, all the rhythmic accents, the note choice, and most of all the fact that every solo he played made sense as a series of sentences and paragraphs, like a story - - there's more jazz vocabulary in a two minute Parker tune than in three hundred books of "101 jazz guitar solos". Slow down his music and listen to it and it only gets scarier
I'm proud to say that I listen to him daily (and don't intend to change the habit) and hear amazing new things to learn from - harmonic ideas, motifs, references to other tunes - - almost everyday.
(Charles McPherson, too - - - really a class apart - - anyone here a fan of his? )
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Originally Posted by Jonah
Thanks, Jonah ! Love that these are getting airplay . . . Don't forget this one, the melody is hauntingly beautiful
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03-26-2015, 04:50 PM #256destinytot GuestCharles McPherson
Last edited by destinytot; 03-26-2015 at 06:33 PM. Reason: correction
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03-26-2015, 04:58 PM #257destinytot Guest
Terrible sound, but this for me - is Bird in flight. (Mundell Lowe flying the flag for jazz guitar.)
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Originally Posted by destinytot
The Massey Hall tapes are pretty incredible, I think it was one of Birds last major recordings. He's insanely tight throughout that whole show, his lines on 'Tunisia' are some of the best ever (the lineup is top notch, too - - Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Bud Powell and Dizzy Gillespie)
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Has anyone here checked out the Dean Benedetti recordings? The box set is rather expensive, so I haven't made up my mind whether to purchase it or not. From the reviews online, it sounds like there'd be a lot of great transcription material in them..
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Originally Posted by jishnudg
The first Parker record I bought was the double-LP set of the Savoy master takes. My reaction was exactly the same as yours.
One great thing about this thread is that it has made me listen to loads of Parker tracks all over again! And play all the heads I know (rather badly I'm afraid!). In fact I've realised that a brilliant warm-up routine would be to play them all, one after the other, before doing anything else. So I did that today.
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Originally Posted by jishnudg
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Originally Posted by jzucker
Last edited by nick1994; 03-26-2015 at 07:29 PM.
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Originally Posted by nick1994
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Also, I hadn't thought about the difference that labels may have made. Good point.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Also, do check out this book - "From Swing To Bop - An Oral History" if you can - - - it has a whole chapter on Bird, where guys like Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond, Howard McGhee have talked about him at length. The interesting thing is a lot of them mention, more than anything else, the things he did with rhythm, displacing his lines etc. Really inspiring.
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Originally Posted by setemupjoe
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Originally Posted by jishnudg
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Let us not forget Phil Woods:
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Nice.
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Pocket player....as to why the horn's prevalence in early jazz and jazz in general... The answer I was taught was that in New Orleans after the American Civil War ended and the Union Army left they left everything behind apparently lots and lots and lots of brass and woodwind instruments, and drums. This coupled with America's complete fascination with the Music of John Philips Sousa combined with what pianist Jelly Roll Morton called the Latin Tinge (tango's,the clave,etc.)are some of the ingredients that lead to early jazz music, according to some. The city of New Orleans had three professional Opera houses before the Civil War so there were many trained musicians in one very small city. Some say that the horn players then began to emulate the songs of early delta blues which was mainly sung and accompanied with guitar. And this vocalisation on the trumpet is what some say led to early jazz. Others say the early brass bands were trying to create the polyphony of ragtime pianists like Scott Joplin etc. Anyhow the early brass bands in the city of New Orleans were vital to the daily life of the city employed for all manner of occasions funerals,wakes,dances,parties,night clubs etc. this was gainful employment that brought with a positive social status within the city. As is often the case the best of the best had to leave New Orleans to achieve greater recognition and wealth, hence Joe Oliver and later Louis Armstrong finding fame and fortune in Chicago the place to be in the early 20th century.
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I think drums drives everything in jazz. Not just Parker, but consider any jazz head. "It Don't Mean A Thing". "Little Rootie Tootie." Many many.
When I write stuff in the studio I write the drums first, maybe considering the hits of the melody.
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Here are 11 common Bop Heads played on guitar back to back. Now, some advocate that heads have all the vocab you'll need. But of these there's only 3 or 4 that contain a lick or 2 that I like enough to use in my own playing. You could spend a year learning all these heads that well, or you could go through solos, Bird's and others, that contain lines that you just "have to have". In the same year you could end up with a hundred lines that you love, and will actually use.
Sure, you could say that if someone learned all those heads, what's to say they wouldn't put all that material to work in their own solos. Fair enough, but I certainly wouldn't care for hearing solos littered with those lines over and over.
Let's face it, some bebop language/vocab/devices, or whatever you want to call them, have aged better than others. Some ideas can sound at home in a contemporary setting, others will just sound dated or even corny...
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Originally Posted by princeplanet
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Originally Posted by princeplanet
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