Charlie Parker - Anthropology

[Thedudeisadude]

@Elad110 Fantastic recording of this tune!!! Could you please tell me which record you got it from? :)

[superman321132231]

there's a really nice movie about charlie parker

[superman321132231]

@superman321132231 Bird it is called

[TrumpetGuy7]

Trumpet player?

[thunderstruck122]

@TrumpetGuy7 its Dizzy Gillespie, i am pretty sure

[vigdos]

When I'm bored, I just type in random letters and see where it gets me.

[rongeez990918]

bird played a king supra wright???

[guitarguy098]

damn... i thought i played this fast...

[midnightlady10]

One of my favorite Jazz players...I don't care about his private life. I respect what he did right. We get our information from a movie that is dramatized with drugs so you will watch it. Just like Billie Holiday..I am still waiting for someone to sing Strange Fruit on one of these singing shows.

[XRaryn]

Practiced for 14+ hours a day for over a year. Dedication to bebop.. I love Bird. When I was five, I told my teachers I wanted to be just like him.. then I realized he did drugs so much.. hm. I wonder if Bird would be much different without drugs?

[thbs35]

Anyone know what year this was recorded?



[manchildband]

@ghairraigh check w/a keyboard, it is definitely in B major... I'm sure it was recorded in B flat, but with the record speed it plays back in B major... I just checked so before you make disparaging comments you should check yourself...

[improv113]

The fuuuuuuuu-

[armando9392]

sounds awesome! but can you repeat that ten times slower so i can catch up with you?? thanks :D

[Sm00thJAzzer]

im tracking this song in my Bb Real Book IM LOST O_O

[VonNashman]

This recording is in B... Hmm... Sped up? It's a conthpirathy.

[leolovestrumpet]

This is what i call some fine hard-bop

[MansoorDC]

Birds improv on this track will forever be embedded into my memory..I wish I knew what was goin through his mind during this.

[HDMrRat]

The Piano (I think T Monk) is nearly that amazing like the sax

[mrAJB125]

it sounds like they're all on fire

[neilraoufsw]

holiest shit! this is faster than carl lewis runs!

[padia988]

fasssssssssssssst :D

[Plshipme]

Wow, what can be said about Bird! He played ideas not just note sequences and different-new ideas every time he played....it was as if he never ran out. Amazing player and probably the best improviser the music world has ever known. Been listening to Bird for 20 years and still learning from his recordings.

[hareandr]

Hey, there seems to be a lot of confusion about which recording this is. This recording is from an out of print album called "Summit Meeting at Birdland". The musicians are: Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Tommy Potter, and Roy Haynes.

[kingkoeller]

The song is in Bb. On my Korg tuner they are at A=450 instead of Low Pitch A=440.This is a result of the antique tape machines used back then in the 1940's. You can really hear the intensity of the whole group. Bird just shreds on the changes. He was a genius. Roy Haynes on drums, Tommy Potter on bass, Bud Powell piano, Diz and Bird!! Incredible!!!Never in Life again will you ever here this!!!!

[zn37]

man this is amazing. I wish I saw this live. "$1 admission. you can't go wrong" for sure! Anyone know who is on drums here?

[projectbaum]

@zn37

Good ol' Mr. Haynes, if I'm not mistaken.

[zn37]

@projectbaum thanks!

[xxjewledxxromance]

I have to play this as an exam for my high school jazz band class... on the double bass... *with a metronome

[Andolini99]

The greatest athletes in pro sports today could not do what these guys do, in terms of speed, rhythm & coordination.

[jlawren2]

It's Dizzy Gillespie on trumpet, not Miles. You think MD could play those octaves leaps?

[ghairraigh]

@jlawren2 Diz said Miles played the same stuff as he, just not up one or two octaves...

[Jazztastic2112]

apart from the harmonic, melodic, and rhythmic value of bebop was a rebellious message... usually that means drugs,fights, n women... these guys were living a lifestyle 15-20 years ahead of there time

[cathartic555]

@Jazztastic2112 Right on man...people talk of the rocker's lifestyle or the modern rapper, but these cats were living the life all chilled and jazzed up. Amen to that!

[hanschook]

Quite right Gidsy Widsy ! Listen to the marvellous music of this genius ! And remember this: Bird studied night and day, so he had a fabulous technic and speed, but his genius was in his rhythmic, melodic and hamonic inventions ! And that has nothing to do with drugs. Bebop is great !!

[mrjagreeez]

@ noone: nothing

[DaveO15]

I love how he accurately captures the sound of a baby being raped by a cat. Genius.

[kfdisawesome]

@DaveO15 hey i saw one of ur songs... yeah the one with you sitting on the toilet.....

YOUR AN IDIOT

[DaveO15]

@kfdisawesome *YOU'RE

[Zekemis]

@kfdisawesome i thought some of the greatest masterminds came up with their ideas while sitting on the toilet

[Ben123456789Clarke]

@Zekemis on two and a half men eddie van halen wrote a song on the toilet in one of the scenes, he aint charlie parker,. but hes still a damn good guitarist

[kfdisawesome]

@Zekemis i think that you just do... and your nowhere near as good as parker

[lod1222]

Oh god. That's very impressive. Charlie is one of the best musicians ever.

[Ibakebiscuits]

holy shit

[trki319]

I have to play a part of this song for a honors jazz band audition. O_O

[l2udolph]

@trki319 It's an awesome song. I really enjoy playing it, heh. Just play it at a slower tempo, and gradually get faster. Eventually you'll be able to play it perfectly at regular tempo, and you'll be pro at the auditions. :)

[trki319]

@l2udolph Thanks for the advice :)

[n64wilbert]

WOW!!

[oldmus60]

"Can't touch this!"

[no1232]

who's on tp?

[MichaelSchwartzJazz]

@no1232 Dizzy Gillespie.

[MERARDORB]

Es la mejor música de todos los tiempos. Saludos desde Piedras Negras, Coahuila México.

[Ezto916]

puta el ql bacan, la cago. buen jazz

[kingpleasure]

Less gratuitous, moralistic & boring bombastic b.s. about Bird's drug addiction and more praise for this incredible tune would be welcome. Why could it possibly be important to hear what anyone now thinks about the life Bird led...he's been dead more than 50 years & it was his problem anyway not yours, so who gives a flying fuck what any of y'all think. What is important is the genius & vitality of his music, which to date has yet to be equaled by anyone, on or off drugs. Shut up and listen!

[midnightlady10]

@kingpleasure I agree...also so many peoples lives are dramatized in a movie which, like you said 50 years later. All I know the Bird could blow!

[c01d3th31]

@kingpleasure i think sonny rollins at least was the bird's equal...i like the sound better.

[aronemurillo]

Maybe it's because he practiced 11 hours a day for 4 years.

[ESSENCEOFEACHTHING]

@aronemurillo

I was told that in the 80's Mike Tyson trained for 10hrs a day.This is the dedication to practice that led to him being the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history at 21yrs old.To be the best,practice your craft!!!

[0live0wire0]

@aronemurillo i heard it was 15 hours? Anyway the concept is the same.

[aronemurillo]

@0live0wire0 I read it from a biography I got from the Fullerton College Library last spring. Whose really counting though hahahaha... Did you read about him lighting his hotel bed on fire and running around the lobby naked?

[0live0wire0]

@aronemurillo yes but he wasn't fully naked, he had his socks on lol

[samsaxmusique]

Sheet is on : Partitions-Gratuites.yoctown.c­om

[MrEmanResu]

... Bird was great, in spite of drugs. He was so supremely talanted that even if he'd been paralized the cat would have still found a way to play.

[bragapinto]

Charlie Parker was a genius not because addiction but becaus his wonderful gift !!! If you give heroin to an ordinary musician he´ll be an ordinnary musician adicted !!!

[blackeyesnick]

anthropology is the study of human beings.How they have evolved,their languages,culture,social structure, etc...Basically anything to do with humans whether physical, psychological,culture, tradition,language, or objects.

[thenamesfrancisco]

@MrSilvermoon77 a night in tunisia is dizzy gillespie not bird

[pwnmonkeyisreal]

what is anthropology the study of?

[Murreh]

@pwnmonkeyisreal Goats?

[ghairraigh]

@pwnmonkeyisreal simply, the study of the evolution of creatures. Ornithology is the study of Bird(s)!

[babyb23518]

well...

they are all good with they do but it is a damn shame most of them died

[MuseseekerMan]

@babyb23518 everybody dies dude. It's part of life.

[babyb23518]

Charlie Parker! you are amazing with what you do with your music

[MuseseekerMan]

@babyb23518 he's been dead dude. like 60 years ago.

[DarkNectarMusic]

I love Anthropology, although I think it sounds better slightly slower.

[TheSatanas666]

heroin killed this great man period didnt make him better it kill him

[kingjaron123]

Nobody ever denied that Bird did heroin, but IMO, it's ridiculous to say that his creativity came from a needle. Didn't he practice 15 hours a day at one point in his life? He was pretty dedicated to his music. And if I'm right, he advised other musicians not to try heroin. Sure, he did it, but he didn't support it. Heroin is very addictive, not something you can just quit overnight. Just my two cents.

[DajaWaja]

YUJUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU VIVA PARKER

[BearWa11ace]

wow



[theRealDonX]

Parker developed a morphine addiction while in hospital after an automobile accident, and subsequently became addicted to heroin.

... so cut the crap on the drug debate

[Aiden057]

A dollar admission, how can you go wrong! Wow.

[GidsyWidsy]

this guy has inspired generations of people, so why do you all have to go debate drug use and things like that on a piece of artwork? Just be inspired by this.

[J0o0shlikesPandaz]

Charlie parker is a god

[uncasist]

My God! All of you youngins that still want to follow the predictable pattern of drug use. I always believed that evolution was learning from history, oh well/Orwell. Like the best Gods, Gurus and Teachers, the best drugs show you how to get there without them... Just so you know, a whole system has been built on the premise that you will become dependent/addicted/needful. You become more and more predictable...Good luck, Bye Bye...

[uncasist]

Been there done that and more. No brain, no wash, don't care to. Up becomes down very quickly. Read Huxley's "Doors of Perception", Hoffman's "LSD, My Problem Child" and Kesey's Acid-Test Graduation. Good luck, Bye bye.

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[biggeorgemulti]

THANKS  ,,BIRD"

[Scobvious]

Everyone knew that Bird was addicted to drugs, he even stated many times that he did not want other musicians to follow him by using drugs. He hated it ferociously.

[uncasist]

@tipsin: I never said that about Parker, nor would i. Charlie Parker was the top of the mountain for alto bebop. It couldn't possibly get any better. My "artistic washout" comment was directed at those who have been sold the illusion that drugs make you play better. They don't. They do drain your creativity and wash you out artistically. Here are your words back to you: Have a nice day and don't fall on your face while you're looking so smug.

[lucaman1221]

almost sounds like trumpet 0.0

[Coolguy5888]

@lucaman1221 because after like 1:45 it is a trumpet

[JWenhardtMusic]

what recording is this from?

[tipsin]

@JWenhardtMusic It's a radio broadcast from the Royal Roost.

[JWenhardtMusic]

where did this come from

[marock999]

There are 7 people overwhelmed by bop!!!

[tpstrat14]

@MrSilvermoon77 Listen for harmonic progressions. It's brilliant. It's not my cup of tea either, but I totally respect it and it's awesome music.

[Diomedes22]

@MrSilvermoon77 this music is too hard for you then. find something simpler and keep your childish opinions to yourself.

[Grimmjow567]

@Diomedes22 Pretentious asshole.

[jammytangents]

dizzy was sober always

[MAILMAN1234]

yaaaaayy drugs!

haha!!

[HittokiriBattousai17]

Fucking jazz all day long, mothefuckers

[DajaWaja]

@HittokiriBattousai17 hahahaha :)

[k9csm]

if any of you need sheet music search for the real book vol.1. you can get a free pdf download.

[jazzman21fly]

those are 6 too many dislikes these guys are amazing especially bird.

[uncasist]

mikeboy, Talk to him yourself. He would tell you as he would tell me that heroin washed him out and oh... killed him. Its hard to play fast and clear when you're dead and dying. But you are welcome to believe that drugs make you superhuman. It's amazingly insulting to infer that Parker's talent came out of a needle. Parker wouldn't agree... Nor would Coltrane, Miles, jackie McClean, Charlie Haden.....

[societyforrealmusic]

This is "The Summit At Birdland" I think

[Drblooter99]

He played that way despite the drugs, not because of them!

[jazzuffe]

It is B flat and incredible! Sometimes things is so great.

[TheKeiouki]

drugs(all of them, including sugar, alcohol and nicotine) sometimes make you play better, sometimes worse. they make you play different, that´s all. so shut the fukc up, enjoy charlie, go make some music and have a nice day!

[aksmar18]

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[LimboShrimp]

@aksmar18

.....and thaaaat's why bird didn't do scat.

[uncasist]

If you believe that any drug can help you play faster, better or with more expression, then you have been successfully brainwashed. You can join the thousands of other artistic washouts who believe that also. Bye-bye, Good luck!

[LimboShrimp]

@uncasist

Perhaps with the exception of mild stimulants. I can definitely play faster and more accurately after a cup of coffee, but more and sometimes I get jittery.

[uncasist]

@LimboShrimp I didn't mean to post twice. I don't want to lecture. Don't like like lectures, tho I find rants interesting. Yes to caffeine. As for coffee, it makes me want to clean things. Black tea is good. I lift weights to get blood flow to my fingers. I warm up to vintage Shakti from mid '70's ahh it's the best!

[Ehal256]

@uncasist Try drinking three cups of coffee and play something slowly.

[Debsquall]

@Ehal256 I could handle that, I believe

[Ehal256]

@Debsquall maybe, but my point was that mind-altering drugs will definitely alter your playing.

[tpstrat14]

@uncasist You should mention Clifford Brown. He is one of the greatest jazz trumpeters of all time and he never did drugs and didn't drink hardly at all. And he could play so fast so cleanly, you might think you were in a running washing machine. (bad joke, I know) So yea, I think it's safe to say that Charlie didn't get to be so good by doing heroin. That is absurd.

[tipsin]

@uncasist Charlie Parker had, among other things, severe drug problems, but to say that he was an "artistic washout" is to deny his profound influences on modern music. Have a nice day and don't fall on your face while you're looking so smug.

[deloused96]

@uncasist Bird was on all sorts of drugs. He was a notorious heroin addict.

Don't get me wrong, I'm crazy about Bird. But using him as an argument against drugs doesn't really hold water.

[uncasist]

@deloused96 Good point. Parker wouldn't have been a strong character reference for AA.

[SCRUFFBET]

@deloused96 well said

[Murreh]

@deloused96 Maybe he was just that good and it had nothing to do with drugs.

[GideonSawyer]

@deloused96 Well seeing as though heroin brought upon his downfall uncasist kinda holds quite a bit of water.

[rollorhodes]

@deloused96 Why not?

[piaknowledge]

@deloused96 haha apparently bird did a series of anti drug ads. The ad people were simply looking for celebrities that the public would listen to and bird desperately needed a gig. still i cant help thinking he did them just to be funny. haha he probably used the money to buy heroin

[slackerton18]

@uncasist

You have about a 98.3% of being right...

[slackerton18]

@uncasist

I don't believe just "any" drug. Heroin!!!!



[rasmustin]

@uncasist

What SMALL-MINDED statement. Sensitive black artists had a lot to contend with. Bird is what Van Gogh was to painting. If you don't understand explosive beauty, you are like a blind man in a world of colours and shapes.

Rasmus Tinning from Denmark

[ttothectothek]

@rasmustin are you sure your last name isnt enggaard?

[freighter014]

@uncasist Who's brainwashed here? It's pretty much fact that certain drugs can enhance your creativity and let your ideas flow more easily. I've never played under the influence but I would imagine that it would be an otherworldly experience.

[uncasist]

@freighter014 Been there done that and more. No brain, no wash, don't care to. Up becomes down very quickly. Read Huxley's "Doors of Perception", Hoffman's "LSD, My Problem Child" and Kesey's Acid-Test Graduation. Good luck, Bye bye.

[ghairraigh]

@freighter014 All you gotta do is get some perspective from a musician. Joe Pass, a former heroin addict, said he never did anything, not even take a drink, for the rest of his life when he was working. There was no benefit for him, just harm from drugs...

[Sunderlanding]

@uncasist You could also join the thousands of others who became great with the help of drugs. Some it helps some it doesn't.

[uncasist]

@Sunderlanding Already did. Like Aldous Huxley wrote, "Upon seeing the door, you walk through it..."

[Sunderlanding]

@uncasist ...or you could always close it. That way the cold air doesn't come in.

[countdown226]

@uncasist are you seriously calling charlie parker an artistic washout? and if drugs are bad for your playing doesn't that just make this music all the more amazing and unbelievable? are you a musician? have you played under the influence of drugs? explain the beatles' world changing music after acid. i don't advocate drugs but i know amazing music has been produced under the influence of them and that videos like this only promote it

[uncasist]

@countdown226 Do you seriously care about these questions you ask? If so, read the answers in the threads. Asked, answered and bored of this/these questions. This is old; defend your drugs to someone else.

[questribe]

@uncasist hahahah there is a reason why so many musicians do drugs

[poonmasta69]

@uncasist Tell that to the Beatles, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis or John Coltrane.

[uncasist]

@poonmasta69 Do your homework. Miles was off drugs during his most groundbreaking work "Kind of Blue', then later, Bitches Brew- Live Evil, Jack Johnson, in fact he was on a 'health' kick. If you don't know that music oooo do check it out. Same with Coltrane , Everything from '61 on: no drugs. The drugs the Beatles and Dylan did? LSD/pot, Not heroin. VERY different. But obviously, you'll believe what you want, so dialog in this format becomes meaningless. bye bye

[poonmasta69]

@uncasist LSD and weed are still drugs, buddy.

[uncasist]

@poonmasta69 This is true. If you just want to be right, sure, be right. If you are truly looking at the use of drugs and creativity, be careful. In my experience believe drugs do not enhance and expand creativity in the long term... they actually snuff that flame pretty quickly. That has not just been my experience.

[ExtremeBogom]

@uncasist

Congratulations, you have now un-brainwashed millions of people worldwide...

[zypherax]

@uncasist He was addicted to heroin which is probably the strongest depressant there is, I don't see how that would make anyone play faster.

[trZack]

@uncasist You're attaching sober-ism to the wrong icon...

[Frikzter]

@uncasist Parker got addicted to heroin after being in hospital due to a car accident or something of the sort. Those days it was standard practice to use morphine (an opioid just like heroin) as a pain killer (highly addictive), hence his addiction. The drugs had nothing to do with playing better. Some of his followers might have thought so since drug use was strongly associated with this master player, he protested that notion in those who aimed to follow in his steps. It was unfortunate.

[masnak1994]

@uncasist

so is that a complement to bird or what?

[uncasist]

If you believe that any drug can help you play faster, better or with more expression, then you have been successfully brainwashed. You can join the thousands of other artistic washouts who believe that also. Bye-bye, Good luck!

[AuroraSunset]

SOLID.

[manchildband]

Actually, I think DTate is correct... the recording was most likely in Bflat, but sometimes record players can play sharp of the original performance...

[musicalrt]

It's in Bb.

[manchildband]

Definitely in B major!

[hanumanpan]

@manchildband -the tune is based on the chord's of gershwin's I got rhythm-its in Bb, going through multiple chord changes, eg on bar 5 it goes to Bb dominant then to Eb at bar 6, then back to Bb via D minor, G7, C minor, F7. The bridge is a cycle of fourths going D7 for 2 bars, the n G7 C7, F7 (which is the V of Bb)

[ghairraigh]

@manchildband Be-bop players mastered playing in all keys, but come on, B Natural???

[shinymuffin123]

no way you can play this fast without being high

[heavymetalmaniac616]

@shinymuffin123

I disagree, seeing as I have a version of this which I do play this fast. And I'm not the playing while high type.

[bostoneric]

LOL @ the end: "Dollar admission- how can you go wrong?"

[MrHillelSalem]

its not in B flat

its in B

[DTate16]

@MrHillelSalem No its in Bb, the recording (or the performance) is a little sharp, so it sounds slightly higher than it should.

[DanielProctor775]

Charlie Parker's such a speed demon!

[keyzcity]

bird was the loosest cuz he was on the most drugs.