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  • charlie parker

  • & to think they invented it!

  • Terrific stuff...

  • VERY well said thundermonkey

  • I don't understand how anybody in their right mind could thumbs this vid down. Its beyond me.

  • I asked Dick Hyman, the pianist on that date about what it was like playing with Bird 'n Diz and how did it come about? He wrote back"That was a nightly tv show, "Date on Broadway", on which I usually accompanied singers, along with a bassist, who that night was Sandy Block..Parker and Gillespie were the most distinguished of the guests, but the show existed before and after their appearance. We added drums (Charlie Smith) for the occasion....

  • ....I had previously played a couple of times with Bird at Birdland and Cafe Society, but don't recall playing with Diz before this program. The occasion wasn't as momentous at the time as it has become since."

  • I asked Dick Hyman, the pianist on that date about what it was like playing with Bird 'n Diz and how did it come about? He wrote back"That was a nightly tv show, "Date on Broadway", on which I usually accompanied singers, along with a bassist, who that night was Sandy Block..Parker and Gillespie were the most distinguished of the guests, but the show existed before and after their appearance. We added drums (Charlie Smith) for the occasion. (1/2)

  • Diz's eyes open me.

  • Diz's eyes open me.

  • 8 people live in a cold apartment

  • it feels weird to see Dizzy playing on a regular trumpet and to see him with a mustache. although gotta admit he knows how to rocka mustache! this is an awesome video :)

  • i dont understand, is the personnel right in the description box or is the rhythm section wrong?

  • The two kings at work. Bird kicks hind-end as usual. Nothing like Dizz when he still had his lips and air.

  • The drummer in this video is most definitely, no doubt about it whatsoever, Mr Stan Levy. He was a Bird and Diz regular drummer when Max was not around. Top draw drummer and a genuine leftie. He left the music profession in the 1970s and became a professional photographer.

  • This was on primetime, network television. They would never put this kind of stuff on network prime time today.

  • I love the way they just finish it - Dizzy turns to Bird, they pass a thought, everyone stops, no car crash, nobody trying to have the last word...

  • whos the rhythm section? neone know?

    

  • da bin ich Zuhause, es kommt von der Leber

  • Charlie Smith looks like Barack Obama

  • bep bop bep bop bep bop bep bop bep bop  bep bop bep bop bep bop bep bop!!! (8) ;D

  • master, minds

  • Birds the fucking word

  • cats back in those days seemed like they had ahealthy respect for each other

  • I have never seen a Horn match the Sax in performance, Amazing .

  • incroyable ! Charlie our the man ! man !!!!

  • Bird has the nonchalant look of a guy reading a lunch menu, yet he creates this amazing, passionate music. It's like he knows there is so much more he's not even breaking a musical sweat....

  • @nicodagger that's perhaps because this was mimed

  • @billyshitcheese2 Oh yeah!! But....I have friends who saw him live, and they said the same thing, the guy is blowing insane stuff, but has the look of someone casually puffing on a cigar. Maybe for him it was easy, just as Mozart could casually compose the most amazing music whilst playing pool with friends

  • @billyshitcheese2 Dude, this was NOT mimed. There's a bunch of Bird videos that absolutely were mimed or lip-synched, but this one is not one of them. You can tell they're really playing if you pay attention, even when there's a bit of delay on the audio from the video.

  • @mpmrecords i think you'll find it was. other than the fact this is a version of hot house to be found on charlie parker - the complete dial masters, the drums, for one, aren't miked, and yet somehow sit well in the mix.

  • @billyshitcheese2 Just because there are no microphones doesn't mean that the track can't be mixed. All you need to record is one microphone, really. Musical skill should be the real mixer.

  • @Thundermonkeyms Exactly. These guys mixed live using dynamics. Music never got much better than this. This period is a high-water mark.

  • The greatest ever

  • cool

    

  • THATS WHAT JAZZ IS

  • THATS WHAT JAZZ IS

    THIS SHIT SWINGS SO HARD

  • THATS WHAT JAZZ IS

  • bird...

  • HOT!

  • Some of these Jazz Masters just defy all explanation.

    I could listen to that 100 times and never hear it the same way twice.

    thats just electric

  • This set-up must be: Dizzy Gillespie, trumpet- Charlie Parker, altosax-

    George Shearing, piano- Eddie Safranski. bass- The lefthanded drummer is Stan Levy, who regularily played in New York with Gillespie! They were all " Down Beat" pollwinners 1951 exept for Levy.

  • good shit.

  • This is one of those extraordinary iconic videos they should send into outer space so that when the aliens discover us, they won't nuke us.

  • @trignoriver You got that right! And throw in the film of Glenn Gould playing Bach's "Goldberg Variations", just for good measure.

  • me too!!!

  • Wow, what a surprise. I had no idea Barack Obama was such a good drummer!

  • This is Bebop correct?

  • @BrinGFinalFantasy At its best my friend. don't get no better than this!!!

  • Drummer certainly NOT right handed Max. Someone says Charlie Smith? He is really THE stuff!

    Piano? Sure sounds, not like Bud Powell... long white fingers.. locked chords... could it be George Shearing??

  • @tommymorey I think it's Dick Hyman on piano

  • i dont say this sort of thing usually and don't thumbs this up because it's fuckin tacky, but 6 people really, have absolutely no taste

  • apparently the hosts of this broadcast were noticeably nicer to dizzy in the interview prior to their performance, which explains a lot of the sternness in both of their faces during the song. it was awkward to put dizzy above bird and neither of them was too happy about it

  • Charlie Smith is a total taste-monger

  • Bird and Diz were an amazing match. it is a shame that Bird was done in at such a young age. At least we still have his beautiful music.

  • sexy max roach!!!!

  • that's bullshit. there's plenty of video of bird playing live. something seriously wrong with u people to be ON youtube and say ignorant shit as if it were intelligent

  • @mambojazz1 Hey, i don't want to stay on you-tube and carry on being ignorant. Can you send something to my inbox about where I can get hold of these Parker vids playing live?

  • Dignity!

  • And the great Max Roach!

  • And the greart Max Roach!

  • I too really want to know who this drummer is...so tasty!

  • @82706527 charlie smith

  • obama on drums

  • @RonaldBoy1

    yeah lol beating those drums like hes beating America's economy..

  • @RonaldBoy1 lmao we watched this in my Jazz History class and I wondered if anyone else saw that

  • @RonaldBoy1 OMG HE DOES LOOK LIKE OBAMA!

  • @judenihal that mothafucka don't look like Obama

  • @RonaldBoy1

    The drummer is Charlie Smith.

    He swings.

    Obama couldn't swing if his life depended on it.

  • @RonaldBoy1 best laugh id had in a minute! thanks hahahahaha!

  • who is the drummer??

  • @principalpercussion

    charlie smith...

  • the other video of charlie parker is him and coleman hawkins soloing over "Ballade". look it up, it's great!

  • @gospelkeys07 No, you were right. In the video with Hawkins they were finger-synching their instruments to a pre recorded tune. So this is, in fact, the only video of bird playing live, as it were. It's one of two in which we get to see bird with his instrument, but the only one in which we actually get to see him play it.

  • @gospelkeys07

    it wont let me post the link--but he plays with coleman hawkins LIVE-just search it on youtube --he is playing sax on the vid for all to see

  • please drums?

  • @ginger3ita looks like the great max roach to me

  • @drumstix826 Max is right-handed

    

  • @ginger3ita charlie smith

  • respect!!!!

    

  • @gospelkeys07

    gospel--what about all these different vids i see of charlie parker playing sax on youtube?? am i just imagining things?

  • @gospelkeys07 only known footage???

  • obama on drums

    

  • Wow! This was great.  The innovations of these cats can never be overstated. Thanks for sharing............peace!

  • thanks .. you dont see this very often

  • Enjoy a fabulous master class on the life and music of Bird! Type in "Dave Frank" Parker on Ustream.com. Bird lives!

  • ICARUS LIVES!!

  • @RedCl0ud22 I was not aware Charlie Parker played in Periphery

  • @Megamaniac610 Hahaha! Well he does. Crazy, right?

  • Dizzy and Birds forever!

  • i love charlie parkerr

  • dick hyman is keyboards

  • BIRD LIVES!!

  • isn't it amazing- That keyboard's no slouch either- Who would that be?

  • damn i was born on the wrong time

  • @OSCARSSK11 Oh me too dude!!!!!!

  • The drummer is Charlie Smith

  • diz&bird lives!!

  • Who is the drummer? I like that mans style and smile

  • @mimiburnsband I think its President Obama!

  • @mimiburnsband Charlie Smith

  • nice

  • Bird Lives!!

    

  • 3 people were groovin' so damn hard they accidentally hit the "dislike"button

  • @adamcontinenza hahaha i'm so sorry, i actually hit the dislike button on your comment because i was groovin, no shit. i would change if it let me and like it twice if i could

  • @adamcontinenza

     hahaha , they might have been lookin' for ABBA.

  • "Hot House" was written by the great bop composer Tadd Dameron, who also wrote the beautiful ballad "If You Could See Me Now".

  • Maybe it was "celerity"/"celebrity" not

  • @guitarslim. Do tell! I recall that footage of "ballade" has no audio and "just friends" was dubbed. Perhaps I'm wrong. Would love to learn more. Thanks!

  • Is that Obama on drums? :|

  • @Jazzupyourazz why yes, as a matter of fact he's turning 80 this year haha

  • @Jazzupyourazz: Yes. Though he wasn't born yet he was an excellent pre-natal musician.

  • I'm pretty sure that the "all night all frantic one" 'Symphony' Sid Torin was not one of the white guys. I think the Downbeat award presenter was Leonard Feather and the condescending host was Earl Wilson.

    Beautiful music. Is this the only film with audio featuring Bird's playing?

  • @seanjharrison, No.

  • @seanjharrison: Keep looking among the choices to your right. There is footage from another show of Bird and Coleman Hawkins in duet together.

  • what is the name of the drummer does anyone know?

  • Very sad...this is the only video of Charlie Parker playing live.....

  • @alienlove1 look on the right...

  • @BULLshitBen THAT vid is not played live.....overdubbed...........­..

  • Regarding the white guy cut from this vid, that was Symphony Sid Torin. He was credited with helping popularize bebop in its early days as the top jazz DJ. While his "you boys" intro was cringe-inducing, I think it can be written off as part of his hipster lingo. Musicians seem to have tolerated him and saluted him in song, like the Lester Young/King Pleasure "Jumpin' with Symphony Sid." It begins ironically "Jumpin' with my boy Sid in the city, Mr. President of the DeeJay committee."

  • this is true music compared to that justin bieber crap

  • really? wow come on.... the ish....

  • Absolute, utter perfection! In the mid-'60s, a record store in my area had a number of Charlie Parker's albums in their cutout bins priceed at 3 for a dollar. Silly them. I bought a copy of every one of them that they had! Best money I ever spent!!

  • Why did Dizzy Gillespie puff his cheeks out like that?

  • @anonemusify apparently he had muscular damage while learning to play the trumpet and so that caused him to play with those bad ass puffy cheeks

  • The cheeks!

  • a mi amigo anibal saxo hot de comodoro rivadavia le gusta mucho estos tios

  • The fucking mastaz Coltrane,Bird,Dizzie,Ellington­,Davis,Monk I wish I lived those days this is the root of almost every new rithm today I just love Jazz it still being the king of all music long live the freedom -ARS LONGA VITA- too

  • I like how this video cuts out the award part where the white guy calls them boys. That was some bullshit

  • who don't like this? 2 Idiots!

  • unforgetable

  • two geniuses. creators of bebop.

  • such a horrible way to die so talented one of the best 34 is way to young to die like he did. but we do have his music.

  • I'm sorry. and i have a lot of people to apologize to. I never did dig him. I love Miles, Coltrane, Lester Young, Johnny Griffin, Charlie Rouse....Bird is so frenetic.

  • excluding Lester Young, the other players you mentioned would have been nothing without hearing Parker first.

  • This is a jazz contrafact: Its harmonic structure is identical to the chords to Cole Porter's composition "What Is This Thing Called Love?," but has a different, complex melody. Love what those jazz guys can do with a structure.

  • BARRACK LIVES! (on drums)

  • Ha ha! Dick Hyman!

  • Happy birthday Dizzy Gillespie!

  • what is this thing called love

  • According to my information, the bassist is Harry Babasin.

  • Wonderful performance, but Bird looks terrible; this was filmed three years or less before his passing. Diz, though, plays with the same joy and exuberance he brought to so many of his performances.

    It looks like Max Roach on drums, but can anyone name the bassist and pianist?

  • @scrapplefromtheapp Dick Hyman, p / Sandy Block, b / Charlie Smith, dr

  • @memzehni Thanks (belatedly) for the info. Sorry about my mistake.

  • @scrapplefromtheapp yes, dizzy plays very well on this piece, cheers for him

  • a very masperpiece, and for me is important to see musicians live!

    Thank you

  • Who's the pianist?

  • @MrvlZmb The pianist is Dick Hyman.

  • @snaaptaker You have to be kidding. Poor guy, what a name.

  • @PtolemyJones He still plays at the 92nd Street Y here in NYC with Eddie Locke and Frank Wess. He's only one of the greatest pianists in all jazz history.

  • @snaaptaker How do you know? His face is only covered for the entire video.

  • @josiah566 The musicians' names were announced on another, longer, version of this video. It's also on YT. Unfortunately, I can't remember who posted it.

  • did Dizzy just play a theme from Carmen (the opera by Bizet) at 1:35? Yes, yes he did.

  • @Zakhapman He did that a lot.

  • @Zakhapman yup....Habanera, I believe.

  • bob dylan said this was a good song to wake up to

  • thats roach on drums. no way its kenny clarke

  • @rossbiased This is CHARLIE SMITH on the drums.

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  • yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!! amazing

  • THAT'S DEFINITELY NOT KENNY CLARKE

  • @zoldash Shelly Manne?

  • it's Kenny Clarke on drums

  • it's Kenny Clark on drums

  • can someone tell me the name of the performers?

  • something about that awesome piano players hands reminds me of nosferatu

  • Lol, random on a jazz vid.

  • BIRDS alive

  • @Trekki61 I believe Stan Levey is the only left handed drummer who worked with Bird.

  • @TRBrownn That drummer is Charlie Smith. Stan, though, was a genuine pioneer who played with Dizzy when he (Stan) was only 16.

  • @mike32738 sadly Charlie Smith died at 38.He was about 25 here.Loved his drumming style.

  • freaked out when bird handed off after one go. oh, TV. the 50s. LOL.

  • Go head Diz!

  • Is that Max Roach on drums?

    Who is the bassist?

  • yeah it's max

  • No man! thats not Max. I dont know who he is, Max played right handed, this drummer plays left handed>> anyone knows who the drummer is??

  • @sixoverfour

    What if the video was flipped?

  • @sixoverfour Charlie Smith on drums

  • I'm not 100% sure, but my guess is Gene Rainey. (on bass)

  • god the bird line at 0:45

    sucha a classic bird line, its in everything!!!

  • what's the structure of that song?? exmpl...AABA...