Charlie Parker Sessions

[snipersas]

lovely video

[hitzville81]

This is for the BEATNIKS!

[Urmomrocks159]

what mouthpiece is he using??

[willy1986tralara]

these guys are amazing

[lilreddancelover]

Does any one know the name of the song hes playing?

[BennyGaberMusic]

what's this theme?

[JaredAugerot]

9 people just pissed me off!

[mollkatless]

@JaredAugerot - can you do me a favor pal, can you spread the word to all who seem to need to comment on the "likes/dislikes" that is not necessary and so overdone?

Seriously, could you do that? There is at least one on every single vid on youtube, at some point does it ever become tedious and played out? Thanks, go back listening to this great music

[elintrep]

just a fact: in this recording they are playbacking. not attacking the bird or any other cat, just a fact.

[flurbaflurbs]

wtf hes using a metal mouthpeice

[CrEditsHD]

@flurbaflurbs why is that wtf?

[BluesAndRoller]

Playback :D

[skywasawomansarms]

Charlie plays the famous riff that he does in every song; except this time he plays it double time (hella fast)....Watch Buddy riches face at :29

[Caioliz2]

''Charlie Parker Looks like Budha'' as Jack wrote.

[wiliscool]

man he looks so at ease

[hitzville81]

The pianist is the epitome of hip!

[7archangels2]

this clip is priceless!

[SuperFlyguy62]

i wonder what kinda of sax he used

[Fantasticifaction]

That drummer looks like a 6 year old getting a sweet lol

[afrobeatle10]

Absolutely amazing solo from Charlie.

[Aaronlongville]

i wound the tape back to catch the lick at 0.30, that lick is LITERALLY 1 second long

[sewitt60]

@Aaronlongville I know, it was awesome!

[poolah123456789]

Where is this clip from???

[ernandaria]

who is de drummer¡?thanks

[wannabesedated00]

@ernandaria buddy rich

[Ahash31]

I know this is just a dub over, but everyone said that's how he played, completely still, it looks so crazy how he is barely moving and that is just coming out. so amazing

[welcomestop]

can anyone tell me, is this Max Roach on the drums? The guy is o young, it's hard to tell. It sure does sound like him

[Stradivari1955]

@welcomestop - Buddy Rich is the drummer's

[123must]

The legend . Bird lives

[jennesita100]

......

[jokudorka]

he lives

[OSCARSSK11]

i could watch this video all day

[siddi1231]

9 need an exosicm

[tataso]

Amazing Bebop !!

[viduayte]

I just had my first real orgasm.

[MrTheLighter]

legend

[hyprform]

Haha, I love the way they look at the drummer and let them do this thing for a while... exceptional.

[urbations]

I believe this tune is called "celerity", not "celebrity".

[pecas20101]

What brand of used saxophone charlie parker, just out of curiosity?

[mattkreps123]

@pecas20101 that is a king super 20

[pecas20101]

charlie parker is the best saxophonist!!!!!!!!

[pecas20101]

nice drum solo!!!!!!!!!

[mushnorb]

Yes it is Buddy Rich, just he was very young! Take a good look at his face!

[erykaadams]

he is calm about what he is doing he is made of music

[MrMusiccccc]

awesome!

[MarcusBernard89]

This is depressing to me every time i see this......

WTF ONLY 212,025 VIEWS!!!!

[rayisyourlover]

@MarcusBernard89 dude I was just thinking the same thing. dumb how the great bird isn't loved as he should be

[Ahash31]

every time i watch this i just want to smoke after

[jakiner]

who ever clicked thumbs down on this video doesn't know a damn thing about music.. my cat has better taste!

[9876543217303]

What's not to love? These guys show love and comraderie and Mr. Parker smiles. I love it. Thank God we have film!

[Ahash31]

AMAZING

[BAMeynig]

back in the day *music* was popular

[udongo106]

....great sessions.......I gave my contributions to the man....

[raptorsfan245]

8 people play the recorder

[MrRanadc]

Un genio!!!!!!!!!!!



[astronomicato]

THE BIRD////THE BIRD/////BIRD

[metalmasta]

1...2...3...4...*Video Freeze* :(

[penk0]

0:48 even parker laugh on drumers bad acting

[yootesa1515]

what can i say.. the guy is an amazing musician !

[donotclickonthis]

the story is that they were shooting a film for norman granz but the video didn't work out well. So they had to take the audio and try to sync it to the new video.

[horseplayinkidd]

man...how does he do that!?!?!?! charlie parker looked so relaxed n wasn't lookin like he was tryin to know it its like he jus felt it

[DuckTapeMan98]

buddy rich

[fujifour]

I love that opening phrase that bird uses, its sounds a little eastern, its got so much character though. RIP

[tristanhallsvids]

even though it seems we are in a digital age... i wonder if there are meters and feet of extra footage like the end of this take.

[southflvitilla]

wow man charlie just rips and then just smokes a cigar like nothing just happened

[mooshashie]

@southflvitilla i think he's smoking a joint not a cigar

[gators409]

@southflvitilla Cigarette, and before this session he shot up a ton of heroine

[mmehaffe]

That's Buddy Rich allright, and isn't it a rare pleasure to watch those two giants play together, admiring each other's incredible chops.

[DuckTapeMan98]

i uv jazz

[zurdo1432]

damn, I think this is even hard to learn on jazz schools or something...

[zurdo1432]

@zurdo1432 take that back, you actually need lots of theory to tack this one...

[1111flores]

Hot Damn!

[1111flores]

Who is the drummer in this video? Isn't YouTube AWESOME?

[toshmosh117]

@1111flores isnt it Buddy rich

[olemunati]

@toshmosh117 looks like it, but where the ride?

[Catsnamed]

@toshmosh117 Yes, that's buddy rich.

[cooloutac]

bird and diz the greatest jazz players ever and will be. Played the sickest blues, the widest repertoire, played the fastest and highest, could play strict or free, and dominate in each category, the most all around ability that shined and pioneered on 2 genres of new york afro cuban and bepop jazz. all that come after strives to be their blueprint. they sit on thrones.

[TenorMadness12]

wow they have this in the wrong key in the omni book its really B not Bb

[cliffworks4321]

of course it's Buddy on drums, even has his initials on his drums. so after Bird rips off

the perfect solo like it aint no big thing, he lites up a fag! gotta love it

[heb1114]

I dig these hepcats!

[gabrielthemarine]

hahaha what's going on with the drums?

[sydneydowful]

thats not max roach on drums is it?

[veeecter]

@sydneydowful it's buddy rich. just a much younger buddy rich, but you can still tell by the way he plays and solos that it's him :P

[Kaitano94]

@sydneydowful I never knew max roach was a cracker.

[sydneydowful]

@Kaitano94 max roach wasn't a cracker, but don't mind me im a simple poet and a complex drunk.. For some reason I thought it was max roach

[educortazarc]

Buddy Rich??

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

One of the funniest jazz clips ever! Happy birthday, Charlie Parker! -- Feel free to click on the link to my blog (in profile). Have posted a history of "Cherokee" there, in memory of Bird.

[MrBloodDrive]

OMG...

I've never heard REAL MUSIC until now.

[mrprogjazzgto]

WOW... Very RARE...!

Now where is the rest of this Session...!!

LMAO @ Buddy Rich

[TheFrenchCharlie]

Genius!!-thank you for the posting.French Charlie

[karmacannon]

You know, every single line of his solos is itself a melodic masterpiece. He isn't simply playing patterns, he is giving voice to what he hears in his mind. A true genius.

[freebrazzerstoday]

vastly over-rated. pure crap really.

[BloggerMusicMan]

@freebrazzerstoday

Ke$ha? Absolutely.

[RK00002]

@freebrazzerstoday you're an idiot

[MichaelSchwartzJazz]

@freebrazzerstoday You must be Lady gaga's bitch. Shut up and keep listening to it until you start to like it.

[nicodagger]

JUStr34, I read about it in more than one bio of Bird, it was also in the film "Bird". The sax player really did throw his sax into the river after hearing Bird play. I feel the same way after hearing Art Tatum, except I can't throw my piano into the river becauase it's too heavy.

[JUSfr34k]

One of the Greatest Saxophonist! !

[EduardoAllo]

Can´t understand in all my life how is posible to play that way...this man makes me ill...it´s not human, just two bars of his music are imposible; if I could play half minute of his playin´, I would be a master...all over those changes, playin´ so natural...makes me ill

[66miguel66]

that drum solo looks so fake hahahha

[wasalater]

wow i am speechless really now words this is awesome

[tbengal55]

You all know that they are "lip-syncing" this to the recording right? If you don't notice his breathing, or the fact that the kit doesn't even have a ride symbol . . . He still played it on the recording though, and wow, what a musician's musician

[schiumerini]

not a man, not a musician. A twittering bird!

[ps2monster]

@schiumerini

Well, do you know why they called him Bird? He loved chicken.

[Fan0fYunaKim]

The greatest of all........

[koninkske1969]

Amazing........

[chloe11234]

awesome!

[spankystrat49]

Without a doubt one of the best players to have ever lived. Every time I hear Bird its like magic

[rossbiased]

BIRD LIVES, and this is not boring, If you have a problem with charlie parkers playing , get out. walk away. vanish. fruits.

[230660g]

La persona que me envio esto todavía no lo puede creer! Su deseo se ha cumplido TAL CUAL. Si quieres que tu deseo se cumpla, tienes que hacer lo siguiente:

1 - Cruza tus dedos (el índice y el dedo medio) y mensiona en tu pensamiento el deseo 5 veces

2 - Hace lo mismo, con el mismo deseo y todo, pero con los dedos de la otra mano

3 - Pega esto en otros 15 lugares de facebook

4 - Tu deseo se cumplirá al instante que hayas puesto comentar por désima quinta vez, HAZLO, S

[FrankSavages]

"Theres nothing greater in Music than men together improvising on their Feet"...Duke Ellington

Genius is hard to hide.

savage.

[yecapozole]

ahhhhhhh so boring........

[somerzeze]

BIRD's genuis is often heard today. TO make the abstract out from left field solo so appealing took a mind & soul that exists in some multi- dimensional place.(can't logically explain it) JAZZ leads the listener in a non-predictable question and answer session regardless deep or shallow in their sub- conscious. Charlie kept you guessing ....sounds like two people are playing when I see and Know its just one man. Whew!!!

[hinodecho69]

Note the contrast between these gentlemen - well-dressed, disciplined, musically and intellectually articulate - and the ignorant, foul-mouthed, violence-prone low-IQ "rappers" who feign to represent contemporary black American music today. Have we gone backwards or what?

[dashofchutmeg]

@hinodecho69 Jazz musicians also weren't impacted by Reagan, crack, and AIDS the way our black youths have. Many of those "ignorant, foul-mouthed, violence prone, low-IQ 'rappers,'" especially in the 90s, were outstanding linguistic talents with immense play in their lyrics. There have always been hacks -- and rap is no different -- but many of today's rappers exhibit their own brand of genius. You just don't hear about them because it's not what the mainstream wants to be fed.

[slowlymeltintheovens]

there s some paradox when we find perfection in a musical performation. What makes art perfect - is it perfect for all etc blah blah BUT THIS SHOOTS ME INTO HEAVEN and holds me right in the present moment. I'm totally aware of my own being when i listen to this number.

best since mozart

[pippa008]

lekker zeg, die Charlie

[OSCARSSK11]

It doesnt even look like hes trying

[comateensnyc]

Mimic's the drum solo? The drummer is Buddy Rich and he's sure as hell not mimicking that drum solo.

[precisionbizzle]

@comateensnyc It's Buddy Rich, but you can see that he was off when mimicing the actual recording, you can tell he plays quarter notes on the intro when there's a roll and at the end of his solo, he gets on the high hat too early.

[plmunn]

Too bad he got so bad into heroin. He blew off shows, showed up to sessions too strung out to play, and just ended up hurting anyone who tried to help him.

But goddammit, could he bop like a madman. What a great sax player.

[erykaadams]

bird was funny he makes me happy

[231731910]

Ez volt ám a zenész! Kár, hogy csak 3 évtized adatott neki!

[2314575]

great stuff!thanks,2314575

[Whatisthescore]

Buddy Rich is a fucking badass

[stevedubintennis]

I think bird was the only one who got along with buddy rich...I mean what could rich say to bird right?

[lufelima]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[mcgovnor1]

So great to see Bird.

Comments about drug use are really non starters, however, in this case, the totally unsubstantiated comment is so far from the truth, it's ludicrous. We all know about Bird, but the others didn't use heroin, and it's a horrible thing to say about anyone when it's not even close to the truth.

[joesatriani1200rulez]

@mcgovnor1 alot of them were drug users of heroin , i know its a horrible thing to say but the most talented musicians and its always the most talented get hooked on drugs and then it ruins them , take whitney houston best singer ever lived , charlie parker heroin , the rev from avenged sevenfold died from drugs brilliant drummer , i just hate seeing all these amazing characters wasting their amazing talent on drugs

[impulsobytheshades]

@joesatriani1200rulez they are living their lives the way they like and think is the best, without remorse, i guess they were pretty sure about the consequences

just lived their lives and enjoyed them however we all come to die

[gators409]

lol they are all so high from heroin

[docteurneo]

Speechless...

What else can you say ?

[hombrequemiralaluna]

Just like that, man...

So natural, so deep, so clear, so unbelievably talented.

He does that, and then lights up a cigarette.

Bird Lives!

[AssilalOmega]

rip bird and i hope your free ....

god bless u

[firmaefeito3]

Buddy and Bird...

god, those were the times...

[kaseyWtrumpet]

I love seeing Bird smile.

[sentineladosol]

Wow...it's hard to believe when you see this video. What I like in Bird is the soft and unique touch. It was played with the heart...a deep heart.

[VegConnections]

The clarity of this video is superb. Thanks for posting!

VegConnections

[dannyinternetz]

what is up with all these fake dubbed parker videos?

[TheSanityInspector]

I think I read somewhere that the audio to this particular bit of footage went missing years ago.

[roon41]

dannyinternetz, that's the way these films were done.The group would record the song off camera, then mime the tune on film afterward..that;s why it looks fake and out of synch. Incidentally as great as Buddy Rich was, he is the wrong drummer for bird..Max Roach is better suited.

[MrCrazyproduction]

@dannyinternetz they were dubbed because it was for a movie and they had already recorded the actual piece. its pretty funny whatching how bad the drummer is at pretending to play

[TheInfaredBeam]

ahh this is in the wrong key!

still incredible though.. as id imagine bird could even play it in any key

[thestreetsofgoldband]

KÁLËB SßS HÏ!

[bradshawvincent]

incredible.i think it was jack kouroac who said when he played he looked liked those serene statues of buddha.you can really see that on these clips.

[personova]

Bird could fly. His chord transposed solo is composing in real-time. Am I sure if Bach, who was on the brink of improvisation, heard Charlie and Jazz, he would have been set free.

[custardapple777]

yup, Bach would have thought these dudes were awesome

[questar1]

@personova

bach improvised all the time. sometimes in 4 voices going one against the other at the same time.

[Bukosaure]

genius.

[Fencesmith]

amazing

[nicodagger]

I wonder what happened to all those musicians who laughed Charlie off the stage at that musical "battle" in Kansas City..how did they feel seeing Parker become the greatest jazz artist of them all? Assholes.

[austin33309]

@nicodagger then again, we might have them to thank for him becoming what he did. it motivated him to become a better player.

[nuke97]

@nicodagger You know I believe that if it wasent for those assholes who humiliated Charlie we probably would of never gotten the degree of musical intenseity that we all ended up getting out of him.

[fishingriver]

@nicodagger I'm sure they were surprised when Parker started making sense. Because the truth is that when they laughed him off the stage he wasn't following the chords. He didn't start out blowing like this. That experience was important for Parker. He forced himself to practice harder and when it came together it changed jazz. 

[JUSfr34k]

@nicodagger

how do you know about that?

[mLiebzeit]

@nicodagger Hahahahaha! exactly :D

[arakami]

@nicodagger You do know that he wasn't even close to what he was in this video? That happened because he played the one of the only tunes he knew over a completely different tune on the bandstand. Sure laughing off the stage is pretty harsh, but he couldn't play at all back then, and that's just how things would go down if you went to a jam like that and couldn't play. But talking like that is just stupid of you.

[nicodagger]

@arakami yes of course i know all about it, i was just relishing the revenge Bird had on the ones who mocked him, even if he did deserve it. So it's not stupid of me, but stupid of you to assume people don't know the same facts you know. You completely missed the point I was trying to make.

[arakami]

@nicodagger You weren't making a point at all, because there is no revenge to make in jazz, if you can't play, back then you got made fun of for going on the stage and making a fool of yourself, read about minton's and what went down there, even when bird was there.

[piano12161770]

@nicodagger  So? what do you think about charlie from just around!??!!!

[nicodagger]

@piano12161770 the word 'genius: doesn't begin to describe him. A divine force.

[octopoli]

smallest sizes of drums, I ever saw Buddy use. beautiful footage.

[potatoepeter1]

*****5

[decus69]

Parker=God

[nicodagger]

@decus69 indeed, if music is the voice of God, here it is right here out of his horn. Endless creativity!

[alexalot23]

buddy rich can really make that snare drum pop.

[cvallone1]

the look on his face when the drummer mimics the drum solo is priceless

[INeedAManifesto]

Did you see that? his eye actually twinkled. His smile lights up the whole studio. Eternally awesome.

[tigersun8]

@cvallone1 he's mimicking it?

[meikoe]

Holy shit.

[fckcok]

so amazin when it kicks in after the drum solo

[gurkensexshop]

haha his bored look!

[Hoontasan]

Pure genius!

[jazzclarinet2006]

Charlie Parker & Buddy Rich=cool