Whenever I get caught up in players like Peter King, Phil Woods and the like (both of whom absolutely smoke) I like to go back to hear the real master. There isn't a player living or dead who can blow jazz like this. This is the best Bird solo I've ever heard except for Koko & Just friends - period...
In the 1st video response, which was recorded at a jam session in June 1950, the close listener will recognize some of the same lines and phrases heard in this recording, though less polished and not as lyrical.
Thanks for posting this. It's a shame that the old recordings buried the bass players. One can hear Leroy's pulse, nevertheless. He and I worked together in various Chicago groups for about 10 years (he cut hair during the day!). What an amazing player, with a sweet soul. RIP, Leroy!
@pranktheroyal wow it must have been great to know Leroy. Live recordings back then could never catch the bass or piano. That's part of the charm - when we study the melody Parker plays, we have to invent piano voicings that perhaps were never there! This is great stuff..
@ammofuzztone That's an interesting take (about "voicings that perhaps were never there"), in connection with Bird, because it also applied to Leroy. Usually, he and I worked in a Piano/Bass/Drums setting (I was piano), and on more than one occasion, we would get a request for an old, obscure standard that I was shaky about. His playing was so strong and right that his line would 'teach' the changes to me during the first chorus. He was the most positive person I ever knew.
This is on a Savoy Record? I'd heard from so many critics and jazz authors the Savoy recordings were mostly Bird's greatest, and this sure supports that claim. Wonderfull wonderfull find again JckDupp! No wonder everybody, after Bird died, kind of dissed Verve's Norman G., for not allowing Bird to stretch out on long solos. On the other hand, without the proof of Bird's total mastery of European chord changes in the American songbook, would he had made fools of white supremicist propaganda?
@pvelectric "I'd heard from so many critics and jazz authors the Savoy recordings were mostly Bird's greatest, and this sure supports that claim"
Indeed this is astonishingly good, but I wish there were still more support offered. I'd have liked to hear the whole performance. Anyway I'm also sure you're quite right about the deleterious influence of that recording producer.
Musicians at this level of virtuosity (the few of them) always sound best live.
I think remember you now. You're the fellow to whom I made that wiseass remark about God and Nietzsche, to which you responded with what one might consider supererogatory graciousness and generousity by comparing my wit to Swift's.
As for your observation about white supremacists being made fools of (in their own perception?), they're generally not so great about adjusting their views to accord with what's seen in reality; that's why they're white supremacists. ;-)
Circa 1981 I took over on drums in 'Brotherhood' at the Mona Kea Hotel, Hawaii They'd just fired the drummer for some balone. An 'older cat' (maybe was 55). He came to my place one day and played my kit. I was afraid to get on if for a week after.. He swung non-stop! Killer. So now,, I'm surfing youtube and here he is playing his ass off back in that day... behind Charlie Parker no less! Wow!! Bruz Duz
After that, Bruz became a tennis pro at the Mana Kea.
Charlie parker talking jazz
philipnaxxar 3 weeks ago
Whenever I get caught up in players like Peter King, Phil Woods and the like (both of whom absolutely smoke) I like to go back to hear the real master. There isn't a player living or dead who can blow jazz like this. This is the best Bird solo I've ever heard except for Koko & Just friends - period...
MainAttractionProd 1 month ago
In the 1st video response, which was recorded at a jam session in June 1950, the close listener will recognize some of the same lines and phrases heard in this recording, though less polished and not as lyrical.
JckDupp 1 month ago
what sax is that ? Yanagisawa ?
saleasboy 2 months ago
@saleasboy That's a King Super 20 with sterling silver neck and (probably) bell. Yanagisawa didn't start making saxes until 1954, altos in 1956.
saxmeister 1 week ago
To think this was recorded 60 years ago is insane. Talk about being ahead of your time.
xlfutur1 2 months ago
Donna Lee?
ledzepfran 6 months ago
Is it just me, or would this make an excellent Mega Man Boss theme?
BobardeZanzibar 6 months ago
@BobardeZanzibar hahaha why? what part ? you mean the intro?
DajaWaja 5 months ago
is thin on complete pershing sets?
I have it, but this song is not on:(
Vahayr 6 months ago
wowoww woowwww THANK U THANK U THANK U
AND U MADE MY DAY AGAIN!!!!
Vahayr 6 months ago
The first time I heard this I closed my eyes and it was like I was on some crazy colorful rollercoaster in the 50's lol
Brian4hand 7 months ago
@Brian4hand very well put. So exciting!
ammofuzztone 2 months ago
can we hear the george freeman solo?
0428mar 9 months ago
@0428mar Sure. It's on the video response.
JckDupp 9 months ago
@JckDupp
Thanks for posting this. It's a shame that the old recordings buried the bass players. One can hear Leroy's pulse, nevertheless. He and I worked together in various Chicago groups for about 10 years (he cut hair during the day!). What an amazing player, with a sweet soul. RIP, Leroy!
pranktheroyal 8 months ago
@pranktheroyal wow it must have been great to know Leroy. Live recordings back then could never catch the bass or piano. That's part of the charm - when we study the melody Parker plays, we have to invent piano voicings that perhaps were never there! This is great stuff..
ammofuzztone 2 months ago
@ammofuzztone That's an interesting take (about "voicings that perhaps were never there"), in connection with Bird, because it also applied to Leroy. Usually, he and I worked in a Piano/Bass/Drums setting (I was piano), and on more than one occasion, we would get a request for an old, obscure standard that I was shaky about. His playing was so strong and right that his line would 'teach' the changes to me during the first chorus. He was the most positive person I ever knew.
pranktheroyal 2 months ago
You know in that photo with the look of concentration and the puffy cheeks and the shadows under his eyes Bird looks uncannily like a certain...
Master Yoda.
CrateofStolenDirt 1 year ago 12
@CrateofStolenDirt haha either that or hes high out of his mind lolol
tycoon121 1 year ago
Charlie Parker Is Immortal.
kingpleasure 1 year ago
This is on a Savoy Record? I'd heard from so many critics and jazz authors the Savoy recordings were mostly Bird's greatest, and this sure supports that claim. Wonderfull wonderfull find again JckDupp! No wonder everybody, after Bird died, kind of dissed Verve's Norman G., for not allowing Bird to stretch out on long solos. On the other hand, without the proof of Bird's total mastery of European chord changes in the American songbook, would he had made fools of white supremicist propaganda?
pvelectric 1 year ago
@pvelectric "I'd heard from so many critics and jazz authors the Savoy recordings were mostly Bird's greatest, and this sure supports that claim"
Indeed this is astonishingly good, but I wish there were still more support offered. I'd have liked to hear the whole performance. Anyway I'm also sure you're quite right about the deleterious influence of that recording producer.
Musicians at this level of virtuosity (the few of them) always sound best live.
polymath7 11 months ago
@pvelectric
I think remember you now. You're the fellow to whom I made that wiseass remark about God and Nietzsche, to which you responded with what one might consider supererogatory graciousness and generousity by comparing my wit to Swift's.
As for your observation about white supremacists being made fools of (in their own perception?), they're generally not so great about adjusting their views to accord with what's seen in reality; that's why they're white supremacists. ;-)
polymath7 10 months ago
omfg amazing
TheYodason 1 year ago
Circa 1981 I took over on drums in 'Brotherhood' at the Mona Kea Hotel, Hawaii They'd just fired the drummer for some balone. An 'older cat' (maybe was 55). He came to my place one day and played my kit. I was afraid to get on if for a week after.. He swung non-stop! Killer. So now,, I'm surfing youtube and here he is playing his ass off back in that day... behind Charlie Parker no less! Wow!! Bruz Duz
After that, Bruz became a tennis pro at the Mana Kea.
Aloha, Bruz
tommymorey 1 year ago 3
@JckDupp This is simply incredible...
909kong 1 year ago 6