Charlie Parker - "My old flame"

[blackandtanful]

独特陰影の”My Old Flame"～切れ味を意識的に抑えた、天才ﾊﾟｰｶｰ･ｱﾙﾄ­味 #jazzm ちょっとだけﾏｲﾙｽが

[MsMarc1234]

Thank you for putting up the musicians who played this in the description. It's not like "This is played by Lady Gaga" and you are thinking: Is it ?

[marcelpf]

I am not sure that is Miles playing in this record. It seems like Dizzy...

[rikibitta]

@marcelpf Nooo, Miles for sure! this gem is from the legendary Dial masters. Bird at his best is like heaven...

[Filouspara456]

I demand a 5 hour long version!

[maisqpoesia9999lcg]

Gorgeous!!!!!! I love this music!!!

[jimmyjohnjohns]

Someday, I want to seduce a woman in a red dress in an empty bar late at night to this song. Man oh man...

[Bafomets]

esse gostava de uma cachaça ein !

Gênio inesquecível !

[samsaxmusique]

Sheet is on : Partitions-Gratuites.yoctown.c­om

[AlobarKing]

I would really like Bird to have been my grandfather

[squalidshake]

honestly im getting tired of every video having the same comment on the top "todays mainstream music sucks" really put some thoughts int o your comments instead of bashing easy targets. this is thought provoking music so give me some thought provoking opinions

[rascally5]

@squalidshake amen brotha (or sista)

[MrHoboFlats]

Charlie Parker the Genious!

[kitabwalli]

'Bird' (1988, dir. Clint Eastwood) - hard to believe already 23 years old.

'though not as lasting as bronze, lasting.

[MultiGuarddog]

So wonderful is this song , that this is" my " song from now on .

[florent2216]

He's not a bird, he's all bird in the world ...

[orkanman55]

for as much heroin as this guy did he is still the greatest sax player ever

[Ledonist]

@orkanman55 I say Coltrane, but... 

[lokombiano2007]

Back in the days when they used to make music!!!

[123must]

So soulful andsad in the same time. Bird lives!

[motreby]

The one and only....my music GOD....may be 200 years from now he will be discovered.

[Hansenpetra]

I am borne to late, Parker and later Coltrane I wish heard them played live.

[johngoo343]

to go from his rather stringy lines on the "be-bop" recordings to this, is simply amazing. Same can be said about "Parker's Mood". I wish he would have laid down some more slow blues tracks in the realm of a Johnny Hodges type

[hobodudeTM]

Is it just me, or does Parker's smile in that photo look so... Mischievous. But then all of a sudden when the music starts playing, he looks rather... Charming.

[nadinecohenjazzco]

He is "the boss"!!!!

[jimmy12267]

this is what you call talent beautiful music



[Erkung]

The piano introduction gives the emotion of the tune. 

[firestartertwistedfi]

he had me from the first phrase :)

[calicopark]

oh my

[helluvagun]

@caoamarelo - Tommy Potter plays doublebass, not guitar!

[potatoepeter1]

OH Jesus Maria and Josof, thtas music

[BrunoJazzmanLeicht]

Eric Dolphy, and Booker Little could have been next, taking it even further in new directions after Trane; alas, they died too early.

Anyway, we fortunately have their recordings, and so it's left to us what's gonna be.

[cobra12657]

My love of Charlie Parker never wanes!

[Sodomschild]

Wow! I got goose bumbs and I don't have a damn word to say.........

[fosterwillie]

Yes he was the most innovative of all time, then came Cotrane who took it to another level. Who's next or will there every be a next.

[cwarchc]

just close your eyes and listen

[UltraWaster]

Excuse my question, but is Charlie Parker the one who wrote it?

[pearsonfamily1973]

@UltraWaster no he didn't write this tune. He would perform his own compositions as well as popular songs of the day and "standards" . This track is a very good example of how he made a tune his even though he didn't write it. My Old Flame may have been written by Coslow and Johnson.

[haruhi1203]

wooooooooooww!! 

[ledieumort]

this is cool : D

[jazzsax5]

Charlie "Bird" Parker" you are the best!



[JUSfr34k]

..... C'mon Guys. LEt's not mention Kenny G.

[Dvareckas]

bravisimo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[tuxguys]

If I may further observe: Wasn't this recording made when Miles was a sideman with Bird? Doesn't he have the last half-chorus, with his characteristically understated brilliance?

[coolymac]

A++++++++

[andifyouhadtwocoats]

Bird at his most gay, telling the world of his old flame Dizzy. So hot you burn you hiney.

Warm regards, Rab Hines

[timsaxstanfield]

Those sad individuals who make comparisons obviously no nothing of the technical expertise that Parker developed which elevated him to giant status among jazz men. I dare not even speak the names of those imbeciles that have been compared to him. Not to mention those who did the comparing. It's like putting a rubber duck next to the Ark Royale.

[ignoranttwat]

KENNY G IS A COMPUTER!

[imacomputer101]

@ignoranttwat ....Im a computer. and i approve of your message. I think kenny g is a great artist, when it comes to making music for commercials...you can't compare him with chet. it's like comparing the beatles with duran duran.

[deterth]

its so amazing..... what an amazing musician

[Dubwise4u]

The bird lives!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[higashi55]

yeah, Kenny G sucks compared to Bird- give me a break. I'm a sax player his stuff is the STUFF.

[choffa13]

This song is life afirming

[paxandrews]

i love this song... BIRD!

[Joedirt099]

I like real jazz but I support kenny g by buying his coffee.... FML

[bnork]

I'd like to compare Kenny G. to flipping him the bird!

[MsYogib]

Kenny G is delightful, sensitive, expressive. But, c'monnn son! He is NO Charlie Parker!

[LarryStaples]

Those who think Kenny G vaguely resembles Charlie Parker, put ice in their Cabernet and ketchup on their steaks, leave their eyes open when they kiss and are too stupid to come in out of the rain!

Cannonball of course is a horse of another color--stylistically I liked him better, probably because of age--I suspect Charlie broke more ground and had a bit more tallent.

Both are musical GODS!

Larry

[Kram6298]

@LarryStaples lol. Well stated, Sir.

[dennoow]

First of all it's pointless to compare musicians. Second, Parker is a musician in every sense of the word, Kenny G is not. Charlie Parker could be stoned or drunk out of his mind and still be brilliant, what ears this man had, what creativity, a truly special man. I love him to death!

[RangRing68]

@dennoow , my friend, you are so right about the BIRD being stoned or drunk out of his mind and able to destroy someone like Kenny G! Charlie had a huge mind and was one in a billion! You will never see another Charlie

Parker walk the face of this Earth ever again, so lets keep the BIRD'S memory alive!

[tuxguys]

@LarryStaples Your comment made me smile, from the soul outward... my compliments.

[LarryStaples]

@tuxguys

Tuxguys, I couldn't think of anything more appropriate than that to write. Louts are simply louts and nothing else can be said.

You an Adderley devotee too, or just like that I enjoy Charlie more than 'G'?

Larry

[tuxguys]

@LarryStaples Love Cannon, but was smiling at your opening remarks.

(Incidentally, when he first burst onto the scene, Cannon was called "Little Bird" for a reason...)

[JUSfr34k]

@LarryStaples Agreed. They are both my favorites. :D

[emelenciano]

I've never heard of Charlie Parker or remember at least; in any case, this man is a great Jazz atriste

[darian1114]

charlie parker was the best and pretty much always will be to bad he had a heroine addiction

[babugugu1]

kenny g is gay and stupid charlie parker is awesome, plays the saxophone veryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy goooooooood, is the best saxophonist ever and is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =) <3

[kaliane62]

c'est le plus grand jazzman de tous les temps le grand "Bird" nous a montrer le vrai jazz depuis mes 20ans! je dis bravo pour cette vidéo............

[abukamoon]

Charlie Parker was a musician and a saxophonist. Kenny G is an entertainer.

[nyshoefly]

@abukamoon yes true kenny g is one of the greatest comedians of all time!

[Smileyfacedkiller]

Soda, it's not really a heated argument or a fight at all, man. I'm cool, I don't think skarecrow is angry, either.

But, yeah, skarecrow, I'm sure technine has a unique style, but there are other rappers like that that probably more accurately can be compared to charlie.

Rakim, for example, with his technique of increasing the rhyme and syllabel volume contained within each verse, and his more rapid fire flow, he is often credited with furthuring the art of rapping, much like Charlie was.

[SodaBoss10]

what an epic youtube fight between @SKARECROW666 AND @Smileyfacedkiller that is awesome, one of the best i've seen!!! and simply put, charlie parker is amazing.

[SKARECROW666]

I don't know much of nothing 'bout jazz here but I'm a fan of Rapper Aaron Dante Yates Better Known As Tech N9ne... apparently Michael Jackson's Promoter Quincy Jones called Tech N9ne "The Charlie Parker" of Rap Tech N9ne Is Indeed One of the most versatile underground Rappers of today with a music career since 1988 hitting mainstream in 1999 who now totals of 8 or 9 albums and an EP of his latest album K.O.D. (King Of Darkness) and his own record label Strange Music The one he's CEO of.

[Smileyfacedkiller]

@Skarecrow, that's a pretty odd comparison.  Wasn't Parker one of the biggest influences in how jazz was played at one point in time? Since when has technine changed rap music completely?

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller Frankly as a Rap fan I could Tell You He Has Since He has done things That other rappers have not even considered, Now if you know the smallest thing about rappers today, most of them are washed up because all they do is brag about how much money, women, cars and yada, yada, yada, you know the rest... Tech N9ne may say a thing or two about all this but he decided to do something different with the type of "garbage rap" you hear today ... (TO BE CONTINUED)

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller PART II: Instead of Bragging about riches, women and about all that the average M.C. JOE would talk about Tech N9ne (Aaron Dante Yates) talks about his struggles with his former drug addiction, the so called hardcore Rappers life did not turn out to be all that they said it was and he also exposes other peoples ignorance and narrow mindedness, I believe that every type of music has a meaning but you just have to be into that type of music to understand it

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller PART II: Instead of Bragging about riches, women and about all that the average M.C. JOE would talk about Tech N9ne (Aaron Dante Yates) talks about his struggles with his former drug addiction, the so called hardcore Rappers life did not turn out to be all that they said it was and he also exposes other peoples ignorance and narrow mindedness, I believe that every type of music has a meaning but you just have to be into that type of music to understand it

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller Tech N9ne Shows that there more interesting ways to rap than just the average I'm M.C. JOE BLOW, I GOT ALOTTA' MONEY BLAH BLAH BLAH ... Tech N9ne is not there to brag about funds but you'd have to hear his stuff to see the difference between him and others here's a way to notice it Listen to Tech N9ne's K.O.D. Album and then Listen to any other rapper who's know for bragging about his income just like everybody else... You'll see what I'm talking about!!!

[Smileyfacedkiller]

@SKARECROW666 I guess you're comparing Charlie and Techn9ne because you feel that tech has done stuff outside what people in his genre have done, similar to Charlie. But, you're acting as if Techn9ne is the first rapper to come with different deliveries and talk about more than money, girls..etc. There are a lot of rappers that do this. also, the main thing about charlie was that he changed how a generation of jazz was played. I've yet to see any evidence that tech has done this for rap.

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller Well, I guess I can Only say that in my eyes, and I'm not here to argue a point but I will say that If You are Into something You can probably see the differense, now I could babble on 'Bout Tech N9ne since I'm a fan but I know what I hear in his music I don't hear In others Specifically the Mainstream!!! On the other hand this is the end of my praising him becaouse I can't make anybody see what I see, but thank you 4 listening! TECH N(NE!!!!

[SKARECROW666]

@Smileyfacedkiller TECH N9NE!!!

[sonrev]

hmmmm... the sheer romance in this music... eyes closed and floating on the sound waves :)

[artfunky]

@sonrev  i hear you my friend =)

[thomascarpone]

OnyxJasmine , I don't play sax , but I enjoy soaring with the Bird !

[Guyshachar1]

right man, soaring is definitely the right word for listening to bird's music

[gocatz99]

i cant stop listen'n!!!!!!!! its friggen epic!

[JackHauss]

Thank god he was born back then and not say around 1990. You would never hear dof him otherwise due to the music mafia holocaust currently going on run by rapping prison queens and fags who think lip synching Barbie dolls are the height of artistic expression.

[gocatz99]

lol on the barbie thing but i tottaly agree! all of nows singers are terrible. well, most. mainly pop.

[SaxoRamirez]

A shame how America can go from producing things like Parker, Goodman, Mingus, Cannonball, and so one, to the majority of what we hear now.

[Smileyfacedkiller]

@saxo, man, it's a sign of the times. A sign of the fast food, espn highlight, bubble gum wrapped teen pop world. What a sad time.

[SegaGuy7]

@Smileyfacedkiller Word, music became whack at the beginning of the 21st century

[zzausel]

@SegaGuy7 It must be terrible not to be able to enjoy the musical geniusses of our century. It must be sad to need whack to praise his idol. Some deny the beauty of our time, some deny the cruelty of our time. We got senses, we got mind, let us open them. Pardon me preaching.

[SegaGuy7]

@zzausel Don't get me wrong, i manage to find good music, just that overall music itself has been depleting in the amount of dedication put into it.

[zzausel]

@SegaGuy7 It is the same with good ideas and good will, but what is your life worth without that "dedication". My joy about (making) good art is bigger that my anger about the plenty. But I think we are d'accord.

[dazombia]

@SaxoRamirez America was producing great things to end of the 50s, than it all started going down

[gocatz99]

@SaxoRamirez if you lisen to this and then some rap song, your ears feel like there going from being massaged with lavender in paradise to blowing them up with dynamite.

[jazzflutist]

@gocatz99 : Yes, since rock, things have become martial and thudding, with jagged knives and spurting blood. In contrast, this music is love and genius, with sweet perfume and almost unimpeachable tenderness.

♥

[practising for the cheap novel I'm writing]

[masterofscotland]

@gocatz99 Some rap is very good, both musically and lyrically so stop being a music snob, fuck off or shut up and listen to the music.

[the4thedemension]

@masterofscotland i agree with you, but please try to be a little less harsh in the future?

[rikibitta]

@masterofscotland Bebop is the Rap of '45-50 years

[dgoss1966]

@SaxoRamirez It'll change. Auto-tune has a strong negative connotation, and Guitar Hero is about to incorporate a real guitar so this generation can REALLY play while they play along, rather than pushing buttons. I'm 44 and so many of the young kids that work for me are taking lessons from me, I could almost live on that income alone. There's hope, the age of American Idol is coming to an end, hopefully, we'll once again fall in love with the fine arts.

[SaxoRamirez]

I've fallen in love with music all over again, this is my first semester in college, and I love being a music major! but yes, let us home it is coming to an end.

[aarfeld]

@SaxoRamirez: You mean like Chick Corea, Joe Lavano, Roy Hargrove, John Scofield, etc.? Great music is there if you search it out. Bird and company were not representative of the popular music of their day no more than those that I listed are representative of popular music today. But great music of then and now, ah . . . now we're talkin'.

[skyiscrying53]

@aarfeld I love all of them but they are not in the same field as this man...charlie, armstrong, miles, monk then all the rest...can't forget about dizzie and count and I know i[m missing one more person....

[blitzel3]

@SaxoRamirez It's a damn shame.

[coco4bee]

@SaxoRamirez come on now. times have changed....it's all good music.

[waikashi]

@SaxoRamirez There are still awesome American musicians. Check out the bands: Consider The source, Full Service, and The Derek Trucks Band. Especially Consider The Source, they redefined my opinion of modern music and the power of live performance.

[IsaacEliSeth]

@SaxoRamirez Hey, there's still some good jazz out there. Check out 'L'orkestre de pas perdu'. They're Montrealers, though.

[qtiprick]

@JackHauss you're ignorant.

[TheGoldrock1]

Nobody can use another mans teeth to smile

[gocatz99]

i'm only 10, but i seriously love this music!!!!!!! its the best! the bird is beast!

[billyhasbigears2009]

Me too! I play the sax

[OnyxJasmine]

billyhasbigears2009

I think everyone who watches this video plays sax. haha.

Me: Alto.

[WAMEDJO]

@OnyxJasmine

I don't play any. Sadly there's no way for a piano player (like me) to have such a sound on his right hand, I mean vibrato, glissandi, growl etc...

[XDman100]

Yeah man I hear you. I play alto and I want to be just like Charlie Parker.

[gocatz99]

sweet! what type? (e.g. tenor, alto

[TheGoldrock1]

It's beautiful music!

[gessed]

Parker used to go to a music store ,look at the music sheets (pretending to buy). He would walk out knowing every note from memory.A real genius.

[TheGoldrock1]

There's many stories about Charlie Parker many centering around super natural powers. Read the autobiography of Charles Mingus called Beneath the Under Dog. Mingus was tremendously influenced by Bird.

[DangerousBastard]

Pretty cool!

[planetsmasher72]

who gives a shit if its not bebop. its amazing music.

[benjacho79]

que bonita. me encanta!

[gocatz99]

im gonna cry. i love it more then life.

[gocatz99]

you  are amazing. perfect sound. i seriously love this song!!!!!

[fviola1]

Amazing!

[TheDunnodunno]

what year was this song made?>

[Voicex3Annii]

I'm sorry but it isn't Bebop!

[Voicex3Annii]

I'm sorry but it isn't Bebop!

[MrMacon16]

man hes the best technical sax player there is with a distinct style. you can pick a charlie parker tune out of a thousand records. I love this.

[Happy08ify]

lool

[bigbo45]

Okay I didn't read all the comments but did someone compare Kenny G to Bird?..... In the famous words of John McEnroe....you cannot be serious!

[iscream22]

Yeah, they cant compare. But not only that they have totally different styles as well

[rastabokero]

El duro del SAXO GRANDE YARDBIRD

[davidgrech1]

Watch the video of Pat Metheney on you tube and listen to some of his remarks on kenny G !!!!!I am just being cheeky here. Kenny G is awesome too, listen to some of his recent recordings.

[AresCassell]

Awesome saxophonist. Only Coltrane is better IMO.

[Prodigy502]

ughhh... i hate kenny g

Charlie Parker is beastie. the reason everyone is comparing him to Kenny is because this isn't one of Charlie's fastest paced songs.

[ChiTown7721]

It doesn't even matter that it's not one of his faster paced songs. His playing on ballads kicks the shit out of Kenny G any day. On faster paced songs Bird would have torn up Kenny like Jack The Ripper! :)

[ClassicSax5]

Don't insult Bird by putting him in the same paragraph as Kenny G. I could explain why, but anyone who cares will understand just why, so no additional extended angry remark is necessary

[birdndiz10]

@classicsax5...eloquently put.

[gessed]

Everyone jazz musician would agree that there is no one like Bird.Listen for a few years and you,ll get it. Promise

[TheGoldrock1]

Bird had a brain that processed like the fastest computers. He was beyond the beyond.

[MrsDiamondears]

ARE YOU SERIOUS? Seriously, no disrespect meant, but at the least, read up on the history and development of jazz.

Maybe you'll understand why all phases of your post floors me.

[drumstyx6464]

@IncendiaryPistonOil lawl

[brandonj70]

no.

[aaronamccoy]

way too good man, miles on some lyrical shit, bird well he's the best

[Muscleman250]

kenny g and the other guy don't count they are contemporary players not jazz artist. You can't mention then when you talk about Charlie Parker or Coltrane that's an insult

[harveymover]

You have got to be freakin kidding me to mention Kenny who and David blowhorn in the same breath as Yardbird. His worst days playing on a plastic sax are still unbelievable by comparison. Jazz and improvisation are synonymous and those guys are left in the dust by Bird.

[tothlaw]

well said...

[MrTraktus5]

@harveymover not just his improv ability, but I'm amazed by how well his notes follow the chord changes. the most amazing musician!

[DrunkenFigther]

"The best is dead and love will not bring him back". Quoted by Marcello David Alves.

[DajaWaja]

so beautiful, so tragic...

[Smileyfacedkiller]

Sax is my favorite instrument. How can a human being create something this beautiful? This is incredible. But then again, the human will and spirit is infinite. Man, to think that something like this is possible out of man inspires me.

[Guyshachar1]

I wish i had a whiskey right now. very beautiful

[illdogZZ]

im serving me a whiskey right now!

[tereroli1]

Wonderful music!

[eljaysh]

dont forget John Coltrane

[SteuartHedington]

Yes sure.......here's another idea: Don't forget DEXTER GORDON!!!

[FantomOfFear]

charlie parker is one of the few jazz musicians i know. i need suggestions, and i play alto sax so id prefer them to play sax

[donotclickonthis]

Check out Cannonball Adderley and Paul Desmond. That should give you a good idea of the two ends. and if you can, Kenny Garrett

[texasB666]

check out Ben Webster, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis offcourse and if you wanna hear some realy crazy free jazz, check Naked City dude ...cheers

[joaormedeiros]

coleman hawkins, man!

[awesomeisrick]

Don't forget Kenny G!

Seriously though...David Sanborn is a great alto player.

[Danielc412]

@awesomeisrick kenny g is a clown.

[lamusicahera]

Fantastic....

This probably deserves at least a 20 on 10. Amazing. I wanna follow in his footsteps (Except for the drugs part)