Charlie Parker - All the things you are

[helanoflute]

genius, wonderful, I have no words to describe this man

[primerosebh]

Maravilhoso!GREAT!

[Lollop82andherdad]

So awesome! So pure! So cool!

[AboveMiddleC1977]

One and only

[thesteeella]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaay

[coolredparakoopa]

cool jazzs



[jennxl33]

SCOOBY DOO!

[93JazzMaster]

There are no words to explain the sound that came out of his horn! he's the G.O.A.T

[ngky7]

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[7772404]

@ngky7

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[raysonkong]

which album is this from????!? 

[trapfman]

@raysonkong I think this version is on Charlie Parker On Dial as well, though I'm not sure where they took it from (since On Dial is a collection made somewhere in the early nineties).

[trapfman]

@raysonkong Eheh, I looked for you, in the description it says this is Bird of Paradise (his interpretation of ATTYA), yet this seems to be a different version than the original one on his album (with the same name), so your best chances would be with the collector's box, I guess.

[imbetarthenu]

miles davis

[monica66ification]

The Best!

Monne

[Nicolassimouss]

Magnifique!!!

[maddywoo13]

Jazz really depresses me. I know it's not really supposed to but when you hear all this magic coming from someone and you learn that these people died under sad circumstances (Lester Young, Billie, Parker, etc), it just really brings you down and think "Damn, all that unadulterated talent..."

[greeneyessoul]

Great

Forever great...

;)

[UlisesBetancourt]

Tengo 15 años y amo su MUSICA. ._. amo el Saxofón

[Ramirolazo]

genio



[GRJAP]

PS..Charles Christopher Parker Jnr happy 92nd birthday for 2012.

[GRJAP]

If he had not been addicted to chemical substances from the age of 13 there would not have been a 'Bird ' or any modern music using his be bop chord progressions from rock to soul

[mamatatadziadek]

it destroyed my armor from gandalf

[MrParangaricutirimi]

I'm still thinking that 1255109 views is a low number for Charlie Parker....

anyway its a totally beautiful performance....

[Jazztastic2112]

i have a massive boner from this song......and 32 people are just musically defective 

[MahatMagandi93]

but once you know the changes its a killin tune to play

[therunningpiano]

this song's changes are ridiculous to memorize

[BirdmanAKAtheRap]

And they tried to call Cannonball Aderly the new "Bird" at the time. There could only be and always will be...ONE Charlie "Bird" Parker.

[MrAreyouKIDDINGme]

By far the greatest "All the things you are" rendition. The bird had some amazing rhythm he picked off Lester Young :)

[trepalotodo]

the original is with miles davis it´s appear in a jazz compilation such as my old flame another classic

[TheLiberalPacifist]

Mr. Koenig is gay

[NIERRASAR]

one of a kind...

[PsychoMantis08]

I thought this song was called bird of paradise, was i wrong?

[asfaoboe15]

It's amazing how Jazz and Bebop helped him through his heroin addiction. That just shows the power of music.

[pencert]

@asfaoboe15 Not really. He never really recovered from what heroin did to him and he ultimately died at a young age, an alcoholic, in a quasi-psychotic depression.

[motreby]

how time flies when listening to Charlie Parker.

[lionsome]

30 dislikes? I know 30 different things they are

[Cmaro312]

the bird lives

[blowpipe92]

ITS LIKE LISTENING TO SLAYER!!!

[marchu50]

amazing!!!!

[paulostroff99]

Awesome.TY antonio200 for posting.

[LoseUrCool]

please who is the pianist thankyou

[radicalgnostic9]

@LoseUrCool personnel was Charlie Parker as., Miles Davis tp, Duke Jordan p., Tommy Potter bs., Max Roach dr.

[changeangel]

this song is great "" i study in real book

[cookiesdriven247]

Listening to this dude play sounds like making love! aha

[rodcrippler]

wow, check some cool stuff in here: /watch?v=RQRujxd3wj8

[blackandtanful]

ｼﾞｪﾛｰﾑ･ｶｰﾝの"All The Things You Are"の名演はどうしても浮かばない､この晩年のﾊﾟｰｶｰか­!?どうも抽象的ｿﾛだナ! #jazzm

[MrPastaba]

hey guys...awesome piece...but can anyone tell me from which album it is? cause it isn't "jazz at massey hall", right? and: is it dizzy gillespie on the trumpet? thanks!

[radicalgnostic9]

@MrPastaba No, it isn't Diz, it's Miles Davis on trumpet. This was recorded on the Dial label in 1947, it has appeared on re-issues too numerous to mention, though it is best to find it on issues calling themselves "The Complete Dial masters" G O O D L U C K .

[MyMahavishnu]

fly high in the sky bird!!! .

[nickylane2295]

The best scene for this song is an Italian restaurant.

[the4thedemension]

this music cant be described in rests and notes or barely any amounts of technicality. Obviously you need technicality to become a good musician, but charlie parker has something, and i think it is what makes music music rather then advanced sound.

[maurogomes3251]

Please, please! That's great music, but everyone has the tune! What we need is moving pictures to see how they managed to play so well!

[HCL991]

@maurogomes3251

:P

moving pictures, eh?

If you've ever seen him playing, you know, he barely moved when playing, not like nowadays generations, whipping on turning and jumping like maniacs...

You could barely see his fingers move on the sax. This guys was fantastic, although he would curse me for saying "fantastic", because he practiced so much, and he disliked when someone sayed, it were fantastic, he'd say it's hard work.

[StonierWilliam]

No one can touch the heights that Parker reached. I actually stopped everything I was doing when ever I watch this and just go 'Wow'.

[MSWproductions55]

the picture at 2:31 is on the wall of jazz showcase in chicago!

[spaz9i2]

Sounds like I vaguely heard this track on Mafia (the computer game) before.

[samsaxmusique]

Partitions-Gratuites.yoctown.c­­om

[bettudont]

lets all make believe we like charlie parker.

[hhm28061953]

Like a seagull flies Charlie flies through the silence - elegant

[jazzflutist]

@hhm28061953 : You said it man.

[foggyd1]

@hhm28061953 nice comment batty rider

[MartinaFromPoland]

I love that melody :)

[1wvserenity]

Check out this 16 year old alto saxophone player on youtube. search saxybair13 Augusta Performance

[BariNecessities]

Imagine what he could of done if he didn't die so young

[Blizzber]

well.. i hear 2 saxophones in the beginning... or is this trumpet? who's playing with Parker?

[Gotena23]

@Blizzber yeh man, the uncle of the Bebop, Chralie's soul brother - Dizzy Gillespie

[thederbits]

@Gotena23 No bro, it's Miles Davis

[thederbits]

@Blizzber the trumpet at the beginning (and in other parts too) is from Miles Davis. It's the Charlie Parker Quintet. You can hear the same intro in Bird of Paradise.

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[Horrorlink]

This cured my cancer

[terrryc]

Charlie's technique came out of his endless studying of theory under Efferge Ware early in his career. Charlie was trying to do it all by ear and could only get so far. It took a little bit of guidance, but that's all it took. So we're still studying him 60 years after his death.

[FEDERICONUNEZ]

Who can be so stupid to dislike this beautiful piece of art... If you dislike this you dislike art... and music.

[hitzville81]

Thumbs up if you stopped listening when Bird's solo ended.

[sosaturdido]

A great musician, extraordinary man and a wonderful visionary who brought jazz to a less commercial and dancing side, and a higher and special level.

[PigfootAbernathy]

Rest In Peace

CHARLIE PARKER (1920-1955)

[ipingault]

What's going on here? Bird was a genius. His music will live long after these morons are eaten by their maggot friends.

[TripleOctaveMusic]

The nasty comments below ruin this video

[dondon45]

Amazing !!!

[BriansThing]

The GOAT

[Raymond18806]

Oh-oh. Stooping to vulgarity is a bad sign. You must be one of those...er.. people of color with an affirmative action education. Those alkies, junkies, ex-cons, wife beaters and such couldn't even read music written by their, how can I put it...social betters. Anyway, thanks for your intelligent remarks.

[PantiSniffa]

@Raymond18806 If there is one thing I know about Charlie Parker, it's that he was an alien.

[nicodagger]

@Raymond18806 Oh, you mean niggers? That's what you're really saying, right? Niggers? All the jazz greats were junkie nigger drunks? Come on: say it: nigger nigger nigger...you know you want to. Let your racism breathe and be free!!!

[hhm28061953]

@nicodagger - a nigger is only a white man who suffers under the sun for generations and had no time to become white during the last three or four generations but you'll see it in the coming generatioons!

[daTruChosen]

@hhm28061953 Wrong ... a cracker is only a black man who suffered the genetic mutations of albinism or vitiligo. The variations in eye color, nose length/width, and hair texture are adaptational adjustments brought on by millenia of habitation in a region of the world (Europe) vastly different; climatologically, from that of their inception (Africa).

[ohmphthschwrhu]

@daTruChosen funny .then what about the new fact that everybody in the world has the neanderthal dna in them except the africans.this too you must consider traits coming from these guys.the course of narcissus may be the course of the neanderthal.beauty is everything?sexiness is everything?health is everything?intellect is everything?pick one.check the traits against the neanderthals.better evidence than albinism.where is the nose that fits the pyth helmet 'to a tee'?

[alsdyall]

@hhm28061953 ??

[Raymond18806]

@codb0y: The truth hurts, eh, bub? If it were not for guys like Beiderbeck, Konitz, Mulligan, et al, there wouldn't be Miles Davis, Cannonball Adderley, Johnn Coltrane, Clifford Brown or any of them bums! Ya gotta give credit when credit is due.

[BlacknesUnforgivable]

@Raymond18806 Stupid comment. Coltrane and Miles shit on those unknown bums you mentioned fuck boy

[Raymond18806]

Charlie Parker learned how to play good jazz by listening to Stan Getz and the great Paul Desmond of Brubeck fame!

[codb0y11]

@Raymond18806 I think you need to study music history, jazz history, and dates/math before you make a statement like that.

[dondon45]

@Raymond18806

HeHeHeHeeHeehhhheeeHH

Haaaaaaaaaaaa?!

[TripleOctaveMusic]

@Raymond18806 Hi the dates are wrong Getz and Desmond were after Parker

[HendrixcommaMartin]

@Raymond18806 I want to laugh but I think there may be a small chance you're serious. A good chortle either way!

[id2578]

@Raymond18806.....pfffff....!!­!....dude...sometimes it is better not to say anything,... 'cause...

[Diomedes22]

@Raymond18806 this is a masterpiece of stupid racism. there's an interview of charlie parker by paul desmond on youtube. desmond, like every jazz artist of that day, was in awe of bird.

[gsco82]

@Raymond18806 I think that you're a bit off track to say the least. Both Getz and especially Desmond play a different style of jazz than the bebop which Charlie Parker pioneered. I like all 3 of these saxophonists, but I feel that Charlie Parker made the biggest contribution through his incredibly innovative (for that time period) playing.

[JamKar1]

I prefer this traditional intro to the song, which is not played much anymore.

Notice how he repeats it going out.

[southgateandleigh]

@JamKar1 Likewise. Actually I always assumed it was a Parker/Davis riff. Either way, it tempers the sweetness of the main melody and tees it up nicely!

[glene37]

@MarieValigorsky21 - It's Duke Jordan.

[Diogenes1360]

I know that in this world man cannot have the best; yet to pray for a part of what was once shared is better than to forget it.

[jerkymoto]

Who's playing trumpet on this? A slick mofo!! Whodat?? RSVP

[MarkStuRice]

My God, but every time I hear this I can't imagine anything more beautiful... No music touches me the way this does...

[Mr7group]

Americans didn't "have a part" in the invention of Jazz. Americans invented Jazz all by themselves along with blues, rock, country, rap, soul ect,ect. These players in particular invented ways of interpreting music that has never been duplicated.

This is about as original as it gets.

If your not convinced, well keep listening.

[detectivemile]

Great great !!!

Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Joe Albany (p) Addison Farmer (b) Chuck Thompson (d)

"Finale Club", Los Angeles, CA, early March, 1946

check out the earlier Gillespie Sextet version with bird also & slam stewart singin' bass

Dizzy Gillespie Sextet

Dizzy Gillespie (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Clyde Hart (p) Remo Palmieri (g) Slam Stewart (b) Cozy Cole (d)

NYC, February 28, 1945

[magajazzfan]

Isso é um gêniooooooooooo!

Eu amooooooo!

Maga-Lee :-))

[silkstrings9420]

so awesome, one of the few things americans can be proud of having part in the creation of. jazz that is.

[blackrocknutt]

@silkstrings9420 African Americans created the various Great Black Musics we call jazz,blues,gospel, soul, rock n roll, funk, disco, hiphop, house, krunk.

[silkstrings9420]

@blackrocknutt yes. they were americans. theres no such thing as an african american - unless however the person was born in africa then moved to america. in a perfect world anyone who was born in america will be called an american, period.

[theinvisiblelight]

Trumpet.. Dizzy?

[Dvareckas]

Ch.Parker Genius!!!

[wellknights]

excelent excelent excelent excelent excelent

[Rick19851]

tenía rato que no escuchaba a Mr Parker, es bueno recordar buenos sonidos y re-esccharlos una y otra vez - sobretodo si es para crear una pieza de arte #likealot

[dsucc01]

@Rick19851 que coño es este #likealot?

[KA1ZR]

Some jazz songs you listen to you can tell the melodies were written just so they could use the chords to improvise over. Those one's you listen to and think "well it's alright" then they win you back when they start improvising. This one however is a really nice melody.  I remember the first time I heard it (the Miles version) I thought to myself "wow" and just sat all relaxed and started to sink into my chair. Every time I hear this it still has the same effect on me. I know there have be

[GPofLB]

Hello All,

I know that I’m “clinically certifiable” so there’s no need to respond and confirm it, But could someone please tell me how I can listen to this song, between the 1:00 and 1:33 time slot and come away with a tear in my?

It’s so beautiful and melodic, but at the same so Sad…

Am I really that crazy or can music have such a strange affect on a person?

Great song,

Thanks for the upload.

PS: I agree there are 27 people out there that just don’t get it!!!

[lukethecblguy]

Is DIzzy playing trumpet on this?

[Wakk94]

@lukethecblguy Yep!

[purpleandhotpink]

amazing as song and amazing player man i wish i had a jazz group to play with we would play stuff like this alot

[IMadeThese]

@baseballmaniac151 No one ever will be close to Bird's level.

[Borsukivejn]

@IMadeThese racje masz! trzeba ci polać!

[baseballmaniac151]

I am going to one of the most prestigious music schools in the country for sax where they only accept 4 people for sax throughout the nation and i am not even close to beeing nearly as good as him

[vdeferens]

@baseballmaniac151 you probably watch too much baseball :)

[imgicked]

@baseballmaniac151 obviously bra

[francescaemc2]

@baseballmaniac151

nah!!!! you just gotta practice more!!!

[postatility]

@LovelyJazzTrumpet Kid---you are on the right track!

[happygoloopyrocks]

best sax player ever if im lucky and do nothing but eat drink sleep and practice for 90 years i might be half that good

[ianianoo]

@happygoloopyrocks Depends how much you eat, drink and sleep.

[matthewandleigh123]

i play the sax but when i hear charlie play its the best thing ive ever heard

[dagangstah]

What album is this on, I can't find this anywhere

[ViceroyCDR]

I love the thrust of Bird's playing here

[sirblip]

you have to hear Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker version

[Sanotaru92]

Lol... why black people dont explote this true culture?... I dont like new black people identity... Thats the reason because other people dont take them seriously.... nowadays jazz music is in hands of all except of true unmoney black people who created it...

[Skyddish]

What an artist :)

[olgachefugge]

this is all the things it is all together...all the things we are.....all the things i am...all the things that could be.

[MapexVX94]

Definitely the best version of this Song!!!

[mickhutchinson]

Great .Brilliant

[cjsmith281]

My dad played horn 70 years and his saying was nothing 50 years ago that could touch parker and doubts there will be the next 50 as dad was a fortys bopper Hamilton school of music Phila

[alpaca4463]

i play the sax and this is awessoooooooooommmmmmmmeeeeeee­e!!!

[decus69]

♥♫♪☼

[alejandrolopezcinca]

@decus69 My godness, this is not Disney Channel, it's Charlie Parker. It's sound and smoke, not sunny days

[decus69]

@alejandrolopezcinca Guess Charlie Parker never had sunny days? He spent his life in dingy and depressing clubs playing the blues.

[Dedalusalley]

This is actually called "Bird Of Paradise".

[saxophoneninja]

@Dedalusalley Bird of Paradise has the same changes and intro as All the Things You Are, but it has a different melody, and this is the melody for All the Things You Are.

[scottgrafton1]

Thank You for putting this site together. If only more people would listen. Charlie Parker opened a whole new world for me as a guitarist.

[Kievest]

The imtimacy, imagination, musicality and eternal truth of Charlie Parker's playing

is a timeless refuge for humanity! Thank you for posting and to paulostroff99

for sharing!

[jay1beaux]

Beautiful music---thanks

[bakeland1]

@conn6m ...Wow. it's ridiculous that you think music can be "stolen". Just because popular music has roots from a certain race doesn't mean only they can listen and enjoy it. I think you're the racist one.

[Fank234]

How many more comments on jazz clips are going to be hijacked by discussions on racism? Please! And now back to the music.........................­.......

[pqskater4life]

just to say her revolutinised jazz is an understatment i mean he constantly changes his approach to all of his songs taking u one way then pushing u in another and i think he should always have the last solo personaly because absoutly none of the other pll in his band can even compete with the bird

[eguirald]

Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955). Fifty six years today.

Bird Lives!

[Jacobminota]

20 Ignorantes 

[CGrayArea]

I am a young tenor player, first year, and I have found something new to admire in this master of the instrument.

[iskate9988]

i play saxophone, and i wish i could play like him and my band director said i am jazz first chair if we had chairs

[70tamburo]

yes

[lilbiz008]

i mean how could you not like this brotha right here.... disappointed....

[TheScooterboy777]

20 people got given the bird

[peerschmidtke]

Charlie Parkers music really changed my life - Bird lives!

[paxandrews]

@peerschmidtke me too dude............ we are blessed to have heard it....

[maracuja123]

that´s incredible. thank you...

[claude4268]

Un formidable thème qui brille aussi clair que l'alto de Bird...

[peppersax]

20 people are still living in the basement at their Mother's house playing with themselves.

[Jazztastic2112]

The head to this song changed jazz forever

[Cloudsorrow256]

20 thinks that a second major is the same as a third minor diminished.

[thetriple955]

Bird, pourquoi es-tu parti si tôt? Le jazz, et particulièrement le be bop resteront un style que seuls les meilleurs mélomanes pourront comprendre ;-)

[Dodmen1]

Does anyone know a song with vocal, which is cool and smooth like this? Can't find any comparable...

[mcrfan221]

@Dodmen1 Ella Fitzgerald kicks total ass on this song. 

[Borsukivejn]

@Dodmen1 this is miusic for miusical- so probablu it is version you look.

[markxslashock]

i love jazz  :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[Okavanzo]

Linda melodía!!!!

[sjsoccer261520]

DIS IS STRAIGHT UP G !!!!!! I LOVE IT .