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  • Lovely playing.TY kenjames64 for posting.

  • GSA "Project Funk Jam"/ "All Blues"

  • Charlie is good, good, good, is god.

  • RIP Chad Smith!

  • nice

  • never knew Buddy Rich even did a session with Bird , great footage!

  • bird is GOD

  • 2 great diferent styles..... 1 great feeling..

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  • no messin with the brothers, best ever! and all popular music thereafter copied from the black man, that's why the most beautiful music is coloured and black, best music white man made was classical, but even that copied black people, cant shove history under the table.

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  • if you lesson to Hawks playing that soulful line that's when Charlie gives a soulful smile that said wooooo that was great !!!! that's how i

    I see it and hear it

  • Happy Birthday, Bird!

  • I'm surprised the coleman hawkins took to bop so well

  • @sallan1 kenjames64 hit it on the nail: I have seen the Leonard Feather narrated version of the film, in a jazz documentary. I can't provide a link offhand for that version of the film; maybe someone who has a copy of it could upload it to youtube and provide a link here. It means that, unfortunately, that this isn't film of Parker "playing"; he is merely "faking" along with everyone else, which is what all the amusement was about.

  • I'm kind of new to jazz and the sax, can anybody recommend anything for me to listen to? Thanks:)

  • @kevinreedmusic

    Uhhh timeline start with lester young, Ben webster, Louie Armstrong, Then do Count Basie, Bird, Diz, to start, i could name A LOT of musicians theres too many to be honest, jazz is huge.

  • @kevinreedmusic John Coltrane - My Favorite Things. That's my favourite Coltrane album, and its more accessible to a newbie than his masterpiece, 'A Love Supreme'. You'll more likely be familiars with some of the melodies on it. I'd also recommend Miles Davis's 'Kind Of Blue' and Cannonball Adderley's 'Somethin Else' for great sax playing.

  • @bolder2009 Agree, but I'd add "Blue Train," and "Ballads"

  • @kenjames64 Funnily enough I was gonna include 'Blue Train'. That's been on my playlist recently, but I didn't wanna get carried away. And why not throw in 'Giant Steps'. Yeah that should be enough to get started.

  • Coleman Hawkins lead the first bebop recording session. Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach played in the band.

  • SHEET ON : Partitions-Gratuites.yoctown.c­om

  • Sorry, no disrespect to Coleman but "Bird" was the Mozart of the 20:th, in compare Stravinsky is a joke.

  • Its so great hearing the contrast in styles here...more than anything, the contrasts in their phrasing...Bird sounds all the more mercurial and Hawkins sounds all the more soulful by playing together...Bird seems to be genuinely enjoying Buddy's solo...maybe I'm missin something...no disrespect to Buddy, he's wild, but I just wouldn't have guessed it...he's still in Krupa-land (like on the 'Bird & Diz' sessions)...keybobrob, a good friend said something similar recently, leaves more cool 4 us ;)

  • Overdub or anything, it is Bird!

  • this isn't an overdub? Straight out of the last page of the OmniBook. thought Ballade was a studio recording

  • I love these guys - just music, no b.s - and note the grin on Charlie's face (at.00:29-30) as Hawk plays.

  • is a mark Vi tenor saxophone or selmer super balanced?

  • Great video, thank for upload this ... ba du ba du dat !!!

  • W0OOO PLAY FREEBIRD!!!!!

  • whats the name of this song or are they just messin around

  • Parker destroyed Hawkins...

  • Parker was getting a big kick out of Hawkins (and later, Rich) "faking" his solo. See, first the band played for audio recording purposes, and then they actually had to play AGAIN for the visual recording (the film camera didn't have synchronized audio recording). Charlie got a great kick out of the other musicians trying to recreate their improvised solos, and was so obvious about it that he had to be warned from off camera to "cool it". There was no disrespect, just humor at the situation.

  • @gibgezr

    Is there a source for this information? Agreed, if it were recorded live, there should be a mic present in front of the horns. Would still love the source though!!

  • @sallan1 The great jazz critic Leonard Feather has written extensively about this gig, and actually narrates this film. @gibgezr is correct, and some cursory Internet searching will give you all the "source" you need. Cheers.

  • charlie parker = king of saxophone

  • This is Ballade, recorded for Verve. I love Parker, but this reminds me of how great Hawkins was and why Sonny Rollins Idolised him. He's playing pure melody. But now way is Charlie disrespecting him. Amazing to see this after thinking it would never show up.

  • bird's got some chunky thighs

  • best

  • The tone has been changed? Raised? not good. I've never seen this but it is awsome. I get the feeling while these guys perform is that they are talking a secret language that they alone can understand and someone just told a real funny joke. Nice to see the joy on thier faces as they play. Just incredible.

  • Bird is smoking right before he starts playing. That's classic! That smile on Bird's fact when he's watching the drummer at 3:50 is priceless! Then he smokes some more when he's done! My God, it's just not done authentically like that anymore!

  • Bird is smoking right before he starts playing. That's classic!

  • ..I've been hearing Bird for 30 years now and I have all of his recording,live and studios,and in each one of them when he improvised he never repeated himself not even on alternative takes...a true genius.

  •  BUDDY RICH on the drums!!!!!

  • This is fucking awesome. I've only met 2 people who like jazz, a surprisingly cool freshman kid I met this year (just graduate dmyself) and my brother, who listens to some jazz rarely.

    Nobody likes good music anymore, of any kind, at least that I've met. Very rarely does anyone actually explore different types of music, just content with hearing the same bullshit on the radio day after day.

  • @lepricon989 of course not!!,,,Dude if 50% of the earths population were boppers or some kind of jazz head....humans would be so evolved it'd would blow ur mind. So don't get shocked that very few people can dig Bird and the other masters....its not a music for the average person...most folks brains simply can not process it in any shape or form....you can't cast pearls b4 swine. That's just the way it is.... Enjoy. ;-)

  • @keybobrob WORD!!

  • @keybobrob

    Well, what's important is that you've found a way to feel superior.

  • @riddleman65 and judging from ur comment my friend...so did you my friend...so did you. Well now that 'we' are both here at the top of the heap with all those lil insignificant ones below us...now what?

  • @keybobrob

    Calling you out on arrogance doesn't make me arrogant. I don't think I'm better than anyone else; you do. I'm down here chilling with all those people you're looking down on for "not getting" jazz.

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  • @rid LMAO!!...ur hilarious!! Lol..unfortunately, u decided to BUTT in on what you failed to realize was a FACETIOUS comment (that means not to be taken seriously )that I had DIRECTED toward SOMEONE ELSE (note the WINK face i placed at the END of my comment)..AND in ur QUICKNESS to ATTEMPT TO "PUT ME and my "ARROGANCE" in check, U revealed ur own lack of humility&tolerance. Have u ever seen the movie "the devils advocate"..watch it one day. It might curb ur zeal as the great humility checker

  • @keybobrob

    How does recognizing something as arrogant make one arrogant? How does calling out a comment on lacking humility reveal my own lack of humility? Are you suggesting I need to tolerate intolerance?

  • i can see that you are a little slow. I gave a RETORT to ur comment...and all you were able to do is virtually articulate ur same EXACT point as b4,..as opposed to providing a new response...I find that amazingly IRONIC...it's ironic in the sense that the very topic we are talking about in part deals with the notion of some people "not getting" this form of music...which REQUIRES very fast thinking by its intense IMPROVISATIONAL nature..ur inability to provide retort makes my POINT PERFECTLY.

  • I love the look on Bird's face, as if to say, look at this noob...

  • wowowowow. 

  • Excuse my english, but I search a version in that charlie parker improvise over song polka dot and moonbeans, I can´t fin her,

  • Bird's expressions while "The Hawk" is playing are "priceless"-his knowing glances are saying "check out the master"!

  • @kenjames64 - there are several file-sharing programs that make available tons of music, when it WAS music.

  • Parkers face @ 0:29 is worth gold :)

  • 3:34 :) :) :)

  • Hawkins was a major influence on bop. he was playing changes that Bird and Diz were [picking up up back in the 1930's (pre-bop). there's no question that they respected him greatly.

  • @IndependentGeorge76 Not only was The Hawk great, by any standard (and I say this as a Lester Young fan) he was unique in that he was largely able to adapt as Jazz changed; he played one way with Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, another with the Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, especially as "the Jazz Age" moved on and he was right on the mark in the "Swing Era" right through Bop, into Cool and even avante garde.

  • @SatchmoSings Well said. Hawk was a brilliant and trailblazing musician who stayed relevant for almost five full decades. There are very jazz musicians you can say that about, except the Duke. I can't think of anyone else.

  • @kenjames64 Yes, Ellington would probably be the only other jazz-man this could be said about; that's a tremendous compliment to these two men (not that it denigrates the accomplishments of others); it still shows a tremendous capacity to not only lean and think along new lines but to do it in a highly effective way.

    In some ways, it is also a compliment to Ellington's men though perhaps they, as effective as they were, largely were gently pushed along for the ride.

  • @kenjames64 Think of Wes Montgomery, who died in 1967 and still influences everyone.... and could generally outplay a whole bunch of horn men.... just my opinion.

  • How cool is that, Bird and Buddy!

  • Lol the narrator sounds like Larry David

  • @xanderthegreatt i'd be surprised if it wasn't

  • Amazing!

  • coleman was playin some old ass ideas you gotta admit, bird cam through like a motherfucker

  • hahahah at 1:05 "its my turn!!!! stfu!!"

  • I'm hear because of cowboy bebop special episode.

  • @kenjames64 Rip it as an mp3 and put it into Transcribe. You can adjust pitch there

  • whats bird got between his legs, looks like a vial of heroin

  • This is absolutely fabulous. Dreamy beyond words.

  • There was a BBC footage of this event made by Granz. He just threw a bunch of stars onto a movie to promote Jazz. I read a lot of comments of people disturbed by Bird's actions. I was as well but ran into the BBC footage and they explained the situation better with the miming and what not. Bird really loved Hawkins (Norman Granz words not mine). So please thumbs up my last comment so people can sleep at night please :D. (I was on the same boat) Thumbs up below comment for future viewers.

  • For all you confused souls out there Bird in no way disrespects Hawkins. The audio for this video was recorded before the footage was even made. Thus, they are miming to the audio. Bird's amused reactions in this video was just him laughing at the fact that Hawkins is doing a terrible job miming to an improv. After the Bird cutoff at :34, he continues laughing but told to quit by producers. So those of you disturbed at Bird's 'disrespect' it's just all a misunderstanding. Bird rly diggs Hawks.

  • @chucknorrisfanclub That's good to know, excellent, and I am relieved, because from I've read of Bird he was a really open, inclusive, genuinely good person who loved all music and it seemed unlike him to openly disrespect another jazz great....

  • @chucknorrisfanclub Im hoping thats the case but can I ask how you know all that?

  • @chucknorrisfanclub And how do you know this?

  • hawkins is one of my favs--I can always pick him out--his style is distinct--i call it woozzh-

  • @dgrayzona my fault--I didn't mean to dislike that comments I love coleman hawkins his sax is gorgeous

  • 1:06 clearly an "enough" statement (phrase) that clearly took Hawkins off guard. Talk all you want about mutual respect but Parker was notorius for alienating the guest of other musicians parties, and so forth. Not disrespecting anyone but clearly he had social problems here and there. Then again we dont really know what was going on that particular evening. Sometimes we are rudest to the people we are most comfortable with. (friends & family for example) 1:06 however was definetly deliberate.

  • The music in this video has been raised a semitone higher than the original. I prefer it this way.

  • el mejor charlie!!

  • All these expressive faces before, while, and after playing and how the music illustrates them (or the opposite) are so valuable, that puts images on sounds and gives life to this period again. Thanks for worthy upload !

  • I am not crazy about a tenor sax...it sounds too much like a human voice which I hear all the time the alto is much more a lyrical clear sound.

  • wtf ??? bird is the best !

  • Charlie looks completely wrecked on the heroine here, such a shame to lose him at the age of 34

  • @kenjames64 Haha. Yeah, it's true. Although it's quite difficult 'casue Charlie Sheen is everywhere. On the other hand, I don't know the name of the documentary 'cause i watched it started

  • I didn't know about Charlie Parker till i saw a documentary about Bebop. Sometimes tv really works.

  • There is a higher power because we had these three giants here on earth. I just wish they would have taken better care of themselves and could have stuck around a lot longer, especially Bird! R.I.P. "Hawk," "Prez," and "Bird"!

  • How he just gonna cut Mr. Young off like that...lol

  • One of the most shameful things from the 20th century is that Charlie Parker only has a couple of minutes on video. It's an absolute disgrace. Pure genius. GOD BLESS YOU CHARLIE.

  • My good friend Arthur Rhames would ,and did appreciate the "God's of jazz"!

  • haha Bird is so wasted >_< that grin.....

  • lol he smokes and he plays saxophone xD

  • great man!

  • great jazz player! i love his music!

  • I wonder how wasted Bird was during this taping? Looks like he was sometimes doing a cross-eyed imitation of Forest Whitaker...

  • @CribNotes If a biopic is about Forest Whitaker is ever made, I hope they cast Charlie Parker, or Idi Amin.

  • @kenjames64 HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.......HAHAHAHAH­AHAHA. Hilarious!

  • @CribNotes I'm looking down the rest of the comments to see if you said anything else here that would indicate that you have an iota of enough respect or appreciation for the marvel of even being able to SEE Bird and Hawk on a video, and I don't find anything. If you are looking at Bird's eyes and having the complete disrespect to conjecture that he was on substance, you are certainly the one who is wasted -- and maybe without even using drugs. Wasted enough in mind to miss the miracle.

  • @SeerTrulth What? You are a humorless idiot. You think I have no respect for Bird? Then why am I looking for videos of him playing? I'm PISSED that we don't have more footage of Bird playing. But let's face it, the greatest alto player of all time had trouble getting gigs because he was so wasted most of the time - so messed up he didn't make it to 35. That tragedy is a separate subject. Comparing him to the great actor Forest Whitaker as I did is a type of humor called "irony".

  • Young Buddy Rich on drums

  • Great to see, but I think they are only miming to playbacks of recordings. Watch Bird's fingers to see what I mean. What do you think?

  • @meshplate yep. See my comments above as well as several others below.

  • @meshplate That's how YOUR fingers would look trying to play what you see here. See where your mind is while history rolls in front of you?

  • @meshplate yeah, totally. the drums give it away too.

  • Good God. These two are just so... perfect. The planet was blessed with them, and we are a different people because of them. If they only knew, eh?

    Apparently, there were seven teabaggers who watched this, too.

  • @26095Teabaggers -- fer sure LMAO

  • hey dude.great performance!all the legends that time,and place...thanks for sharing!

  • Jimmy Dorsey Is Great!

  • i love how bird plays such genius music so fluidly. completely effortless. like he's brushing his teeth. then he smiles and lights a cigarette. he knows what he's got.

  • Sorry about the name slip there. Hehe. Ok, thanks guys. After looking into, they respected eachother very much. Coolness

  • I feel like parker just blew Cole porter out of the water. Look at :29 -"seriously?? Take a look at this chump". Maybe I'm just not hearing something but bird owned it ;-D

  • @alsharpton666 If you mean Coleman Hawkins, I don't believe Bird's expression was disdainful. It's well known that Hawk and Bird had great respect for each other. When swing-era musicians like Eddie Condon and Armstrong were ridiculing bebop after it took off on 52nd street in 1945, Hawk was one of it's earliest defenders -- and Hawk's later playing showed he'd incorporated some of bop's harmonic structures into his own soloing. He later played with many of bop's pioneers: Powell, Smith, Diz.

  • @kenjames64 I agree. I still don't think that Bird is cutting off Hawk in this take as that would be a sign of disrespect as well. Hawk and Prez were the grand pappies of saxophone and improvising in general (the trinity would have been complete with Louie Armstrong in this take) and I know that Bird knew that. Remember that Bird was addicted not only to hard drugs (unfortunately how too many remember him) but to music as well. These are musicians who know no genre.

  • @pickinstone I'd make it an even quartet with Sydney Bechet.

  • @kenjames64 good point. Would we have Coltrane playing My Favorite Things on soprano if not for Bechet? Maybe, maybe not. Ultimate band... Louie, Prez, Bean, and Bechet. Who would be in the rhythm section? Freddie Green for one.

  • @pickinstone I'll call you on Freddie and raise you Art Blakey. Well, no. Duffy Jackson (look him up).

  • @alsharpton666 I agree with kenjames here. Parker is the more advanced musician, but I am certain that Parker idolized Hawkins as a young man. In general, I think great musicians revere one another.

  • @alsharpton666 you. are . an . idiot. 

  • @alsharpton666 That's the very kind of thinking that the system has made us come up with -- competition, comparison, who "owned" who. This is sickening and something that you will one day want to grow out of. Cooperation and communication actually make the world work and made this video happen. Don't overlay your insecurities on these men. Mr. Parker knew that Coleman Hawkins was probably the all-time giant of tenor jazz, as you evidently don't know. Shame on you. You told on yourself.

  • @alsharpton666 Both are geniuses. 

  • 2:53 funny

  • 2:56 funny

  • Sorry everyone - i just had to come here and here some great music. I was just checkin out this backwards hillbilly guitar music done by a 3 chord dunkin doughnut - and he actually puts out wack guitar tutor vidoes too. Feel ill man . . so I just had to finish the evening by coming here to hear some real music.

    YO THUMB THIS UP IF YOU FEEL ME PEOPLE :-)

  • Coleman Hawkins solo makes me feel so relaxed like a toke from a jiont just his solo makes u high. perfect bliss

  • that's because that IS Buddy Rich ... DUH!

  • Did Bird ever sound better?

  • This a such a lovely conversation between two great musicians!! 

  • Lester in an interview said he never did cut a record with Coleman.

  • bird is one of my favorites, but the hawk wins this round.

  • @babiesmakinbabies maybe bird is to high on herion at this point he looks like an old man, but he is young, thats what drug to.

  • cual es el tema de la cancion

  • In "Ballad" the more I like Hawkin's solo, but in "Celebrity" Bird is just amazing!

  • there are high on herion thats why they have that sad sound, because there half dead, except buddy rich he probably just been drinking chinese tea.

  • Beautiful...just beautiful...

  • im wondering how can people unlike it!!!this is the base of everything what we have today.not many people could do better..Charlie Parker was a treasure,and he still is.

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  • Charlie Parker, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young. That fantastic scene.

  • anyone knows the name of the first tune they play?

  • I ordered a vandoren v16 mouthpiece a5 yesterday . I play funk and smooth. do you all think it will be good for that genre?

  • did parker really just cut off the cole-meister?

  • @tombokickass

    yes he interrupted this solo --.--

  • 1:04 HAHAHAHAHA whata fuckin badass!!!!!!

  • he looks like Buddy Rich.

  • @yduped He is Buddy Rich.

  • ..No he looks like Charlie Parker.....

  • @yduped

    What a influence...of soul......

  • @yduped Who looks like buddy rich? 

  • @yduped Who looks like buddy rich? Wait I just saw buddy...yea that's him...I thought you were referring to Charlie or Bird.

  • 6 drunk animalls missed the like button...

  • I LOVE THIS ... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • what does it mean that they are finger syncing?

  • @2Vproductions Originally meant to be a film of a live performance, Norman Granz (founder of Verve Records, among others) couldn't overcome serious audio problems. The musicians recorded all tracks in the studio, and Granz had Gjon Mili film them playing "against" the studio recordings. The film took so long to surface due to the difficulty in syncing all of the various film loops to the audio. The project was shelved for decades; only recently was it synced using modern editing equipment.

  • @kenjames64 cool thanks

  • which raises the question: is Bird acting the part of the your upstart, or does Hawk actually have the patience to sit through multiple takes of a repeated insult?

  • Where's the Devil? i want to sell him my soul for Hawkins' tone.......

  • parker strong.

  • The music was pre-recorded before this film. The filmmakers messed up while filming the musicians playing what you hear here, and thus made another "fake" film: what you see here. Notice how the fingerings of Bean and Bird do not match up with what they are playing...

  • BIRD FLYS !!!

  • does anyone know what reed did hawkins use ?

  • Every jazz musician I've played with enjoys the competion that goes on when improvising is happening, and the interactive inspiration.

    It makes the music better, and frankly, is one reason why the current practice of dubbing tracks from musicians not playing together at the same time, is perhaps the main reason music is aproaching death in America.

  • everyone has character defects,man get over it,just listen

  • So, tenor or alto? Which would you guys play?

  • Any facial expressions we see on this video can't be used as inference of what the musicians thought of each other's playing in the moment. They are finger-syncing to a previously recorded soundtrack.

  • @hermease interesting though, right? You always have the audio.

  • @hermease I think it still can be - I doubt they were merely fingering the music - they were most probably playing it,just without recording it. Either is possible though.

  • Bird was an awesome talent, and so was Buddy, but even though I love Bird, his addictions made him into a real prick to people ("borrowing" horns, etc.). And though Buddy was an awesome drummer, he was a pitiful excuse for a human being, as he was so arrogant and the ultimate asshole to his band members AND the public that came to hear them.

  • so, what happened at 103 sec/ was the bird "bored' with the hawk?

  • so, what happened at 103 sec? was the bird a little "bored" with the hawk?