A Night In Tunisia - Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker at 1945 Concert

[TheArchiveOfWonder]

Just imagine hearing this in 1945 compared to everything else back then...

[DaveO15]

I was looking for Dizzee Rascal, and I come across this shit?!

[PapaLuvTLC]

Diz&&Bird...

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Whoa.

[magajazzfan]

Hellooo Pvelectric!

The best of the best jazz! 5/* I love Parker & Dizzy

Thank you very much!

Success and kisses,

Maga-Lee :-))

[pvelectric]

Sinatra's mostly after hours work with Johnny Hodges and Ellington cememnted the style he continued through his bobby soxer sensation days, and soon anyone who sounded unlike him, was a rare find indeed. same with Bird, Ella's first hit, I think it was "A Tisket a Tasket, I Lost My Yellow Basket," doesn't quite measure up to the entire Tommy Dorsy and Cole Porter Songbooks, Sinatra was putting out like machine gun fire. Quincey Jones, Ella on the last concert he performed before his death.

[pvelectric]

@pvelectric wait, it may have not been Ellington, I'm trying to remember, the band sounded like old forties 'hot" on-thebeat style, stressing only triads of the chords, ect., but Sinatra's style completely contradicted this. Will look for old cut i've got illustrating this.

[28handcraft]

Who is Charley Parker?? ;-)

[pvelectric]

@28handcraft I've never heard of a "Charley" Parker. Charlie Parker was said by one promenebnt music critic to have invented modern music. The first major US singer to pick up on Charlie "Bird" Parker's phrasing and style was Frank Sinatra. Bing Crosby refers to this change in an interview I read. Bird, before everyone else, began playing different from everyone else. Others quickly copied him, but he was the first, and would travel the country "teaching" others the new jazz language.

[28handcraft]

@pvelectric

Read the program in the video! Hence the winking smiley face...

[owenhsmith]

I disagree. Ella fitzgerald picked up on parkers style way before sinatra.