@mrsrayray32fl Forced to watch Charlie Parker! Oh horrors of horrors. I hope you survive. Consider whether it's possible this music influenced the music you like.
@mrsrayray32fl hehe you should thank your teacher for opening your eyes to one of the greatest musicians in the history of the world. Then again he's no Cody Simpson, right?????????????
@mrsrayray32fl I hated many things in school because I was forced to encounter them. Never gave a second thought to books like 1984 and Brave New World and dudes like Shakespeare or Langston Hughes until i was out of high school and realized my teenage naivety. Someday, you'll look back at your youtube page and see the dougie and a band called "mindless behavior" and give yourself a nice facepalm.
@grimd3th i'll rate up your comment if you can mention just one legitimate reason why this is shit. the recording isn't great compared to what we're used to these days.. but these are some of the best horn players that ever lived..
do you notice the master of cool jazz standing by on the right side-in the picture above...i am talking about a very young miles Davis...charlie Parker was mile's idol..so miles went out there afterwards and did his own thang...what music...
do you notice the master of cool jazz standing by on the right side...i am talking about a very young miles Davis...charlie Parker was mile's idol..so miles went out there afterwards and did his own thang...what music...
It is extremely obvious that you have never actually heard Kenny G in concert. Don't go criticizing musicians if you never have actually heard them play.
Kenny G is one of the greatest musicians of all time
The Bassplayer at 4:00 oh my god, thats grooving, i try to play on guitar, i think the bass player Jimmy wood is absolut.... oh jeaaaa, the old foxes make music...
There was stuff he wanted to do but his producer basically said, "are you crazy, no one will buy that". They should have done it just for the sake of posterity, i'd love to know what he had in mind.
I read an interview with Dr. John where he says everybody was playing like Bird in New Orleans and when Coltrane came along there were a lot of sax players found dead in their swimming pools with their saxophones.
@2Young4OldFashioned sorry, but I don't rate musicians who sell out no matter how good they are... I'm sure he has/had skill, but please!!! Kenny G?!?!?
The key is haviing a tight rhythm section behind you...then if you halfway know the fingering and play repetitious notes at lightning speed and have a drug addiction you are called a genius.
That was well put Josefrojas777 but I have the nuts to say what you won't say. Kenny G couldn't hod Charlie's jockstrap and Kenny would tell you that himself!!!
@hustlaus that's great and all. But that's completely missing the point of what I just said. Comparing them is completely pointless. They play different types of music. Skill is irrelevant. Technical prowess is irrelevant. Yes, Charlie was killin. But that's not my point.
Comparing Charlie Parker to Kenny G is like comparing a rock'n'roll guitar player to a heavy metal player. They are completely different genres which are related loosely, but both require skill (both completely different). I am a lover of all types of music so I find it silly to hear people speak in such a hidebound attitude. Yes smooth jazz has no where near as much artistic merit as does bebop, but it is music. Although I do not personally enjoy Kenny G, I refuse to put him down.
@Josefrojas777 thats fine and all, but when i say fuck kenny g, its more personal than just a simple opinion between genres. i like all music too and i love smooth jazz. i just dont like that particular artist.
@Josefrojas777 What you say makes allot of sense although certain types of music aren't favorable to some it is still music and it takes skill(some more then others) Even if you think a type of music is worthless somebody likes it and it is nice in thier opinion but in others opinion it is horrible.Everybody is entitled to an opinion but when people go about stating this and that about music it does nothing but start drama.So friends lets all enjoy the vibrations our eardrums make.
@Josefrojas777 i study jazz seriously at a music school,Kenny G is not smooth jazz,dnt say things youd dnt know about,Miles Davis played smooth jazz many times,so did Bill Evans,one great example is the tune Nardis written by Miles and performed a lot by the Bill Evans Trio,Kenny G labels himself as a jazz musician but the true is that the music he plays is "elevator music",in other words is commercial music,I've never heard Kenny G playing any jazz standard,all the tunes he plays sound the same
@CubanBassPlayer1 Then the score is wrong. As for my "jazz education", I don't need lessons from some dumb15-year-old kid who thinks he knows everything. I attended the best conservatories in the U.S., including Juilliard.
And I have been a professional jazz musician for well over 50 years, before Nardis was written. Nardis is hard-bop.
@CubanBassPlayer1 As far as you, sir, i find no point in discussing this with you. Your hidebound take on this will obviously be preserved by your arrogance, in which case I refuse to even try with you. You all completely miss the point of my argument, being that music is music, and technical prowess and idealistic merit is but a superficial way to determine the value of music. If people enjoy it, mission accomplished. Nothing to gain in putting it down. Have a nice day, sir.
@CubanBassPlayer1 With all due respect sir, none of us are entitled to say what and what is not a certain type of music. The genre we all recognize to be "smooth jazz" is publicly manifested as his music. I agree Miles played music which was foundation for the stuff we hear today as "smooth jazz". But unfortunately our society's artistic ideals are mostly based on commercialism. My point in the previous message is, music is music, preferences are subjective. Don't put them down. Thank you.
@CubanBassPlayer1 Elevator music is not a "genre." Smooth jazz doesn't necessarily... require... a musician to play a jazz standard. Neither does playing bebop, or Dixieland (although, of course, it would probably help you become a better player!)
Stop associating jazz standards with jazz already; what do you think the people that created the first jazz "standards" had to work off of? Jazz standards? Naaaa. Mostly African-American blues and ragtime, IIRC.
@conn6m Thankfully I've been playing saxophone for about 7 years and piano for 10. And that is not true. I know several killin musicians that can pipe all those other shit-talkers, who agree, the music may not be enjoyable to them, but that guy is good at what he does, making money. Besides, I heard he sounded pretty legit before he decided to cater to the smooth jazz crowd. Don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy his music, but it's not a reason for me to put it down.
@Josefrojas777 Well: You are certainly a 'true musician' so I have to give your comment some respect. I agree that kenny G can play his instrument but you hit the nail on the head when you said 'making money' and that's why I hate him - not for making money -- but because that seems to be the sole preoccupation in his music. If I say to myself 'O it doesn't matter' I would be betraying the likes of Bird Diz and the rest. Still you don't enjoy his music so I havn't been totally put down,
@Josefrojas777 well idk about that metal guitar players require a lot more technique and generally more music theory than rock musicians do, i mean compare the guitar player from Cynic to the guitar player from Karnivool......biiiiiig difference buddy, i mean there will be exceptions like The Mars Volta that blow everyone away but still
@xVictimOfADownx1 I never said anything about one requiring more skill than the other. You all are missing my point. I am saying, music is music. We all need to stop associating technical prowess with the quality of music. If certain people enjoy it, then the music has done its job. The point of my argument is to say, stop putting other styles down. You have nothing to gain.
@Josefrojas777 very true, but overall there is more content in the song that will let you, every time you listen to it find something new because it's multi layered or instrumentally complex, the thing is thought most people DON'T associate quality music with technical ability so that's why i said that
Was hoping this would prove to be a long lost film clip of Charlie in action, found in somebody's attic in a box marked 'Home Movies.' Alas not , but the playing on the soundtrack still retains its power to grip the imagination. The accompanying photo shows a young Miles Davis, methinks. By the muted applause it sounds like they were playing to six customers in a late night bar. What a shame Bird didn't live to play at Ronnie Scott's Club. He'd have loved Ronnie's jokes - and the waitresses
What's up with the stupid drug talk on just about every jazz video on here? Who gives a shit? Glad you love trippin shroons bro...Bird would have been 10x as great w/o the horse, or maybe he would have sucked. All drugs did for me was cut my music career short and spent way too much time in prison w NO JAZZ AT ALL!!! How's that for glamorous?
marijuana has helped my music and art creating abilities profoundly. not to mention my overall enjoyment of life, sensory experience, empathetic growth, and my personal relationships. i can say, without a doubt, that marijuana and psilocybin have done nothing but immensely positive things in my life. the enhancement of the creative Eros impulse is the most profound and important to me personally.
@winsome1235 i wouldnt call Circular breathing thru a really long note, skill lol. most musicians are taught that pretty early.. the birdman had skill. let kenny try and keep up on birds lvl lol
@be4tbybl4ck You got that right! Josefrojas777 refuses to put Kenny G down and says his playing apparently requires "skill". Probably the kind of skill it takes to talk some relative or friend into giving him a recording contract.
Jazz and Kenny G shouldn't be uttered in the same breath. BIRD LIVES!
Charlie Parker was the single greatest, most inventive musician on any instrument in the 20th century. Unfortunately, his inner demons destroyed him, but his legacy will live forever. He's god to every serious jazz musician.
who are these 13 ppl who voted to dislike this?! WTF! Go to Britney Spears / Justin Bieber's web page, go eat your big mac at mcdonands, go drive in your big huge SUV, and at night lul yourself to sleep on American idol you SIMPLETONS!
@saxismyaxe jut cause you have a good vocab doesnt make your points validity quit bashing a person who makes a different style of music than you enjoy. get off YT get some pussy, smoke some weed, calm your ass down and get better at your craft...
@SLlCK I might heed or alternately take offense to your comments if I didn't need a Rosetta stone to decipher your interpretation of the English language. Cripes almighty!
@SLlCK Oh, is that what they are package ignorance as now. Your foul mouth nullifies any argument you could possibly have above and beyond the broken English BTW.
@saxismyaxe just cause you have a good vocab doesnt give your points anymore validity quit bashing a person who makes a different style of music than what you enjoy. p.s get off YT get some pussy, smoke some weed, calm your ass down and get better at your craft...
One night, many years ago while Charlie Parker was high on H, he discovered he could play any note any time,in any key, no note was off limits, as long as IT
Resolved itself on the Key note. From then on Charlie said "He could Fly" As a guitar player this idea opened a whole new world for me.
@connorveale : Bird's drug addiction came from a medical condition..you're reading too much into it....Bird was born to play.....drugs or no drugs....
@connorveale I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure that if you're not creative, drugs ain't gonna make you creative. The only thing like I feel like creating when I'm high is a sandwich.
@tpstrat14 When ever i blaze i play differently than when sober. So you cant say drugs cant make you creative... mind altering substances have been around for thousands of years and had its involvement with almost all art forms. So speak for yourself but when im high i feel like creating more phrasing oriented music THEN... a sandwich.
@tpstrat14 exactly, a bad artist sober is a bad artist high, no two ways about it. there definitely is a connection between art, artists, and altered mind states in many cases, but if the talent isn't there, it won't appear upon getting stoned. if you are in fact talented intoxication can work artistically on occasion.. but it isn't a product of intoxication
@connorveale I gotta call you out on your interpretation of that wiki quote. That is completely ridiculous. There's a strong connection between sleeping around with women and playing pro sports. It doesn't mean that sex with multiple partners makes you a better athlete. If you still think that drugs induce creativity, check out Clifford Brown. He is credited with breaking the spell that drugs had on the jazz scene. He never touched the stuff, yet he could play the trumpet as good as anyone.
I just read about Parker's drug problem... what?!?!?! How did he even function enough to play this amazing music!?! It sounded like he was constantly high on heroin
@Ark1235 I'm practically the opposite. Straight bebop (which almost nobody plays anymore) is alright, but I prefer post-bop and fusion more. I'm not really all that big of a fan of anything pre-1940 or so. Although Benny Goodman's band was great when it had Charlie Christian.
If you listen to how technical their style and improvisation is (Most of this is made up as they play it) then you can definently tell that Charlie and competing jazz musicians have stronger ears for musical progressions, more skill and much higher knowledge of music theory than most popular artists today.
@33bigmoney wow...let me guess you are one of those people who only listen to pop music made by artists who have no creativity or originality whatsoever.
@33bigmoney Jazz makes complete sense to the creative, unbiased and musical mind. Jazz is like fine wine, its an acquired taste. You have to approach Jazz from a completely different angle than other genres of music, BUT DONT GIVE UP HOPE!!! I used to be a BIG metal head, and that was all i listened to.
@33bigmoney listen to pee wee russel play clarinet right now and i promise that you will forget be-bop ever existed... besides be-bop is the kind of final thrashing of a dying whale, jazz peaked in the 20's, from then it's been away from melody and more to the soloist....BAD THING and drums have almost completely ruined the emergent style
@lsdvine All the creative jazz musicians recogniced internationaly since 50 years come from bebop. You can trash down creativity and try deny new concepts to happen, nobody cares of you, and new talents will emerge, as what the case with Parker in his time. I respect (and I love) old music, but I feel secure enough to be not afraid of actual creativity. Music is related with life, not with dead past... Just keeping ears and heart wide open...
@IRACEMABABU Yes but to understand this kind of music, which ultimately is for musicians and not the public, you must begin with the early more accessible styles, im only stating my opinion... lump it
@lsdvine I know a ton of people who discovered old musics AFTER actual ones... No rule for feelings. It seems to me that's more normal to be first touched by a music of your time, cause actual music speak about actual life when old one speak about ours parent's lives...
Jazz at it's best! 1,148 likes can't be wrong.
luckybriaN100 5 days ago
i love how you abbreviated alto it is one more letter
tinytoon688 2 weeks ago 2
not his best
rodeo179 4 weeks ago
BIRD ... Quit with the stadic ... your mom! And for that you get no allowance this week ... fukinkids ... WAKE UP!
fedorafree 1 month ago
if jesus christ had been given a sax.. bird's the godamn word.
lumberjake831 1 month ago 2
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i am only watchen it because i have 2 for a report
mrsrayray32fl 1 month ago
@mrsrayray32fl Forced to watch Charlie Parker! Oh horrors of horrors. I hope you survive. Consider whether it's possible this music influenced the music you like.
Peace.
Edella 1 month ago 15
@Edella well said
DaGrymReefer 1 month ago
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35namadnad 1 month ago
@mrsrayray32fl hehe you should thank your teacher for opening your eyes to one of the greatest musicians in the history of the world. Then again he's no Cody Simpson, right?????????????
35namadnad 1 month ago 2
@mrsrayray32fl I hated many things in school because I was forced to encounter them. Never gave a second thought to books like 1984 and Brave New World and dudes like Shakespeare or Langston Hughes until i was out of high school and realized my teenage naivety. Someday, you'll look back at your youtube page and see the dougie and a band called "mindless behavior" and give yourself a nice facepalm.
ilynnad 3 weeks ago
@mrsrayray32fl I feel your pain...
YourDailyCOLA 2 weeks ago
wtf this is shit
grimd3th 1 month ago
@grimd3th i'll rate up your comment if you can mention just one legitimate reason why this is shit. the recording isn't great compared to what we're used to these days.. but these are some of the best horn players that ever lived..
Tops7992 1 month ago
@grimd3th This "shit" is something your poor feeble brain will never understand. And I truely feel sorry for you.
squirrelnutcased 1 month ago
@grimd3th thats exactly what i said when i pulled out of ur mom
SuperDeadhope 1 month ago
In the beginning was the Bird, and the Bop was with Bird, and the Bop was Bird.
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do you notice the master of cool jazz standing by on the right side-in the picture above...i am talking about a very young miles Davis...charlie Parker was mile's idol..so miles went out there afterwards and did his own thang...what music...
onecanbedon 2 months ago
do you notice the master of cool jazz standing by on the right side...i am talking about a very young miles Davis...charlie Parker was mile's idol..so miles went out there afterwards and did his own thang...what music...
onecanbedon 2 months ago
Ho, caoamarelo, beware, the trumpet-man is young Miles Davis, of course.
spopol 2 months ago
all hail to the king! no one . i repeat. no one has ever blown the alto as well as bird.
alexalot23 3 months ago in playlist Charlie Parker
THE
ronaldmcdonald333 3 months ago
The one and only G.
decus69 3 months ago
comon guys.. today we got justin bieber&lady gaga, fuck them all - THIS is real music, its passion, there feelings, cant describe it..
fraaanzification 3 months ago
17 people don't like Jazz at all!
drumsinaction 3 months ago
@DickWhittington1000
It is extremely obvious that you have never actually heard Kenny G in concert. Don't go criticizing musicians if you never have actually heard them play.
Kenny G is one of the greatest musicians of all time
kbarmaniac 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Charlie Parker
The Bassplayer at 4:00 oh my god, thats grooving, i try to play on guitar, i think the bass player Jimmy wood is absolut.... oh jeaaaa, the old foxes make music...
potatoepeter1 4 months ago 4
If only he had watched his health.
There was stuff he wanted to do but his producer basically said, "are you crazy, no one will buy that". They should have done it just for the sake of posterity, i'd love to know what he had in mind.
mjazzguitar 4 months ago in playlist Charlie Parker, Cortázar
I'm the 1000th person to like this video
sanan22 4 months ago
Man nobody can touch Parker on the sax holy shit... This guy was amazing
lepricon989 4 months ago
Genius!!! Bird lives!!!! Thank you for posting it!!!
maisqpoesia9999lcg 4 months ago
just a BTW: that is Miles in the photo. Maybe no photo of this particular line up? None of the usual Bird sidemen.
thanx 4 the trak--marvellous stuff.
1scousers 4 months ago
Too good
BriansThing 4 months ago
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Kids now-a-days what do they know about musical talent
J0o0shlikesPandaz 4 months ago
Why are these Parker Vids getting so many hits. Is everyone in the world going bebop crazy.
conn6m 5 months ago
@conn6m you say that like it's a bad thing...
StonierWilliam 4 months ago
@conn6m haha, how awesome would it be if bebop just came back and was what everyone listened to again
Froebs 4 months ago
the absolut absolut, das geht ab,, very good,...bird and all the greatest.... what a band
potatoepeter1 5 months ago
bird is the word!
fmagalhaesbhz 5 months ago 41
@fmagalhaesbhz Ive heard that as well
SimonSayzMusic 3 days ago
Is it just me. Or does anyone else think that Herbie Williams looks like Miles Davis?
kageees2276 5 months ago
@kageees2276 It's not just you. That IS Miles in the picture.
snaaptaker 5 months ago
@snaaptaker Thanks, I thought so
kageees2276 5 months ago
Miles's solo sounds to me the best one here. It has the greatest range.
PrinceZappa 5 months ago
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Princelovespirates 5 months ago
i PREFER REBECCA BLACK TO THIS POO POO
rarimascarydino 5 months ago
So wait, people bitch about subgenres on jazz videos too? I thought that was a metalhead thing >D
MrVersipellis 6 months ago
@BroCleotisX he isnt good either lol
be4tbybl4ck 6 months ago
oh my god, bass solo at 5:00 thats absolut so good..
potatoepeter1 6 months ago
der basslauf at 3:38 ... absolut
correction bassrun at 5:0
potatoepeter1 6 months ago
der basslauf at 3:38 ... absolut
potatoepeter1 6 months ago
everyone wanted to play like parker
but no one ever did
primus3467 6 months ago
@primus3467
I read an interview with Dr. John where he says everybody was playing like Bird in New Orleans and when Coltrane came along there were a lot of sax players found dead in their swimming pools with their saxophones.
He said he wasn't making it up.
mjazzguitar 4 months ago
The picture doesn't really match up with the recording :) Tommy Potter on bass and Miles there in the picture.
KillswitchEngage42 6 months ago
wow i'd love to hear this on vinyl. he's something else ain't he?
slaughterhousecry 7 months ago
Most of you apparently haven't listened to Kenny G's older sax work with Jeff Lorber Fusion.. Definetely not giving him enough credit.
2Young4OldFashioned 7 months ago
@2Young4OldFashioned sorry, but I don't rate musicians who sell out no matter how good they are... I'm sure he has/had skill, but please!!! Kenny G?!?!?
madaiadam 6 months ago
@Hoss2913 i wonder if clifford brown reversed that at all.... he never touched the stuff or any drug for that matter....
tpstrat14 7 months ago
The key is haviing a tight rhythm section behind you...then if you halfway know the fingering and play repetitious notes at lightning speed and have a drug addiction you are called a genius.
benkit49 7 months ago
@benkit49 Not sure about that, but I am sure that YOU will never be mistaken for a genius....
tpstrat14 7 months ago
@tpstrat14 FYI....I am a Mensa certified genius....IQ 142 barely got it but still a genius nonetheless....lol
benkit49 7 months ago
@benkit49 Genius is IQ 150+...
KayotikYT 7 months ago
There are no comparisons that can be made when you talking about truly original artists. They are killing it! Amazing!
They stand on thier own and time goes by.....and still there.......still there......just still killing it and making folks groove.
I love the padded stage pic...priceless..."LIVE at The Rubber Room"
Thats a fine song glitch not withstanding.
Mr7group 7 months ago
That was well put Josefrojas777 but I have the nuts to say what you won't say. Kenny G couldn't hod Charlie's jockstrap and Kenny would tell you that himself!!!
hustlaus 7 months ago
@hustlaus that's great and all. But that's completely missing the point of what I just said. Comparing them is completely pointless. They play different types of music. Skill is irrelevant. Technical prowess is irrelevant. Yes, Charlie was killin. But that's not my point.
Josefrojas777 3 months ago
whats with the clicking at 1:42?
xanadeadU 7 months ago
@xanadeadU must have been a scratch on the cd, it's been recorded off.
HCL991 7 months ago
@xanadeadU sounds like the CD was skipping LOL
neqquah 7 months ago
Comparing Charlie Parker to Kenny G is like comparing a rock'n'roll guitar player to a heavy metal player. They are completely different genres which are related loosely, but both require skill (both completely different). I am a lover of all types of music so I find it silly to hear people speak in such a hidebound attitude. Yes smooth jazz has no where near as much artistic merit as does bebop, but it is music. Although I do not personally enjoy Kenny G, I refuse to put him down.
Josefrojas777 7 months ago 37
@Josefrojas777 thats fine and all, but when i say fuck kenny g, its more personal than just a simple opinion between genres. i like all music too and i love smooth jazz. i just dont like that particular artist.
be4tbybl4ck 6 months ago
@Josefrojas777 What you say makes allot of sense although certain types of music aren't favorable to some it is still music and it takes skill(some more then others) Even if you think a type of music is worthless somebody likes it and it is nice in thier opinion but in others opinion it is horrible.Everybody is entitled to an opinion but when people go about stating this and that about music it does nothing but start drama.So friends lets all enjoy the vibrations our eardrums make.
AndreaEstherPearson 6 months ago
@Josefrojas777 i study jazz seriously at a music school,Kenny G is not smooth jazz,dnt say things youd dnt know about,Miles Davis played smooth jazz many times,so did Bill Evans,one great example is the tune Nardis written by Miles and performed a lot by the Bill Evans Trio,Kenny G labels himself as a jazz musician but the true is that the music he plays is "elevator music",in other words is commercial music,I've never heard Kenny G playing any jazz standard,all the tunes he plays sound the same
CubanBassPlayer1 6 months ago
@CubanBassPlayer1 You think Nardis is smooth jazz?!!! Perhaps you are in the wrong music school!
snaaptaker 5 months ago
@snaaptaker It said it on the score smartass,n perhaps u need some jazz education
CubanBassPlayer1 5 months ago
@CubanBassPlayer1 Then the score is wrong. As for my "jazz education", I don't need lessons from some dumb15-year-old kid who thinks he knows everything. I attended the best conservatories in the U.S., including Juilliard.
And I have been a professional jazz musician for well over 50 years, before Nardis was written. Nardis is hard-bop.
Grow up, sonny.
snaaptaker 5 months ago
@CubanBassPlayer1 As far as you, sir, i find no point in discussing this with you. Your hidebound take on this will obviously be preserved by your arrogance, in which case I refuse to even try with you. You all completely miss the point of my argument, being that music is music, and technical prowess and idealistic merit is but a superficial way to determine the value of music. If people enjoy it, mission accomplished. Nothing to gain in putting it down. Have a nice day, sir.
Josefrojas777 3 months ago
@CubanBassPlayer1 With all due respect sir, none of us are entitled to say what and what is not a certain type of music. The genre we all recognize to be "smooth jazz" is publicly manifested as his music. I agree Miles played music which was foundation for the stuff we hear today as "smooth jazz". But unfortunately our society's artistic ideals are mostly based on commercialism. My point in the previous message is, music is music, preferences are subjective. Don't put them down. Thank you.
Josefrojas777 5 months ago
@CubanBassPlayer1 Elevator music is not a "genre." Smooth jazz doesn't necessarily... require... a musician to play a jazz standard. Neither does playing bebop, or Dixieland (although, of course, it would probably help you become a better player!)
Stop associating jazz standards with jazz already; what do you think the people that created the first jazz "standards" had to work off of? Jazz standards? Naaaa. Mostly African-American blues and ragtime, IIRC.
busterbrownation 5 months ago
@Josefrojas777 I bet you don't play an instument. All true musicians hate Kenny G.
conn6m 5 months ago
@conn6m Thankfully I've been playing saxophone for about 7 years and piano for 10. And that is not true. I know several killin musicians that can pipe all those other shit-talkers, who agree, the music may not be enjoyable to them, but that guy is good at what he does, making money. Besides, I heard he sounded pretty legit before he decided to cater to the smooth jazz crowd. Don't get me wrong, I don't enjoy his music, but it's not a reason for me to put it down.
Josefrojas777 3 months ago
@Josefrojas777 Well: You are certainly a 'true musician' so I have to give your comment some respect. I agree that kenny G can play his instrument but you hit the nail on the head when you said 'making money' and that's why I hate him - not for making money -- but because that seems to be the sole preoccupation in his music. If I say to myself 'O it doesn't matter' I would be betraying the likes of Bird Diz and the rest. Still you don't enjoy his music so I havn't been totally put down,
conn6m 3 months ago
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Josefrojas777 3 months ago
@Josefrojas777 So essentially you're saying the same thing as be4tbyblck, just in a more pretentious fashion.
This19 4 months ago
@Josefrojas777 well idk about that metal guitar players require a lot more technique and generally more music theory than rock musicians do, i mean compare the guitar player from Cynic to the guitar player from Karnivool......biiiiiig difference buddy, i mean there will be exceptions like The Mars Volta that blow everyone away but still
xVictimOfADownx1 4 months ago
@xVictimOfADownx1 I never said anything about one requiring more skill than the other. You all are missing my point. I am saying, music is music. We all need to stop associating technical prowess with the quality of music. If certain people enjoy it, then the music has done its job. The point of my argument is to say, stop putting other styles down. You have nothing to gain.
Josefrojas777 3 months ago
@Josefrojas777 very true, but overall there is more content in the song that will let you, every time you listen to it find something new because it's multi layered or instrumentally complex, the thing is thought most people DON'T associate quality music with technical ability so that's why i said that
xVictimOfADownx1 3 months ago
All of Kenny G's albums are in the same key and he just caters to a market of undereducated pot smoking hipsters who like his shitty elevator music.
Charlie Parker is a musician, Kenny G is a hack.
MysticUnicycleBrah 7 months ago
@BroCleotisX Kenny G is a joke...
RAWRDJBEAR 7 months ago
@BroCleotisX Kenny G is most definitely bad.
bennis07 7 months ago
that is miles on trumpet!!!
achenry2000 8 months ago
Bird sounds good.
brenplummer 8 months ago
Bird just sounds good.
brenplummer 8 months ago
I just can't really get into beebop you guys.
spaghettiologist 8 months ago
Was hoping this would prove to be a long lost film clip of Charlie in action, found in somebody's attic in a box marked 'Home Movies.' Alas not , but the playing on the soundtrack still retains its power to grip the imagination. The accompanying photo shows a young Miles Davis, methinks. By the muted applause it sounds like they were playing to six customers in a late night bar. What a shame Bird didn't live to play at Ronnie Scott's Club. He'd have loved Ronnie's jokes - and the waitresses
Fnarge 8 months ago
Genius are genius.
Drugs are only drugs.
One doesn't depend the other...
Bird fleis forever.
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XicoFlavio 8 months ago
Attention! : "Penis"
Thank You.
theeviltwig 8 months ago 2
What's up with the stupid drug talk on just about every jazz video on here? Who gives a shit? Glad you love trippin shroons bro...Bird would have been 10x as great w/o the horse, or maybe he would have sucked. All drugs did for me was cut my music career short and spent way too much time in prison w NO JAZZ AT ALL!!! How's that for glamorous?
squared29 8 months ago
very nice music. socialsax com has this backing track if anyone is looking for
ngky7 8 months ago
marijuana has helped my music and art creating abilities profoundly. not to mention my overall enjoyment of life, sensory experience, empathetic growth, and my personal relationships. i can say, without a doubt, that marijuana and psilocybin have done nothing but immensely positive things in my life. the enhancement of the creative Eros impulse is the most profound and important to me personally.
avedic 8 months ago
how do 13 people not like this? It's jazz, c'mon.
PuddingnShortbuses 9 months ago
fuck kenny g... im just saiyan....
be4tbybl4ck 9 months ago 71
@be4tbybl4ck he would love to be fucked..... hard =)
SupraJin 8 months ago
@SupraJin yea with a pink 2 inch dildo..
be4tbybl4ck 7 months ago
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be4tbybl4ck 7 months ago
@be4tbybl4ck kenny G sucks donkey balls
zerekx 7 months ago 2
@be4tbybl4ck Kenny G is okay if you're into syrup. He has skills but its just what he chooses to do. i prefer Bird's brand of music.
winsome1235 7 months ago
@winsome1235 i wouldnt call Circular breathing thru a really long note, skill lol. most musicians are taught that pretty early.. the birdman had skill. let kenny try and keep up on birds lvl lol
be4tbybl4ck 6 months ago
@be4tbybl4ck are you super saiyan
Ijustleavecomments 6 months ago
@Ijustleavecomments he said he's just saiyan.. not super saiyan..
aakkoin 6 months ago
@aakkoin that's too bad. looks like you arn't over 9000 yet, bud.
Ijustleavecomments 6 months ago
@Ijustleavecomments only when times call for it.
be4tbybl4ck 6 months ago
@be4tbybl4ck Great play-on w/ saiyan and saying... Ingenious!
TyVoltage88 5 months ago
@be4tbybl4ck
It's over 9000?
piwithatsme 5 months ago
@be4tbybl4ck You got that right! Josefrojas777 refuses to put Kenny G down and says his playing apparently requires "skill". Probably the kind of skill it takes to talk some relative or friend into giving him a recording contract.
Jazz and Kenny G shouldn't be uttered in the same breath. BIRD LIVES!
DickWhittington1000 4 months ago
Miles och Charlie...kan inte bli bättre!
waistnotime 9 months ago
Beautiful !
PaulMurphyJazzDrum 9 months ago
Charlie Parker was the single greatest, most inventive musician on any instrument in the 20th century. Unfortunately, his inner demons destroyed him, but his legacy will live forever. He's god to every serious jazz musician.
bailinnumberguy 9 months ago
Hello God ! .... is that you?
picchaz 9 months ago
Brilliant
mickhutchinson 9 months ago
Amazing!
welshexile1963 9 months ago
who are these 13 ppl who voted to dislike this?! WTF! Go to Britney Spears / Justin Bieber's web page, go eat your big mac at mcdonands, go drive in your big huge SUV, and at night lul yourself to sleep on American idol you SIMPLETONS!
AlergicToStupidity 9 months ago
Enjoy a fabulous master class on the life and music of Bird! Type in "Dave Frank" Parker on Ustream.com. Bird lives!
Dfrankjazz 9 months ago
@Anoush, you really need to get a life outside of making an ass of yourself commenting on Youtube.
saxismyaxe 9 months ago
@saxismyaxe jut cause you have a good vocab doesnt make your points validity quit bashing a person who makes a different style of music than you enjoy. get off YT get some pussy, smoke some weed, calm your ass down and get better at your craft...
SLlCK 9 months ago
@SLlCK I might heed or alternately take offense to your comments if I didn't need a Rosetta stone to decipher your interpretation of the English language. Cripes almighty!
saxismyaxe 9 months ago
Snarky rebuttal on my part, perhaps. Relevant, absolutely.
saxismyaxe 9 months ago
@saxismyaxe sorry i speak with my neighborhood vernacular and not the same boring english slavemasters once used...twat
SLlCK 9 months ago
@SLlCK Oh, is that what they are package ignorance as now. Your foul mouth nullifies any argument you could possibly have above and beyond the broken English BTW.
saxismyaxe 9 months ago
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@saxismyaxe just cause you have a good vocab doesnt give your points anymore validity quit bashing a person who makes a different style of music than what you enjoy. p.s get off YT get some pussy, smoke some weed, calm your ass down and get better at your craft...
SLlCK 9 months ago
♥♫♪☼
decus69 9 months ago
One night, many years ago while Charlie Parker was high on H, he discovered he could play any note any time,in any key, no note was off limits, as long as IT
Resolved itself on the Key note. From then on Charlie said "He could Fly" As a guitar player this idea opened a whole new world for me.
scottgrafton1 9 months ago
too complex for lady gaga
bondita 10 months ago
@connorveale : Bird's drug addiction came from a medical condition..you're reading too much into it....Bird was born to play.....drugs or no drugs....
kevinherbert 10 months ago
So smooth,so precise,so amazing...
palipao 10 months ago
@connorveale I don't know, man. I'm pretty sure that if you're not creative, drugs ain't gonna make you creative. The only thing like I feel like creating when I'm high is a sandwich.
tpstrat14 10 months ago 124
@tpstrat14 lol thats funny man lol ahhhhh lol thats good
MrUrech 9 months ago
@MrUrech Wow that's ironic. I just sat down at my computer with a sandwich when I read your comment. I'm not high though... :(
tpstrat14 9 months ago
@tpstrat14 When ever i blaze i play differently than when sober. So you cant say drugs cant make you creative... mind altering substances have been around for thousands of years and had its involvement with almost all art forms. So speak for yourself but when im high i feel like creating more phrasing oriented music THEN... a sandwich.
reaperofgenocide 9 months ago
@tpstrat14 : very droll......Aim shor.....
kevinherbert 8 months ago
@tpstrat14 Thats why Charlie is Charlie! Ain't NOBODY else Charlie!!!
TheFunkyDrumma 7 months ago
@tpstrat14 exactly, a bad artist sober is a bad artist high, no two ways about it. there definitely is a connection between art, artists, and altered mind states in many cases, but if the talent isn't there, it won't appear upon getting stoned. if you are in fact talented intoxication can work artistically on occasion.. but it isn't a product of intoxication
euphorium420 7 months ago
@tpstrat14 Many otherwise ok musicians ruined their careers thinking if they became junkies like Parker they could play like him. Not that simple.
nicodagger 6 months ago
@connorveale I gotta call you out on your interpretation of that wiki quote. That is completely ridiculous. There's a strong connection between sleeping around with women and playing pro sports. It doesn't mean that sex with multiple partners makes you a better athlete. If you still think that drugs induce creativity, check out Clifford Brown. He is credited with breaking the spell that drugs had on the jazz scene. He never touched the stuff, yet he could play the trumpet as good as anyone.
tpstrat14 10 months ago
@connorveale ew, yeah, that is an annoying sound...
elvis8tweeter 10 months ago
this......is true talent.
elvis8tweeter 10 months ago
pssh, he's ok, i guess. but he's no kenny g.
(before i get mauled, yes, that is sarcasm)
pwfb1 10 months ago
@pwfb1 Whew! ....I was about to verbally beat the shit out of you.
tpstrat14 10 months ago
charlie parker focking rucks
HamBoneTea 10 months ago
@HamBoneTea stupid motherfucker
Kimmich187 10 months ago
Sigh, I wish I could play with this amount of soul. Not many artists can put this much life and emotion into their playing.
mandyeleven 10 months ago
He died on a Saturday March 12th, just like today.
eguirald 10 months ago
I just read about Parker's drug problem... what?!?!?! How did he even function enough to play this amazing music!?! It sounded like he was constantly high on heroin
tpstrat14 10 months ago
@tpstrat14 He was a natural talent with alot of experience behind that horn ,so being intoxicated while playing was no big deal for Bird.
RangRing68 10 months ago
@tpstrat14 Well, how did Coltrane do it before he kicked the habit? I dunno, they were both incredible musicians.
HolyKatana 10 months ago
Bebop is allright, but personally I like Dixieland and 'hot' swing more. I can respect it though, great musicians. charlie parker is a legend
Ark1235 10 months ago
@Ark1235 I'm practically the opposite. Straight bebop (which almost nobody plays anymore) is alright, but I prefer post-bop and fusion more. I'm not really all that big of a fan of anything pre-1940 or so. Although Benny Goodman's band was great when it had Charlie Christian.
HolyKatana 10 months ago
I'm sick of Justin Bieber comment's. They are FUCKING EVERYWHERE, I can't get rid of those. Fuck, man, really, give me a break.
tade786 10 months ago 2
im assuming the soulja comment is ironic comedy genius
Abigmandis 11 months ago
soulja boy is way better than this horrid excuse for music. this is noise.
xdpcx 11 months ago
@xdpcx listen parker has more talent in the nail of his pinky finger than any of those pop artists will ever have
KingDA25 11 months ago
@xdpcx
but see,
you are a crass fool. your lack of sophistication diminishes the worth of your opinion. douchebag.
ahpedrami 11 months ago
@ahpedrami i object. your lack of taste clearly shows you are inferior to me,
xdpcx 11 months ago
@xdpcx my ass
JamesPriceJohnson 10 months ago
If you listen to how technical their style and improvisation is (Most of this is made up as they play it) then you can definently tell that Charlie and competing jazz musicians have stronger ears for musical progressions, more skill and much higher knowledge of music theory than most popular artists today.
benitospeaksenglish 11 months ago
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benitospeaksenglish 11 months ago
Why jazz isn't for my ears? :(
33bigmoney 11 months ago
@33bigmoney
Because you are a moldy fig, squared shapped head.
orgarbaje 11 months ago
@orgarbaje
no no, jaz has no sense sorry guys
33bigmoney 11 months ago
@33bigmoney Are you trolling on a jazz video?
You're practically desecrating Bird's legacy, intentionally or not (:
busterbrownation 11 months ago
@33bigmoney Cool story genius. Run along now.
clovis86 11 months ago
@33bigmoney wow...let me guess you are one of those people who only listen to pop music made by artists who have no creativity or originality whatsoever.
KingDA25 11 months ago
@KingDA25
not at all, classical, ambiental and movie music.
33bigmoney 11 months ago
@33bigmoney Jazz makes complete sense to the creative, unbiased and musical mind. Jazz is like fine wine, its an acquired taste. You have to approach Jazz from a completely different angle than other genres of music, BUT DONT GIVE UP HOPE!!! I used to be a BIG metal head, and that was all i listened to.
bufeva 11 months ago
@33bigmoney listen to pee wee russel play clarinet right now and i promise that you will forget be-bop ever existed... besides be-bop is the kind of final thrashing of a dying whale, jazz peaked in the 20's, from then it's been away from melody and more to the soloist....BAD THING and drums have almost completely ruined the emergent style
lsdvine 11 months ago
@lsdvine All the creative jazz musicians recogniced internationaly since 50 years come from bebop. You can trash down creativity and try deny new concepts to happen, nobody cares of you, and new talents will emerge, as what the case with Parker in his time. I respect (and I love) old music, but I feel secure enough to be not afraid of actual creativity. Music is related with life, not with dead past... Just keeping ears and heart wide open...
IRACEMABABU 10 months ago
@IRACEMABABU Yes but to understand this kind of music, which ultimately is for musicians and not the public, you must begin with the early more accessible styles, im only stating my opinion... lump it
lsdvine 10 months ago
@lsdvine I know a ton of people who discovered old musics AFTER actual ones... No rule for feelings. It seems to me that's more normal to be first touched by a music of your time, cause actual music speak about actual life when old one speak about ours parent's lives...
IRACEMABABU 10 months ago
@IRACEMABABU That is a very good point, but i found this music independent of my parents, and because nowadays music is predominantly h