"I realised by using the high notes of the chords as a melodic line, and by the right harmonic progression, I could play what I heard inside me. That's when I was born."
Charlie Parker
WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE?
REPETITION
APRIL IN PARIS
CHARLIE PARKER WITH UNKNOWN STRING AND RHYTHM SECTION, APOLLO THEATRE, NEW YORK CITY, 1951.
NOTE: PIC = NOT FROM SAME GIG.
interesting and ironic: the sound is cluttered with static and as I understand it, this was first made by a recording buff from a radio broadcast. Despite the technological deficiencies, it is heavenly.
Take today's finest recording engineers, the best studios, and if you are recording most music of today, it is gonna sound putrid no matter how cleanly it is recorded.
Dave78mYT 11 months ago
Case anyone's interested, this is one of Cole Porter's popular tunes... "What Is This Thing Called Love".
DaveVelo1 1 year ago
Bird's in wild flight flinging behindm but still forcing them to be with him, the soaring strings, through the stratosphere of Heaven itself on these cuts. bravo!
pvelectric 1 year ago
cool!
barrtok 1 year ago
high notes are the wide extensions charlie christian uses on swing to bop or topsy minton's session where at hazt time, a very young parker jammed in 1942 in harlem.. You strart from a high note extentipon, and you go down 2 octaves in less the 4 notes anticipating the chord change but 1 or 2 beats giving a feeling of high drive it's call running changes
callasexperience 1 year ago
the best musician that ever lived
lmsypj 1 year ago
Yes.
mahoose6 2 years ago
I heard that Parker really believed in the "With Strings" format & the critics, as usual, ate him alive....
909kong 2 years ago
Bird sounds unbelievable as usual...the best alto player that ever lived!
lpsling 2 years ago
hi M.xwftassell; have you a "Just friends" take of that Apollo concert?
Thouveninpascal 2 years ago