Charlie Parker Gravesite Memorial Service: August 24, 2008

This is raw, unedited footage of Charlie Parker's gravesite memorial service. As a reading by poet Dan Jaffe concludes, Ahmad Alaadeen leads a rendition of "Now's the Time." That's followed by the Dirty Force brass band.

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Music

Tags:

• Kansas
• City
• Charlie
• Parker
• Jazz
• Lincoln
• Cemetery
• Ahmad
• Alaadeen
• Bobby
• Watson
• Dan
• Jaffe
• Loren
• Pickford

[playinfortheone]

@SneakyTeaBag The tenor solo wasnt that good but the other ones were. They know what there doing.



[black0lightning]

who let that tenor play he sounded horrible but the rest were good

[SneakyTeaBag]

@playinfortheone They clearly do know much about improv. Secondly, "alot" is two words dude. i.e. a lot

[playinfortheone]

@SneakyTeaBag you dont know what your talkin about. For the most part they were good and probably know alot alot more about imrov than you.

[SneakyTeaBag]

1. That guy should get rid of his stupid mullet.

2. They ALL should go woodshed and not play in public until they get some decent time and sound.

[aarfeld]

Finally a fitting memorial. You know, Bird's mother wouldn't allow any Jazz to be played at his funeral, probably blaming the music for the early death of her son.

[eloisecrumpp]

and J. R. in his purple shirt.

[latinqueenslander]

well bird must have been turning on his tumb bling when the tenor dude blew his horn ( O my God) hahhahaahaha

[rlwhite68]

i know half the guys on this piece they represent the finest musicians today, you have the McFadden Brothers Lonnie and Ronnie, Bill Perkins, Phis Woods and Ahmad Alaadeen playing perhaps an alto once owned by Perker himself. Nuff Said

[stevechannell77]

this is amazing. i just fell in love with jazz tonight. watched some old parker videos here on youtube and decided my musical tastes have changed. used to just listen to commercial rock, but realized that none of it would have existed without blues and jazz. RIP "Bird".