Charlie 'Bird' Parker - What Is This Thing Called Love? [Verve Jazz Masters 28 vers.]

Verve Jazz Masters 28 - Charlie Parker Plays Standards: What Is This Thing Called Love?

photo: Marcel Fleiss, Charlie Parker and strings at Birdland, 1951

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• charlie
• parker
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• bebop
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• thing
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• love
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• marcel
• fleiss
• valez
• carmen
• bizet

[valezTV]

@Maschio Alfonso; @dntinpalevo: Thanks for your kind comments. I'm so glad you like it. I think with this piece Charlie Parker gives us another sign of his incredible brilliance and not an only techinical one, but also a conceptual one. That's the thing.

[ken38urb]

Despite the musical scat Parker somehow kept the tune intact,which you cannot say for everybody. There used to be a tribute to Byrd in the student union at Pitt .He went with the saints too early for my generation [ mid to late 50's] but fortunately he was recorded liberally and has been digitized for posterity

[birdlives46]

Thanks for posting this--nice!

[Lightdrops2003]

Had an Uncle that knew him from NYC, NY and learned more of him from Gilad Atzmon's book The Wandering Who.

[james127ish]

bird lives!

[GraciousNightmare]

i swear, if anyone ever dislikes this, then they have no purpose in life. this is great stuff!!!

[raphaelis666]

@JazzLoverKhurram Mozart is filth compared to this.

[boomerang905]

I can never hear enough of this man!

[mwesterholm]

Trumpet and trombone solos seem so . . . anachronistic . . . compared to Parker. Piano is bit hipper, but Bird is forever.

[vangrails]

What is this thing called thingy? Sorry, couldn't resist.

[boomerang905]

i grew up listening to this. it takes me back home. This man died so long ago and yet, he has lived in my family for years. My brother in law still has his 78s. i am glad that when i was a child my brothers and the in law let me listen to this kind of music. i love Mr. Parker with all my musical heart! Thanks.