The mental_floss Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Music icon Miles Davis has long been revered as a jazz pioneer — but what exactly did he pioneer? To some purists, jazz music can be broken into two distinct eras: Before Miles and After Miles. A student and bandmate of Bebop legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles’ musical education took place [...]
Dysthymia (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Recently I discovered a wonderful blog and I have to share it with you. If Charlie Parker Was A Gunslinger, There'd Be A Whole Lot Of Dead Copycats. Oh you will enjoy yourself there (and if you don't, I don't want to hear about it).
linkfilter.net - fresh links (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats An Ongoing Series of Cultural and Personal Observations by Tom Sutpen, Stephen Cooke, Richard Gibson and Kimberly Lindbergs mostly great b/w photos of cultural importance > : 0 Hits: 2 Points: 163704 Vote Now! [
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Ever since the seminal Charlie Parker With Strings (Mercury 1950), numerous artists have attempted to add symphonic strings to jazz ensembles. Some have succeeded, but many have failed to capture a proper balance, resulting in string arrangements that sound superfluous. Bassist Ben Wolfe's fifth album, No Strangers Here, is one example of a successful merger of two worlds--acoustic jazz quartet and...
Today's Blog Music (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
in post kid tunes :: frances england from anyone's guess .
growabrain (Free subscription) | 07/07/2008
Organ Grinders Studs Terkel interviews Frank Zappa, August of 1968, on Chicago's WFMT-FM. (From If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger,There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats) Also, in his They Were Collaborators series (which includes over 473 excellent &...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Gordon Polatnick's business plan, he concedes, was heavy on the things that fueled his daydreams and too light on almost everything else. The idea itself was simple. On the blocks in Harlem where Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday and Charlie Parker performed, Mr. Polatnick would open a nightclub. But it would do business during the day, charge no cover and sell soft drinks instead of liquor to encourage...
Darcy James Argue's Secret Society (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The BMI Jazz Composers Workshop (of which I am an alumnus) is holding its year-end concert at Merkin Hall tonight. Society co-conspirator Tom Goehring is among the nominees for this year's Charlie Parker Award and Manny Albam Commission. Concert is...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
The BMI Jazz Composers Workshop will present its 20th anniversary summer showcase concert today at New Yorks Merkin Concert Hall. BMI will also award its ninth annual Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Prize at the event...
Euro Crime (Free subscription) | 06/23/2008
Hodder have pointed me to this YouTube video of John Connolly talking about "his writing and his new blood-splattered Charlie Parker novel, THE REAPERS". The video is 9 minutes long and the sound quality's a bit poor. There is a 'high quality' setting on the original page on YouTube which is a bit better.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Sounds of Old Hollywood, Augmented by Memories Charlie Haden's Quartet West opened its late set at the new club Le Poisson Rouge on Wednesday with Charlie Parker's "Passport" and got right into it. The saxophonist Ernie Watts began as if he were in the middle of things, with a controlled medium projection, playing fast and smoothly and using language from Parker and Coltrane, devices that coolly showed...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2008
Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe EuroArts 2007 "Nobody can play like Charlie Parker ever, you know, and there are so many hundreds of thousands of people who tried to live the life like him and to try to play his phrases and do it as freely and quickly and impressively as he does, but there's no chance, you can just give up right away, and think of something else, you know. Every day...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
Odean Pope Quartet To The Roach CIMP 2006 Odean Pope Serenity CIMP 2007 The many-sided figure defined by the intersecting lines among saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman is the space that tenor saxophonist Odean Pope inhabits and expands upon. A nexus among players of his generation, Pope is on the cusp of bop and free jazz, connecting the two with a singular...
Daily Pundit (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Dirty Harry comes clean | Interviews | guardian.co.uk Film Eastwood has no time for Lee’s gripes. “He was complaining when I did Bird [the 1988 biopic of Charlie Parker]. Why would a white guy be doing that? I was the only guy who made it, that’s why. He could have gone ahead and made it. [...]
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
This year's Charlie Parker Jazz Festival in New York City will include an array of pianists, vocalists and other jazz musicians brought together to perform in honor of Parker and his creative legacy. The festival, to be held on Aug. 23 and 24, is produced and organized annually by the City Park...
