Charlie Parker Jazz
Ken Burns JAZZ Collection: Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker is one of the legendary figures of jazz, a musician whose troubled life and creative genius have inspired works like Clint Eastwood's film Bird. As this collection demonstrates, though, the legend could never be larger than the art. Parker was simply one of the two or three greatest improvisers ever to play jazz. He created solos of unmatched harmonic and rhythmic subtlety at tempos few musicians could even negotiate. This selection provides a unique single-CD introduction to Parker's work, touching on his earliest recordings with the blues-based Kansas City band of Jay McShann and the early collaborations with Dizzy Gillespie that marked the dawn of bop. The period of Parker's greatest creativity was brief, and it spanned several record companies--Savoy, Dial, and Verve--all of them represented here. Among the masterpieces are the slow blues of "Parker's Mood" and the stunning "Just Friends," with Parker's liquid alto cascading brilliantly over a small string section. --Stuart Broomer
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Norman Granz at Montreux Jazz: Improvisation - Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and More
In 1944 Norman Granz and Gjon Mili collaborated on a film about jazz music called "Jammin' The Blues". Highly successful, it was nominated for the Oscar for Best Short Film and is described on the IMDB as "Maybe the greatest film ever about jazz." In 1950 they collaborated again on a film about jazz improvisation that was never completed. This footage has now been combined with other film of jazz improvisation shot by Norman Granz at different times and locations to create this new film simply titled "Improvisation".Tracklisting: Mili's Studio Sequence 1950 1) Opening Title 2) Ballade 3) Celebrity 4) Ad Lib 5) Pennies From Heaven 6) Blues For Greasy Duke Ellington at the Cote D'Azur 7) Blues For Joan Miro Count Basie At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977 8) Nob's Blues 9) Kidney Stew 10) These Foolish Things Joe Pass 1979 11) Ain't Misbehavin' 12) Prelude To A Kiss Ella Fitzgerald 1979 13) Do Nothing Till You Hear From Me 14) I Got It Bad And That Ain't Good Oscar Peterson At Montreux Jazz Festival 1977 15) Ali & Frazier
Bonus Features Disc One: Portrait of Norman Granz narrated by Nat Hentoff / Portraits by David Stone Martin Disc Two: Extra rushes / Interviews about the Mili session / Interviews about Charlie Parker / Photo gallery of Paul Nodler's pictures of the Mili session / The original 1944 film "Jammin' The Blues"
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Celebrating Bird: The Triumph of Charlie Parker [VHS]
This 1987 film represents the first substantial documentary devoted to virtuoso saxophonist and bebop icon Charlie Parker, whose wildly inventive style and hip charisma made him a legend well before his untimely death at 34. Parker's huge, ultimately self-destructive appetites and sad demise long ago confirmed him as a poster boy for the doomed romanticism associated with the jazz life, and arguably apotheosized in a number of the bop era's most brilliant players, but while the film doesn't ignore Parker's life as a long-term heroin addict, the portrait hews more closely to exploring his creative genesis.Through film clips, stills, and interviews with family members, musical peers, and writers, we follow Parker from his native Kansas City, Kansas, through his apprenticeship with band leaders Jay McShann and Bennie Moten, and on to New York. There, Parker would step forward as a de facto co-architect (with erstwhile partner Dizzy Gillespie, among others) of bebop, the small-group style that hot-wired swing rhythms and pop melodies with breakneck tempi, inventive harmonies, and extended improvisations, leaving behind the terra firma of swing for the high wire of a musician's music that mainstream listeners initially found daunting to follow.
Liberally scored with Parker's best-known performances, Celebrating Bird represents one of the most literate jazz documentaries extant, thanks to writer and codirector Gary Giddins, one of America's most thoughtful jazz writers, and Toby Byron, the producer behind the Masters of American Music series including The Story of Jazz. Engaging interviews with McShann, Gillespie, drummer Roy Haynes, veteran jazz writer Leonard Feather, first wife Rebecca Parker Davis, and final companion Chan Parker provide a balance of musical analysis and personal insight. For Bird's fans, this is a treat; for newly converted listeners, the story represents a keystone to the history of the music's crucial transition from swing to bop and beyond. --Sam Sutherland
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