Charlie Parker

...Derek Bailey freestyle and John Fahey organicism. A MINUS Half Note Smalls An alto saxophonist who risks sounding like Charlie Parker and winds up showing how it should be done. He taps Ellington for two tunes, wails through "Chinatown...

In this article: Organicism, Ken Filiano, Arild Andersen, Eivind Aarset, George Wallington, Alex Cline, and Ned Rothenberg

...rhythm and blues, blues, soul, and gospel music. Shortly after the move, as Myron's uncle was listening to a recording of Charlie Parker's 'One Night in Washington,' young Myron was profoundly moved by the music and, hearing the uncle exclaim...

In this article: Miami, Florida

...close to hearing Bird in person. It may seem unusual for a performer of Walden's originality to be using Parker as a gauge for the sound he wanted to create, then comparing and contrasting with Miles, who died when Walden was barely out of...

In this article: Miles Davis, Bird, Stanley Turrentine, Wayne Shorter, and Dizzy Gillespie

...over a decade. The tidiness of that timeline doesnt quite do justice to Mr. Grossman, 58, whose early obsessions revolved around Charlie Parker and bebop. Born in Brooklyn and reared on Long Island, he came of age when jazz was in flux...

In this article: Steve Grossman, John Coltrane, Elvin Jones, Miles Davis, Brooklyn, Long Island, Europe, and New York

...celebrated as a composer like Thelonious Monk, or as a bandleader like Miles Davis, or the founder of his own movement, like Charlie Parker. What Rollins really does is blow his horn, making any tune he chooses bow to his whim. Born in Harlem...

In this article: Sonny Rollins, London, Bob Cranshaw, Bobby Broom, Clifton Anderson, Barbican Hall, Thelonious Monk, and Don't Stop the Carnival

...introduction to jazz. It's all here (albeit abbreviated), from Bessie Smith to Buddy Bolden to Louis Armstrong to Coleman Hawkins to Charlie Parker to John Coltrane to Jason Moran. The basic configurations of the jazz ensemble are examined and...

In this article: Louis Armstrong, Jazz, Albert Ayler, Gary Giddins, Earl Hines, Billie Holiday, Suicide, George Russell, and Ken Burns

...but his musical roots are pure New York - he moved here at age 12. Walden first learned alto sax by listening to an uncle's Charlie Parker album, "One Night in Washington. " He went on to lessons at the Harlem School of the Arts, progressing...

In this article: Philippe Garrel, Claude Debussy, East Village, New York City, Suicide, The Devil in the Belfry, Food bank, and Harlem School of the Arts

...the "Banana Boat Song," which mainstreamed calypso music, a form of Caribbean folk music. He worked closely with Frank Sinatra, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Bob Dylan in his early days. Belafonte has received a Grammy for his albums...

In this article: Harry Belafonte, Banana Boat Song, Calypso, Swing Dat Hammer, Grammy, Emmy, Peace Corps, and Julie Andrews

...to new and interesting sounds. The tragic jazz life and death story of saxophonist Art Pepper was similar to that of Charlie Parker in many ways. Like Bird's brilliance, Art Pepper's intense flame burned bright, and his genius with the...

In this article: Art Pepper, Ornette Coleman, Caravan, Shorty Rogers, Dog, Straight Life, and Teddy Edwards

...States. It's a matter of persuading young people in all the liberal democracies that the real world has a glamour of its own. Charlie Parker, the wonderful saxophonist who ruined himself with drugs, tried to tell his fellow musicians that...

In this article: Heroin, The Wire, Charles Baudelaire, Cocaine, The Man with the Golden Arm, Cannabis, Sherlock Holmes, Opium, and Laudanum