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Charlie Parker: The Genius of & Blue Bird
by AAJ Staff
By P. Christopher Dowd To approach the aesthetic history of jazz would unequivocally lead to Charlie “Bird Parker. With the majority of musicians, we speak of their contributions to the musical lexicon in terms of what they added to the foundation. In the case of Charlie Parker, he didn't just contribute, he pulverized all that preceded ...
Martin Speake: Charlie Parker
by John Kelman
With this year marking the 50th anniversary of saxophonist Charlie Parker's death, all manner of tributes are likely to crop up. Italian saxophonist Stefano di Battista has already released the reverent Parker's Mood. But when British saxophonist Martin Speake spoke in an interview last year of doing a Parker tribute, given his proclivity for placing a ...
Charlie Parker: Liveology
by AAJ Staff
Back in the days of vinyl, I remember Everest as a reissue label that issued live Charlie Parker material in haphazard fashion, with little or no discographical information and muddy sound. Boris Rose airchecks were thrown in with tracks from Bird's 1950 Birdland session with Fats Navarro and Bud Powell, and it was often left to ...
Bootsie Barnes: Bootsie Barnes: Boppin' Round the Center
by Victor L. Schermer
This CD featuring Bootsie Barnes and a group assembled for the occasion has one characteristic uncommon in an era of so-called 'smooth jazz,' rap singing, and canned music for every occasion from cinematically simulated inner city rumbles to drugs for erectile dysfunction. It really swings! It also 'bops around the center!' (I truly don't know what ...
Savoy Jazz Reaches 60, But Looks Beyond
by R.J. DeLuke
Every so often someone in jazz has their career resurrected. Different elements feed into that. Good luck; a sudden public “discovery;" Perseverance. Going on in jazz right now, however, is the resurrection of an old tried and true recording label, Savoy Jazz. It's the result of hard work and a desire to maintain classic ...
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