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"The Charlie Parker Memorial Concert Songbook"

When Charlie Parker died unexpectedly at the age of 34 on March 12, 1955, the jazz world was devastated—and almost immediately, like the “Bird Lives!" graffiti that began to appear around New York City, musicians began to pay tribute, through live performances of his music, to the man who had done so much to revolutionize jazz. ...

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Off the A-Train: Paul Gonsalves 1957-1963

Off the A-Train:  Paul Gonsalves 1957-1963

If it were a film, it might be called “Six Minutes Over Newport"--the story of Duke Ellington tenor saxophonist Paul Gonsalves' solo bombing run that dropped 27 choruses on a disbelieving and increasingly rapturous audience at the 1956 Newport Jazz Festival. Ellington would often say afterwards that he had been “born again" that night, and Gonsalves' ...


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