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| | Charlie Parker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Several of Parker's songs have become standards of the repertoire, and innumerable musicians have studied Parker's music and absorbed elements of his style. | | | A biographical song entitled "Parker's Band" was recorded by Steely Dan on their 1974 album Pretzel Logic. | | | Parker left a widow, Chan Parker, a daughter, Kim Parker, who is also a musician, and a son, Baird Parker, who died in the Vietnam War. |
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| | Charlie Parker - MSN Encarta |
| | A motion-picture biography of Parker, Bird, was released in 1988. | | | Largely self-taught, Parker had an ability to listen and a willingness to practice that enabled him to make rapid progress on the saxophone. | | | The film’s music features solos by Parker layered on top of new rhythm tracks. |
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| | The My Hero Project - Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie Parker was a great musician and father. | | | Charlie Parker found happiness with his wife and child, whom he loved, and with his music, which meant the world to him. | | | Charlie Parker died March 12, 1955, in New York, but his music and his memory live on forever. |
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| | VH1.com : Charlie Parker : Biography |
| | Unfortunately, Charlie Parker was a heroin addict ever since he was a teenager, and some other musicians who idolized Bird foolishly took up drugs in the hope that it would elevate their playing to his level. | | | Parker, who recorded simultaneously for the Savoy and Dial labels, was in peak form during the 1947-1951 period, visiting Europe in 1949 and 1950, and realizing a lifelong dream to record with strings starting in 1949 when he switched to Norman Granz's Verve label. | | | Parker, who had met and jammed with Dizzy Gillespie for the first time in 1940, had a short stint with Noble Sissle's band in 1942, played tenor with Earl Hines' sadly unrecorded bop band of 1943, and spent a few months in 1944 with Billy Eckstine's orchestra, leaving before that group made their first records. |
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| | The Official Site of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker - Biography |
| | Soon, Parker was playing with local bands until 1935, when he left school to pursue a music career. | | | In December, Parker and Gillespie took their music to Hollywood on a six-week nightclub tour. | | | During the four years that Parker stayed with McShann's band, he got the opportunity to perform solo in several of their recordings, such as Hootie Blues, Sepian Bounce, and the 1941 hit Confessing the Blues. |
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| | Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie âBirdâ Parker was one of the founders of post-war jazz and one of its pre-eminent innovators. | | | Parker was already showing a flourish for improvisation within the swing style, yet very few recordings from this period exist due to the ban on recording during World War II. | | | He recorded an album called Charlie Parker With Strings in 1949 that confounded some jazz purists, but remained popular. |
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| | Charlie Parker (cricketer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, from 1920 Parker became one of the best left arm spin bowlers in England. | | | This success reflected Parker's ability to get through huge amounts of bowling - over 85 percent of Gloucestershire's overs (from one end) in 1927 and even more overs in 1926. | | | However, age finally caught up with Parker in 1932 after a promising beginning. |
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| | American Masters . Charlie Parker PBS |
| | Though Parker was a titan among jazz musicians of the time, it would take the country at large years to learn that for a short while in the 1940s and 1950s one of the most profoundly original American musicians had walked among them virtually unrecognized. | | | Today, Charlie "Yardbird" Parker is considered one of the great musical innovators of the 20th century. | | | Beyond his amazing technical capacity, Parker was able to invent a more complex and individual music by disregarding the four- and eight-bar standards of jazz and creating solos that were both fluid and harsh. |
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| | The Jazzine - Biographies: Charlie Parker |
| | He was born to Charles Parker Sr., a singer and dancer on the black vaudeville circuit, and Addie Parker, a housewife. | | | Because Parker and his music was getting more and more popular with time, young musicians began to look to heroine as the key to success. | | | Parker’s family life wasn’t going nearly as well as his musical career was; in 1939, he and Rebecca divorced. |
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http://www.jazzine.com/jazzstuff/biographies/charlie_parker.phtml
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| | Charlie Parker : Jazz at the Philharmonic 1946 ---Ink Blot Magazine |
| | Charlie "Yardbird" Parker still ranks as the greatest improviser of all time. | | | With Gillespie, Parker invented a rhythmically and harmonically challenging idiom (bop) that changed forever the way musicians approach jazz music. | | | Parker follows with an equally expressive turn, but he also displays a more "modern" approach: playing based on chords as well as melody. |
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| | A Moment in Time - Kansas State Historical Society |
| | Charlie "Bird" Parker is one of several Kansans to leave a trademark sound in contemporary music. | | | Parker's musical genius drove him to live life on the edge. | | | Although he played basic chords and harmonies with the other musicians, Parker began to experiment with higher intervals of chords to produce the tunes that filled his imagination. |
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| | Art of Jazz Trumpet: Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie Parker is generally acknowledged to be the fountainhead of contemporary jazz. | | | Rhythmically, Charlie Parker's approach to improvisation seems at first glance to have arisen out of nowhere. | | | Charlie Parker frequently quoted from Louis Armstrong's solos. |
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| | Jazz . Jazz Greats . Charlie Parker PBS KIDS GO! |
| | Charlie Parker (1920-1955) spent his childhood in Kansas City, Missouri, one of the hottest jazz spots in the country. | | | Luckily, he made many great recordings, and even played with a large group of violins, violas and cellos. | | | Unfortunately, Charlie started using drugs and alcohol as a teenager in Kansas City and became addicted as an adult. |
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| | The Complete Benedetti Recordings of Charlie Parker (#129) |
| | The 48-page booklet includes musical transcriptions by Benedetti and others, essays by Phil Schaap on Parker's life during this period, a biography of Dean Benedetti by Bob Porter, a musical analysis by Parker authority James Patrick, and Phil Schaap's complete annotated discography of all the music in the set. | | | It is remastered painstakingly and thoroughly from scarred discs cut on a portable disc recorder, and paper tape from an early tape recorder, and the source material was clandestinely recorded with little consideration for the sonic result. | | | Charlie Parker led the way for other great saxophonists to follow. |
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| | Charlie Parker @ The Jazz Files |
| | Nicknamed 'Bird' or 'Yardbird', Charlie Parker was one of the most significant and widely imitated improvisers in jazz history. | | | In 1945, Parker and Gillespie worked together in a small group in New York which is generally regarded as the first and trend-setting bebop band. | | | However, from the late 1940s onwards, Parker was always fighting a battle with his inner demons and the pull of drugs and alcohol. |
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| | Speakers are Speaking in Code . . . : Charlie Parker |
| | The original credits actually listed Charlie Parker as "Charlie Chan," because Parker was under contract to another label when the recording was made. | | | Charlie "Yardbird" Parker died 50 years ago this week. | | | A rather little-known CD you might enjoy is "Jazz at Massey Hall" under the group heading, "The Quintet." This is a concert that Charlie Mingus tapped with Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Max Roach, Charlie Mingus and Bud Powell. |
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http://blogs.msdn.com/mollman/archive/2005/03/15/396298.aspx
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| | WDRCOBG.COM: Charlie Parker (1/5/06) |
| | Charlie would call me up sometimes too at three or four in the morning and let me know he dug a segue, enjoyed the news and the goofy kicker I found, or he'd just call to say hello and let me know he was listening and paying attention to what I was doing there. | | | Read more comments on Charlie Parker from Bill "FM" Stephens and Jack Lawrence. | | | I would start at midnight bringing two dynamically opposite stations together then blaze along as some sort of weird hybrid rockin out with AC/DC and Robin Trower till about 4 am yet by morning I'd have Paul McCartney singing love ballads...and I enjoyed it. |
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| | Charlie Parker Band |
| | "Charlie Parker is without a doubt one of the best lead guitarists to come on the Texas music scene since Stevie Ray Vaughn. | | | The Charlie Parker Band has a new member. | | | Charlie Parker Band will play at the Dawgs on Hawgs Motorcycle Rally on April 29, 2006. |
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| | Bird Lives - Thinking About Charlie Parker |
| | As it is with Parker's impact on Jazz and music in general, the shock, dismissiveness and rejection have also subsided, but such reactions are expressive of change, the 'shock of the new'. | | | Now we accept Parker as part of the established musical tradition, but his impact changed music. | | | Someone once said there are only two forms of Jazz; before Charlie Parker and after Charlie Parker. |
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| | Charlie Parker |
| | A King workman engraved “Charlie Parker” on the ring that attaches the brass body of the instrument to its sterling silver bell, and he placed a “Charlie Parker” nameplate on the case as well. | | | THE KING: Although he borrowed and used many saxophones in his career, there is one horn that will forever be linked with Bird: The Super 20 model alto sax that the King instrument company made expressly for Parker in the fall of 1947. |
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| | Amazon.com: Yardbird Suite: The Ultimate Charlie Parker: Music: Charlie Parker |
| | This two-CD set is an ideal introduction to the music of Charlie Parker and the bop revolution. | | | For years I shied away from delving into Charlie Parker's music for lack of the knowledge to discriminate among a huge number of recordings, many of them of quite dubious provenance. | | | Its 38 tracks are culled from several labels, including Savoy and Dial, with many of them recorded between 1946 and 1949, the altoist's most creative period and the years in which he was reshaping jazz. |
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| | NPR : Remembering Bird: A Poem for Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie Parker at New York's Three Deuces club in 1947. | | | As he helped usher in a new age in jazz, Parker recorded many unforgettable tunes: "A Night in Tunisia," "Ornithology," "Salt Peanuts" and more. | | | Morning Edition, March 11, 2005 · Legendary jazz musician Charlie Parker died 50 years ago Saturday. |
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| | Jerry Jazz Musician Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie Parker's real genius is in how he reached deep inside the culture and touched others who then spread his voice. | | | Parker left the world enriched with creative melody. | | | The Jazz Collectors Series....1967, 1st Printing of Charlie 'Bird' Parker by Sam Smidt (17' x 22") $43 |
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| | Charlie Parker |
| | And here is where you musicians can get Charlie Parker sheet music. | | | To see a very impressive catalogue of his recording dates, visit Peter Losin's Charlie Parker Sessionography. | | | Finally, CMG Worldwide houses the Official Site of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker. |
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| | Miles Ahead: Charlie Parker Discography |
| | There are currently 119 Charlie Parker CDs in the Miles Ahead database. | | | These lists serve a very limited purpose -- they provide details on the main commercially-available bodies of Charlie Parker's recorded work. | | | Select a decade from the drop-down list to begin; this will give you a list of records from that decade. |
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| | Charlie Parker Biography |
| | His music is rooted in the Kansas City blues and every song he played had a blues twist to it. | | | Bird then joined Jay McShann's band and Billy Eckstine's band, and during this time, Bird experienced what he called "an epiphany" and he finally figured out how to play the music he had been hearing in his head. | | | For more, Charlie Parker information, check out these sites: |
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| | Charlie Parker Discography |
| | Charlie Parker (as) Al Haig or Bernie Leighton (p) Tommy Potter (b) Roy Haynes (d) Jimmy Mundy (arr) 1 oboe, 3 violins, 1 viola, 1 violoncello, 1 harp | | | Charlie Parker (as) Hank Jones (p) Ray Brown (b) Shelly Manne (d) | | | * Charlie Parker - Yardbird in Lotusland (Phoenix LP 17) |
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| | Charlie Parker |
| | Patchen was hip enough to do an album with Charlie Mingus’ early group. | | | August 1979 in San Francisco, poets Nancy Joyce Peters, Philip Lamantia, and tedjoans do a homage reading to Charlie Parker. | | | Reisner had one of the most complete bop records collections. |
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| | The Official Site of Charlie "Yardbird" Parker |
| | The Official Site of Charlie Parker has everything you want to know about the original jazzmaster. | | | CMG Worldwide is the exclusive business representative for the Estate of Charlie Parker. | | | Visit our Fans section to see other Charlie Parker Tribute Sites or Download free Wallpapers featuring Charlie Parker. |
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| | Welcome to CharlieParkerResidence.net |
| | Built in l849, this Gothic Revival-style rowhouse was home to the alto saxophonist Charlie Parker (Bird) from l950-l954. | | | Interview with Kim Parker at 151 Avenue B, 2005 | | | Avenue B (between 7th & l0th Streets-along Tompkins Square Park) was renamed Charlie Parker Place in l992 and since l993 the Charlie Parker Jazz Festival is held annually in the park to celebrate Bird's birthday (August 29, l920 in Kansas City, Kansas) and his contribution to 20th century music. |
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| | Charlie Parker Tabs: 41 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs |
| | Charlie Parker news, reviews, forums and wallpapers at GetSomeNoise | | | get Charlie Parker lyrics from Mp3 Lyrics Organized | | | Charlie Parker Tabs: 41 Tabs Total @ 911Tabs |
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| | HyperMusic -- History of Jazz: Charlie Parker |
| | Charlie Parker made some of his most important recordings using borrowed instruments. | | | Charlie Parker's nickname was "Bird." His life story was the subject of a 1988 film of the same name. | | | He played with many musicians and made many records but is best known for his work with Dizzy that brought about the development of bebop. |
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| | CHARLIE PARKER - CHASIN' THE BIRD |
| | Budget priced 4 CD box set Proper remembers Charlie Parker's death, 50 years ago this year, with this box set that contains some of the most telling of Bird's live recordings from 1942 54. | | | HOME > ARTISTS P > CHARLIE PARKER > CHASIN' THE BIRD [Item 57963] |
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| | A Tribute to Charlie Parker |
| | Click on the sheet music image below to go to the definitive page for the Charlie Parker Sessionography on the Web. | | | Click on the Rare Bird album cover below to go to AMG's great page on Bird including a comprehensive, hyperlinked discography. | | | This Page is a tribute to the greatest alto saxophonist of all time, Charlie "YardBird" Parker. |
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| | Charlie Parker Prints by William P. Gottlieb at AllPosters.com |
| | Charlie Parker Prints by William P. Gottlieb at AllPosters.com | | | Simply enter your email address and you can save items to Your Gallery. | | | It appears this is not a valid email address. |
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| | Miles Ahead: Charlie Parker Query Form |
| | to find performances of "52nd Street Theme" featuring Dizzy Gillespie or Swedish appearances of Charlie Parker and Strings. | | | You can do combination queries using more than one type, e.g. | | | Of course many multiple-type queries will not return any results, so don't be alarmed if such a query comes up empty. |
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| | NBA.com: COACHES |
| | Charlie Parker is in his 10th season as an assistant coach, joining the club’s coaching staff in the summer of 1996 after eight years at Southern California. | | | While at Wayne State, Parker was honored as the GLIAC Coach of the Year on two occasions (1984 and 1987) and was also heralded as the Michigan Coach of the Year in 1984. | | | While an undergraduate, he had a decorated career in both basketball and track. |
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| | Charlie Parker |
| | CHARLIE PARKER (not to be confused with John Connolly's P.I. of the same name) and her brother, Ron, run a private detective ageny in Albuquerque, New Mexico. | | | Charlie's creator, Connie Shelton, is a commercial hot air balloon pilot, and holds the world altitude record for a size AX-4 balloon. | | | She lives with her husband, a helicopter pilot, in New Mexico. |
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