Charlie Parker

[Ayler]

"Charlie Parker was like our prophet, because ... he was sort of a revolutionary musical figure, although his background, you can clearly see [that] he's traditionalist - coming from Lester Young and older people.

"But because Charlie Parker had a bad drug habit, which was very unfortunate, a lot of us young kids who were following Charlie Parker wanted to be like him and we wanted to use drugs.

"We thought, 'Well Charlie Parker used drugs and that must be the way to go.'

"That was a very, very debilitating time and I'm fortunate to be here, because so many of my friends who got into that ... got wiped out."

Parker was part of the reason Rollins began to use heroin, but he also inspired Rollins to get clean.

"Well it's a long story, but Charlie Parker impressed me with the fact that he was very concerned about youngsters like myself ... that we were all following him into this terrible habit. And he expressed that to me in a way that I realised," Rollins said.

"A light came on in my head and I realised that Charlie Parker felt so depressed because all of these guys were following him into this abyss of drug use.

"[But] he couldn't pull himself out of it. He was really too far gone."

Source : http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/06/03/2263316.htm?section=entertainment

[Ayler]

Un super article de Steve Coleman à propos de Charlie Parker :

http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-steve-coleman-on-charlie-parker

[yza]

Les deux seules prestations vidéo de Charlie Parker se trouvent, dans le film "Be Bop's nest" , (TV stage entrance Show), avec la présence de Dizzy Gillepsie, et "Jazz at the Philharmonic", reproduitent sur le double DVD "The greatest jazz films ever", Idem IDVD 1059.

[Ornette]

Un super article de Steve Coleman à propos de Charlie Parker : http://www.jazz.com/dozens/the-dozens-steve-coleman-on-charlie-parker

Un très bon article, en effet !

[Chino]

Je me suis aperçu que subrepticement, j'avais accumulé pas mal de disques de Charlie PArker. Que dire sur Bird? Que je l'adore, je n'ai jamais entendu un musicien qui savait dire autant de choses sur un solo de 30 secondes, dont beaucoup atteignent la perfection, et peu savaient si bien jouer le blues que lui.

Un vrai génie, qui a révolutionné le sax et la musique. Bird Lives!

Les enregsitrements pour DIAL et SAVOY sont indispensables (tant qu'à faire, chopez le coffret 8 cd pour avoir toutes les prises), et il y a pas mal de lives ahurissants.

Les faces Verve sont plus inégales, mais il y a des perles.

Et pour les amoureux comme moi, il y a le coffret consacré aux enregistrements pirates faits par Dean Benedetti, lequel a enregistré uniquement les soli de Parker lors de plusieurs prestations de ce dernier en live.

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