RARE CHARLIE PARKER /MILES DAVIS 78 BIRD OF PARADISE E+
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A REALLY EXCELLENT COPY OF THIS CHARLIE PARKER CLASSIC DOUBLE-SIDER ON A UK ESQUIRE 78 FEATURING MILES DAVIS et al
BIRD OF PARADISE / DEXTERITY
Charles Parker, Jr. (August 29, 1920 – March 12, 1955) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.
Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington. Parker acquired the nickname "Yardbird" early in his career, and the shortened form "Bird" remained Parker's sobriquet for the rest of his life, inspiring the titles of a number of Parker compositions, such as "Yardbird Suite" and "Ornithology."
Parker played a leading role in the development of bebop, a form of jazz characterized by fast tempos, virtuosic technique, and improvisation based on harmonic structure. Parker's innovative approaches to melody, rhythm, and harmony exercised enormous influence on his contemporaries. Several of Parker's songs have become standards, including "Billie's Bounce", "Anthropology", "Ornithology", and "Confirmation". He introduced revolutionary harmonic ideas including a tonal vocabulary employing 9ths, 11ths and 13ths of chords, rapidly implied passing chords, and new variants of altered chords and chord substitutions. His tone was clean and penetrating, but sweet and plaintive on ballads. Although many Parker recordings demonstrate dazzling virtuosic technique and complex melodic lines – such as "Koko", "Kim", and "Leap Frog" – he was also one of the great blues players. His themeless blues improvisation "Parker's Mood" represents one of the most deeply affecting recordings in jazz. At various times, Parker fused jazz with other musical styles, from classical to Latin music, blazing paths followed later by others.
In 1946 and 1947, Parker participated in nine sessions for the fledgling Dial Records and, in the process, recorded some of the most important music in the history of jazz. Parker virtually reinvented the language of the idiom--not only for the saxophone, but for all instruments. And it is in these sessions that Parker shines brightest, blowing his brilliant imagination into dazzlingly constructed lines of the highest harmonic complexity with the sharpest technical virtuosity.
Parker also became an icon for the hipster subculture and later the Beat generation, personifying the conception of the jazz musician as an uncompromising artist and intellectual, rather than just a popular entertainer. His style – from a rhythmic, harmonic and soloing perspective – influenced countless peers on every instrument. Like Louis Armstrong before him, Parker changed the sound of jazz music forever.
DISC DETAILS:
UK ESQUIRE 10-109 10" SHELLAC 78rpm
A SIDE:- BIRD OF PARADISE
B SIDE:- DEXTERITY
Miles Davis (tp) Charlie Parker (as) Duke Jordan (p) Tommy Potter (b) Max Roach (d)
WOR Studios, NYC, October 28, 1947CONDITION - RECORD - EX+
GREAT 78 RARITY FROM THE BIRD featuring MILES DAVIS IN GREAT CONDITION!
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