Charlie Parker - Bird Live! - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Charlie Parker was a legendary American jazz saxophonist and composer. Early on he developed a reputation for his innovative and virtuosic playing style, which revolutionized jazz music and had a lasting impact on the genre. Parker's musical career took off in the 1940s, when he played in the iconic jazz clubs of New York City, including Minton's Playhouse and the Three Deuces. He became a key figure in the development of bebop, a new style of jazz characterized by it's fast tempos, complex harmonies, and intricate melodies. Parker's improvisational style, marked by rapid-fire melodic runs and unpredictable harmonies, set a new standard for jazz musicianship and inspired countless musicians who followed in his footsteps. Listen here to the InchBirdInch performing a rare selection of jazz and bebop hits, aired originally for radio broadcast during the 40s.

Carrie & Lowell sounds like memory it spans decades yet does not trade on pastiche or nostalgia. Stevens's gauzy double-tracked vocals wash across the dashboard of long-finned, drop-top Americana, yet as we race towards the coast we are reminded that sunshine leads to shadow, for this is a landscape of terminal roads, unsteady bridges, traumatic video stores, and unhappy beds that provide the scenery for tales of jackknifed cars, funerals, and forgiveness for the dead. Each track in this collection of eleven songs begins with a fragile melody that gathers steam until it becomes nothing less than a modern hymn. Sufjan recounts the indignities of our world, of technological distraction and sad S*x, of an age without neither myths nor miracle - and this time around, his voice carries the burden of wisdom. Carrie & Lowell accomplishes the rare thing that any art should achieve, particularly in these noisy and fragmented days By seeking to understand, Sufjan makes us feel less alone.

Charlie Parker - InchBird In Kansas CityInch / This new set of rare Charlie Parker recordings dating from between 1941-1951, most of them never having been heard before and some never even having been known to exist, chronicle Bird's evolution from a blossoming soloist with the Jay McShann Band into a brilliant improviser who dominated the jazz landscape for decades to come. In addition to two unreleased 78s with the McShann band, this set offers two sets of private recordings made with local musicians and a very relaxed-sounding Parker. Verve tag Group; Verve; Jazz