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...Alto saxophonist Charlie Parker and trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie’s performance at Toronto’s Massey Hall has long held celebrated status in jazz....
...In the late 1950s, the Bleys moved back briefly to Los Angeles, where Paul was playing a string of club dates with a quintet comprising saxophonist Ornette Coleman, trumpeter Don Cherry, bassist Charlie...
...Later, there are unaccompanied turns for piano and bass and “Parkeriana”, Mingus’s radical upgrade of a medley, features two Charlie Parker tunes played simultaneously....
...Though Rachmaninov’s melodramatic Prelude in C Sharp Minor (hat tip to Charlie Mingus) ushered in the show, the dancers’ soles were more often their accompaniment....
...“Fables of Faubus”, which opened the second half, turned a protest against segregation into a merry jaunt, while the ballad “Celia” was reconfigured to sound like Charlie Parker with strings....
...Now, his range has extended to a guest performance with Beyoncé at the Country Music Association Awards last year, and a Charles Mingus tribute concert at the BBC Proms this summer....
...“Charlie Parker did not write his tunes out,” Akchoté says. “The way Parker played them would vary, some lines fixed while others changed....
...Danny Thompson recalled how Jansch “was an enormous Charlie Mingus fan”, and played “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Mingus’s lament for Lester Young, now in lament for Jansch, the double bass solo resonant as a...
...By the time he moved to New York, in his early thirties, he’d played with Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker. And it’s all in his music, plain to hear....
...Some of them had even played with Charlie Parker. “It’s not contrived teaching,” said Glasper. “It’s something really open, but they come more from the kick-your-butt standpoint.”...
...() The evening featured guitar heavyweight John Scofield, whose keening tone, precise phrasing and subtle slurs were put in the service of a modern jazz set that took in Charlie Parker blues, a brace...
...Duke Ellington and Charlie Mingus. How do you relax? I don’t. I haven’t really been relaxed since 1979. But I try to relax by reading. Playing football helped too, until I blew both my knees....
...In fact, Observer's man in the shades says he could be forceful too, throwing out Charlie Mingus, the renowned bass player, though very politely....
...The great jazz clubs on 52nd Street - where Charlie Parker, Thelonius Monk and Ella Fitzgerald played - were destroyed after they fell into post-war decline....
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