Mark Stryker Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 FWIW, I wrote this a few years ago about my favorite Charlie Parker live recordings. It's been post on the forum in Jazz in Print threads, but seems like this is a good place and time to post it again. Had a lot of fun putting this together. https://ethaniverson.com/live-bird-is-the-best-bird-by-mark-stryker/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John L Posted September 23 Report Share Posted September 23 14 hours ago, Mark Stryker said: FWIW, I wrote this a few years ago about my favorite Charlie Parker live recordings. It's been post on the forum in Jazz in Print threads, but seems like this is a good place and time to post it again. Had a lot of fun putting this together. https://ethaniverson.com/live-bird-is-the-best-bird-by-mark-stryker/ A very nice piece! Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted September 24 Report Share Posted September 24 On 9/22/2023 at 8:27 PM, Mark Stryker said: FWIW, I wrote this a few years ago about my favorite Charlie Parker live recordings. It's been post on the forum in Jazz in Print threads, but seems like this is a good place and time to post it again. Had a lot of fun putting this together. https://ethaniverson.com/live-bird-is-the-best-bird-by-mark-stryker/ Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gheorghe Posted October 4 Report Share Posted October 4 On 9/24/2023 at 5:27 AM, Brad said: Thanks. Funny how I got acquainted with the music of Charlie Parker: I hadn´t even heard his name when my second of all jazz albums was a Mingus record with Dolphy with a tune "Parkeriana" with a lot of Bird Songs in the augmented bridge. This was my thing and made me become curious who is that man Charlie Parker. My first thing was the Savoy Mastertakes, really great, but my second Bird Record was that 1950 Birdland live session with Fats and Bud, and yeah.....live Bird is the greatest. So naturyll the third Bird I had was also with Bud, and with Diz from 1951 also at Birdland ! And then the Massey Hall Concert, again with Bud and Diz. But I had and have some difficulties if it was that recording tehnique that started with Dean Benedetti, I mean cuttin out the solos of the others. So my favourite live Bird recordings always will be complete sets or evenings, with a good group of musicians he was familiar with, from the NY scene. One great little thing I also like, also because it has all the solos of all the musicians is that old musidisc LP "The Happy Bird", but I dare to say that the musician who got the most attention from me here is Wardell Gray ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
romualdo Posted October 5 Report Share Posted October 5 On 9/23/2023 at 10:27 AM, Mark Stryker said: FWIW, I wrote this a few years ago about my favorite Charlie Parker live recordings. It's been post on the forum in Jazz in Print threads, but seems like this is a good place and time to post it again. Had a lot of fun putting this together. https://ethaniverson.com/live-bird-is-the-best-bird-by-mark-stryker/ many thanks Mark - what a diverse range of material covering 13 years of Birds live output I've created the ordered playlist on my iTunes & am currently listening, BTW I actually have 19 of the 21 recordings you list Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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