paul desmond interview charlie parker

[alocispepraluger102]

http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Interviews/bird_desmond.html

[fasstrack]

Yes, I've heard this before. On Friday Phil Schaap played it with interspersed commentary. He actually kept it short this time (I'll swear to it, get me a Bible...)and made some sense. Seemed to think Bird was often 'misrepresenting', meaning disingenous(sp?)in certain instances, or, more charitably, Schaap thought he in other cases might have misremembered things.

I'll agree with Phil on at least one citation: Bird said Miles went back to Julliard 'to finish his studies'. This was around the time Davis left the Charlie Parker Quintet. It is a bit weird that Bird wouldn't know that Miles never did go back to Julliard after he quit to play with his band. So maybe he was 'selectively remembering' or downright distorting.

Anyway, just a thought, and important only to the most obssesive jazz eggheads, excluding myself. Take it in or let it fly.

It's a good interview, though. Bird seems in good spirits (before the descent) and gets on well with Desmond and Fitch. I always did like his speaking voice and he really is articulate and expresses himself well for a self-educated man.

[Swinging Swede]

He is really off when it comes to giving the years for when things happened. Groovin' High recorded in 1942(!), joining Dizzy in Earl Hines's big band in 1941 (they would have been on the records before the record ban, if so).