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Blue Heaven (Free subscription) | yesterday
A congratulations to Luc Robitaille on his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame this coming Monday. "On the lighter side, the good thing about me is I never had a step (quick move up ice), so I never lost it," he said. "That's why, maybe, I was able to play 19 years." Here is a great photo of a very young Jerry Doggett and Vin Scully, via If Charlie Parker was a Gunslinger...
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LondonJazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Review: Gilad Atzmon (Cadogan Hall, Friday November 6th 2009) Gilad Atzmon 's Cadogan Hall concert was based around his album " In Loving Memory of America. " But the complete Atzmon package contains, in addition to the music, his particular blend of lively entertainment and provocation. First, though, the music. One of its starting points is Charlie Parker's With Strings album of 1950. Atzmon...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | yesterday
Bebop was considered a radical departure for jazz music during its formation in the 1940s and 1950s, pioneered by drummer {{Max Roach = 10725}}, {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} and {{Dizzy Gillespie = 7040}} among others. Coupled with tenor saxophonist {{Archie Shepp = 4266}}'s 1960s avant-garde jazz proclivities, the artists respectively helped procure a prismatic and non-traditional perspective on the...
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Johnny Mercer Clint Eastwood Presents Johnny Mercer: The Dream's On Me TCM 2009 Film director Clint Eastwood's love of jazz and American popular song is far from a secret, especially following his feature-length biopic about alto saxophonist {{Charlie Parker = 10115}} (Bird, 1988), during which the ever restless Eastwood got the idea to produce a feature-length film about pianist {{Thelonious Monk...
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The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Emerging from the shadow of his hero Charlie Parker, Miles Davis rejected the aggressive tempos of bebop to pioneer a new style that became a landmark in jazz evolution Miles Davis, the dentist's son from St Louis who came to New York in 1944 to study music, dropped out of college when he met Charlie "Bird" Parker . Like most jazz-obsessed kids his age, Davis fell under Parker's spell, becoming...
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Dartman's World Of Wonder (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
In case you didn't hear about it. the legendary Soupy Sales passed on last month. I didn't really get a chance to give him his just due as I was in the middle of the Halloween countdown and a Soupy post just didn't fit. So, today I offer you Soupy's first album. It's a soundtrack of sorts but more of a companion album to his television show. The show originated in 1953 from the studios of WXYZ-TV in...
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Gilad Atzmon (alt/sop/clt), Frank Harrison (pno), ? (bs), ? (dms). Sigamos String Quartet. This was more than just a re-creation of the legendary Bird with Strings albums from the 1950s - it was much much more. Admitedly Gilad paid lip-service to Charlie Parker inasmuch as he faithfully re-produced the themes and the string voicings were more or less as per the original but in-between he was very much...
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The J-Walk Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Found at If Charlie Parker... Probably should be called "Music to Commit Suicide By." Comments | Posted in Music
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All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
Meet Dan Barnett: Dan has worked and recorded with some of the greats in Australian and world music such as James Morrison, Will Calhoun, Tom Burlinson, Barbara Morrison, Mark Murphy, Bob Barnard, Dan Barrett, Tom Baker, Bob Montgomery, George Washingmachine, Emma Pask, Judy Carmichael, Janet Seidel, Don Burrows, George Golla, Evan Christopher, David Paquette, Judy Bailey, Rhonda Birchmore, Kevin Hunt...
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Money is the way (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
I haven't written much about Gillian Tett lately. To tell you the truth, she hasn't really been on my mind.But it is past midnight now and I am listening to Charlie Parker with Strings, and - surprisingly - there are no voices, no spirits, no mystical children, to bother me, and so I turn my mind to earthly matters. I think of Gillian. Visualize her. I am in the mood. Where is she in this lonely
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JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Alan Pasqua - Body And Soul (Video Arts Japan/Zoom ) Amy Cervini - Lovefool (Anzic ) Astor Piazzolla - Live & Studio (Phantom ) Beegie Adair - Great American Songbook Collection (Green Hill ) Beegie Adair - The Great American Songbook Collection (Green Hill ) Beegie Adair - The Great American Songbook (Green Hill ) Bill Evans - Bill Evans Album (Phantom ) Bill Evans - Complete Recordings (Indie...
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Note From The Book (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Just a Rundown facebook activity .. or shall i say the facebook activity on my page.. Along with some other stuff.. Random Status Update Zion Archive Computer : In the beginning, there was man. And for a time, it was good. But humanity's so-called civil societies soon fell victim to vanity and corruption. Then man made the machine in his own likeness. Thus did man become the architect of his own demise....
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bebop spoken here (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
After a recent meeting with Claire Delamore regarding the possibilities of incorporating some jazz into the Lit and Phil's calender of events we talked about the library's extensive music collection and the amount of jazz it contained. As a result, Claire sent the following which I am sure is of interest to North-east jazz enthusiasts. Lance. ----- The Literary and Philosophical Society (Lit &...
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