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Charlie Parker and Voices, Part 1

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2008-01-30 08:12:43 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Parker's first pop record was an accident. In late December 1947, the great alto saxophonist wandered into the studio where arranger Neal Hefti was rehearsing his orchestra in preparation for a recording on The Jazz Scene, producer Norman Granz's ambitious album of 78 rpms Parker loved what he heard and asked Neal if he could play a solo on...
 
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Top 10: Charlie Parker Tribute Albums

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2008-03-12 08:16:45 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Parker died 53 years ago today in the Stanhope Hotel apartment of Pannonica "Nica" Koenigswarter across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Nica was a fabulously wealthy patron of jazz, and Bird was recovering from an illness there when he died Rather than dwell on Bird's death or write at length about his recordings and influence, I thought...
 
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Last Night...Maceo Parker @ Boulder Theatre

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2008-06-06 08:44:16 by HASH0x8bd0c64 in Backbeat Online
...Parker Thursday, June 5, 2008 Boulder Theatre Better Than: Seeing a gal wearing hot pants in a cold sweat doing it doing to death Its been more than a decade since the last time I saw Maceo Parker perform, and the 65-year-old funk sax master doesnt look any older. Seriously, the guy looks like he hasnt aged a day; hes just gotten funkier...
 
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Last Night: Maceo Parker at House of Blues

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2008-02-28 09:03:10 by Chelsea Ide in DC9 At Night
...Parker with Grand Pianoramax February 27, 2008 House of Blues Better than: Pretty much anything, save a second performance Self-described on his live album Life on Planet Groove as "2 percent jazz, 98 percent funky stuff, Maceo Parker brought a funk explosion to the House of Blues Wednesday night. To sing the accolades of this legend, one...
 
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Does Kansas City Care About Charlie Parker?

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2007-11-05 13:45:00 by Happy In Bag in Plastic Sax
...Parker's recordings. I no longer have have access to Soundscan, the music industry's primary sales reporting tool Local sales of Charlie Parkers recordings tell a far different story than the happy version recited by Kansas City's cultural and political elite Soundscan lists 328 individual Parker titles. Of these, 79 have zero sales....
 
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Andrea Parker - Groovetech Radio sets (RARE!)

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2008-04-07 06:52:00 by XMP in It's Coming Out Of Your Speaker
...Parker to name a few. I was lucky enough to find someone in Canada who somehow had amassed a handful of the .rm files from select radio sesssions. I got the DVD, and spent at least 2 months painstakingly going through the .rm audio and taking out the little pops and clicks, cleaning up the audio and converting to mp3. Even with my seemingly...
 
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Little Junior Parker

2008-05-13 23:29:00 by Carl Abernathy in Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog
 
...Parker when Al Green dedicated a recording of "Take Me to the River" to his late cousin. After picking up some of Parker's records, I quickly discovered that Parker's voice was almost as almost as silky as Green's, but Parker sounded earthier, probably because he sang gritty blues and played his harmonica like a dervish Junior's Blues: The...
 
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Charlie Parker and Voices, Part 2

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2008-01-31 07:56:40 by Marc Myers in JazzWax
...Parker was fond of vocalist Dave Lambert. And who wasn't? In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Lambert was adored by bop musicians for his hip, modern singing style and relentlessly energetic personality. So when he was asked in the spring of 1953 to write vocal arrangements for an upcoming Parker recording date, Lambert barely could contain...
 
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Charlie Parker... Evan Parker/John Stevens... Joe Morris... Clifton Chenier...

2008-05-31 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
...Parker even more so. These are voices we know and cherish... Which reminds me of an apposite story that a friend of mine (The Blessed Frank Marmion) recently told me. When he was at sea as a young man a clarinet player came over the radio whom he correctly identified within a few bars Jimmy Noone, I think. Someone mocked him, in effect saying...
 
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William Parker and Fred Anderson at The Velvet Lounge

2008-07-20 20:07:00 by Carl Abernathy in Cahl's Juke Joint: A rock, blues and jazz blog
 
...Parker and saxophonist Fred Anderson for the first set. For the second set, they were joined by flautist Nicole Mitchell, bassist Josh Abrams and saxophonist Zim Ngqawana, Ernest Dawkins and David Boykin Windy City jazz royalty In the opening set, Anderson, now 79, wailed for almost an hour without a break. With Parker's and Spencer's note...