...It's nice to run into people you haven't heard from in a while...even if they no longer exist on this mortal coil...Yesterday someone dropped me a line via a comment on a post I'd done back in 2005 which spoke about MJQ on my older blog...the piece spoke about a trip I'd taken back to Atlanta, GA and, more specifically, a friend of mine named George Chang (pic above is a caricature featured...
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Tomorrow, August, 29th is Charlie "Bird" Parker's birthday which always gets me thinkin about the "woulda-coulda" questions. I wrote a piece last year on that began something like this: I was was first introduced to Charlie "Bird" Parker on the corner of 55th and Madison Ave ...Since I got all my tunes for free, I sampled everything I could get my hands on from Dylan's Blonde on Blonde to Publi...
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refurbishing Jazz Lounge, with more crowds and adding a new color wash using digital and screen print
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I've been loving Phil Schaap on the Colombia University radios stations. He is a jazz scholar has these long broadcasts playing jazz and putting them in context. He'll speak for about 20 minutes about every musicican in a 5 minute piece and give you loads of superfluous information. It's sort of tedious and most of my drives are too short to hear more than one song and the preceding commentar...
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Happy Birthday Charlie Parker!Bird is the word...
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Charlie Parker was born in Kansas City, Kansas and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the only child of Charles and Addie Parker. Charles, an alcoholic, was often absent. Parker attended Crispus Attucks Elementary School. Parker displayed no sign of musical talent as a child. His father presumably provided some musical influence; he was a pianist, dancer and singer on the T.O.B.A. circuit, alth...
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There are holy grails in music, legendary lost recordings that have the obsessed core of collectors and aficionados wringing their hands and drooling at the thought of 'what if'. But the recording is not the same as the experience of hearing someone play, a concept lost on a culture brought up on recorded music, where we explore music by recordings, and then go seek out the musicians to play w...
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