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16287 (and counting) posts since we started blogging 16 years ago. 169 of them this year alone and, so far, 41 this month (Mar 18).

From This Moment On ...

March

Tue 19: Jam session @ The Black Swan, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free. House trio: Michael Young, Paul Grainger, Tim Johnston.

Wed 20: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Wed 20: Darlington Big Band @ Darlington & Simpson Rolling Mills Social Club, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free. Rehearsal session (open to the public).
Wed 20: Take it to the Bridge @ The Globe, Newcastle. 7:30pm. Free.

Thu 21: Vieux Carré Jazzmen @ The Holystone, Whitley Road, North Tyneside. 1:00pm. Free.
Thu 21: Castillo Neuvo Trio + Conor Emery & His ‘Bones Band @ The Grove, Ouseburn, Newcastle. 7:30pm (7:00pm doors). £10.00. (£7.00. student).
Thu 21: Remi Banklyn + Chris Corcoran Trio @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm. £12.50. Chicago blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Thu 21: Merlin Roxby @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Ragtime piano.
Thu 21: Tees Hot Club @ Dorman’s Club, Middlesbrough. 8:30pm.

Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos & Paul Edis @ The Gala, Durham. 1:00pm. £8.00. SOLD OUT!
Fri 22: Classic Swing @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: Rendezvous Jazz @ The Monkseaton Arms. 1:00pm. Free.
Fri 22: New Orleans Preservation Jazz Band @ The Oxbridge Hotel, Stockton. 1:00pm. £5.00.
Fri 22: Nauta + Remy CB + Last Orders @ Hoochie Coochie, Newcastle. 8:30pm (7:30pm doors). Free.
Fri 22: Vasilis Xenopoulos-Paul Edis Quartet @ Traveller’s Rest, Darlington. 8:00pm. £15.00. Opus 4 Jazz Club.
Fri 22: Redwell @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sat 23: Jambone @ The Glasshouse, Gateshead. 6:30pm. Free (ticketed). End of term performance in the Northern Rock Foundation Hall.
Sat 23: Milne-Glendinning Band @ The Vault, Darlington. 7:00pm. Free.
Sat 23: Red Kites Jazz @ Rowlands Gill Community Centre NE39 1JB. 7:00pm. Tickets: £12.00. (gibsidecommunityfarm@gmail.com). A ‘Build a Barn’ fundraiser. BYOB, tea/coffee available.
Sat 23: New Century Ragtime Orchestra @ Gosforth Civic Theatre, Newcastle. 7:30pm. £20.00. + bf (book in person at venue - no booking fee!). Featuring pianist Martin Litton.
Sat 23: Pete Tanton’s Cuba Libre @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 8:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig.

Sun 24: Musicians Unlimited @ Park Inn, Hartlepool. 1:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: More Jam @ The Globe, Newcastle. 2:30pm. Free.
Sun 24: Luis Verde @ Queen’s Hall, Hexham. 3:00pm. Verde (alto sax); Joe Steels (guitar); John Pope (double bass); John Hirst (drums). Alto sax brilliance!
Sun 24: Elsie Franklin @ The Globe, Newcastle. 3:00pm. £10.00. Country blues. An International Guitar Foundation promotion.
Sun 24: 4B @ The Ticket Office, Whitley Bay Metro Station. 3:00pm. Free.
Sun 24: Las Vegas Live with the Rat Pack @ The Forum, Billingham.
Sun 24: Ian Millar & Dominic Spencer @ Otterburn Memorial Hall. 7:30pm. £12.00.
Sun 24: Lindsay Hannon: Tom Waits for No Man @ Prohibition Bar, Newcastle. 7:00pm. A ‘Jar on the Bar’ gig. Note start time - 7:00pm.
Sun 24: Bold Big Band @ The Globe, Newcastle. 8:00pm.

Mon 25: Harmony Brass @ Cullercoats Crescent Club. 1:00pm. Free.
Mon 25: Michael Young Trio @ The Engine Room, Sunderland. 6:30pm. Free.

Tuesday, August 18, 2020

Charlie Parker Centennial approaches

The day approaches - only eleven more days until we celebrate the Charlie Parker centennial. August 29 is the date and, although we have to wait a week longer (Sept. 6) for the online celebration by the Jazz Coop at the Globe with Jordan Alfonso and the Alan Law Trio to play their own tribute we, at BSH, as befits the blog name, intend to ensure that the name of Charlie Parker is at the forefront.

To enable us to commemorate the flawed genius we'd appreciate your thoughts be it favourite albums, tunes, solos whatever. It will be difficult, I know. In his short life he produced so much wonderful music that it is difficult to discard anything.

Is there anyone still alive - apart from Sheila Jordan and Roy Haynes - who actually played with Bird?

Here are a couple of my favourites.
Just Friends. "With Strings", in the late 1940s/early1950s was usually guaranteed to be the kiss of death by the jazz critics of the time. Strings? Bring back Paul Whiteman all is forgiven! Fortunately, there were such as Norman Granz who recorded the album and Leonard Feather who included it in his list of all-time favourites in the 1953 Metronome yearbook. 

Listen to Parker's devastating alto intro to the tune and the subsequent exposition. This is the greatest since Louis' West End Blues!

Earlier, before Granz took Bird "under his wing", the alto saxist was out in California recording with Howard McGhee, Wardell Gray, Barney Kessel. Dodo Marmarosa, Red Callender and Don Lamond. It wasn't a happy trip - and I use the word intentionally - but Stupendous was just that!

Let's have your posts, comments etc.,, 
Lance

2 comments :

Russell said...

Sonny Rollins is another living link with Parker.

Steve T said...

Finally got everything together for the big day/ week/ month. Early on I decided Massey Hall (complete) would go in the car, though I haven't yet checked what journeys I'm likely to make that day.
I've still got the Dial Masters double CD but comparable sets on Savoy and Verve seem to have moved on, though I played the Verve Jazz Masters on Verve 15 yesterday as a warmup. I bought some cheap ones a couple of years back, including that and Early Bird by the Jay McShann Orchestra featuring Charlie Parker. There may have been others but I can't find any. Nor have I found Blue Bird which is all Bird and Miles, but I've played it quite recently anyway. If all else fails, Francis has a ten disc boxset with absolutely no accompanying information, though I think it only cost as many quids.
One of the first (non jazz funk) jazz albums I ever bought was by Bird, but it was just the one in the record shop in the early eighties. It took me years to realise it wasn't just people trying to play as many notes as quickly as possible. I got the Duke before I got Bird, though Satchmo took even longer, presumably because it's even older.

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