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Just as Charlie Parker revolutionized jazz and changed it forever, Lenny Bruce revolutionized comedy
There is a whole new crop of musicians who have come on the scene in the last five years
Monk created a good amount of the (bebop) language that everybody on that scene — Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie — went on to developMore quotes »
Around the web
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The Jazz Diaspora: A Stitt In Time
compared with Charlie Parker ain’t too shabby. But, perhaps, when a critic couches it like this—"(He’s) given up all pretence of individuality - I think it’s time he stopped playing Parker and went back to playing Stitt"—it’s bound to sting a little bit. I from The Stranger Read more »
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Barry Harris Trio
Dr. Barry Harris has, for the the past several decades, been an exponent of the classic Jazz style that was developed by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk and Coleman Hawkins. Harris has performed and recorded with Cannonball Adderly, from LongIsland.com Read more »
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James Cunningham, Elmhurst College dean, 1938-2013
York, New Orleans and Toronto, where he listened to great artists in smoke-filled jazz clubs. "He saw Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker and others, some before they had become big names," said his wife, Deborah. Decades later, as dean of students at Elmhurst from Chicago Tribune Read more »
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NRBQ returns to the Ale House
— Terry Adams of NRBQ, a great band with cult status, paraphrases the great jazz be-bop artist Charlie Parker addressing his musicians: “I want you to learn all your scales and all your chords in every key, and then I want you to throw away all that stuff from The Saratogian Read more »
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Why Your Brain Loves That New Song
jazz legend John Coltrane first heard Charlie Parker play the saxophone, the music hit him "right between the eyes," he once said. According to neuroscientists, Coltrane was exactly right. When we hear music that we like, even for the first time, a part of from Science Read more »
