Did he really say that?

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes = GEORGE CARLIN...Stained glass, engraved glass, frosted glass–give me plain glass = JOHN FOWLES...Music is the mathematics of the gods = PYTHAGORAS...Nothing is more fluid than language = R.L.SWIHART

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

It's Charlie Parker Day









The title & the blockquoted text are Verbatim








Born this day in 1920, Charles
Parker Jr, "The Bird."

I don't know what to make about
astrology, but the fact that
Charlie Parker and Lester Young
were born two days apart on the
calendar gives me pause.

As a young man, Parker studied
Lester Young solos intensely and
his work yielded sounds that pushed
jazz into a new stratosphere.

Video:

http://www.jazzonthetube.com/page/7307.html

Ken McCarthy

- Lester Perkins
Jazz on the Tube

P.S. Please share Jazz on the Tube with your
friends and colleagues.

If they like jazz, they're going to love this.


Louis Armstrong may be the only musician more important to the history of jazz than Charlie Parker. The red ink will link you to anything better than I could write about BIRD, who is here, there, and everywhere

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