Charlie Parker Reveals His Secrets to Musical Greatness | Rare Interview with Paul Desmond 

Consider why so many died young due to drugs. It was not due to a lack of morale. The oppressive society they lived in plus the newness to substances that altered a person’s mental and physical self made sense. Also, you didn’t listen to this interview bc even though Miles Davis said he was completely selfish, he definitely used complete sentences. This video is closed captioned, too.

It really is

I do.

When Charlie Parker spoke (i’m specifically recalling the brief Symphony Syd interview), his voice was musical with a richness of timbre and hint of melody

The best bebop drummer for me, swings like hell , I first heard him on the for musicians only dizzy's album

Your dad was very kind and encouraging to me as a 25 yr old musician when I used to wait on him at Bill White's Foods for Health in Sherman Oaks. I remember he gave me his card. It was the coolest card ever. I still have it!

(Late to the party!) Desmond didn’t have the blistering speed of Parker (or if he did, he restrained himself), but although somewhat subdued, Desmond could also virtuosically (is that even a word?) tell a compellingly lyrical and coherent story when he improvised. You are so right; what a great matchup!

Did you like the movie? What did his friends think?

Hollywood rarely portrays the real truth in anything. It's entertainment. You have to seek the facts.

To have heard Parker live in person; I would almost sell my soul, but then I’d have nothing left for Trane. Privileged to have seen Brecker countless times, Bob Berg, Getz, and even Rahsaan, but no Turrentine.

@@Osnosis you never want to have to sell your soul

,The gifted person only wants to Show how good they are,there is no reason to brag,or boast about what you can do,You Show it.

Another great example of your argument is Michael Brecker… the man was one and if not the best tenor sax player and he was such a simple soul… that’s what makes them so great in my opinion, the humbleness behind him being a great musician

So true- he refuses to jump on the pride band wagon.

and go beyond coltrane... michael brecker picked up the torch and RAN with it. and all of the disciples folling them. all of the great trumpet players before miles. and thousands still coming on...

many different styles and sounds and ways to play the same horn, that's what makes us different!

retrorex johnny hodges>p.desmond

Johnny Hodges was the original greatest alto guy. Bird was/is the Man...Cannon became the “new Bird” and carried the flame for 20 years. Paul Desmond was very nice, “the sound of a dry martini”, and you can hear his love and respect for Bird throughout.

Come'on dude! Tone it down a notch will ya!!!

If you're talking about Paul Desmond you're absolutely correct!

@@saxpianotutorial7572 ??? I dig Desmond...but, BY ALL MEANS....explain that.

Dude it’s just music not curing cancer.

Well he did this before anyone was curing cancer. :-) “Just” music? Music is who we humans are, it is one of our deepest connections to each other. To dismiss it that way is to swim in a shallow pool.

*Ben Shapiro has entered the chat*

They were different times and even geniuses have demons. Point is, you gots to put in the grind if you want to be great.

Why - ONCE AGAIN, always coming back to this subject which distracts us ONCE AGAIN from the main subject which is the MUSIC.

So are you

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That and self actualization

@@KenOri you take it. It's not given. Anyone can educate themselves if you can read and we have free libraries. Someone more educated can help you through some of the more complex material but you should be able to understand the basics already.

@@allen6924 I say self actualization because of desire. Love / passion for your art will push you to self education. Educate your self in what? Many people who do music at least start for reasons outside themselves. They may see a performance, then the great response to that performance and say to themselves " I want to have that". That old adage do you have something to give to the world or do you want the world to give something to you comes into play here. Are you educating your self to cultivate the light inside you or because you like the energy you think you will receive. What MOTIVATES you to educate yourself is vitally important.

@@KenOri I know I did.. as a twelve year old boy I got a bass and I simply listened to the songs I liked and tried to figure them out by ear. Then I went to the library to look for books that explained some of the basics of what strings were called, and what notes were on them. then a friend got a guitar as a gift and wasn't interested in learning the instrument. He let me "borrow" it, and I found the Mel Bay guitar book at the library. It started simple, but took you all the way to advanced chords and melodies. I loved music, and just went from there. I learned chord voicings that most of the guys I was jamming with had no clue how to hear let alone play. So I took the education from that book with no teacher. by the time I took a lesson from a guy I was way more advanced than he was. So I've been self taught ever since. As in most things I learned over my life time. and more teachable because I'm prepared to be taught.

No.

Sonny Rollins, Joe Henderson, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Chris Potter, Melissa Aldana, yes Phil; next Tia Fuller and Grace Kelly...They all have taken off to beautiful places from where Bird brought them. As Jimmy Heath said, “Without you, no me.”

But he practiced stuff he didn't already know every time. You can't play the same stuff for 10000 hours and think you're gonna get good

don't forget that at that point in time musicians had the luxury of not only practicing but jam sessions where you could work out those 10,000 hours of study

he crafted the bebop genre

Probably more likely 20,000 plus hours if you go on four years.

+Sophia Peron contemporary + 2016 = dubstep = garbage

That's as much as I had/have

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke_and_mirrors

Bob Reynolds Oh I get it... thanks Bob. Love your posts.

Bird was just being modest. He learned by listening to Lester -Young - and some others to a lesser extent... He learned some exercises from books - that lick that he played from some book - but it was Lester that was his soul - plus the fact that he played and played and played. The "mirrors" quote is just to say that he worked and worked at what he was doing - and what he accomplished. It wasn't just a gift. He worked and worked at it more than anyone.

What he'd achieved was the result of hard work, as opposed to, say, accomplished with (smoke &) mirrors. Charlie's shorthand or slang would be my guess.

I think it was Kansas City Blues with the Charlie Parker Quartet