* MCA Jay McShann - The Early Bird Charlie Parker, - Jazz Heritage Series * Decca Jay McShann - Swingmatism / Vine Street Boogie * Decca Jay McShann - Hootie Blues / Confessin' The Blues * Decca Jay McShann - Dexter Blues / Hold 'Em Hootie. Kansas City Band. Charlie Parker, alto sax; Efferge Ware, guitar; Little Phil Phillips, drums.

This album chronicles the sadly few recorded encounters between two titans of s jazz, Charlie Parker and Lennie Tristano. Despite the sometimes-reticence of Tristano to solo in the presence of Bird, much of the album is remarkable for the complete musical sympathy these /5(6).

Jul 07,  · Here’s a great picture of me and Abe Daniel who is CEO of the Charlie Parker Estate! He came to see the Museum of Fine Arts performance in Boston. Abe has done and will do some great things for Bird’s estate. He loved the play and I very much look forward to working with him in the future.

Charlie Parker, Soundtrack: Se7en. Charles Christopher Parker Jr. was born on August 29, , in a suburb of Kansas City, Missouri, to Charles Parker Sr. and his year-old wife Addie. His father ran out on the family when Charlie was just a little boy. When he was 11 his mother bought him an alto saxophone for his birthday. By the time he was 15 Charlie was working as a musician.

Both were great innovators, although Tristano was the first to admit Birds pre-eminence among all musicians of that period: If Charlie Parker wanted to invoke plagiarism laws, he declared once, he could sue almost everybody whos made a record in the last ten years.

Charlie Parker / Lennie Tristano - Richileu Lennie Tristano, Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Sonny Dallas, Nick Stabulas, live recording. features Charlie Parker, Seller Rating: % positive.

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Charlie Parker, American alto saxophonist, composer, and bandleader, a lyric artist generally considered the greatest jazz saxophonist. Parker was the principal stimulus of the modern jazz idiom known as bebop, and—together with Louis Armstrong and Ornette Coleman—he was one of the three great.