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The Genius of Charlie Parker
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Charlie Parker, also known as bird, is a legendary jazz musician who has influenced many of today's genres and helped develop the genre bebop. Bebop is a subgenre of jazz that is recognized as being difficult to dance to, but Bird said he didn't care if people danced to his music, because he was an artist.
LA Buckner interviews jazz saxophonist Bobby Watson and sound archive director Chuck Haddix. LA spotlights the innovative style of Kansas City's own Charlie Parker and tracks down his influence on bebop, jazz and the rest of the musical world.
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@charlieparker4928 4 жыл бұрын
I’m very humbled by this video, thank you
@SoundFieldPBS 4 жыл бұрын
spooky but you're welcome!
@BassVoyager2000 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Bird! Can you play a gig this thursday in SF? 7-10pm $100.
@tylerm6597 3 жыл бұрын
Hey Bird can you play at my sister's wedding 3-8pm $1200
@allen6924 3 жыл бұрын
@@tylerm6597 my fee or the whole band?
@grantkoeller8911 3 жыл бұрын
Who would steal birds picture and name and make a youtube account??
@deltaqed 4 жыл бұрын
"A strong rhythm, is better than a good note" bits of knowledge that changes composers
@quatricise 4 жыл бұрын
Depends on the genre, but generally I agree.
@overtonesnteatime198 4 жыл бұрын
Its taken me years to realize this :)
@devonarmstrong7045 4 жыл бұрын
This exact thought process is what got me to understand improv more, it doesn’t matter the quantity of the notes as much the rhythm
@dibaldgyfm9933 3 жыл бұрын
Delta QED:: Strawinsky had the same notion: The rhythm determines the music, also in a single line there are heavy points, but then again, listen to Strawinsky: Rhythm is SO many things. I would like to emphasize that the complexity of Ellington's "head arrangements" are so strong that a classical conductor said to me, misbelieving, "how can that be done" - you and I know that every musician in such a band was able to create and understand every aspect of those great arrangements. In a sense every one of them were geniuses.
@lennyluzitano8920 2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I agree...the strong rhythm is. The. Stimulus for the notes...not note...melody is a group of notes..= phrases..melody movement...ascending...descending.. Alternating...matematical...distances...intrrvals...not one note...
@MLHunt 4 жыл бұрын
This channel's ability to provide a deeper understanding of music in an accessible way is truly a public service. Thanks for all you guys do.
@Bati_ 4 жыл бұрын
"Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there is no boundary line to art." -- Charlie Parker (Bird) Thank you for this wonderful tribute to the one and only visionary, iconoclast extraordinaire legend of music. We owe him a lot and thanks for spreading awareness on this! I'm so glad to see you again! ❤️🙏
@SoundFieldPBS 4 жыл бұрын
Missing you always Bati
@kazuhasgloves 4 жыл бұрын
y'all back now, huh? I missed you so much, guys!
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@kazuhasgloves 4 жыл бұрын
oop- I'm gonna go follow y'all, right now.
@sunra59 4 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine used to whistle Charlie Parker riffs when we went out for a drink back in the 80's. He worked in the local record library, so he had access to all kinds of great music. I was curious about those riffs and eventually started listening to the full tunes. For many years I had a Walkman Jazz cassette tape of Charlie Parker. The tunes on that old cassette are still some of my favourites of his - 'Blues for Alice', 'KC Blues', 'Star Eyes', 'Bloomdido', 'Au Privave', and 'Just Friends' in particular. I guess that's what friends are for!
@irlzy Жыл бұрын
awesome! thank you for sharing :)
@KansasCityPBS 4 жыл бұрын
HONORED to be a part of this project and share about KC's own Charlie 'Bird' Parker! So much info that we had to cut. Incredible musician who changed not just Jazz but all music. Thanks Sound Field.
@rillloudmother 4 жыл бұрын
bird lives!
@red_ford23 3 жыл бұрын
B I R D L I V E S
@raucousgeorge 4 жыл бұрын
Never seen a geographical breakdown of the origins of jazz and the differences in style between different areas before. That was awesome
@grantkoeller8911 3 жыл бұрын
What Bird did, was extend the vocabulary of improvisation, by soloing in the extended harmony of the 9th, 11th, and the 13th. instead of just staying with the chord tones of 1, 3, 5, and 7, so commonly used by the older swing and dixieland soloists.
@aussie_philosopher8079 2 ай бұрын
Bird have wings, birds fly. Charlie flew anywhere he wanted. That's truly liberated in my books also his playing had personality or what I call swagger.
@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield 4 жыл бұрын
As Miles Davis put it, you can summarize Jazz in 4 words: Louis Armstrong, representing early era jazz/rag and swing; Charlie Parker, later jazz that became more unconventional/artistically driven.
@gribo.9543 2 жыл бұрын
thats way more than 4 words
@NZsaltz Жыл бұрын
@@gribo.9543 the four words are Louie Armstrong, Charlie Parker. they just explained it
@gribo.9543 Жыл бұрын
@@NZsaltz yeah i was doing a cute lil joke
@paxwallace8324 4 ай бұрын
I loved jazz as a given growing up in the 60s because all the composers of film and TV scores like Mancini, Michele Lagrand, John Barry, Lalo Schiferin were obviously heavily influenced by jazz. But it wasn't untill I had a sax in my hands in the 5th grade that I really heard the miracle of Charlie Parker. To this day at 64 I remember how heavily his slippery harmonically informed uncanny lines blew me away. To think how he must've sounded to his contemporaries is well astounding.
@bri1085 4 жыл бұрын
Yay, Sound Field is back
@normanlovesirsaxalot2991 3 жыл бұрын
As an upcoming sax improviser- hearing Bird was like discovering the Holy Grail...father preston Love, a great lead altoist, formerly Basies 1st altoist told me; Suddenly Bird was the order of the day.You couldnt avoid learning and playing bird
@thevfxmancolorizationvfxex4051 4 жыл бұрын
I'm surprised no one has made a video about how Miles Davis created Fusion yet
@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield 4 жыл бұрын
Who joined Parker's group in the later end of the 40s if I remember right, so you could say his tutelage under Parker paved the way for all the "radical" forms of Jazz, like Fusion, Modal, Hard/Post Bop and Free Jazz.
@thirtyyearoldmulberryfield 4 жыл бұрын
@@kaiburns My comment was more on how Charlie Parker's influence (as well as the rest of the NY scene of the time) paved the way for the later experimental styles to thrive. And it's not like Miles didn't own up to purposefully recruiting key players/rising stars of each era to advance his own groups/artistic endeavors (the dude straight up told Stevie Wonder he'd steal Michael Henderson from him). Knowing who to collaborate with / "seeing the writings on the wall" were arguably among his greatest talents.
@jpwjr1199 4 жыл бұрын
@@kaiburns Miles didn't pioneer fusion, either. Larry Coryell?! C'Mon!
@davidwicks9538 4 жыл бұрын
Because Miles didn't 'Create' Fusion⁉️💯 There are numerous other musicians and Artist that should be considered❗ Work songs🥁Spirituals, Armstrong🎺, Fats🎹 Waller, Big Bands🥁, Louis Jordan,🎶 Jazz Crusaders, Ramsey Lewis, etc. preceded Miles, who was an influence, Yes, but NOT first;🎸🥁 R&B🎼 is Fusion if you want to be Technical! Herbie & Tony may have started experimenting with (so called) 'fusion' before Miles⁉️💯 Jis' Sayin' " FREE BILL COSBY"
@hangthedj3206 4 жыл бұрын
No he wasn't lol
@monav4062 5 ай бұрын
Charlie Parker was a Genius !!! I grew up in my younger years in New Orleans, LA, and my parents loved their weekend cocktail parties and Charlie Parker !! The man was a genius and way ahead of his time !! ❤❤
@user-ue6sg1ec8q 22 күн бұрын
Bird lives! Listen to his beautiful music!
@Hot_Ratatouille 4 жыл бұрын
Good video overall. Just one major correction I need to point out. Dizzy Gillespie was not influenced by Bird in the sense of a student or a disciple. He helped develop the style along with Bird as a collaborator. They should be viewed more as equal partners rather than one as the inventor and the other one of many followers.
@JMUSICEnsembleOfficial 4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for educating the people, brother. ✊🏾🙌🏾
@xrgiok Ай бұрын
Old dude Watson is a gem of this video!❤
@gusmarrero Жыл бұрын
A perfect Summary of bird. Thanks
@Hexspa 4 жыл бұрын
I humiliated myself trying to play Cherokee in a jam session once. Haven't been back to show them nothin tho. Still trying.
@troyvahn2461 4 жыл бұрын
😂😂
@SoundFieldPBS 4 жыл бұрын
hahahha you'll show those cats. keep practicing
@Hexspa 4 жыл бұрын
@@SoundFieldPBS Thank you! Great video 👍
@qui9 4 жыл бұрын
Back in the days when I was a teenager Before I had status and before I had a pager You could find the Abstract listening to hip hop My pops used to say, it reminded him of be-bop - Q-Tip on the track *Excursions*
@jayfogelman 3 жыл бұрын
This is a superb documentary.
@bobcharlie2337 4 жыл бұрын
I love this series. It's the best.
@darthbee18 4 жыл бұрын
Eeeeeyyyy welcome back!! 🙌🙌🙌 🎷 🎷 🎷 😎😎😎 🎊🎊🎊
@colto3 4 жыл бұрын
i got to learn from Bobby Watson at UMKC, what a genuinely kind and lovely man
@ikmarchini 3 жыл бұрын
Good video. A classical conductor.
@Smooth219 4 жыл бұрын
those are some really nice looking shirts
@valentinaaugustina 4 жыл бұрын
I know right!! That’s what I’m thinking
@VictoryDanDukor 4 жыл бұрын
This show is such a treasure. I always learn so much while watching.
@bottomendbliss 2 жыл бұрын
He wasnt an entertainer, he was an artist. Love it. Clears that up nicely.
@abrahampalmer8761 2 жыл бұрын
Agreed Charlie Parker is my inspiration as well he blew me away when I first listen to him on KZfaq few years ago he was a league of his own.
@PhuckHue2 3 жыл бұрын
Back then everybody copied Bird's playing so much he had to stay a step ahead of everybody in live shows. I wish they could have recorded more of the live shows because his playing between 1942 - 45 was unbelievable. There was also a nationwide recording strike from 1942 - 44
@udomatthiasdrums5322 3 жыл бұрын
still love his music!!
@VIDEOHEREBOB 4 жыл бұрын
He was beyond great.
@tablon8539 3 жыл бұрын
When he said "the feeeling of the blues", I felt that.
@manningbartlett522 3 жыл бұрын
There are even great players (eg. guitar legend Allan Holdsworth) who spent years consciously working on how to *not* sound like Charlie Parker... which still required a very deep understanding of Parker. It shows just how universal his influence was.
@BobSell Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the education and history lesson! Well done!!
@allen6924 3 жыл бұрын
Mile's ear and knowledge of classical styles of music, gave the bebop music a firmer footing in a broader popular style of jazz. That allowed it to move from 'bebop' into 'hardbop' into 'modal' and so on. Because Miles Davis never called his music "jazz". Or any other titles critics created. It was music that's all.. You couldn't put him in a box like those you mentioned. It's why his music could adapt to any stylistic changes that the music went through. And why he was always at the forefront. And that he got from Charlie Parker, because he was a master of those classical scales and expanded them to create bebop.
@jc6594 4 жыл бұрын
Today Commemorates Charlie Parker's 100th Birthday
@heyyitsmel 3 жыл бұрын
dude these shirts are everything
@adelaidecameraclub6637 4 жыл бұрын
Good discussion on bird, but I think it missed a vital point about Bird's harmonic sense. He extended chords by using the b9, #9, b13 (or#4) in particular, and used these to move through the 2-5s in thew chart and create new melodies. It wasn't just chromatics.
@ecaepevolhturt 3 жыл бұрын
Landing on the pretty notes.
@mjazzguitar 3 жыл бұрын
That's what chromatics are.
@wsgray 4 жыл бұрын
Well done.
@tristandufresne2870 3 жыл бұрын
People did in fact dance to bebop, it wasn't sit-down music. Especially early on. Great vid
@stuartdryer1352 10 ай бұрын
The way I see it, there was jazz before and after Bird. Bird first getting to NY is like year 0 for me. He changed everything.
@villagegirl3627 3 жыл бұрын
My stepfather was the preeminent scholar on Charlie Parker...This is fire
@aaronfrank9649 3 жыл бұрын
My opinion is that lots of Charlie Parker’s early stuff had a little slower tempo and it just grooves. His playing is just as great at those medium tempos, and his language is still bebop.
@shaddjimenez4524 4 жыл бұрын
never heard of what he said about the “woodshed” originating from drummers, cool stuff.
@shaddjimenez4524 4 жыл бұрын
Salim Sivaad wow yeah I watched this late at night and so I probably tired, thanks for pointing that out!
@spacejazz6272 2 жыл бұрын
i heard that it originated from Bird practicing in an actual woodshed out the back of his house for 12 hours a day. probably one of those things no one ever really knows
@leoncorbett4553 2 жыл бұрын
My band teacher brought me here (he had to assign something when he wasn’t at school) and I gotta say, he picked a good video.
@maxdavis670 4 жыл бұрын
It would be awesome to have a video like this on Art Tatum
@wakledodd 4 жыл бұрын
I missed you guys! Best ever!!
@arame29 4 жыл бұрын
Fantastic educational tool
@Mr.Beauregarde 4 жыл бұрын
I MISSED YOU SO MUCH!
@OldJong 3 жыл бұрын
You just dance internaly with that music!
@m.c.ravioli1521 4 жыл бұрын
Sound field is back!
@SoundFieldPBS 4 жыл бұрын
BIG TIME
@Michael45RPM 4 жыл бұрын
Very good Job really love this video THX
@xbdjdjcdbdnndbdndb1613 2 жыл бұрын
Golden nugget: -long hours in the woodshed (practicing and learning from a teacher and colleagues)
@andreashoppe1969 4 жыл бұрын
Au Privave is such a great tune to play. It's my favorite!
@keigielukas7357 3 жыл бұрын
Much appreciated, and lucid point of view
@scottmartinezguitarandbass 2 жыл бұрын
Charlie Parker rests about 1 mile from my house and recording studio. Hopefully some of his genius will leach into the surroundings.
@ascotamos4825 4 жыл бұрын
I am so glad that you are highlighting Parkers great contributions
@ET-TheExtraTesticle 3 жыл бұрын
"It depends on the rhythm of how you play the chromatic. Say if I outline a Dominant chord. Now If I want to outline those chords using a chromatic scale. I would emphasize. It's the same notes, but its where I put the accents that make it usable."
@haukerikjacobsen3580 4 жыл бұрын
I was literally going through some of you're old videos yesterday thinking "huh... where they go?". I knew you hadn't abandoned the channel cuz you still commented and liked other comments. Missed you guys! welcome back! hope you're doing well (relatively speaking)
@LocestSwarmSC831 4 жыл бұрын
Love from KC, best little city in the world. If any of you ever get the chance the Jazz Museum in the 18th and vine district is amazing cannot recommend enough!
@hkumar7340 3 жыл бұрын
KZfaq's algorithm recommended this video to me... KZfaq's algorithm can read my mind... Very informative, thank you!!
@manguera9 3 жыл бұрын
i think Parker practice his technique over chord patterns that would be the harmony for his future compositions,, for example he was able to compose a song ,over "how high the moon" chords...he knew what he was doing by 18 yr old and his creativity just blossomed..
@awachili 3 жыл бұрын
I just recently came across this channel and although I am no musician, the language, visuals, and swag you all have makes everything digestible. Appreciate you all at Sound Field. Stay blessed!
@claydobbins9342 8 ай бұрын
I like your style, young Brother.
@KaliBeatsYoSoyAquel 4 жыл бұрын
0:41 it's easier if you follow the bass, it was actually the first time I tried dancing to jazz and I loved it lol
@jameaterrecords 4 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. I feel like Bird can be intimidating to a lot of people trying to get into jazz. Loved seeing the influence in rap and other modern music today
@DeepCrossing1 2 жыл бұрын
This is brilliant, it can be challenging to explain to people what made Parker and bebop innovative, and to explain what it means to be innovative. These one of two individuals, who messed around with an instrument and are still relevant to artists across the world, 80 years later… Parker was one of the great ones, in the world, within the 20th century.
@thrillhouse4151 4 жыл бұрын
Ahh the chromatic scale and half steps in general! I think when musicians finally started embracing it and busting out of strict rigid major/minor is when music really started to kick off
@hangthedj3206 4 жыл бұрын
Yeh this knowledge a lot more "noodlers" need to know
@jevonj77 3 жыл бұрын
That's what Charlie discovered
@doubleinstruments6453 4 жыл бұрын
Thank for it from France,, learn more from it than spending one year at school
@jordansilversmith1698 3 жыл бұрын
thank you for this -- I am a big Bird fan and my wife is learning about jazz and we learned so much from this video. Thank you!!!
@normanspurgeon5324 11 ай бұрын
I cannot believe that a video editor spelled B flat 7th, with a G sharp. Very clearly needs an A flat as the 7th. Great to see Bobby in this clip- it would take quite long time to describe Charlie Parkers contributions to harmony.
@luisdominguez2048 3 жыл бұрын
I can dance to Bebop, but I always dance looking like I’m having a seizure, so…. Yeah.
@TornaitSuperBird 4 жыл бұрын
Bird. Bird is the word.
@marylouleeman591 2 ай бұрын
This is great!! Covering all the material that I was lacking about how all this came to be!! TY
@pouyanazarvash6182 3 жыл бұрын
bless you bro
@cattleprods911 2 жыл бұрын
Bird's approach to music is, to the initiated, another Bach etc. It's a fundamental shift in notes, rhythm, etc. He himself said someone else will come along in 25 or 50 years and do it better/different. 70 years has past now. I love bird, and it's changed my approach to music.
@advvlad 3 жыл бұрын
awesome lesson !
@overtonesnteatime198 4 жыл бұрын
Much love brother! Thank you!
@RSTAR2009 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this!
@SoundFieldPBS 3 жыл бұрын
Ramon LeBlanc Harts you are very welcome!
@cjthibeau4843 4 жыл бұрын
YES!!! So worth the long wait! Def another video I will be sharing with my students, I love the mini lesson on where and what jazz is, so succinct. Hope to be seeing more videos in the coming weeks! Been missing one of my favorite YT channels!!
@quincy9908 3 жыл бұрын
*Kansas City Stand up* 😤🙌🏾
@Beryllahawk 4 жыл бұрын
I am SO GLAD to see an upload from y'all once more
@sitarnut 4 жыл бұрын
Bro! ...WOW... a real, no nonsense Jazz channel- I'm subbing instantly...like your delivery and thoughts...my brother and I have been playing and listening to jazz since 1959...the two things we always say: " Nobody's cut Bird or Wes Montgomery"... Wes had more soul in six notes than the entire Justin Boot Co....and, you can hear Bird in Wes' playing. I surely do hope you've read Ross Russell's, "BIRD LIVES" book. The forward story chapter entitled , "Obligato at Billy Berg's" tore my head up so much it rendered me incapable of even practicing for several days.....Peace from Texas, the Home of, "Tuff Texas Tenors."..Quamon Fowler being the latest in a long line which includes my NTSU Pal, Billy Harper.
@dean7603 4 жыл бұрын
Not only amazing history but also great music lesson! Nice job👍
@larrystaples1842 3 жыл бұрын
Terrific video......
@nataliaramirez853 2 жыл бұрын
Can you do an episode on Salsa and Boogaloo? That would be amazing! Thank you for all the effort with these series, for a music head like myself its heaven, I can watch these all day.
@douglasgorney 3 жыл бұрын
This is completely fantastic. Well done, sir.
@michaelfitzurka5659 4 жыл бұрын
great work
@90miles95 4 жыл бұрын
this is gold
@rva11 3 жыл бұрын
Very enjoyable video. Listened, enjoyed, was sorry it ended, and subscribed. Bebop.
@iLikeTheUDK 3 жыл бұрын
11:09 LA's talking about Nahre Sol, his co-host on Sound Field, he said "Check out Nahre's video"; please fix this subtitle
@spacealienjesus709 4 жыл бұрын
I love these Jazz videos Thank you so much for making these.. Long Live Jazz..
@MHerreraMusic 2 жыл бұрын
Love this video and it’s great to see Bobby making an appearance. Besides what Bird played his attention to his tone, time and technique are still the best. He was truly a master of the saxophone.
@AspenTruth 9 ай бұрын
Love this. Thank You.
@elMaxx5 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks! A strong rhythm is better than a good note!
@bobthompson3739 3 жыл бұрын
This video would be improved if the short reflections and excerpts of the various artists involved were extended, especially those featuring Bird Parker playing. By the way, I think Parker was 35 when he died, in the Stanhope hotel apartment of his friend, Baroness de Koenigswarter, laughing at a humorous happening on the television.
@bobthompson3739 3 жыл бұрын
As addition to my previous comment I would like to recommend ‘Bird Lives’, a book written by Ross Russell charting the life and times of Parker, giving the reader an insight into the mind of a genius, complete with all the quirks, foibles, humour and prejudice that constitutes the colourful life of a jazz musician, notwithstanding the hard work and the downfall due to his addiction to drugs and alcohol; would it be wrong to say that he sinned against his enormous talent?
@robbes7rh 4 жыл бұрын
Okay. Now I get it. It may take a village to raise a child, but it takes a succinct and well-made video to help me understand anything that is worthwhile. Nice job.
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