I’m still not sure I heard what’s revolutionary about Charlie Parker’s recordings — they’re very old news by now. But I warm to the expressions of unique genius, a beauty that in itself is radical.
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Jazz Appreciation: A Celebration of Charlie Parker on His 100th Birthday
Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.
Jazz CD Review: Charlie Parker — The Unheard — But Indispensable — Bird
It’s easy to recommend this new two disc set, where the miracle that was Charlie Parker is on glorious display again and again.
Music Review: Becoming Coltrane: Part One
By J. R. Carroll This review/commentary will focus on Coltrane’s recordings with the Miles Davis Quintet for Columbia (in October 1955 and June and September 1956) and Prestige (in November 1955 and May and October 1956), as well as a variety of sideman dates and nominally leaderless sessions, many of which have recently been reissued […]