Charlie-Parker
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
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“Ornithology: The Best of Bird” might better be described as the best of Bird on Savoy.
Read MoreJazz Album Review: The Complete Massey Hall Recordings — The Legendary Concert Never Sounded So Good
I heartily recommend this Craft Recording, even if (perhaps especially if) you have owned the LP version from (almost) a half century ago.
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The Birth of Bop contains performances from some important participants in the bop revolution — Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Milt Jackson, Allen Eager, Fats Navarro, Max Roach, J.J. Johnson, and others.
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Arts Fuse jazz critics offer their favorite performances from the Bird.
Read MoreIt’s easy to recommend this new two disc set, where the miracle that was Charlie Parker is on glorious display again and again.
Read MoreBy 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…
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Jazz Commentary: Charlie Parker — The Eternal Radical at 100
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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