Parker Charlie "Bird" (English Charlie Parker), full name Charles Christopher Parker Jr., composer, jazz musician-saxophonist, was born in 1920 on August 29. He died on March 12, 1955. While studying, Charlie plays the clarinet or baritone in the school orchestra. It was from that time that Charlie listens to jazz and dreams of a saxophone, and at the age of 15, the teenager begins to engage in music professionally.
Until 1940, Charlie travels from city to city, at first playing in various dance
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Parker Charlie "Bird" (English Charlie Parker), full name Charles Christopher Parker Jr., composer, jazz musician-saxophonist, was born in 1920 on August 29. He died on March 12, 1955.
While studying, Charlie plays the clarinet or baritone in the school orchestra. It was from that time that Charlie listens to jazz and dreams of a saxophone, and at the age of 15, the teenager begins to engage in music professionally.
Until 1940, Charlie travels from city to city, at first playing in various dance institutions, with symbolic pay, but it is thanks to this work that the young man learns all the basics of jazz music and gets the nickname “Bird”.
In 1940, Charlie Parker arrives in New York City, where he plays after hours, or jam sessions. Participating in such jams with other musicians, Parker begins to compose compositions in a new style, which is later called “bebop” or “ribop”. A great influence on the formation of this style is exerted by musicians with whom Parker holds joint performances, Dizzy Gillespie and Fats Navarro, Charlie Christian and Thelonious Monk, Max Roach and Kenny Clark, Bud Powell.
In 1942, Parker played in Noble Sisla's symphosy and in 1944 in Billy Eckstein's orchestra. It was Charlie Parker who in 1945 “discovered” a new jazz trumpet star Miles Davis.
Parker takes part in the jazz festival in Paris in 1949, after returning to New York opens the jazz club “Birdland”, in which Charlie performs for the following years.
Charlie Parker's "Bird and Diz", recorded with Dizzy Gillespie, was released in 1950. It includes "My Melancholy Baby," "Mohawk," and "An Oscar For Treadwell." The combination of saxophone and trumpet in all compositions fully reflects the style in which Parker plays.
After a while, Parker organizes noisy performances, studio recordings, involuntarily participates in various scandals, plunges into binge drinking and makes several suicide attempts. On March 12, 1955, Charles “Bird” Parker’s heart stopped.
Discography:
1950 Bird and Diz (with Dizzy Gillespie)
1953 Charlie Parker